i think this is it...

hey, its been a while, again...

theres something i have on my mind for a while now. this might really be a last post on this blog.

i know i know, i announced i quit several times already and allways ended up coming back, but this time its different. this time i dont quit with 3d as a whole, as i still enjoy it ocasionally, this time i think its time to quit posting here and move on elsewhere.

you see, there were times when i finished a mod and i was just itching to post about it here, but that feeling is gone for a few years now...now i post there more or less only because it allways was like this, honestly i dont really even enjoy it anymore...good example of that is the wr2 convert of tuned levin you see under this text, i finished that convert over 8 months ago and i still didnt felt like posting about it here...if someone wonder, this is that "one more thing to post about" i mentioned in last post...

i know why is that. lets face the facts. mod blogs are dead. have a look into the blog roll for example. blogs that once used to be very active are now dead for years, shoutboxes is dead, noone cares about blogs anymore. its sad, but that how it is...

i simply came to conclusion that its pointless to keep posting anything here, since noone cares, even me by now.

it also feels like over the years, i made this blog too restricted to be around modding, even tho i like to post my real life stuff aswell, i just never really felt like this is a right place to post that stuff here...ofcourse i could change that, but theres no point in that now anyway.

now, i sayd that id like to move elsewhere. but where? thats pretty easy. instagram.

i have my instagram profile for a few years now, i post pretty much anything from my modding to real life stuff there, and i enjoy it alot. about same like i used to enjoy post here. instagram just replaced this place for me completely by now.

so, if you want to keep following what im up to, i invite you to check MY INSTAGRAM PROFILE ;).

now, what about this blog? even tho this is probably last post ever, i going to keep it up and running. after all, its over 10 years of my life, it feels too nostalgic to just delete it...and who knows, maybe one time i will feel like posting something here again...but at this point, i seriously doubt it.

and thats it. id like to thank all of you for reading my blog over the years, id never thought it will last this long, but everything gotta end one day. thank you very much, and i will hopefully see you at instagram ;).

good bye ;). 

EDIT 2.11.2020: i guess not then, lmfao

ae86 levin...tuned.

oh hey, so after many months since i finished this one i finally got myself to post about the tuned version of the levin i mentioned in the previous 2 posts lmao...

as i mentioned in the stock levin v3 post, i originally wanted to just make a tuned version based on v2, infact i actually did, but once i realised how bad the v2 is, i deleted it, did the v3 and did pretty much exact same thing based on the v3 lel.

i wanted to make something simple again, a rather street car with 90s vibe to it. so whats different from stock version:

exterior:

-aero parts, oem lip, oem sideskirts, ductail spoiler
-FET foglights
-oem grille with gold stripes
-some stickers here and there
-the car doesnt use carcol anymore, its allways white/black now
-tom's igeta wheels by me

interior:

-recaro sr3 from SURGE, but slightly edited, completely retextured, the pattern they have is one of actual sr3 patterns
-nardi steering wheel originally from original rfactor levin that i remodeled for my tuned onevia. this time it have a silver spokes tho
-pioneer ts-x7 speakers by me at the parcelshelf
-oem digital gauges
-some small stuff, ultranorsk at the mirror, cocacola can in a holder, cigarretes in the centre console

engine:

-tuned 4a-ge, its an original engine model from the rfactor levin, but reworked abit

and thats pretty much all, as i sayd, i wanted to make something simplyer again, and i think it ended up pretty well, im pretty happy about the result :D.

and so, thats all for now. i still have one more thing to post, something closely related to this levin, so see you (hopefully) soon :).

tom's igeta

hey, so after a long, long while i made another aftermarket wheel from scratch :D. well actually i did it over 8 months ago, after i finished the levin from the last post lol, but just like with the levin, i just didnt got myself to post about it lmao...

i know there are some igeta models already, but i didnt found this exact type, even tho i feel like its the most usual one...i wanted to use this type for the tuned levin based on the new model, so i had to do it myself lel. credit goes to SURGE, from wich i used the brake rotor and centre nut, but with slight edit by me.

so that would be all for now, next post will finally be the tuned version of the levin, so see you again soon ;).

toyota ae86 levin...v3.

ah yeah...me and ae86 levin...it all started by trd levin convert nearly 8 years ago...shortly after i made a first stock version out of it, but it was pretty terrible...about 4 years ago i made a second version, wich i considered to be pretty good...untill i wanted to make another tuned version based on it, lol...i figured out this thing needs a complete makeover...

...and here it is.

anyway hi, its been a while, how are you guys been? im still relatively active in modding, tho i still do stuff mostly for stuner atm...truth is, i made the v3 nearly half year ago, shortly after i finished the new hakone, lol...if you follow my instagram (where im way more active than here lmao), you might remember i posted some wip shots of it back then...but i never got to post about fully finished one untill now lmao...

so yeah, i was working on a tuned one, but more i worked on it, the more i figured out the v2 is pretty bad...weird mix of zenki and kouki, with tuned rear bumper, on a stock car, lol...so i scrapped the tuned one i was working on and decided its time to do the stock one propertly first. i was thinking if to make a zenki or kouki out of it, and i decided to go with zenki...in the end it would probably be easyer if i would go with kouki, but oh well lmao, id say i like the zenki more anyway...im not really going to write a full list of changes like i used to do this time, not only it would be super long, but also after that half year, i barely remember it too lmao...but here goes slightly shorter version lel:

-completely reworked exterior to make it zenki with everything that zenki i supposed to have, from the taillights to the headlights and everything between. i was using brochures as a reference, i also made some missing details, such as fuel cap and rear wiper and fixed a bunch of bugs...at the v2, the front rotating grile was actually openable, with the lights turned on...i decided to remove this during remodelling the grille, as it wasnt too realistic anyway

-completely reworked interior, its still the interior originally from GTAPEX's ae86 for racer, it was an kouki interior tho. i have reworked it completely to the zenki, from the interior tint, gauges, to the front seats...i also fixed a bunch of bugs there, modelled rear seats wich were completely missing and also made a whole new doorwells or how you call it...you know, these things you see when you open the doors

-reworked engine, the v2 had mostly untouched tuned engine from the original model, in v3 case, the engine bay is still the original one out of racer, but reworked, and the engine itself is an stock 4a-ge out of some nfs model, wich needed a bunch of fixings too

-reworked wheels, its still the wheels that we did with FLASH for our corona t14, but they had a wayy too big concave and few bugs so i reworked and fixed that, i also made a new texture for them as there was a pretty big uv map error on them...

-reworked car colors, already the v2 had a mix of panda and simple colors, but it was done pretty poorly, so i added a third color in the carcols line and i got a much better results :D i added few new colors too, but its still mostly based on the brochures:D

-4 extra parts, i decided to add some optional parts as extra, mostly from 1985 model, wich is nearly same besides few details. it goes like this:
*extra1: digital gauges (availible in both 83 and 85 models)
*extra2: gold lines on the grille (apperantly all models from 85 had them)
*extra3: gold lines on grille, oprional aero parts (lip, sideskirts and trunk spoiler, i decided to keep the sideskirts black even on the non panda models even tho it would be pretty easy to make them paintable, i actually tryed and they just look better in black lel)
*extra4: same as extra3+digital gauges

-adapted to ivlm
-adapted to steering.cs

lots of work went into it and im pretty sure i missed lots of things, but whatever, i think the pics of finished car speaks for themselfs, im very happy with the result :).

so yeah, that will be all for now, i actually have few more things to post, mainly a tuned version of this one, so see you again in few days ;D.