Well, from some of the comments it seems to me that at the moment my model looks too much similar to the 248 F1... time for a new livery ?
West wrote:
If you switched the direction of the FWEP (i.e., give them a 180 and bolt them on the opposite ends), it would more match the 248 test car.
For the FWEP the inspiration is, as evident, the Renault, wasn’t trying to copy the wing now on the 248 (ie the F2005 one), although amongst the many versions I made there’s also a FWEP similar to the Ferrari one.
As for the time needed, I started modelling, with small CAD experience (mainly 2D) almost two years ago (working almost exclusively on weekends) but until early weeks of 2005 there wasn’t a complete car, just several separated parts. Then I put them together, added a model of the V8 engine and from there I started to refine each part, now almost nothing is as it was one year ago or even just few months ago, probably only the T-camera above the airbox is same as the original one, everything else was modified or restarted from scratch more than once. Certainly if I had to start a brand new model now, even without saving a single part from the old one, it would take me lot less time to make (also because I should spend lot less time measuring pics and reading rules to have a precise idea of dimensions), but honestly I can’t tell how much.
Alan wrote:
Any chance of having the CAD file as an IGES so that I can do CFD on it ?
Sorry, I don’t feel like I want to share the CAD files. Anyway, if I wanted to do CFD (but the model isn’t good enough for it at the moment in term of tolerances, holes etc etc), I’d prefer to do it by myself, that wouldn’t be a problem.
manchild wrote:
Reca, did you try to swap surface color and tyre color?
Do you mean darker tyres and lighter ground ? I did try both, the lighter ground doesn’t look good to me, especially because it makes the red look almost pink in the reflection. Anyway I’ll make a rendering this way tonight and I’ll post it possibly tomorrow so you can see it and judge by yourself.
As for the tyre, I tried darker tyres and I like them, only downside is they are a bit too much different from suspension arms, underfloor etc etc. When I tried to make these parts darker too the effect was better and more “real”, but then you can’t see equally well the shape of the parts, good for a F1 team not wanting others to copy, not for me since the shape is what I’m mainly interested in seeing, hence I kept them not too dark.
zac510 wrote:
I reckon it is because then the uppermost elements won't bend backwards at high speed (lowering the A of A!).
To what I said in previous post (the uppermost element is adjustable and it’s enough to adjust wing characteristics, being it by manual adjustment or flexing) and without forgetting that solutions I adopted on that model are mainly focused on a modelling exercise than an aerodynamic/engineering exercise (people suggest to keep hobby unrelated with daily job...) I can add one thing. The other day I was looking at a few pics of the McLaren front wing and it seems to me that also on that wing only the third element is adjustable; the third element has an evident hinge at the tip while there’s no hinge on the second element that looks connected to the endplate just like the principal one, meaning without (physical) degrees of freedom. Furthermore the little metallic part connecting the two flaps is apparently articulated to allow relative movement of the parts. I repeat, I’m not sure as I just looked at few pics since I never noticed it before and don’t know if maybe it’s a feature only of a testing wing, but my impression is that on the McLaren wing only the uppermost element is adjustable.
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