1.23.07
1.23.07
Hey all. My name's Jason or jkrew or stormdc and along with my GF (ohkate), here's our dang buildup thread. (Our last project: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2570803 )
We picked up a little 1995 GTI VR last week for the paltry sum of >1000$ bucks from a friend of a friend of a friend.
And on the day we brought her home next to my MK4 VR (Dara):
At first, I was pretty unsure of what to do with 'er but now after weeks and weeks (literally), my obsessed mind has come to the conclusion that I want to do a tribute buildup to a Japanese bike builder Shinya Kimura.
Shinya builds bikes in a very conventional asian style where the whole is only derived from the combination of all of the seperate parts. No one part shines any brighter than the others thus creating a subtle, yet unified look.
In a nutshell, function follows form as well as vice versa in this case. Although the final solution of this build will not primarliy focus on showroom shine, I would like to attempt to create a rough overall vintage look to the car giving it a dated and very mechanical feel. No frivolous items that won't really give anything to the whole yet when everything is looked at together as a single unit, only then will you see how everything will compliment eachother.
I know I may be going down a totally odd tangeant, I think everything will clear up as we go along. (Hell, most of my ideas are still in my head haha).
So with that, I look forward to popping loads of ideas off to the readers of this thread in the future. I also want to give myself a deadline for completeion by H20 2007.
Anyhoo, enjoy!
p.s. if you would like to check out Mr. Kimura's work, you can go here: http://www.zerochop.com
p.p.s. On a side note, I haphazardly wrote him an email a few weeks ago stating my intentions of this buildup and to my surprise, he wrote me back telling me he was looking forward to the outcome. Pretty cool
Hey all. My name's Jason or jkrew or stormdc and along with my GF (ohkate), here's our dang buildup thread. (Our last project: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2570803 )
We picked up a little 1995 GTI VR last week for the paltry sum of >1000$ bucks from a friend of a friend of a friend.
And on the day we brought her home next to my MK4 VR (Dara):
At first, I was pretty unsure of what to do with 'er but now after weeks and weeks (literally), my obsessed mind has come to the conclusion that I want to do a tribute buildup to a Japanese bike builder Shinya Kimura.
Shinya builds bikes in a very conventional asian style where the whole is only derived from the combination of all of the seperate parts. No one part shines any brighter than the others thus creating a subtle, yet unified look.
In a nutshell, function follows form as well as vice versa in this case. Although the final solution of this build will not primarliy focus on showroom shine, I would like to attempt to create a rough overall vintage look to the car giving it a dated and very mechanical feel. No frivolous items that won't really give anything to the whole yet when everything is looked at together as a single unit, only then will you see how everything will compliment eachother.
I know I may be going down a totally odd tangeant, I think everything will clear up as we go along. (Hell, most of my ideas are still in my head haha).
So with that, I look forward to popping loads of ideas off to the readers of this thread in the future. I also want to give myself a deadline for completeion by H20 2007.
Anyhoo, enjoy!
p.s. if you would like to check out Mr. Kimura's work, you can go here: http://www.zerochop.com
p.p.s. On a side note, I haphazardly wrote him an email a few weeks ago stating my intentions of this buildup and to my surprise, he wrote me back telling me he was looking forward to the outcome. Pretty cool