Virtual Build
Years ago I decided to draw a poster, like Dean Walters’ photo of Nigel Petrie’s Hilux. Full article. Nigel is an engineer from Australia, who built white Toyota Hilux. Nigel builds racecars and motorcycles and keeps the blog about them. To make that photo, Nigel disassembled his Hilux to show the details and components, which are in the car. It looked so good, so i wanted to take my photo or to draw the poster, though. In that time I took a part in Formula SAE in a local university, so a poster was a simple thing: to draw — is not to build. Chassis, subframes and transmission later, Catherine advised me to make a book about it. “The more so, — she said, — your letters will come useful”. During years I made sure, that on the internet there is almost all the information that you need to build something: websites, blogs, forums. But only if you have what to build. In my case, the whole process is virtual and I can’t receive feedback from my decisions. I mean, if you chose the wrong, say, engine mounts, you would know, that they don’t fit your cross member. I can’t know it, cause I don’t have both. That’s why I call it “virtual”
As I wanted to make the true story, I went to R32 forums. Warick Wokka Lee and other folks didn’t know about my project, so it was fun and challenging to pretend to be a guy with the car and real problems.
Full book on Behance
