DaleTona's Race Shop

[DaleTona75]

Back with another concept, according to Jayski, Keith Coleman racing planned to attempt a few cup races in either 2006, and then 2007, but it never materialized and the team would shut down mid 2007. Here is a idea of what such a car could have looked like:

 

[DaleTona75]

Been working on a personal project, that being a 1998 NASCAR Winston Cup Carset using @CC#48 's 2048x2048 templates. As with all of my projects, this is ATM purely for personal enjoyment, and I have no immediate plans for release.


So far I have 37 cars finished (#30 Derrike Cope painted after this picture was taken), with about 16 full time entries to go, along with a handful more part timers.

The full time teams I have left are as follows:
7 Geoff Bodine
9 Lake Speed
10 Ricky Rudd
24 Jeff Gordon
26 Johnny Benson
35 Todd Bodine
40 Sterling Marlin
41 Steve Grissom
42 Joe Nemechek
44 Kyle Petty
46 Wally Dallenbach Jr.
71 Dave Marcis
81 Kenny Wallace
90 Dick Trickle
97 Chad Little
98 Greg Sacks

 

[mtblillie]

When release?

JK but these are amazing! Great work

 

[DaleTona75]

Back to the modeling realm, decided to model a version of the Cadillac CTS-V race car from the old Pirelli World Challenge Series.

 

[DaleTona75]

Another low-poly model, this time taking another shot at the 05-06 Dodge Charger/ I have so far come up with 6 concept fantasy schemes that may be used in future projects.

 

[DaleTona75]

Continuing on custom assets I'm stockpiling for later use, here are some non-copyright track logos for potential use in a racing game.

First off, the currently planned Charlotte counterpart, Race City USA by and large explains itself, the central hub of American Stock Car Racing. A simple Red White and Blue aesthetic and stacked text pairing gives a bold look without trying too hard.

Hampton Motor Speedway, essentially an Atlanta Counterpart, goes more retro in its styling, with a Big H, layered text in various colors, not too out of place to what would be seen in the 70's-80's.

Of course, the third of the Quad Oval sister tracks, The clearly Texas inspired Fort Worth Motor Speedway logo is pretty simple and straight to the point. The Texas flag on a lone star, and text with some bold outlining for legibility.

Paradise City Motor Speedway wears it's Las Vegas inspired design proudly, mimicking the iconic "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign, to create a logo that is clear in where and what it is.

Biscayne Bay is the Homestead stand-in, going into the colorful retro-wave aesthetic that is associated with Miami as a city. A bit chaotic, but it gives the vibrant beach side sunset vibes that I was going for with this logo.

You can probably guess what this track and logo are based on, and if you guessed Rockingham circa 2018-2020ish, you'd be correct. This logo does shift things up a bit, not having any text on the rock, and instead cramming it all into the black bar below. Like Paradise City, this logo makes it obvious what this track would be meant to mimic, while still being enough of its own thing that it doesn't step on anyone's toes.

Delaware Downs is a Aldi-brand Dover for all intents and purposes, and the logo reflects that, taking cues from the logo of Dover at the turn of the Century, colors and all.

Madison international raceway has a soothing blue and green colorways reminiscent of looking over a lake, with the gateway arch and St. Louis city scape in the background. The track layout is incorporated into this logo, with the Madison text slanted to fit the space, adding an interesting dimension to the logo.

Finally for the logos made for the time being, Gasoline Alley, a nondescript Indianapolis parody, taking inspiration from the golden tire with wings, but doing a bit of it's own thing with the concept, while still maintaining some of the grandeur of the original.

As of right now these are merely concepts, and can and will be refined over time.

 

[DaleTona75]

Hello, I'm back with some more track logo concepts I cooked up today.

First up is Heartland Motor Speedway, the stand-in for Kansas, with warm sunset colors and wheat stalks in the middle of the track's shape. Pretty happy with this one, though the text might need some reworking.

Next up is College Station Motor Speedway, essentially Texas World Speedway, I decided to keep the globe, but situate it inside the track layout inside turns 3 and 4, while the text fills the left side of the logo. Texas A&M Aggies Colors complete the logo, giving it a pretty distinct character that is probably one of my best.

This is actually a track logo concept I have done before, now revised to make a much more coherent and less messy design. I like the colors on this, and the bold text helps draw the eyes in.

Mesa Marin is not one of the first tracks that comes to mind when you think of NASCAR, unless you are in tune with early truck series racing, but Marine Mesa is definitely a track on the potential inclusion list. This logo is a bit rough, but I feel the core idea is certainly solid.

Continuing the Southwest Tour that has mostly been the past few logos, Rattlesnake Hill took a bit to come to me, as I had an idea of what I wanted, but couldn't quite fit the pieces together properly, until I cut negative space between the text, mountains, and titular snake.

Finally, back to the southeast, we have Ridgeway Junction, named after the town Martinsville Speedway is located at, plus the addition of the railroad tracks that run behind the track. I'm not the biggest fan of this one, the text font was meant to give an industrial vibe, but something just doesn't add up. This is probably going to get a revisit, along with Biscayne Bay.

 

[DaleTona75]

Been a hot minute since I've posted.... well anything x'D That doesn't mean I haven't been doing stuff, just haven't had anything really that I wanted to show. But that changes today!

I've been working on some 2006 schemes again, including some alternate schemes based on what-if scenarios, and the first of these is Chip Ganassi Racing.


This particular line-up is based on rumors coming into 2006, mainly the fact that Chip Ganassi Racing had all but confirmed the addition of the 4th team in 2006, with Casey Mears moving over to drive and Home123.com as primary backer. But as we all know, the firing of Kurt Busch saw the dominoes fall in such a way that McMurray left the #42, and with the Home123 sponsorship eventually dissolving, put Mears in the #42. Of course with this alternate line-up, I still need someone to fill the Texaco Dodge, and I settled on Ricky Rudd, since he was rumored to the #42 as far back as 2003, and would add a much needed veteran presence to the team with the pair of Rookies he is partnered up with.

 

[DaleTona75]

Next up is a 4 car set of Evernham Motorsports Dodges:


Between the last set of cars and this one, I switched templates from Zone15's 2006 Charger Template to a custom mix of CC#48's 2048 PapyCup templates with Shading, Grills, and Decals from Zone15. The lineup is pretty standard 2006 Evernham fare, with the exception of Erin Crocker, whom I translated her Busch scheme to a Nextel Cup ride as a field filling option.

With the template switch, eventually the Ganassi cars will be redone on the updated templates.

ALSO a bonus paint scheme, a mid 2000's-ified Landon Huffman Broken Antler Whisky ride.

 

[mtblillie]

Hello, I'm back with some more track logo concepts I cooked up today.

First up is Heartland Motor Speedway, the stand-in for Kansas, with warm sunset colors and wheat stalks in the middle of the track's shape. Pretty happy with this one, though the text might need some reworking.

Next up is College Station Motor Speedway, essentially Texas World Speedway, I decided to keep the globe, but situate it inside the track layout inside turns 3 and 4, while the text fills the left side of the logo. Texas A&M Aggies Colors complete the logo, giving it a pretty distinct character that is probably one of my best.

This is actually a track logo concept I have done before, now revised to make a much more coherent and less messy design. I like the colors on this, and the bold text helps draw the eyes in.

Mesa Marin is not one of the first tracks that comes to mind when you think of NASCAR, unless you are in tune with early truck series racing, but Marine Mesa is definitely a track on the potential inclusion list. This logo is a bit rough, but I feel the core idea is certainly solid.

Continuing the Southwest Tour that has mostly been the past few logos, Rattlesnake Hill took a bit to come to me, as I had an idea of what I wanted, but couldn't quite fit the pieces together properly, until I cut negative space between the text, mountains, and titular snake.

Finally, back to the southeast, we have Ridgeway Junction, named after the town Martinsville Speedway is located at, plus the addition of the railroad tracks that run behind the track. I'm not the biggest fan of this one, the text font was meant to give an industrial vibe, but something just doesn't add up. This is probably going to get a revisit, along with Biscayne Bay.

This kinda makes me want to do fictional edits of the tracks to use the Logos lol

 

[DaleTona75]

Today I have decided to restart an old project from a few years ago that unfortunately got wiped away due to hard drive shenanigans, and that is making 2005 Nextel Cup paint schemes for the NNC07 mod.



So far I have 2 cars finished, the MB2/MBV teammates of Joe Nemechek and Scott Riggs + a bonus Fred Jones scheme. It feels nice to return to this mod and project after a LONG time away.

 

[DaleTona75]

New update to the NNC07 2005 Carset, now up to 10 cars



Boris Said joins the field to finish out the MB2/MBV/MBSutton squad, as does the full nine yards of Richard Childress Racing, while Bobby Hamilton Jr and Mike Wallace represent the little guys.

 

[DaleTona75]

Another update, slowly making progress!



New entries in this photo include the JGR fleet, including the elusive #80 J.J. Yeley fall Atlanta DNQ + Robby Gordon's Lean Mean Jim Beam Machine.

 

[DaleTona75]

Taking a bit of a break from the NNC07 2005 Carset to make some fictional schemes, starting with a #54 Bowser Oil Chevy of the Koopa King himself.


The main inspiration for the base scheme was Juan Pablo Montoya's 2007 Texaco ride, due to Bowser Oil being an oil/gas company like Texaco. The Black base and Mustardy-Yellow lining colors are taken from the Bowser Oil logos seen in recent Mario Kart Games. but flipped so that the Black is the dominant color. The Dark green secondary color and Red accents are derived from Bowser himself, and are often associated with the giant tyrant in games.

 

[DaleTona75]

New fictionals finished, these are two Hess sponsored race cars, inspired by the 2011 and 2025 Hess Stock Car gift sets.


As mentioned above, the major elements of the scheme, particularly the stripes, are lifted from the real life toys, while the sponsor logos were a bit more free handed. The three Hess logos on the rear was a decision to fill the space without just having boring text there, and I feel it works well while the Hess "box" shape surrounding the numbers adds an extra bit of character, and mimics the Hess logos on the doors that the real cars had. The numbers 58 and 85 were chosen as they are both numbers seldom used, and make it obvious that these are team cars.