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#11
rallychamp

Posted 03 August 2009 - 02:45 PM

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QUOTE (skyetan @ Aug 1 2009, 02:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Attached with this post is an example of my creation, a kancil modified by myself using my own ideas... Its criticizing time... Don't worry, its virus-free, no reason for me to do so (even if there is, i wouldn't know how!)





seems like mg metro 64R smile_tongue.gif



-i too drawed some heavily 300ZX JGTC spec. and several future proton cars should be... (during 90's at the time of drawing) but have to dig for the pics. later since i left my drawing rotten in the cabinet... laugh.gif

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Posted 03 August 2009 - 07:21 PM

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QUOTE (TheGunner @ Jul 15 2009, 11:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Very good, mate. I suggest you hang on to your ideas first. Get some working experience, build some contacts. Once you have a solid network in place, it makes it easy to get things going. smile_wink.gif



smile_thumbup.gif smile_thumbup.gif good advice..! study smart , get work experience, built up repo ! smile_thumbup.gif

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Posted 30 August 2009 - 09:04 PM

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QUOTE (bOROi @ Aug 3 2009, 12:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
dont be disheartened bro skyetan........I mean if you can design for lowly kancil and win the mass market to drive your creations, for the other more popular cars such as for Honda, your designs will be a breeze to sell. But make sure your design passes the PUSPAKOM requirements, they are quite sticky if you modify too much that the Kancil originality is lost.

Keep on designing, but make sure they are roadworthy and not to mention the designs must reach certain std and quality for it to be posted, or else every budding artists and designers, from 6 to 60, will be posting their work here.

As you know our bro SF is a very busy man with so many websites and forums to write smile_blush.gif , so give him some quality work to comment on

Rgds.



Are my words to harsh.... smile_blackeye.gif I don't mean no good you know...
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Posted 30 August 2009 - 09:04 PM

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QUOTE (bOROi @ Aug 3 2009, 12:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
dont be disheartened bro skyetan........I mean if you can design for lowly kancil and win the mass market to drive your creations, for the other more popular cars such as for Honda, your designs will be a breeze to sell. But make sure your design passes the PUSPAKOM requirements, they are quite sticky if you modify too much that the Kancil originality is lost.

Keep on designing, but make sure they are roadworthy and not to mention the designs must reach certain std and quality for it to be posted, or else every budding artists and designers, from 6 to 60, will be posting their work here.

As you know our bro SF is a very busy man with so many websites and forums to write smile_blush.gif , so give him some quality work to comment on

Rgds.



Are my words to harsh.... smile_blackeye.gif I don't mean no good you know...
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Posted 01 September 2009 - 12:59 PM

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QUOTE (SplitFire @ Aug 30 2009, 09:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Are my words to harsh.... smile_blackeye.gif I don't mean no good you know...


i guess u had spilled cold water on this young chap

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Posted 01 September 2009 - 08:06 PM

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QUOTE (darreltian @ Sep 1 2009, 12:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i guess u had spilled cold water on this young chap



smile_shock.gif Yes ar... Luckily I did not add ice cube...

Sorry bro, my bad.
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Posted 02 September 2009 - 11:00 AM

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QUOTE (SplitFire @ Sep 1 2009, 08:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
smile_shock.gif Yes ar... Luckily I did not add ice cube...

Sorry bro, my bad.


Yeah, I am going to add ice cubes!

That dear boy [boy ka?..stereotyping oledi] really lives in a dreamworld. In his dream, he can churn out a lot of designs which may be fantastic to him but weird to many others. In the real world, it is not that easy to design a car [not to mention designing a car for production] Big players like Toyota, Mazda and Honda, do have a big team of designers to design a "conceptual car" but they also need a lot of feedback from market surveys, consumer preference surveys, competitor analysis, Quality Functions Deployment [QFD], supplier homologations, DFM, CAD simulations, clay modelling, and even wind tunnel tests....the list will go on and on, before an actual acceptable prototype is constructed. Even that protected Potong could not fight fairly with those giants, what can his company do? Just by sketching a robot-look-alike car will not gain him any ground.

Listen to an advice from an old professor: at 18 it is natural to dream alot and staying afloat with dreams, but he needs to land and perhaps at that time he needs to realize that his dreams are but hollow dreams and the harshness of a crash landing will be too traumatic.

BTW, he writes excellent English, why not take up English teaching as a profession??

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Posted 02 September 2009 - 11:19 AM

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QUOTE (profkaizen @ Sep 2 2009, 11:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Listen to an advice from an old professor: at 18 it is natural to dream alot and staying afloat with dreams, but he needs to land and perhaps at that time he needs to realize that his dreams are but hollow dreams and the harshness of a crash landing will be too traumatic.


I don't fully agree with your thoughts, mate.

I agree that at this stage the young man's design simply lacks maturity and would simply be doomed to failure if he somehow manages to gather the resources to embark on the project.

However, I believe he should be given the room and encouragement to dream big. What he needs is experience to focus his creativity in the right direction, but he should not lose his audacity to stick to his guns do something different. Of course, if he chooses to take this path, then he must make an effort to not only be good, but simply to be the best.

I quote a passage from this month's issue of Top Gear Malaysia in their feature on Australia's Gold Coast and all the motorsports activities there.

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Dick Johnson Racing is native to Gold Coast and perhaps one of the most endearing stories of Australian motorsport. In 1980, a young Dick Johnson and his wife mortgaged everything they owned to enter his Ford Falcon in the Bathurst 1000, the nation's premier endurance race. He qualified well and was on his way to winning the event when a spectator thre a football-sized rock onto the track and ended Dick's race when he hit it.

The images of a shattered Dick Johnson on TV resonated with the Australian public who flooded the networks with phone calls offering to help Dick get back on his feet. Ford Motor Company's chairman at the time, Edsel Ford came to know of Dick's plight and pledged to match the public's donations dollar-for-dollar. Eventually, these donations helped Dick build a new car and he returned to win the Bathurst 1000 the following year.

Today, Dick Johnson Racing is one of the front-running V8 Supercar teams with its Jim Beam Racing Ford Falcons raced by Steven Johnson and James Courtney.


Common wisdom would have Dick not to have entered the Bathurst event in the first place, let alone mortgage everything to do so. But, he did it anyway, and although he was helped with a generous stroke of luck, the man believed in what he did and dared to do it. smile_thumbup.gif

Perhaps it's just me, I always encourage people to challenge conventional wisdom.
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Posted 02 September 2009 - 11:40 AM

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Skyetan, what say you? If you easily give up after getting 'light' criticisms than i am sorry to say that you wont make it big...

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Posted 02 September 2009 - 08:54 PM

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QUOTE (TheGunner @ Sep 2 2009, 11:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I don't fully agree with your thoughts, mate.

I agree that at this stage the young man's design simply lacks maturity and would simply be doomed to failure if he somehow manages to gather the resources to embark on the project.

However, I believe he should be given the room and encouragement to dream big. What he needs is experience to focus his creativity in the right direction, but he should not lose his audacity to stick to his guns do something different. Of course, if he chooses to take this path, then he must make an effort to not only be good, but simply to be the best.

I quote a passage from this month's issue of Top Gear Malaysia in their feature on Australia's Gold Coast and all the motorsports activities there.



Common wisdom would have Dick not to have entered the Bathurst event in the first place, let alone mortgage everything to do so. But, he did it anyway, and although he was helped with a generous stroke of luck, the man believed in what he did and dared to do it. smile_thumbup.gif

Perhaps it's just me, I always encourage people to challenge conventional wisdom.


Hi mate,

If you are subscribing to the doctrine of "everyone is entitled to his own opinion", then I rest my arguments and contentions.

We are using different approaches in life, but I must declare that I don't buy in and depend on the "stroke of luck" to be successful in life as "lady luck" does desert many of us in this mortal world. I do strategic environmental scans to plan my pathway to success and I just ignore the element of "luck". His dreams are too bold and to be ambitious is one thing but to be successful, he needs a lot of realistic support [not just moral support] and infrastructures. BTW, from the look of his drawing on his Kancil, the car is just too flamboyant to be marketable, let alone productizable!

Anyway, his life is non of my business, so let the sleeping dog lie and one day, if luck prevail, he will get his dreams realized. Meanwhile, lets face the harshness in life.