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Re: Blade XTR Coupe Concept

Joe — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:07:53 -0000

Did anything ever come of this project? I learned about it recently from a friend and it appears nothing significant has happened since 2010, except the release of some mobile app in 2011.

Re: I made a Klingon knife! – Bailey Blade XTR – Part 77

drcroog — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:02:29 -0000

It seems to me that too much excessive styling is being dedicated to the air vents
They are turning into a major design element on the dash and maybe should be downplayed a little
Also, the driver's side dash is too crowded with the gauges and vents
So, maybe consider moving the vents down onto the flat part of the dash to simplify the top of the dash and have a simple hood over the gauges
The same jewel like aircraft vents can be used but flush mounted instead

Re: Bailey Blade XTR Car Design | Tutorial: How to make form sections from 3D model.

Kolya — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:56:12 -0000

can be described in more detail how you have done and how to import section?

Re: Blade Video Update More fender work (Time-Lapse version)

GLAne — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:56:58 -0000

what is the white stuff on top of the fiber glass? is it body filler, like bondo?

Re: Lets make some Air Scoops – Bailey Blade XTR – Part 57

Bauermannv8 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:15:45 -0000

Super,
i love your presentation, great job your project,
hightech with minimum equipment, seriously great,
can learn a lot of yours,

many thanks for all the info

Bauermann.

Re: Tweaking the Air Scoops – Bailey Blade XTR – Part 58

Jarod — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:06:29 -0000

MHO.... I would make the this almost flush with the car. Bump it out only enough to get the air into the scoop in the front. The lines you have are nice and clean and not cluttered throughout the car especially in the back so keep it that way. Allow it to be subtle and not look like an add on by putting the bulk of the scoop inside the car. Use the same metal that you used in the grill inserts in the front for the opening of the scoop. I hope this makes sense.

Jarod

Re: It’s All about Styrofoam and I have a new Forums site – Bailey Blade XTR – Part 51

Antonio Ancora — Tue, 31 May 2011 03:17:26 -0000

Thank you Neal. As always your videos are very useful!

Antonio

Re: First Tutorial!!! How to make a small flexible fiberglass panel for custom applications.

farhan87 — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:53:15 -0000

I like this its really informative please show more tutorial about

fiberglass

Re: Moved the Blade XTR to new location next to Fiberglass mold shop. [Audio Fixed]

farhan87 — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:32:16 -0000

Neal Bailey why you move Blade XTR to new location epically next to fiberglass mold shop.

Re: Bailey Blade Car Design | Building the Laser Gantry setup

Marlene Henley — Wed, 11 May 2011 08:24:47 -0000

Gantries are really helpful to car designers and painters out there! I find that high-tech gantry rare. I mean, only few are using them. It'll make a possible, beautiful outlook of a car in process, I guess. The works can also be easily done!

Re: Bailey Blade Car Design | Building the Laser Gantry setup

Neal Bailey — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:53:22 -0000

Its used to measure any area of the car, and to keep the symmetry while working both sides.

Re: Bailey Blade Car Design | Building the Laser Gantry setup

Malik Bin Salman — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:26:38 -0000

what's the gantry for?

Re: Blade Video Update More fender work (Time-Lapse version)

Neal Bailey — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:43:20 -0000

The Headlights are from a MX5, they are custom after-market styled with halos.

Re: Blade Video Update More fender work (Time-Lapse version)

Nitheeswar — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:24:56 -0000

hi buddy,
i've been watching all ur works from the begining, can i know does the head lights are made by you or factory manufactured...

Re: Fiberglassing the rear Coupe section – Bailey Blade XTR – Part 48

Ryan Haywood — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:09:07 -0000

Like the Design both the roster and the coope, however the fastback look that your doing now is still up in the air for me. Not sure you need it to go back that far.

Re: Bailey Blade Car Design | What is the silver Tape? Fiberglassing

Clinton — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:43:58 -0000

The film is most likely there to stop the tape from sticking to itself on the roll.

Re: New Official BXR Motors Blog!

Toh — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:50:02 -0000

i like your job very much, it is not a job. it is a artist

Re: Blade XTR Coupe Concept

Devon J. Murray — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:22:23 -0000

The beauty of the work is well documented. I notice that yes your having some issue with the body work, but that is understandable considering the issues you stated. The racepark? owner doesnt seem all that interested in helping with upgrading his bay for you, which speaks poorly of his foresight. The truth is I came to comment on just such issues, your work speaks for itself as well as your time invested, however I see the work eating into what else is necessary for you, perhaps you can use any weather downtime as you did earlier this year, to promote.
The fact that Blade stuck as a name, and the XTR, speaks pretty obviously to potential interest in contacting Wesley Snipes ( he didnt just act he helped produce--as well as those movies convinced more money be put into such). It may sound funny but this is marketing we are talking about as a premise to get more funding. As well, you know there are entertainment car officianados out there. Its not re-branding Im talking about but rather potential funding. Obviously I wouldnt get into your very serious issues of watching all the p's and q's in such, your a contractual worker you know what I mean.
Honestly, thats the main issue I wanted to check in finally here to see whats going on. I hate to see so much work drop onto deaf ears and I feel just the right break into the public eye would give your car wings, so to speak. Of course I dont know the particulars but I hope you either have some talent working on that for you, or at least the time to do so yourself. Im not from any car background myself, but I would think the reality of your situation in searching would be a need to get away from local or close individuals, because frankly its not in their best interest to help you over themselves. You need to look further to higher points of potential interest, and I hope that you can achieve just that.

Let me throw some links to you for thought or your own look if you got time-
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
--http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/

Sorry in advance if Im just restating ideas or such youve had or overturned yourself, sadly thats a fact of internet notice compared to real-time :)
Hope to see more updated videos you said recently were coming, I despise facebook so no I wont go there, fills your computer with nonsense bandwidth eaters-- But the youtube videos were a stroke of genius apparent in your work. I do hope you never come there to post a video where the wife left and cut your car into bits some angry night, I know how texas weather can affect people, used to live in Houston.

See you round,
D

Re: Blade XTR Coupe Concept

Marcus — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:41:59 -0000

I think the coupe looks fantastic, been following this build since the wood cut outs.

The window shield idea is good and the roof line blends nicely in to the tail and rear quarters. I would more consider playing with the shape of the window more so and a little less playing with the hard body lines you have for the new roof. Of course refinement is at its finest in full scale. Good luck.

Re: Blade XTR Coupe Concept

Matthew — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:10:11 -0000

That's my favorite year model of vette as well. I like what you are trying to do with the design here. It needs much much more refining but it's getting there. I really can't say too much with just the one shot, trying to visualize in my mind what it looks like from other angles (It is kind of hard to tell what is and is not a pronounced body line because of your lighting setup). I will say that you need to pick between coupe and fastback. I think it looks great as it is. More specifically, I mean to say that you should have the coupe shell touch the back edge of the trunk lid's (or whatever you are calling it) surface. Kind of like how it reaches the back in the pic of the 63 below, that is what you need to achieve, just with different lines on the approach. I would maintain having the coupe shell come to a point as it hits the back, that looks great. One thing that would really help would be to take the exact same lines and intersection of the bottom of the shield glass and scale those lines up till they intersect at the back and use those lines to shape the way in which the coupe shell meets the trunk lid. That was hard to explain, I could better express that idea in a drawing but I hope you get what I mean. If you did do that though, it would look fantastic, because right now it feels wrong like the shape of the coupe shell and the shield glass are clashing.

Hope that helps, good luck continuing on your design.

Re: And it begins… a new Blog site.

Neal Bailey — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:38:19 -0000

Just making a test comment, some people said they had issues with it.

Re: Another day working on the Blade XTR!

gyeo — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:34:40 -0000

I have been following the progress of this car on youtube.

can't wait to see the final car...

Re: Another day working on the Blade XTR!

waffle911 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:41:25 -0000

…because these guys are Americans from Texas, U.S.A., very close to where I live, coincidentally. Everything is bigger in Texas, so the only way to go is a big honkin' American V8, since petrol is so cheap here. American petrol-heads have an age-old saying, "There's no replacement for displacement." While turbocharging smaller engines is becoming more common these days now that oil prices are rising, it's hard to beat the mountain of low-range torque right off the line that you get from large-displacement American V8's. With a 400ci (~6.6 litre) naturally-aspirated V8, there's no lag when you step on the accelerator like you would get when you have to wait for large turbochargers to spool up.

Re: Another day working on the Blade XTR!

karl — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:51:39 -0000

Hello, I'm from France.
I see all your videos on streetfire, youtube, that an amazing project !
Keep your camera with you and I hope you finish this car shortly !

For the motor, why did you want to put an american motor ?
If you want to commercialized, you can put a 3,5 or 3,7 liter V6 Renault (you can find it on nissan 350z, infinity, renault velsatis) and put a turbo kit !

Re: First Tutorial!!! How to make a small flexible fiberglass panel for custom applications.

mjollnir — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:40:30 -0000

Great project, any progress since winter?