Notes from Mick Imrie - October 2000 Supercar Font The font used for the Cinema 4D Supercar model was a TrueType font supplied with Corel Draw called SWISS911 XCm BT. This was selected primarily on the basis of the 'S' shape. The logo is obviously all in capitals, the 'S' is 118 point size and the rest of the charcters are 78 point. Model Information The Phil Rae plans are a reasonably accurate representation of the large studio Supercar model and show the wing position correctly to be slightly higher than the mid point of the hull side. Phil has, I think, placed the yellow disk assembly slightly lower than on the studio model which makes his wing placement seem higher than it actually is. The small Supercar model had the wings and the yellow disks on the same level at the mid point of the hull side. Both models, as far as I can tell, have the wings centred on a line running from the front nose cone to the rear main exhaust jet; this is also true of Phil's plans. The CGI model created by Austin and myself was based largely on the Phil Rae plans and had the wings placed accordingly, centred on the nose cone and rear centre exhaust jet. The reason why the wing placement looks lower is that the side hull/retro thrust assembly of our model is slightly higher and more symetrically shaped than on Phil's plans such that it's mid point is also on the same level as the nose cone. The CGI model varies from the plans in one or two other ways, the main one is that it has a somewhat fatter underbelly. I was also never convinced by the shape of the cockpit canopy in the front elevation of Phil's plans. I have produced a quick overlay image of the CGI model and Phil's plan in front elevation which shows these differences, if you're interested. It would be very interesting to know what resources Phil had access to when he produced the plans, were they done from any of the original models? On the subject of colours, Austin and I spent some time trying to get the colours as good as we could given the vageries of colour photography. What we came up with are as follows (all given as RGB values): Red bodywork: 255,0,0 Light blue: 204,255,255 Yellow: 255,255,0 White bodywork: 254,250,230 --------------------------- Notes on Supercar Sound Effects from davetoons@aol.com on 20-Sep-2001: There is an OLD magazine called Thunderbirds Supplement - Television Mail from around December 1965. It it are various articles concerning the technical end of TBirds, with lots of ads from the companies involved in the production; the tape recording equipment, the cameras, recording theatres, electrical houses, etc. One ad is from a firm called Cinesound Effects Library Ltd., who claims to have supplied sound effects for Supercar, Fireball, Stingray and TBirds. I'm sure they're long gone, but back then they were at Gate Recording Theatre, Maxwell Road, Elstree Way, Boreham Wood, Herts ELStree 5837 and 5545