Built a car rig

[Liberalis]

After a bit of messing about, I built a car rig to the underside of my car.

Then I broke it!

Mk2 will be sooo much better and more stable

 

[barrymoir]

excellent shots, i take it by car rig do you mean those neon style lights undernearth?

 

[Liberalis]

Cheers Barry, No i mean I built a big metal platform attached to the underside of the car, to put the tripod on, allowing motion style images.

 

[Kimmett]

Awesome, one assumes that you have cloned it out of the images. Any chance of a set-up pic?

Kimmett

 

[RobertP]

You can't get away with telling us something like that and not showing the contraption itself

 

[Liberalis]

Oops, I forgot to take a pic of it on the car, here is a crop of the bit needing editing out.

And this is the only shot I have of what it looks like, this was taken mid build so bear that in mind, imagine it with Air filled tyred castors on, and attached under the car.

Oh and the pic does not do the length justice, its about 15foot long.

 

[RobertP]

And you are driving around with something expensive on top of that onders:

:eek2:

 

[Liberalis]

Hell no, I'm not daft!

Someone else was driving, and the car is going very slow indeed. I was walking beside it.

Shheeeesh, lol

 

[kamion]

Cool!

Did you have to edit those shots, besides removing the bit of the rig sticking out from the car? I mean, is the background blur real?

 

[Liberalis]

The only bit I've edited is the bit of the rig, and maybe a levels tweek, thats all. The blur is totally real.

 

[SammyC]

What did you attach it to on the car?

 

[Liberalis]

There is a couple of unused bolts going into the chassis which held a strip of metal on nice and tight, when I got to the car park it waas just a case of attaching the rig to the strip, 3 more big bolts.

 

[pc185]

Great pics!!

Am looking to do somehting similar!!

Have you thought about attachng it via the jacking points thus making it universal to any car?!?

 

[Liberalis]

Hi there PC,welcome to TPF, I did think of it, but could not see any obvious points to hold it, what do you have in mind ?

I also broke this one, so when I get round to it, I'll be building another involving an Aly, or Carbon Fibre arm which does not need the wheels, one thing I dont want to do is use suction mounts on the bodywork, as some of the cars I'll be working on a rather pricey. I dont want to risk damaging them and also I want to get as much as i can done right in camera, I'm not keen on photoshopping large area's.

I'm interested to hear whatever you may have in mind, and how for along you are in your planning ?

Cheers

Kris

 

[Joe T]

Very cool!

 

[Gandhi]

I'm still convinced this all done in PS and you are secretly having a big giggle at our expense.

I may be wrong though, and if so, level vibes, 'nuff repect!