Hi everyone, I saw a tweet by Team Dimension Data this week about the Arbos Vampire Team with a picture of their maillot, I think is very cool and I wish it could be added to the game on the WorldDB or the PCM ones. I´ll leave the tweet here in case anyone has the time and skill to take this request.
My personal opinion would be to do a modern remake keeping the same design but adding some modern sponsors as if it was a normal UCI team. (Please notice the hand on the right side of the chest).
Italian, Primo Volpi won the first Coppa Sabatini in 1952, racing for the Arbos Vampire team. Arbos was a bicycle manufacture that later became a large agricultural machinery producer. Vampire Cycles was a bicycle brand with arguably still the coolest name ever. Find the hand. pic.twitter.com/nj5D0EW97c
Interestingly the color selection is really close to a design I just did, where colors were inspired in part by the 1969 Ford GT, although clearly this jersey predates even that:
I'm not sure about the text placement on the shorts, which are clearly much longer in the PCM template, but since I can't preview this it might not look right.
Edited by djconnel on 04-11-2018 04:14
Stitching is wrong, and for the shorts I relied on a low-res photo of Primo Volpi, but let me know what you think. (I fixed the s versus a previous posting of this). I'm not sure about the Arbos text on the shorts: the placement may need to be tuned so the front and back seamlessly match, and the size may not be right, but I can't preview it on my computer.
Edit: I tried to fix text alignment on shorts, increased the text size (because in photo it looks large), and increased character spacing to better match photo.
Edit: I changed the shorts font to something blockier.
I wish I knew how to make the shorts shorter. Does PCM recognize transparency?
Also: it would be cool to draw the tubular wrapped around the shoulder. Sigh.
Since I put in a decent amount of work on this,as a Mac user I'm curious how it looks. If anyone loads it into the game, please post a screen image! Thanks....
djconnel wrote:
Since I put in a decent amount of work on this,as a Mac user I'm curious how it looks. If anyone loads it into the game, please post a screen image! Thanks....
I´m so sorry for not answering before! I stopped playing the game for a long time but I got back to it recently and remembered abput this, didn't even think someone woud reply.
Its awesome dude
I´ll take it to the game and will make sure to upload a screenshot here.
Edit: I can't run the best possible graphics but got you a few screens:
