!982 Mercedes 450 SEL Trans Am race car for sale

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1134277_1982-mercedes-benz-sl-class-trans-am-race-car-heads-to-auction Thought that some of you might appreciate this article about this Mercedes driven by Loren St. Lawrence in the Trans Am series in 1982. Really nice pics imo. This car is roughly contemporary to the Group 44 XJS driven by Bob Tullius.

Really nice looking car there..........!

Some years ago I painted a skin of this one for a mod by  @freeracer , now maybe it's time to update it thanks to those wonderful pics!

You mean this little beauty? Gave it a spoiler and sent it to play with the GTO's. Getting along well with its playmates. I wish I knew how to make wide and channeled fenders/wings/aprons, whatever you may call them.......

joeschmoe wrote:You mean this little beauty? Gave it a spoiler and sent it to play with the GTO's. Getting along well with its playmates. I wish I knew how to make wide and channeled fenders/wings/aprons, whatever you may call them.......

Yes, sir, I still have the psd file and I may improve it, now I have those wonderful pictures in good resolution.
Would you care to share your modified files? Looks very good

Exhaust needs work........

https://www.mediafire.com/file/rjxxdfntwkupgvf/Mercedes-Benz+350+SL+Coupe.7z/file

Thank you!

Good to hear those pics may be of use!

Trying to give it more of a GTO vibe, but as you can see, I'm not very good yet. Paint jobs from donors bleeding through, grille texture on air dam, etc.......

Trying to squash the Mercedes like the Skyline, but it keeps coming up - Error loading global material WC_TEAM_BODY1_PA

It wanted the BODY.DDS from the Zalspeed IMSA Mustang? Maybe squash a lil' more to give it that silhouette look........

This kind of error: Error loading global material WC_TEAM_BODY1_PA

is mostly due to a missing texture and often not the main one as it is too obvious to miss it.
But the missing texture is often a specular map or a cubemap texture.

It might be missing in a .gtr file of the car if it's a special texture for this car only or a lign might be missing in the .cas file as this one: MASFile=stex.gtr if it is a usual cubemap as emap_glass etc ....

It doesn't look that different until you put it next to the original car.......