Monday 9 May 2022

GP4: Miami GP helmets part 2

I've managed to pick off some of the easier helmets to create from the Miami GP, I'm just over half way through them now, so I'll share an update. I've also gone and updated a few of the standard helmets to bring them up to date with how they've looked in the early races. 

Alex Albon

Alex Albon 2022 Miami GP helmet

The British born Thai driver has truly taken on the Williams number one role and showed impressive form much like what we saw in his Toro Rosso days, delivering some impressive race performances and scoring points that car doesn't deserve to. In Miami, his helmet has turned sky blue and the galaxy picture on the top are now splashing waves. 

Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso 2022 Miami GP helmet

Like many other drivers, Fernando's helmet now features a lot of blue and pink, with the gentle waves, a lifeguard beach hut, with the sun setting and the palm trees; it's a beautiful scene. I was a bit concerned initially with the palm trees running over the seam at the front and top of the helmet, but it wasn't the most difficult to line up in the end. 

Lando Norris

Lando Norris 2022 Miami GP helmet

I enjoyed the memes that it should have been Russell and not Norris who should be running a basketball themed helmet because of how much his head bounces up and down in the Merc. Anyway, the helmet looked too good to be true and lead to most people with the need to touch it and see if it was truly bobbly like a real basketball, great job by JMD. Anyway, a great design, the black lines took a bit of fine-tuning to make it look right from every angle. 

Sergio Perez

Sergio Perez 2022 Miami GP helmet

Another blue and pink helmet alert, this time it's the Mexican's helmet that's received the Miami treatment. Replacing the Aztec design are stripes with the pink-purple-sky blue gradient. The pink really pops in the right light, a real eye catcher. 

Mick Schumacher

Mick Schumacher 2022 Miami GP helmet

Mick's actually had slightly different variations of his helmet at most races this year, I may go back and do them, depends how much time I have. This time, his helmet has also undergone the pink-sky blue treatment. The pink has a metallic shine to it, whilst the black continues to show the woodgrain / fingerprint style speckled highlights that he's run since the Bahrain GP in different parts of his helmets this year. He was having such a great race up until the unfortunately collision, would have been nice to celebrate his first points in F1 with this special lid. 

Updated helmets

I've added no war logos to both Ferrari drivers and Latifi's helmet. Initially I wanted to wait to see if it was a one off race thing, but with these drivers having run it for all five Grand Prix so far, I decided to update their helmets. 

I also updated the main red on Ocon's helmet. For some reason, that shade of red doesn't convert well to GP4's .tex format, so I've changed it and amended the alpha layer to be more realistic. 

Thanks as always to Jvinu for the various helmet shapes and templates, recreating the helmets are a pleasure on his base work.