DISCLAIMER: While I believe anyone can improve their skills and be great at building cars, this will be a solely design-focused challenge that is not for the faint of heart. If you are unsure of your skills or new to the game, be warned that you may not make it far into the competition. I discourage nobody from trying and will still judge everything fairly, but be warned, this challenge is aimed at more experienced players.
With that out of the way,
Welcome to Frame Off!!
This is a challenge designed to test your design abilities in several ways. Entrants will be tasked with building a race car from any era of their choosing, however, the chassis, running gear, and suspension will be the true star of the show here. The aim is to showcase the art of automotive engineering that is often overlooked by most, and push your skills to the limit. The design of the car is still relevant but will be judged separately from the chassis.
Rules
As this is a creativity and design-based challenge, the rules are pretty relaxed. However, there are some strong suggestions that one should take into account.
There is no one chassis design in particular I look for, however, there is a limit to simplicity, because one could use premade whole chassis fixtures or just send in the base game chassis and call it a day. I also extensively encourage more irregular chassis styles besides spaceframes. Race trucks are allowed as well as prerunners, racing semis and other obscure vehicles.The inspirations are just things I thought of off the top of my head and donât directly relate to what you have to build.
Electric vehicles with skateboard battery platforms are also not encouraged. While yes they take time to design and are far from easy to make, they are the least visually appealing in my opinion because its, well, a skateboard. If you want to do an electric powertrain, go ahead, I just wanted to prevent someone from putting a slab in between two motors and calling it a day.
The age limits are from 1905 to 2026, so donât go make some cyberpunk futuristic spaceship thing, (ykwim) and donât throw some bicycle tires together and call It a prewar racecar (however donât take
this as a donât do that, if you can pull off an early century racecar that would be badass)
Do note any gray areas or clarifications will also be added here
Judging Criteria
The Chassis design will be judged separately from the overall design of the car, with a maximum of 15 points given to each category.
I will allocate 5 points to Creativity, Detail, and Realism for the chassis side, as for the body, 5 for Design, 5 for Creativity, and 5 for Chassis Integration, meaning the chassis works well with the body and/or car design.
There will be winners for both categories as well as a best overall winner with the most points. Entries must be sent to me via DM, and a showcase post must also be made here.
Naming structure:
Trim: Frame Off: (Username) Variant: Car name
Inspiration
Ferrari 330 P4
Ford GT40
Porsche 917
Mercedes Benz 300sl
Porsche 956
Ford F100 prerunner
Auto Union Rekordwagen
BRM P48
Mclaren MK1A
Corvette IMSA GTP
Kamaz Dakar Truck
My own personal build, the Cagliari Palermo LM
These are only a few, let your imagination run wild!
The deadline is flexible depending on entrants, however for now I will set the Deadline at Febuary 28
Entries will open this Friday, 1/24/25
And with that, ask any questions or clarifications youâd like, and happy building!