As PTG give a huge warm welcome to our newest
painter PTG Fox, Elliot managed to find the time
in his busy schedule to give us all a little background about himself.
Hello there my name is Eliot 39 from Brooklands
in Surrey and I am a total Forza head.
Like so many of my age and generation I fell in
love with driving games through Gran Turismo,
then one day I was round a friends house who had
recently bought an xbox and we played Halo 2 and
Forza motorsport all night long suddenly my allegiance was switched, the next day I traded my
ps2 and got myself an xbox with Forza motorsport
and a subscription to xbox live, I hung out with
a bunch of people and played everyday for many
many hours, I played the **** out of that game,
we had a system where we would only be allowed
stock cars (everyone had to have the same car) no
tunes the winner picked the car and second picked
the track. I ended up with a two in three podium
ratio and a hot lap rank of 500.
With the release of Forza Motorsport 2 suddenly
everything had changed and it was completely
a different game, my circle of friends and our
race meets were gone (due to the fact the stock
cars were horrendous) knowing nothing of tuning
my online race profile took a massive down turn,
suddenly I found my self with only single player
mode to content myself with, unfortunately that
trend continued until fm5, in fm2 I tried to dabble
with the paint brush and made a fairly convincing
replica of the Nevermind album cover and Rancids Out come the wolves album cover, but then my
other creative outlets started to take preference, I
was in a band and we got signed, recording, gigging, rehearsals and my career in catering dented my gaming time, although single player was
completed I didn’t do much else with forza 3 or 4
which in retrospect was a great shame.
Soon though my band and musical career fell
apart about the time of horizon was released, having played Test Drive Unlimited the prospect of
an open world racer had a negative affect on me
and I gave it a wide birth (still the only forza title
I haven’t played)
In February 2013 I hooked up with my childhood
sweetheart, I quit my job and moved in with her
and her 6 children (yes 6, no I don’t know what I
was thinking) for my birthday that year she gave
me a day one xbox one with forza 5, with money
being fairly tight I only really had fm5 to play, after completeing the entire game I wanted more so
I started playing around in the paint booth again,
my early paints were primitive cartoon paints of
the animated series Archer, seeing what other people were doing I decided to let forza take the full
force of my creative needs, and go for bigger more
complex paints, after searching fm.net forums I
discovered a grid system that I made work for me,
my first paint after the Archer paints was a prince
portrait (I’m a huge prince fan) and it looked really
good and I thought wow I can really do this, next
up was a portrait of the Johnny Depp as the Mad
Hatter, the overall paint was fairly awful but there
was something about his eyes that once again gave
me belief in my abilities to paint, next up was a
prodigy Music for the jilted generation and Wilfred paint.
So came along Horizon 2, like horizon one I wasn’t
all that concerned about the game itself but I really
wanted to continue with this painting malarkey,
after a month or two of some ok paints nothing
spectacular I found a post on the fm.net forums
about a paint tutorial twitch stream, eager to learn
more about my new found passion I stopped in on
this stream and found a whole new world.
Stuzib85 was the host and my eyes were opened,
after watching for two or three weeks in a row I
tentatively started to talk to Stu on his stream and
through twitter asking for advice and tips on paints
I had already attempted (this is where I class my
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