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Old 04-08-2008
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It's way clearer now. It's a 250 GT SWB (short wheelbase) from 1959 : see Ferrari 250 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

First, don't use front and rear views as blueprint. They're completely wrong, because of perspective. Use them only as refpic. The side view looks good.

You have several different parts in the front bumper area :
- The bumper itself (I mean, the part painted red) Model it as you would model any other body part.
- The chrome part surrounding the air intake : duplicate the set of vertices from the bumper and extrude it inward. That way you'll have a clean gap between both parts. Add some depth, and voilà !
- The grille : pretty easy too. It's made of thick wires, so a simple cylinder for each wire will do the job. Start by creating one horizontal then duplicate it as needed to get all the horizontal one. Create another one, vertically this time. Then duplicate it. You'll be done shortly.
- The foglights : just look for a good headlight tutorial in your favorite search engine. Modeling one is a pretty easy task.

As I already said, model a part at a time. No doubt the most difficult part is the bumper. Be sure to study all the shapes within it : main headlights holes, turn signal holes, main air intake, additional side air intakes. You have only one part going from the very front end to the doors, make sure to complete it at 100% before moving onto modeling another part. Pay attention to surface smoothness.

Keep us updated. If you want this thread to be moved in WIP section and renamed to something like "Ferrari 250GT SWB", PM an administrator or moderator (eg : DcFeelGood,Johnas, Redstar, NightEye... sorry to the others )



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