'68 Dodge Charger R\T 440 Magnum

Hi every one,

Here's my final render of a '68 Dodge Charger R\T 440 Magnum done with the blue print of a '69 Charger, so i had to make some changes to make a '68 model (front part, rear lights, side lights.....) It took me 6 weeks to do it, and it is my first car modeling (without tutorial, the first one was a Nissan 350Z, done from the tutorial on Lightwave's home page in the tuto section.
It is composed of 310000 poly and weights 12,5Mb

[NightEye]

That is uhmm... quite heavy
hock:
Great render and great model

Thanks NightEye for your comment it's very kind, and make me lots of pleasure

Here are some ohter wiews of the model :

First a view of Lightwave interface :



And then, other SubD Patch and wireframes viewsviews

- SubD Patch ones (brown body)
- Freezed wireframes ones (black body)





And here's a view of the inside of the car (note that it isn't the real Charger inside, i did it following my imagination :

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[Icekid84]

Excellent job, and very detailed. I'm making a 72 Challenger but its for a game.... and about err 300,000 less polys (compared to first render) anyhow great job and only thing I dont like are the labeling on the tires too big and well unrealistic but the rest looks top notch thanks for showing

[jeep314]

Awesome, and one things I liked a lot is ''The Québec Plate''

Well thanks a lot for your comment

Icekid84 : About the tire, yes, i'm not good at all at this game, my all wheel is not realistic, but i'll work on it, don't worry......

Jeep314 : thx are you from Quebec too ?

[squidd]

That is TOUGH very nice. Good to see a lot of classics being shown off here.

Thx Squidd, Classic ccar and espaecially muscle cars are my new passion since this summer as i discover it for the first time (I'm french leaving to Quebec since August). I saw this one in real it's SOOOO BEAUTIFULL ARGH, I WANT ONE !!!!!!

[Bjolletts]

That looks sweet ! great job !

[jeep314]

Yes, I'm from Laval :wink:.

[Le Bucheron]

hey cool i didnt notice de Quebec palce!

Je me souviens

great job on teh car!

lot of people from quebec here

EDIT: oh and sorry for teh stupid question but.. where are teh front light on that car??

Sorry for the delay of the answer, i had a lot to do with immigration stuff......

About the front light trick, there are some kind of panels in front of the headlights, wich retract when the driver lights it on.
The headlights are 2 round lights and 2 each side of the car as you can see here :



It's also a reason why i choose this car, because the headlights are hidden : i don't know how to modelise this to have a photorealistic look..... if anyone have some trick and explainations to give me, it should be kind : how to modelise the deflectorsm the glass in front wich has so complicated drawings, etc.......

[Zeller]

The reflector itself is not that heavy to model. Just take something like a half-spere with a small ball in the middle for it. Chrome Material on it and thats all. For the Glass you just draw some Lines and youse it as a bump map.

This is a picture I used as a bump:

OK, i understand what you mean, i'll try it out....... actually that's really simple...... This is 3D, you don't have to always look for a heavy solution.......

[jammy_basturd]

Yea, i asked the same question in the tutorial section of the forums and got some good replies -

http://smcars.nd4spdworld.com/forum/...pic.php?t=6050