Fiat 8V 1954

[palat]

Hello all,

This is my latest wip, the Fiat "Ottovu". A small car with a big engine, it was designed in 1952 with the usual long hood/short deck configuration. I chose to model the 1954 restyle which has a more "sedate" front end, the original one being a bit ungainly.
The car looks a bit like a muscled-up XK Type E. The blueprints were sent to me by Krzystof Rzyba (thanks Chris ), and although very detailed they presented the old dilemma: views don't exactly match. So i kept only the top view and used photographs for the other views. So far so good.

I started the bodyshell with a cube, converted it to poly and boxmodeled the basic shape. Then i deleted one half and went on polymodeing.

Progress so far:




Thanks for watching!

[revelli]

man, i like your car, and good modelling so far

[-monster-]

Nice to see something at so early stages from you again, last few i have seen have been almost finished when u posted them... Weird car, never seen one of those, so I'm definitely looking forward to see this one finished

[palat]

Thanks folks!

Never seen one myself and strongly doubt if i ever willl. Maybe that's why i am modeling it, 3dmodels make us feel like proprietors of the real thing, or the real thing's scale model at least :roll:

Small update with window frames, taillights, much to go.




Unsmoothed wires:

[Johnas]

I've never seen one also. Looks interesting though. I've always liked Fiats design.

Very nice job indeed

[palat]

Thanks FlashG

Small update.

[rallydriver]

That´s so awesome.

The details and all is so impressive

[mindwarps]

Very nice palat, it's sure easy for you tho =)

[palat]

Thanks rallydriver and mindwarps

But not easy. Have you ever tried to do something and after sweating for months on it give up totally, until a fine day you get back to it and it seems a breeze -- it's the way you start it that will make it easy or difficult.

Other view.

[palat]

Updates. I changed the color and hid the skirts for a racier, meaner look.