White truck (~1940)

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[Johnas]

Ow I love these old trucks

Nice start, looking forward to see more

[Icekid84]

Great start nb, also nice to see you in the WIP forum.. Ive not been around much so I dont know if you've already showed stuff in here before but for me its a first

[kosso_olli]

Looking great. Very smooth. Are you going to model a trailer?

By the way, are you on a truck trip? I'd love to see some cars from you :-)

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Originally Posted by kosso_olli

Looking great. Very smooth. Are you going to model a trailer?

By the way, are you on a truck trip? I'd love to see some cars from you :-)

Yeh, I'm sort of on a truck trip... This White was most probably at least partly designed by de Sakhnoffsky as well. There are lots of his illustrations and patents on White trucks. While looking for reference data I found some images of the streamlined trucks, and became interested in the work of this person. Thus the streamlined de Sakhnoffsky truck came as a spin-off from this project.

As for the trailers of this truck, I'm going to do different versions, including tankers, becase there exist excellent patent drawings on them. I'm also thinking of making different body styles, including some known streamlined versions.

But there's a long way to go as, unlike passenger cars, trucks need more details: front and rear axles, leaf springs, drive shaft, etc. should be done, as they will be visible from some angles. All these are very boring, but once made, they can be used for other truck models.

I'm also working on Dodge Airflow (it's a streamlined truck too), but it's too early yet to show-off anything.
There are other trucks of the era like Autocar, International Harvester, Reo, etc, I would like to model, but spare time is an issue for me.

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Here's an update. I don't have too much time for this, so it progressing very slowly.

All the parts like spings and axles are correct in their basic shape but are not especially detailed, as on the final render they would *always be in the shadow*, and are also likely to be at least partly obscured by other objects. However, there's also a chance that they will be seen from certain angles. Thus I had to model them. Modelling these parts with full detalization would requare equaly the amount of time and effort needed to model the truck itself. So I don't consider this as an option.

[tomsullivan]

SWEET AS!!!!!!

god how do i love this era.

ive been looking at doin a pre war car for a long time now, but havent found a good source of pictures

but that suspension looks great!!

[palat]

Awesome!
Keep us drooling.

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Here's an update.
The model seems to be ready.
It's a test render: colors, textures and lights are not adjusted yet.

[Zinni]

Very nice, awesome work!