Ford Galaxie (Brazilian) 1967

[palat]

Hi all,

This was the first "modern" Brazilian-made car. The dies were shipped to Brazil when the Galaxie was redesigned in USA, but only for the 4door sedan. With minor changes the car was produced until the 80s as the most expensive in the market.

Although not a wip i am posting the first steps from box to poly modeling.

First image shows the reference planes and the nonrenderable dimensions box, inside of which the model is built.
Second image is the start of the model, then it is cut according to the model lines.
Fourth image shows the extrude faces that form the roof, fifth image shows FDD box on these faces and the Symmetry modifier applied.
Last image shows the body under turbosmooth.

[rallydriver]

Oh yeah a tutorial. Thanks for sharing the tips´n pieces.
Looks cool !

[tiberius]

I find it interesting!

[palat]

Thanks rallydriver and tiberius

Here's progress on the wip, windows cut, taillights and beggining of front detail. The boxy shape of this car tends itself perfectly to box modeling.

[tiberius]

these shots show better the details I thought were missing, and they are there. I have to say the brasilian Cars had a unique touch going into the 70's and the later ones remind me of the Australian LTDs some. Great stuff!!! I'm definitely a fan.

[palat]

Yes maybe the light setup on the final renders did hide some detailing.
The no-nonsense razor-edge design is characteristic of 60s Fords, and even the "coke-bottle" is discrete. Upon freely rotating the body object i could not help but identifying this same design with the 66 Mustang, a proof of Ford's firm and coherent styling general directions.

[pedro.malheiro]

looks realy good,

[tiberius]

i find that certain colors also can aid in hiding details at certain angles as well. I have some cars in games that do that only with specific colors,and at certain angles.

[palat]

Colors can be really deceitful. Anyway here's the Galaxie in grey, one of the original options on the color chart:





Some nasty artifacting, must check.

[Johnas]

Damn you're fast and still you can make such gorgeus work

[tiberius]

I see the details nicely with this color. very nice!!

[palat]

Thanks Flash but please note that this wip has been going for a couple of weeks, only now i posted the images. :lol:

[tiberius]

The Variations on this model are interesting considering they used the 4 Door and modified it for things like Funeral cars with a totally different look than the american station wagons.

[P A L A T]

True, tiberius. The funeral car was a one-off private venture.
Well there was no reason to produce and market all bodystyles, given the car expensive price. Ford put a good deal of money into the Brazilian Galaxie and it slowly paid off. Anyway the constant, albeit minor restyling, proves the car had its own safe niche.
Well after the forum hacking my account was disabled so i had to re-register. I re-rendered the grey car renders with an increased interpolation sampling and it apparently worked, check the updaded images.

[SVT_MAN]

Any chance of making a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500? That's what I own. Beautiful work you did on this 1966 though.

[P A L A T]

Yes the 64 Ford is the last year with the trademark round "turbine" taillights...
I am a staunch Chevy fan but the number of Fords models in my gallery is gradually increasing, so who knows.

[SVT_MAN]

PALAT: I'm very impressed that you'd model Fords if you're a Chevy guy. When I modelled cars for NFS HS, I always found it hard to model Chevys as a Ford guy.

Anyway, here is something that may be of help if you decide to model it:



This is based off a convertible, unfortunately.

Here is my favorite picture of a 64:



Something about those wheels make the car perfect looking to me anyways.


If you ever do decide to model the car, I have access directly to the car so I could get you whatever pictures you needed.

Keep up the good work!

(I've got better front, side, and back pictures if they would help.)