1965 Austin Healey 3000 MKIII

[R0cky103]

@tomsullivan: I think it really all depended on the car back in the 50's and 60's. Like the early mustangs were pretty much half a frame welded on to the inner body ( there's no such thing as a frame off restoration for a early mustang ). Then u have a small car like the healey thats just basically a engine seats and wheels, so they had to build a strong frame around it to keep it from tearing itself apart. Dont let the frame fool you though the healey is a very small sports car.
Im probably going to work on a few more things that bolt onto the frame such as pads and brackets, but then my next step is to start on the rear axle.

Thanks for your comments, and I cant wait to see more updates of your viper!


@tom120934: Thank you sir! I'll try to keep updates coming.



Here is three new renders with a few different settings

[tom120934]

The black one is unbelievable. Put it in a real scene with proper lighting and it will be really realistic. Congratulations !

[Prykie]

Great work Rocky, details are awesome and nice render, cant wait to see more!

[Niray]

Beautiful modeling as well as rendering!
I'm amazed with light and clarity of renders.

Keep the updates coming!

[peterliang]

Nice progress you have made on the frame work...but perhaps you can use a more neutral background like grey when you show off detailed renders like there as black tends to hide a lot of details in between.

[pedro.malheiro]

lovely work and render...gret job so far

[R0cky103]

Update:
Started working on the leaf springs and brackets.

also playing around with different colors, dont really like either one of em so gonna keep working with it.

[tom120934]

The suspension work is really nice, and the parts fixing it on the yellow render are pretty well realistic. Keep us updated, you're doing great !

[R0cky103]

Sorry been busy but here is a small updated on the leaf springs.
Also started on the rear shocks. The shocks on british cars are deffanatly different.

[R0cky103]

Working on the axle, ton of work left to do on it but here's a peak.

[tom120934]

It looks damn good. Excellent modeling and excellent rendering, that's a killer work.

PS : I think I will repeat myself more than a few times in your thread. So be prepared.

[Prykie]

Heheh im with Tom on this, Im sure i'm gonna repeat myself a few times on this thread. Great work Rocky, lovely details, show me more!!

[R0cky103]

Thanks you guys! Haha its quite ok if you repeat yourself I appriciate the comments and it keeps pushing me to continue working on it.

Here's a new render that turned out real well with a little bit more of a update in it.

[tom120934]

I definitely like your lighting. Can you post a schematic of the setup ?

Nice work, the only little problem I see is the traversal of the axis through supports on suspension : you should add some detail there.

[tomsullivan]

definatly keeping an eye on this, checking this topic every day!!

i was always surpised at the limited frame the camaro had, front and rear frame not joined, but i surpose there this a lot of steal in the body to stiffen up the car.

keep up the great work!!

[R0cky103]

Originally Posted by tom120934

I definitely like your lighting. Can you post a schematic of the setup ?

Tom, My lighting setup is shockingly simple. It consists of 2 vray lights, 1 one on each side of the model. One of the lights is giving off a standard White color with and intensity multiplier of 6.0 and the other is giving of a sun yellow/orange (#RGB: 254:231:190) color with an intensity multiplier of 4.0. (See ScreenShot.)
Then of course there is the render settings and materials im using.

[tom120934]

No need for complicated things to produce great results. Thanks for that piece of information, it's valuable for any VRay user (which I am not) and useful to any other that loves your work (which I am)

[KMyers-MG]

Wow, don't know how I've missed this thread... but your work here is absolutely fantastic. Hope that you keep with this level of detail for the entire project.

I will surely be watching this from here on. Excellent work!

[Nik]

Sems like Tom Sullivan got a challenge on adding details.

Great work.

[P A L A T]

Ouch this is a hit!
Sorry to repeat the joking words but -- i hope i am still alive when you get to the body modeling...

And wow what a cool result from such a simple lighting setup.