Corvette Stingray C3

[tigerboyce]

Hey guys,

This is pretty much my first ever car model that I have made, as the only other time I have attempted was within the first few weeks of ever touching a 3d package (3dsmax) and that was basically a learning curve of getting the hang of the program so was not really concentrated on the car model at all. So now I am revisiting and going ahead with a model after getting a bit more experience but mainly been doing characters and animating since then (~9months)

So i have decided to go and make one of my fave cars, a C3 corvette Stingray So far i have only really got the base shape of the car down, and sorting loops so comments on that would be appreciated before moving on.

If you don't know what the car is, here is the main ref that I'm using among a whole load of other images:
1971 Corvette Stingray front
1971 Corvette Stingray back

As this is a learning project please leave as much comments on Crit, Suggestions, Technique, Love, Hate, whatever as thats the only way to get better

So here is where I am up to so far, those bits are not detached yet, that's just colour so I can distinguish easily:

[tigerboyce]

Been doing a tiny bit each day as been working for the summer, but got some time today to do a good amount of the front section and just work detailing the shapes:

[Johnas]

Hi and welcome to the board, nice car you've chosen to model

What I noticed at first is that front lights are not placed right, they should be more closer to the edge of the bumper. Edges on bonnet could be sharper they look too round now.

Your poly topology looks very nice though, you've managed to keep everything in quads what I can see

[Rockhobbit99]

Best Corvette's ever made.
Welcome and good luck with the car!

[Icekid84]

The model is a bit rough in places but for a first car model its very clean and and shows a lot of promise. The areas i notice that are rough are around the hood, side, and lower front bumper. just areas that are not as smooth as others in shape.

[tigerboyce]

Thanks guys, Tried to work on some of those points mentioned today.

I brought the lights down, and smoothed sections out mainly the lower bumper and the sides, but Johanas, where you say hood do you mean the orange section or the fins that are round the front edges of the bonnet? I did tidy up and sharpen the orange bits and make the V shape on the front better but I do need to work on the far fins too.

I made a start on the back section of the roof and barely on the top of the roof itself, I just wanted to post some screenshots as I'm finding it tricky to get right as the plans are not really helping so I'm mainly going by eye, does it look right? I know its pretty lumpy but I want going to wast time on that if it looks wrong... :roll:

Cheers

First screen are changes to the front, and the roof are the following:

[Icekid84]

This is much much better, for me to get even more anal Id have to take some time and study real pictures , but from just what I know of the car it looks very nice so far. Keep at it

[CAH84]

This looks great you got any base frame wire shots ( ie no smoothing) Be great to see your structure at this point.

[Johnas]

If you need more reference pics, eBay motor is always good place to look at

eBay Motors

As Cah said above if you want us to help spot errors on mesh, unsmoothed wireshots would be nice to see. Sofar looks good already some pinches, for example on that air vent in fender.

[tigerboyce]

Cheers for the comments. Thanks for that too Johnas, Ebay would have been the last place i would have thought to look but it seems great as there's loads of angles by people to try and sell

There is a motor show on in town this week so ill be going down there hoping that ill get lucky with a C3 corvette showing up. I really doubt it being a small town in England where I live though, most of the time its triumphs, Bentleys, Jaguars and the like. Should still get decent reference for the future hopefully

I wont bother posting much up as I haven't done any big progress, but ill put some wire renders of what's done so far, for you to see as requested. (noticed smoothing groups at the front, ill fix them)