XC Cobra

[Augh]

Hi all.

Since I'm learning a few things making the Camaro, I've started on a second renderable car, this one I've been intending to do since my first try at a game version of it, right when I got started with any type of modeling.
I'm going to be attempting a 1978 XC Cobra, an "instant classic" concocted by Ford Australia to use up their last 400 XC Falcon hardtop shells. Imo this is probably the best looking stock car of all time

O_O
I'm making decent progress this time I think/I guess, I'm having trouble with the rear end though, even after deciding to make things a bit simpler by modeling the spoiler afterward, it's proving tricky to get

right... Also I have no clue what to do about the grille, windows, and bumpers, how to fill them in, get the right shapes with as many quads as possible etc etc.

C+C welcome/required ^_^

Pics so far, with a reference of real XC Cobra;

[Augh]

"Attachment limit" post

Wires;

Ed: And small progress...

[madmattg]

Nice choice of car, looking good so far.

[marvin]

Man that is so much better than my intercepter could of imagined being. hock:

To make the bonnet scoops, model them in one straight row of polies from the windscreen down, select the polies needed, then use the hinge from edge option, (the little box next to the big button, and select the highlighted edge.
Play with the setting, chanfer some corners, stc.

The rear should be sharpon the fold, and flat across the back, with a cut out for the bumper, same as the front.

EXCELLENT WORK!!!!!

[Augh]

Cheers man Heheh it's early days yet, we'll see how it actually pans out haha..

Trying to work out how to make that cut for the rear bumper, and where the hell to even start shaping those rear panels. In some fit of temporary madness I appear to have chopped out a gap to shape the spoiler out from, I have no idea what possessed me to do that. And I started putting the most basic of shapes in the grille area... I don't have any idea how to do that either, the parallels with the rounded light surrounds indented.

Hrm...

[marvin]

For the grill, you could either draw each "bar" across the grill as a box, leaving a gap between them, then joining them to the outside surround.

OR

Make the grill a plane with what ever number of vertical segments reqiured, and extrude ever second one.

Then cut out the circles for the headlight surrounds.

The end of your guards around the flashers is a little square. Your photo doesnt show it to well, but the guards dont come all the way to the grill, they have small extention on them that is the same thickness as the flasher.
(I know you havent got to detaching yet, but when you take the extentions off you maybe able to round the front lip a little more).

Awesome work so far.

*** edit ***

Just noticed, the top edges of the guards are supposed to be higher than the bonnet, they are simular to the back end where there is a lip on the edge. The bonnet and guards are not flat (at the same hieght).

not bad of a model, a little pinchy in some areas but very nice