Car Week 3 Progress

 


The 3rd week has concluded for the car project, and I and happy with the progress I have made. There has been some rather significant changes in the model, including the workflow regarding it, and the reference itself. 

I have been given permission to change the Countach from the LP400 model, to that of the LP500.


The primary changes between these two models, is the removal of the roof engine mounted intakes. Where the side meets the undercarriage is less pronounce, as well as the the actual frame of the vehicle being more square like. Basically, its a more bare boney version, relative to the LP400



After removing the air intakes, I spent time fixing the geometry around that area so it worked smoother with the rest of the body.

These changes might all sound minor, but they have major impacts on the overall design of the vehicle, and the future details I will be adding to it. Here you can see both the old and newer models side by side:


I also resolved around 90% pf tje triangles on the model, the majority of which were fixed with additional edge loops. Some were turned into kites simply by using the multi-cut tool. I want to say the majority of the models base has now been completed, with me successful alerting the details needed to make the model conform to that of the LP500. There is some minor work I still need to do regarding adding a bit more to the basic mesh, but from here on our, I will be mostly dub diving and adding details



In most arears, the model technically lost detail. Especially on the sides. The indentations on the sides were not accurate to either th3 LP400. or the LP500. So despite the removal of detail, and the car appearing more box-ish then before, its actually far more accurate.


There is one two notable areas where significant curves have been added. Above the tires, the body actually extrudes outward to a significant degree. This is not replicated at all on the rear tires, and is unique to the front of the Countach. The second area is is where the body meets the undercarriage of the vehicle, this has a notable inward curve that stars pretty early on, and progressively gets tighter in its angle until completely connecting with the bottom of the car

            
I was comfortable with the amount of progress I got down this week, especially since I was able to converted my model, to a completely different version of the Countach. Going forward the majority of my time and effort will now be on locking in the curves, adding detail, as well as adding secondary and individual components. Such as the headlights, side mirrors, side intakes, and so on.

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