60's and 70's cars and trucks.

[arizonachris]

Very nice work once again, JP! You got the tail fins and the front grille just right. 60' had the "bullet" tail lights, 59' Bel Air had the teardrop lights (I had one like the silver one in the pic in that article. Mine was white, inherited it from my grandpa. 283 V8, great car!)

[jpetersjr]

Another version of the 1960 Chevrolet Impala.

Added a little more detail such as the 1960 standard white walls, as well as a 1960 license plate for the model year.

As well, I reshaped the tires so they look a little more realistic.

1960 Chevrolet Impala V3 In Game A.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V3 In Game B.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V3 In Game C.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V3 In Game D.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V3 In Game E.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

1960 Chevrolet Impala V4 in the sim.

1960 Chevrolet Impala V4 In Game A.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V4 In Game B.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V4 In Game C.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V4 In Game D.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Impala V4 In Game E.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

Some more pictures of the 1960 Bel Air's/ Impala's.

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air's A.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air's B.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air's C.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air's D.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

By the way, Crafter is working correctly again and I got another car built. This is a 1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar.

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar V1 In Game A.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar V1 In Game B.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar V1 In Game C.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar V1 In Game D.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar V1 In Game E.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

Corrected the bottom of the car to fix the depth, now it's the correct height and not too skinny on the bottom.

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar V1 In Game F.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

Some more versions of the 1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar, there are now five of them and some more cars to come. I think the Oldsmobile's came out great.

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar's A.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar's B.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar's C.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar's D.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

And here's what a real 1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar looked like compared to my model.

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar 1.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar 2.jpg

And my model.

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar A.jpg

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar B.jpg

...Cheers...

Big J

[jpetersjr]

Next car, 1967 car spaceship, the car that was named like a spaceship for mopar lovers.

1967 Plymouth Satellite.jpg

[jpetersjr]

A small update, now we have wagon's.

What's any route set in the 60's without 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad's.

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad's A.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad's B.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad's C.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad's D.jpg

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad's E.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

Are you still interested in seeing any more of these, thinking about making some more maybe soon, but if no one wants them I don't see a reason in doing them.

[jpetersjr]

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The rest of these are going to become special assets for the Riverside Lines route so can someone lock this old thread, I don't have a use for it anymore.

Also all of the new cars are also going to go into a new source folder as well.


....Cheers....


Big J

[WVRR1964]

I give an "A" for effort. I read through the complete thread and I have 2 comments. For the actual 66 Chevelle pictures you have posted, the top picture is actually a 65 Impala. It's a slightly larger car then the Chevelle. One of my favorite cars of all time happened to be the 1959 & 1960 Impala. I don't think you've captured the rear fins, or what I like to call (gull wings) right. They actually meet in the middle of the trunk. Also, I'm sure that your 60 Impala can be morphed into a 59 Impala very easily as they share the same basic body style.

I've attempted many time to make cars models and failed every time. If I was successful at it, It would probably be the only models I would build!

[jpetersjr]

They are extremely difficult to build. I actually get my models as close as possible to the real things, the models won't be perfect unfortunately but they will at least be close to the real thing.

It took me a long time to learn how to model a car, for a very long time I failed every time I tried to model a car.

I'm actually still learning 3D Crafter as I go and getting better at using it.

Later when I get even better with it I want to learn how to model a locomotive and get it into the sim, for now it's just scenery I'll be working on and promoting a route.


...Cheers...

J

P.S.

I was lucky just to get the 60 that close, truly I almost failed at building the model, it almost became just another throw away model.

Also, the 60 Bel Air was actually like that, in the 60 Bel Air the gull wings were actually split down the middle like in my model, 59 was the only year that had the wings meet in the middle of the trunk.

60 Bel Air trunk.jpg

1960 Impala trunk.jpg

It was actually very much different from a 59, unfortunately the 59 version would require a new model and I can't use the 60 version and backdate it without extreme difficulty.




And for you learning how to do a car, I'd suggest doing a car from the 80's, you'd be surprised at how easy it is to build some car models. You should try and learn how to do a car, the community needs more car modeling modelers.

[Toripony]

I've been watching your work and I am pleased to see the improvements in your models. Apparently making autos is difficult since very few have been made by other modelers. Your modeling work is looking great and I'm so glad to see someone making this scenery item we need for heritage routes! What I'm looking forward to is your mastering of transparent windows and the addition of shiny finishes to your textures. I would also recommend learning to use "Layering" in Photoshop/CS. Layering allows you to edit on a "layer" of an image and see your work without disturbing what is on the original layer. So, you open your image, add a blank layer and edit on that; if you foul it up, there's no harm done to your original, just blank the layer and start again. Most importantly, once you've perfected what you want in your editing layer you can save that layer by itself for adding to other near-identical images. For a quick dirty example, after painting a door-handle or shiny "clear coat" onto a layer for one car, you can subsequently plop that layer on all your other cars as quick as you could load and save them. You can even adjust the position (to line up that handle just right) of the new layer before saving.

Learning Photoshop layering takes some time and experimentation but the payoff is huge after you see how it works. Photoshop is hard at first but it makes things easy; I find texturing/painting work much easier than modeling. Once I mastered layering, I started painting all of the components of my images on separate layers so I could save them to reuse on other models. For example, paint a certain window and frame style once, save it, then just plop it everywhere you need it on all your future models.

I'm also looking forward to some '70's models (yes, including those junkers of the gas-shortage era) and some pickup trucks. Then the COA will see lots of these cars and trucks.