@garydorn said:

For reference , there a number of photos of wooden bucks there were supposedly originally used to hammer out aluminium skins for these bodies.

Lots of cool historical car stuff on this thread, but as a woodworker I find these wooden bucks even more compelling as pieces of art than the (gorgeous) auto body that was hammered out on top of them!

@thomthom said:

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I'll bring home some tracing paper today and sketch out where I think the control loops will go.

I've had a go at the mesh for the door indents, following something I saw last night.
see Tileable Triangle Inset - http://imgur.com/a/dEWXP

http://i.imgur.com/irHcF.png

The indent on the door panel appears to be raised above the door panel itself slightly.

Here is my try - following the above method.
This is with SU16 Make.

the mesh

indent subD

SU file ; SubD test

sneak peek of more playing hehe not SU though

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Hello,
thank you all for your comments. 😄 I already made a posting late friday evening, but the post doesn' show until yet (estimated 36 hours) so I make a sekond attempt. I changed the title to show some more items. First i show a isolator, used on railway phone lines. Second are some oilcans used on steamengines. The third is litle scene including all shown items. Only the persons are not my work. You find them as free download in the "SketchUp Components, Materials & Styles" Forum.
Greeting from Mölln, Germany

Isolator (FILEminimizer).jpg

Ölkannen (FILEminimizer).jpg

warte_Weiche2 (FILEminimizer).jpg

Shopping maybe?

...and still on vacation. 😄

Good to hear and see you back in action Bryan 👍

Great model, Liam. 👍 👍

Have a great week!

_KN

Beautiful models, Daniel. Loving all the details. 👍 👍

Best,

_KN

Very nice model, Chad. 👍 👍

Have a great week!

_KN

@stinkie said:

By the time I'm done with this, everyone else will be churning out interactive holograms that feel and smell just like the real thing. 😎

Hence the Wip a dee doo dah 😆

@stinkie said:

Same thing in Modo. Everything got rotated; the Item List got really messy. Shame really. It'd be nice to have the same scene hierarchy as in SU, and to be able to import components as instances. Have you tried BlendUp, by any chance? Looks promising, but all I got, was an empty .blend file. Granted -I've only tried it once.

No, haven't tried BlendUp. Obj import works just fine for what I need. I have a blank template scene with all the vray settings already in place, so I'm not sure it would add anything additional for my workflow. Might be worth testing when I have some down time tho.

Since I know my SU models will come in organized by material, I keep that method of organization in mind as I prepare my SU model. The biggest thing I find is that I end up with too many materials.

When I have my model in Blender, I'll duplicate the single mesh that I've imported to a few copies with only specific materials. For example, one will be the glass mesh. In the original mesh, I'll select all the glass, make the copy. Then in one, I delete the inverse, and the other delete just the glass.

Thanks mate, I am using Renditioner which does not work in sketchup 2015 where there is already a problem with memory. Sometimes it will open in v14 and sometimes not but I will try for a few more views.

Really very nice Dave!! I love the idea of the stow away cushions, and although the glass top is period representative I'm just not certain if that's grabbing me!

I just thought of an option to the overall purpose of this piece. If the whole top hinged up to expose the seat cushion, while itself has a thin padding for the back.

Love where it's going though!!

Thanks, it's nice to learn something new and I have a shed load to learn.

Indeed it looks crazy, the peugeot guys are starting to do some nice concepts.

Wow, that is strange, almost a year !! And it felt like the other month...
These are from the last year.Peugeot Exalt B14, Peugeot Lion Phaeton and Peugeot Type 1(which I am sending it to you if you want to apply some textures as you well know to do).
Peugeot Exalt B14.jpg
PLP a.jpg
Peugeot type 1.jpg
Peugeot type 1 a.jpg

Polycount.jpg

Thanks Bryan

Appreciate it !

👍 👍 👍

Definitely being too hard on yourself. You should have seen my first models. 😆

You don't even want to know how many years it took me just to get to intermediate. Some people have a knack, I had to slog, but I also had lots of great help from the folks around here.

I still can't do organics or advanced texturing worth a damn. 😄

Looking great, Mr. Amos.

@daniel said:

I do, too; those columns are a component made by someone else many years ago.

haha, I was going to ask if you modeled those corinthian columns 😄 Nice model overall. 👍