1934 McQuay-Norris Streamliner

jpalm32

Great work as usual.
Weird car!
Visiblity seems really bad.
It seems to me if they reversed the front and back,
they would have had a real breakthrough aero-dynamically

Adorno

Great looking car. Perfectly modelled, with high degree of detail.

The article says:
"A drop of water falling through the air takes this shape naturally
because of the resistance of the air through which it is falling"

That's confusing. I would think the law of gravity made a drop of water fall approximating a ball - with or without resistance of air.
I must find a sink and experiment

d12dozr

Very well done, Steve. Your post reads like a well written encyclopedia article, and is illustrated with your detailed Sketchup model to match. Love it.

ken28875

Very cool model and render, Mr. M.

What rendering engine do you use, or just straight render from Sketchup with Photoshop postwork?

Have a great week!

_KN

hellnbak

@jpalm32 said:

Great work as usual.
Weird car!
Visiblity seems really bad.
It seems to me if they reversed the front and back,
they would have had a real breakthrough aero-dynamically

Thanks John.

Your comment got me to thinking. I think you're right. Keep in mind though, this was the early 1930's, they didn't know much about aerodynamics back then.

Anyhow, here's a quick-and-dirty body-on-backward version

@adorno said:

Great looking car. Perfectly modelled, with high degree of detail.

The article says:
"A drop of water falling through the air takes this shape naturally
because of the resistance of the air through which it is falling"

That's confusing. I would think the law of gravity made a drop of water fall approximating a ball - with or without resistance of air.
I must find a sink and experiment

I appreciate the kind words, Adorno.

Yeah, I always thought a drop of water assumed the most compact shape, a sphere. Turns out I was wrong.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/raindropshape.html
"Small raindrops (radius < 1 millimeter (mm)) are spherical; larger ones assume a shape more like that of a hamburger bun. When they get larger than a radius of about 4.5 mm they rapidly become distorted into a shape rather like a parachute with a tube of water around the base --- and then they break up into smaller drops."

Wow, I guess they're right -- you're never too old to learn something new

hellnbak

@d12dozr said:

Very well done, Steve. Your post reads like a well written encyclopedia article, and is illustrated with your detailed Sketchup model to match. Love it.

Thanks, Marcus.

For me half the fun when I start a new model is doing the research and getting to know the vehicle, not just it's appearance but it's history. Sorta bond with them after a while With this one being the last of it's kind I felt sorry for it, considering everything it's been through. I don't like for machines to be tossed aside to rust and rot after they've done their job. I remember all the choppers being pushed over the side of the ships after Viet Nam, and I felt they had earned a better fate. Same way with the thousands of aircraft in the Aircraft Boneyard in Arizona, just waiting to be sliced apart by that big blade. I know that seems silly, that they're inanimate objects, but that just seems cruel somehow

Yeah, I are not normal (not even close)

@ken28875 said:

Very cool model and render, Mr. M.

What rendering engine do you use, or just straight render from Sketchup with Photoshop postwork?

Have a great week!

_KN

Thanks, Ken, but please, just call me Steve.

No rendering, no post-processing. Just a SU model. Raw, basic and unedited.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

No rendering, no post-processing. Just a SU model. Raw, basic and unedited.

That is first class!
You push the prog in its last entrenchments! Purism!
Do you know this guy ?
he makes crazzy cars and trucks ans bicyles...!

Krisidious

totally weird dood...

hellnbak

@unknownuser said:

That is first class!
You push the prog in its last entrenchments! Purism!

The nice words mean twice as much when they come from you, Pilou. Thanks.

@unknownuser said:

Do you know this guy ?
he makes crazzy cars and trucks ans bicyles...!

No, I hadn't heard of him. I watched a number of his videos, WOW, he is amazing! Such talent, and he makes it all look so dang easy (I hate him)

@krisidious said:

totally weird dood...

Yeah it are. Imagine how weird it looked back in the early '30's.

olishea

yes their original teardrop shape has the lowest drag coefficient of any known shape, many concept car designers are now adopting this shape.

what a fantastic model, just wow!!! you nailed every detail.

boofredlay

Very impressive.

hellnbak

Thanks guys.

I just found my next project, even weirder than the Streamliner (similar in that only three were made, with one surviving). Can't wait to get started, but it's gonna have to wait a while, other stuff around the house taking priority.

olishea

@hellnbak said:

Thanks guys.

I just found my next project, even weirder than the Streamliner (similar in that only three were made, with one surviving). Can't wait to get started, but it's gonna have to wait a while, other stuff around the house taking priority.

What is it?

ken28875

@unknownuser said:

Do you know this guy?
he makes crazzy cars and trucks ans bicyles...!

Scott Robertson, of course. I have a few books from him. Working in the game/movie industry, I have to know these guys (Scott and Neville Page). They are the founders of the famous Gnomon School of Visual FX.

Steve: I look forward to seeing more of your great models.

Best,

_KN

hellnbak

@olishea said:

@hellnbak said:

Thanks guys.

I just found my next project, even weirder than the Streamliner (similar in that only three were made, with one surviving). Can't wait to get started, but it's gonna have to wait a while, other stuff around the house taking priority.

What is it?

Glad you asked. It's a thingamabobbie that sorta resembles a whatchamacallit, but a little like a hootchamaflooie in some ways.

olishea

Thought so. Sounds spectacular!

hellnbak

@olishea said:

Thought so. Sounds spectacular!

Well, I don't know about spectacular, just hoping for ok. The tricky part is gonna be finding enuf reference photos of this thing to make it accurate. Seems like each vehicle I model has fewer and fewer photos available. When I get to the point where a car just has a name, no photos at all, now that's gonna be a challenge.

But then who's gonna know whether or not I got it right?