Roughing in the details. No clear picture of what's under the umbrella structure. Just a vague hint of something angular. So just blocked in for now.

The white wrap around bumper is various sizes in the drawing so I made it what I wanted.

Wow! Top notch work!

Absolutely masterful.

@Mike-Amos said in Iria - main car:

@Bryan-K

Loving the progress mate, it is definitely on the way.

Thanks!

First color test. Now I can move on to the details.

More views.

OK. The hard part is done. Turns out my previous worry was unfounded after checking the reference drawings.

Tweaks and detailing next.

Here's a wireframe shot.

The bulges are supposed to be there. It's curves in the design.

The slight mistake was in how the upper part of the body flows into the top of the tails. Specially right at the body/hull. Easy fix. The change will appear on the next post. The rest of the mesh, just a foot or two from the body, is fine, although I will probably refine it a bit.

LOL! And it's wrong. Nice, but wrong. Close. Oh so close.

The Curviloft begins. After much jiggling and fiddling and a few choice words, and corrections to the base geometry (my alignment off as usual), and then a couple of dozen arcs failures to find just the right curve, I got the top part made.

Yeah, I like this! On to the bottom part!

Very nice!

Component structure. Left right mirror for body, left right and top bottom for tails

Roughing in the arcs. I will use Curviloft for the final curves from body to tails. 5 arcs to make the curve. One for the nose, and two arcs, top and bottom.

More geometry clean up.

Normally, I would just do a top/bottom component mirror, but the bottom hull is a slightly different proportion as per the original drawings.

This is better. Cleaned up some other geometry as well.

Yeah, that back end was not easy and it's probably still wrong. But there are no reference pictures to go by. None.

But look at that profile! BTW, the top and bottom of the main body are not identical. The bottom has a slight offset and bulkier profile as shown in the drawings.

Great guacamole! Amazing model and excellent render!

Quite nice! I like the way it blends into landscape with its low profile .

A little more refinement while I'm thinking about it.

Also, tails were too far out, port and starboard. Moved them back in a little. This gave me a better angle from body to tails.

It's starting to shape up!

Beginning the geometry subdivide and positioning.

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