Nice progress. The front end looks a little high. Is that the design?

Thanks loads for this tool, your work is great!

@ Dylan
Just replace the default icons with the ones you wish (in the plugins directory). Thats actually the way I did it.

I’m also having another issue. IDK if this has been discussed before or not, but after I use this tool I sometimes loose right click options such as; smooth, make group/component, reverse faces, etc.

I just seperated out the interior and it, alone, is about 3.5MB

Well, there are exterior shots back a few pages. It’s not really the exterior that’s adding all the detail, its the interior

Look'n good so far! Can't wait to see more progress

Any chance of a link to your post?

Model update:
Poly count: 170,000 approx
Size: 8.4MB approx
ETA: Coming weekend, hopefully.

It’s getting big, fast!

Thanks for the advice, have just acquired tools on surface. I usually just use Fredo Scale and Joint push/pull. This is a nice addition! Fredo makes some damn great plugins.

850 estate, nice, any chance of pic's?

Oh, F! It! here’s a peek at the dials.. All digital! Just like the feature on the first Milano, it’s gonna have a move and replace feature; dials.... Damn hard work

Thanks for the comments

File size is still just over 7MB.

New wheel: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=5bd68a5d9dd9a318b0007442bb1f6542

Damn this interior is looking goood, if I may say so

No more interior shots past this point. I don’t want to ruin the rest.

I believe the limit is 10MB

I guess people see what type of cars we model most and want to see what we could come up with for a different genre. I like your designs a lot Ray! And I think it would be great to see some of that styling go into a more familiar shape. I do like sports cars a lot, my favourite car is a DB9, but I just find it easier to model muscle cars as the shapes come more naturally.

@ Goldenfrog, you’re still experimenting with car designing so it may take a little while for you to find the designs you like most. It don’t think it took Ray and me too long as we were already designing cars and had found our genre.

The file size for the Milano just spilled over the 7MB mark. Once I finish the dash I think it will be around 8MB.

Yeah, I do like Muscle cars a lot but I think I may try a sports/supercar. I have a few designs in mind but I have already tried to model both, both with no results. Very hard to free hand model, especially with modern designs

Anyway, here is a little update on the model. It’s my holiday break now so I’ll be doing more work soon. Damn the small details are hard!

Look'n damn great! I would love to get some of my cars in games but the few people who offered haven’t yet done anything with them.

The 350z's going nicely! Can't wait to see more!

Thanks for the motivating comments Ray.
I would love to help you out with the interior work. It’s very hard for me to teach someone how to model interior. The way I do it takes a very long time and it’s very hard. I do have a few videos on YouTube that may help you but they are pretty dated and only deal with starting off your interior.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RogueAutomotive
^You should easily be able to find them there^
I don’t really have a lot of modeling time. I’ve stopped all of my other projects just to get this done, so I don’t know how much I could help.

I really want to get around to some more interesting designs but I have lots of models in the way. I’ll get this Milano done next week, as I have a holiday week, then I’ll try working on some really quick models.. May need to refer to some of my really old drawings to get inspired XD

I think it looks good, maybe just make the wheels a little smaller?

I just work there Fridays, but I do the other 4 days of the working week at course.

Here is an update on the Milano; new 5 point surround sound system, work on the dash, updated tyres. Hopefully I'll finish the dash in the next few weeks, then I'll move onto basic suspension just for looks, then it’ll be finished.

My 2011 Milano is nearly finished; I'll be working on it a bit this weekend I hope. Just have half the dash to do and all the insert details and buttons. The back end isn’t quite 2010 Mustang, it’s very similar but if you look at the shape it is a bit different.

Just got back from a damn hard day’s work, I work at Wanganui Motors/Ford & Mazda, doing Services, WOF's, etc. Its part of my work experience for the Automotive Mechanics course I'm doing

Nothing new from me. Not much time for SU lately

Looking good for an early car model.