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Damn that rocks! Stripper poles for every room

-R

 

I like that a lot!

How many condos did you turn it into? Or is it just one large building?

 

actually there are several posters that have designed some pretty famous sh*t...think original apple logo...roller coasters...porsche adverts, one-off bodies for high tech hotrods and classic bugatti rebodies. ...one never knows.

 

that sounds amazing, love the colours!

 

Really? Very interested in hearing more about this.

 

That is awesome!

Thanks for the detailed info. Much appreciated.

 

I design cars, only a side project at the moment, but hoping to turn it into reality one day. With enough funding, i want to open my own factory.
1st one is my main design i have worked on, and is my first scale model... its a mid engine, sort of a modern day testarossa
2nd one is a front engined GT, still working on it at the moment.
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well lets see.... my dad bought me a 1:12 testarossa scale model when i was about 3yrs old (1987) and that started my love affair with ferrari and cars, so im now 23, and all i think about all day and night is cars, and ive been drawing car designs properly for maybe 10-12 years. i have a degree in industrial design. i started with the clay modeling because while my drawing is good, i just couldnt show what i had in my head. the first couple of models were complete failures, but that was because i didnt know clay too well. the mid engine one in the first picture was the first serious model i made, about 2002. the 2nd one is what i'm currently working on, i started it about 2 months ago, but havent had the time to finish it. i'm looking at making a mould of it so i can make a fibreglass model. my main aim is to eventually build them and sell them... ala pagani, koenigsegg, spyker (low production) just need the funding. its funny, most people want to own all the best cars on earth, while i wouldn't not want to, i would rather build the best car on earth.

 

Great! I always admire those who have the skill to create such pieces of art. Everytime I try to do something which requires a steady hand, it ends up in a big mess. Can you describe the process of making that clay model? You don't just sit down, look at your sketches and form a block of clay into a car, do you? How do you keep the left and the right side symmetrical?

 

Thanks, yeah to be honest, that sort of is the process. There are not really any calculations that go into it. It’s all in my head.
First I work out what scale it’s going to be, do a quick top down outline on the wooden sheet below it so I know where i'm going. Then I get some polystyrene (white stuff that holds your electrical goods in the box straight) and make a basic shape out of that, this method takes up most of the space in the middle of the design so you don’t need 50kg of clay. Then I make the basic shape around it, slapping clumps of clay to the polystyrene. Then its just hours and hours of moulding the clay into the general shape. over a few days, the clay gets a bit harder (not solid) as I keep cling wrap over it to keep the moisture in. keeping it symmetrical pretty much comes down to patients and an eye for detail I spose. I could spend hours adding small coin sized bits of clay on spots and smoothing it then adding more to somewhere else etc.... it probably takes me 20% of the time getting it to look like a car, then the remaining 80% refining the details. As for tools, I really only use my hands and a ruler, that’s it. I’d love to make a 1:1 scale model, but that would probably take me a year to do. Would probably be better off getting a 5axis turning machine to do that...

 

Dkabab, Really great start. I'm about to graduate school and head into the professional design world. Any idea where you plan on furthering your education? Are there good design schools in Australia?

I am graduating from Art center College of Design and would be more than happy giving any advice or input on questions you may have. Great stuff.


Here is something I am designing:
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Thanks! Its a sculpture representing my Senior Thesis. Basically to sum it up: Current Maserati: Renaissance. Future Maserati: Baroque.
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More. Showing you the goods...
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Here's a guitar I built in high school, mostly of my own design. I chose to extend the neck 3/4 of the way into the body.
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Lindsay, that is very beautiful. I believe you could sell that piece or designs in the same vein very easily. Best of luck!

 

Grazi you guys. I've done some renderings of the car, instead of the sculpture, for everyone...
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That looks awesome Lindsay. i really like the design. i wish i was good at 3d... i have a degree in graphic design, im a master of photoshop, yet i still suck at 3d... just could never get the hang of it. would love to do my designs in there, so i could just edit bit by bit and look at it from every angle...

i spose thats why i made the model

 

dkabab, yeah I live in photoshop too.

This is about 70% or so. Still a bit of work to make it look more natural, but this is the progress of one of the final renderings...
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