More Interior Accessories

Now to finish off the steering wheel. Do a bunch of extrudes and bevels until you have something like the picture below. Make sure you do some chamfers to make edges crisp.

Create a new cylinder and call this one "Wipers & Signal." Give it 4 height segments, 1 cap segment and 18 sides. Position it in the position shown:

Now do some extrudes and bevel so that you create the two handles, one for wipers and the other for the signal lights as shown below. You don't need to use a Meshsmooth with this unless you really want to since it's not going to be seen up close.

 

 

Well now the modeling for the steering wheel is pretty much done, you can now position it inside the car. Merge the steering wheel file into the car file. One thing you might consider is to turn the wheel so that the arms are not perfectly horizontal. This just adds more realism to it but it's a minor detail.

The next thing to build is the speedometer. Save your work and then go back the the file you created the steering wheel in. Create a cylinder above the steering wheel and do some beveling and extruding until you have something like the image below. Name the cylinder "Speedometer." Create a sphere with the hemisphere setting set to 0.6, call it "Speedometer Glass." Non-Uniform scale it and make it very flat but not perfectly flat, just so that there is a little curvature left. Position it in the cylinder you created.

 

The speedometer of the Fiat 500 has a case around it. This case is easily created with polymodeling. Create a poly and then do some shift+drags and vertex tweaks. The start of making it is shown below.

The speedometer of the Fiat 500 has a case around it. This case is easily created with polymodeling. Create a poly and then do some shift+drags and vertex tweaks. The start of making it is shown below. Mirror a reference to the other side and continue building until you have something similar to the image below. You can then weld the two halves together.

 

Now merge the file into the your original file and put the speedometer in its proper place on top of the steering wheel.

Pedals, Window Levers and Buttons, etc.

Pedals are simple enough, all you have to do is create a box then do some extruding and beveling until you have what looks like a pedal. I created very low-poly pedals because they will most likely not be seen very often in the car. You can put more detail in them if you wish.

Window levers are just as simple. They are made in much the same way as you made the wipers earlier in the tutorial. Start with a cylinder, select polys on the side of it and extrude them outwards to create the handle.

If you look at your references, you will see that there are a number of buttons, switches and lights on the dashboard of the car. These are simply made with small cylinders and a few extrudes and bevels. Using your references, create the buttons and switches found on the dash. The ignition is also on the dash and you can also make a key to put in it.

Next thing to tackle is the rear-view mirror. Once again, this is a very simple object to make. Start with a box and then extrude and bevel and vertex tweak to get the right shape, this should be easy for you by now. You can smooth it if you want but then you will have to do some chamfering to keep it square.

Next thing to tackle is the rear-view mirror. Once again, this is a very simple object to make. Start with a box and then extrude and bevel and vertex tweak to get the right shape, this should be easy for you by now. You can smooth it if you want but then you will have to do some chamfering to keep it square. The last interior accessory to create is the sun visors that go on the ceiling of the car on either side of the rear-view mirror. Once again, just make a box and mess with it to get what you want.

Well all the modeling for your Fiat 500 is done (unless you want to add more stuff!) Now all that's left is for you to mirror all the halves and weld the vertices between them to remove any seams Put everything together and then create materials for everything and render your car.

 

I hope you enjoyed following this tutorial as much as I enjoyed making it. Send me an email and tell me what you thought of it at my email address. Don't forget to tell all your friends about this tutorial!!

Since I'm no good at texturing, if you would like to texture my model for me, I would be happy to send you the file. I will then give you credit on this website for your work. You can texture it any way you like.