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"Modeling Nissan 350 Z" by Allan Jay Soriano


I will not go any further right now, the wings and side mirrors are very basic and following this tutorial i bet you can do them by yourself and i hope this technique made your modeling fast and more efficient.
You can even put the parts for the headlight, airdam elements, rearlight bulbs or better yet an interior!
I thought making this tutorial will fit in 3 chapters but i dont want to skip with the procedures, i wanted everybody to benefit and learn specially the beginners so i will write making wheels in my next tutorial it will be the fourth and probably the last chapter.
Happy modeling and do the INFINITE way!
Chapter 4
Create a new file, with the backdrop still loaded create disc from the right viewport same as the diameter of our car's tire.Bevel down to its inner diameter,now delete the inner portion of the disk and hit TAB for subpatch.
Save your file and name it Z wheels or whatever name you want.
From the front viewport drag your disc untill it reaches the inner side of the tire in our blueprint.Select all faces and smooth shift and drag untill you get the tire's width.
Deselect all.
Now select the inner portion of the tire and hit bandsaw, cut them in half, the result should look like the image on the left. Hide the inner portion by pressing -
Assign surface and name it tire.
Select all, copy and go to the next blank layer and paste it.Again we preserved the original tire in the first layer for future purposes or when you have done something wrong you can restart from the original.
Hit ctrl+d to freeze our subpatch.
There are several tutorials on the net on how to make tires and what i have seen theyre all the same with regards to procedure,others made polygon pattern and copy them in so many counts that made the polys heavy and lurks in your system memory and also trying to revolve them in 360 deg. seems to be tedious and time consuming.I made my own style in making the tires that made easy and effective, although we will make a certain number of patterns but it will not consume time and it is easier to understand.
Go to a blank layer and partially select our freezed tire to make it as our background poly.From the top viewport creat a plane just the width of our tire and the length just inside the diameter of the wheels rim.
Ok this is just our guide for our pattern.
In the front view zoom in the tire and try to create one row of pattern just like you have seen in the blueprints, its ok if its not the exact pattern i my self created a customized one.
 
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