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Originally Posted by 85badger
Just wondering if those are full scale and how you made them soo detailed....scan pics, free hand, lots of measuring?? I'm an design engineeer for a major aircraft company based out of france (hint, hint) we use CATIA V5. Looks good......it would be cool to get an actual model of the frame, suspension so that you could design bumpers, lifts and even check for interferences when flexed out (Kinematics).
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The majority of the model is based off of pics of the truck. There is a link a page that sort of shows what I did. The quick and dirty is: I took a ton of pictures of my truck to get as flat of an image as possibe. Then I stiched them all together in photoshop(with lots of eyeballing). After I had my flat image I went into adobe illustrator and traced out the body lines to the best of my ability(even more eyeballing) at this point I had a back, front and side blueprint of my truck. I then set them up in 3ds max and began modeling(the most eyeballing!) So as to EXACT dimensions, there was a lot of eyeballing so it can't possibly be perfect. But pretty much everything is scalable, and I would like to get it as close as possible.
As for the frame, if I remember correctly they give you blueprints with dimensions of it in the factory service manual. When I get to it I can just scan those in and model it really precise.
I have been thinking about kinematics in the back of my mind for the suspension. If it will work I will definatly implement it into the model, I really want to make animations of this thing too!