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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Have you seen the 4 wheel designs by Jason Hill?
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Nice, these images are new to me there certainly seems to be some Aptera lineage (same designer).
Sven7, I'm sort of bummed out. Not that the changes make the car look conventional, just that the mission of changing it slightly and retaining it's original character seems lost now.
I've played with similar concepts for many years, I have yet to do what I'm about to suggest (at least on a 4 wheel car). Make a Styrofoam plug of what you consider the minimum passenger area (don't forget the wheels) and then add globs and globs of clay to it.
Remove as much of the clay as you can while forming the shell matching your first sketch. Three wheel cars take kindly to this method, the one 4-wheel car I started this method on kept having the windshield pushed back because it looked too much like a bubble car. However, the final result was pretty good, I took photos of each major change and step.
This style of developing a form is very sculpture and "hands-on", something I think your latest effort is lacking a little in.
Thank you for sharing your work, please keep going with it.
Below is car I drew around 1988, I too cheated a little, but did not really know the extent until I worked in clay on another car design years later.
George Kachadoorian, Architect PLLC
This 3-wheel rough study below I did about six years ago may have similar curves up front. However the front wheels will need to be tucked way inboard to match up with what you are trying to do, or what I was trying to do in 1988.
Industrial Design pictures by kach22i - Photobucket
Check out those fender mounted rear view mirrors - snazzy!
Cheers, George/kach22i