Can you make a Model of a car

I've been thinking if i sent one of my Design can you guy make a model of it

It's not as easy as you think dude. What car is it tho? There might be someone who can try it tho.

depends on what it is, if there is a suitable base, and if you are willing to pay. It takes a LOT of time and materials for conversions and scratchbuilds

and how much

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ONe BIllllllion dollllllars

of cause...only depends on the time & cost...

A one-off model usually costs a few thousand US dollars.
Say if you work at $15 per hour, and spend 300 hours, that translates to $4500, which sounds about right.

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You forgot the superwillimo suit on :D

Dx-king

Build it yourself! That's the whole idea. The sketches you have in your thread are a start but you will find out there are many things you haven't thought about yet and some things you have will probably not work!
That's the way it is! No car design has ever been made from one key sketch with no changes and without heaps of questions being asked and decisions being made in the process:-)
Get a lump of clay or whatever material suits you and start playing with it!
Good designers are mostly good modelers too. They should be able to translate their designs into a model themselves. If not the modelers will have a hard time with them :-)

price would depend upon the person I'm sure. It is all really going to depend on the amount of work needed to create the car. if it were something that could be created using a kit body as a base then that would help. post some pics of what you are wanting, or a link

there is also a hell of a lot of difference between a "concept" drawing and a production drawing. Good designers can turn one into the other without losing the character. Here's a little question; have you tried to see if you can actually package a car's essentials into your sketches?

What an utterly insane thread!

What amazes me is how someone who has clearly studied car design trends and has proficient design and draughting skills has not even thought about creating the designs themselves as models, or considered the time/effort needed to model a prototype...outstanding!:banghead:

I would certainly never attempt to build a model from a drawing, but I would really have trouble doing it from a sketch. You need blueprints, man, showing not only the exact dimensions of each part of the body, but also of the engine, interior, chassis, suspension, etc., and their relative positions to each other. Only then could one consider making a model--and it would still be expensive and time-consuming.

Your question was a bit vague.

Alex

Wow, harshness here. First off, lets see your drawings. If possible give us the main faces of the design (5 excluding undercarriage) separately, possibly a 3-d video of it, and see what you have. If it resembles a 1999 Firebird, then go from there. Cut it up, mold it, putty it, and play with it. If it looks like it might be the size of a 2004 Escalade then go from there. If you are confident in that then do it. I totally believe that YOU can make a concept from a drawing. You used your imagination to make it 2-d, use it again to make it 3-d! :)

One of the designs looks like you could use the 06 concept camaro as a base and build from there. Just a thought.

I re-work and scratchbuild alot of bodies, but building a complete body from scratch is time consuming and like the others have said, costly, but it can be done. I'd look into some of the kits that are already out there and see what can be done using them as a base.

Hello,

I think you really have skills for drawing.
meybe you should try to take your chance with it in the Peugeot design contest.
here is a link but in French

http://www.peugeot-concours-design.com/fr/reglement/reglement.aspx


Another solution if you want to see your models take form may be to contact some architecture student r some modelers from industry (in fact anybody who uses to work with prototypes or modelers if not being ones themwelves)


Anyway building a car from a drawing would be almost impossible when knowing how automotive designers work themselves.

good luck :wink:

yeah thanks for the advise you guys i think i can't afford 4500USD(=more than 70 Mil in VND)
Right now my hand is injured so i can't modeling but i can draw slowly

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=736933
here this is my latest work

Nice drawing. I am thinking concept Camaro as a donor kit? Aside from rounding the rear and chopping the top it looks to be pretty close. Damn, I would almost try that.

The key would be finding a good donor that has similar proportions and curves. or a pair of bodies similar in size that you could use the front end and borrow the back end, or vice versa and so one

Weird, my gf just sent me this:
http://www.anyscale.com/toys1a.html

Weird, my gf just sent me this:
http://www.anyscale.com/toys1a.html

Damnit, I want a job with those people! :eek: :grinyes:

Damnit, I want a job with those people! :eek: :grinyes:
if you know how much pressure is involved in making models for other people on a professional basis, you will think again....


anyway.
maybe i should put this in the actual thread but seeing as they're both yours.
I don't think much of your sketch.
As a stage one, it's fine but even as a concept drawing, it needs to be taken much further before it's of any real "use".

Build it yourself. It's better since you know the dimensions and the design better. Use clay first to try it out and use that as a shell and base to start your model. That's how all car designers start. Sketch, to final layout, to clay model and then the concept.

There is a Hot Wheels casting that looks very close to that last one. Called Sho Time and also issued as Seared Tuner. But it is small and made mostly of ZAMAC metal. Close to what you've drawn and therefore less work possibly...

Here's the way it's done at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He is working in clay; I believe the armature is wood. Many of the world's top automotive designers are Art Center graduates. If you really want to jump-start a design career, that's the place to go.

There are many non-U.S. students there.

Didymus

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s28/DidymusThomas/ArtCenterDesignStudent2.jpg