How to Draw Model Cars
When you build model cars, you don't always want to just put the pieces together. Sure, the model comes with instructions and a diagram, but what if you're a modeler who loves to customize their cars? In that case you're going to want to draw your model cars and jot your customization ideas down before you get to work. You can make your drawings as abstract or as precise as you want.
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Instructions
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Sketch out the main frame of the car, chassis and body included. This will allow you to visualize the overall design as you add your customizations. Try to make it as scale as possible.
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Sketch out your design ideas along the margins of the paper. This gives you a visual reference when you decide to pencil it into your primary sketch. Typical designers draw lines from the modifications to the chassis to indicate where they would be placed. This keeps the primary schematic clean.
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Draw multiple angles of your model cars. The more angles you draw, the easier it will be to see how and where modifications will fit.
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Use your sketch to also help design any custom painting you want to do on your model. Design flames, pin-up girls, or any other detailing you want to do before you start painting the model itself.
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Use drawings of model cars to help you build them from scratch. If, for example, you want to make a wooden model or even paper mache then you'll want to have a design to use as a guide. You can then use the actual drawing as an abstract guide or as an actual scale guide (cutting it out and using it as a template).
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Pick out some models from ModelCars.com (see Resources below). You can use them as reference once they are constructed. They make great tools for designing enhancements and modifications.
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Tips & Warnings
If you have any skill with it, you may wish to use a CAD (computer assisted design) program to draw your model cars. CADs are incredibly powerful and capable of producing full three-dimensional, real-time virtual models on your computer. CADs have a very steep learning curve.
Be aware that if you're not drawing model cars to scale that there is some risk your ideas are not going to look right on the model. Conceptually it may look cool to place two rocket engines on the back of a Ford Fairlane, but how big or small they need to be is best determined in a scale model!
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Comments
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look4writing
Feb 07, 2010
Takeing photos of the model car and running it through a Coral Paint & photo program will turn it to a line drawing. I would love to find some instruction on Cad. I have a program just never could figure it out. good article, 5*
