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I've finally finished the '57 BelAir I've been wanting to do for some time. I'm a little more comfortable creating my own colors now, so that I can change the color of an automobile in seconds now. Also, I realized that with cars that have body styles that lend themselves to it, I can change a car from a hardtop to a convertible just by changing layers. The two pictures below are the same Xara file.
ron
I've finally finished the '57 BelAir I've been wanting to do for some time. I'm a little more comfortable creating my own colors now, so that I can change the color of an automobile in seconds now. Also, I realized that with cars that have body styles that lend themselves to it, I can change a car from a hardtop to a convertible just by changing layers. The two pictures below are the same Xara file.
ron
convertible
WOW, AWSOME Ron!! I love the convertable! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
How 'bout making the convertable a modern color like Champagne just for fun?? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
My wife has always told me I'm lowsy with colors. Is this close?
Hi Ron,
Excellent '57 Belair! Most of the hard tops I remember were two colour. Body one colour and the top was usually white. We had a black with white top. When I was stationed in Turkey in the late '80s you could buy a brand new '57 Chevy. The only problem was you couldn't ship it out of country.
Nice Job Ron... Real Nice... Now to work on the unibody cars. Then you can have 10 cars in the same xara file...
Great image Ron. The colour editor is greatly underestimated in XaraX, and as you say, you can alter an image in seconds.
As well as using the layers for the hard top / soft top option, you could also add different occupants ie drivers/passengers on different layers. The options are endless.
Egg
John,
I don't follow you. Could you explain?
thanks,
ron
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JohnR:
Nice Job Ron... Real Nice... Now to work on the unibody cars. Then you can have 10 cars in the same xara file... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
sorry Ron,
Meant K-kars... I think those where the cars where many different models were basically the same, at least under the hood...
Hi Ron,
Thanks for the attempt. The color your looking for is kinda a shiney pewter with a tiny bit of rose mixed in with the yellow. I know you've seen it out on the highways and byways before, it's a pretty common car color these days.
Love your work! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Well, I prefer the classic 1950s colours; turquoise, coral pink, sky blue. A lot of those car colours ended up on Fender guitars too. Even the famous Fiesta Red was originally a car paint.
Oh, don't get me wrong Simon, I think those colors are just fine but I was curious about what a classic car would look like with a modern day color scheme, that's all! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
I have to add that one modern car finish I really DO like is a very striking metallic orange exactly the colour of a goldfish, which I've seen on Daewoo Matiz's and on Fiat Puntos. I also quite like the 1970s tangerine, lime green and sky blue non-metallics often seen on VW Beetles and Citroën 2CVs. The coolest finish I ever saw was a Daimler-Benz Smart Car with a custom black holo-flake finish - jet-black but with a myriad of tiny sparkles that changed colour according to the direction of the light. The ugliest finish? Well, there are a few. Ford's 1970s metallic purple, which just looks cheap and nasty; BMW's vulgar near-dayglo yellow from around the same time, and Fiat's current pearlescent snot-green.
I thought I'd try something new with this chevy and this is what I came up with. I dropped it, chopped it, put custom wheels on it, put dice in the windshield, tinted the windows and removed the door handles. I then added a purple metallic paint job, custom head lamps and some skirts. It's now a lowrider...
ron
Cool Ron...
If you look real close at the back tire you still see the remains of some of the wheel well. there is a dark arch where the wheel is...
I know... it is transparent alluminum... Just like on one of the Trekie Movies... "Save the (wheel) wells"!
Ron
Where do you get those dice from? I must have some. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Egg
Ummmm, Egg, I think your the wrong nationality! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Cool car Ron!! I think it's really neat looking. I love the color too!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Richard
Oh I can remember the dice ... and the nodding dogs ... just couldn't afford them then. I want one now! I'm hip!
Egg
Great looking lowrider Ron! The fender skirts and dice are a nice touch, very retro.
Great Ron! ... just GREAT!
John,
There isn't any aluminum in the arch, there isn't supposed to be. The dark line is not the wheel well but the seam between the body and the skirt. Skirts are removable, thus the seam.
Thanks everyone,
ron
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JohnR:
Cool Ron...
If you look real close at the back tire you still see the remains of some of the wheel well. there is a dark arch where the wheel is...
I know... it is transparent alluminum... Just like on one of the Trekie Movies... "Save the (wheel) wells"! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh....
"Skirts are removable, thus the seam." - Ron
I knew skirts where removeable, but not on cars... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif