My Two Car Projects For This Week

Jeep

Per tutorial traditions, I used blueprints to find ways to create my own cars (or in this case, trucks). The OJ Jeep (known as the Willys) is very popular amongst military people. I used the bevel key (Ctrl+B) to make things appear softer on paper.

The following day, my teacher showed me his equivalent project and needed me to compare the two projects for this video. I resetted my activity and decided to redo my Jeep project at around the 12-minute mark. Restarting from fresh, I made sure to keep consistent with the shapes. More loopcuts (Ctrl+R) equate to more consistency. Along with Ctrl+B to bevel, using K separately to use the knife tool will really help with keeping your doors and flares in good shape, as long as you add in more vertices to make sure there are no n-gons left in your project. There will always be n-gons you won't notice in your Blender projects.

One big mistake I hardly notice in my projects is that when I extrude a certain part, it will move left or right while I am doing a sideview. Make sure that you are always in a solid sideview while completing vertices and shapes for that particular sideview. When done, extrude (but don't make things too complicated) and add in a mirror modifier. Make sure no n-gons or other messy things are present before you apply that mirror modifier. There are no real door handles on this thing, but I took off the middle area where the doors would (theoretically) touch. I did fill in more vertices by selecting different vertices at the same time and extruding them to a different direction.