“Shelby Mustang GT500 wheel” by Onno van Braam
I was browsing Dieselstation.com the other day to look for some reference photo’s of silver cars (I am working on a project for a car manufacturer at the moment), when I came upon the following photo of a wheel of a Shelby Mustang GT500, the 2005 GT500 that is, not the ’67 one. I liked this photo a lot, thought it was beautiful and thus a couple of days later decided to model it for myself. I didn’t start out with the idea of making an exact copy, but more my own interpretation of it: it would obviously look a lot like it, but I didn’t intend it to be exactly the same. So in the end my wheel and tyre don’t look like the one on the photo lighting and texture wise (my rims are more metal-like, whereas the one on the photo is more silver paint-like), but it’s still a nice picture I think.What follows is a sort of step by step description of what I have done, without going into all the details of the texturing and lighting bit, because it would become too much if I did that. And besides: I don’t like describing every single setting in a material. There’s no point to it, especially since this is not specifically about making a silver paint texture for instance.All the screenshots tend to be rather large at full-size, but that’s because I work at a 1650×1080 screen.
Modeling
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I started out with making some reference splines: first a 10 pointed star…
… then some additional circles for each fase of the rim: the center bolts, the center cap, the center part which goes inwards and the flat bit outside of that.
Then I drew some reference lines for the ‘forks’; they’re not rally accurate, but I already knew I wouldn’t be making an exact copy of the reference photo anyway.
i like it but try to make it more details.