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I started doing this in 2009. That's 6 years behind all the vets of NR2003 and even more behind the older generation. The benefit of being a late comer to the party is I had a wealth of folks to pull tips and ask my questions to. I am sure I annoyed the hell out of them. When I wasnt driving people like Matt O'Reilly, Jason Roush, Max72, Dylan Baadte, all crazy when I first joined SRD I was watching tutorials and playing around. Painting takes lots of time and effort if you are a details person.
I started doing this one way and have ended up going with a completely different approach after years of experience and finding what works best for me. There was a time I would have done the base first, pen that out buy eyeballing it and just drawing away. Later when I would add my logos, things would look ok, but they could have been better. Thus you always want to be learning. Even if you only do one thing better, and another the next time, in the end all those things will add up.
Anyway preparing to make your car. If you are making the base from scratch then I recommend you use this method to put your car together.
1. Place your resources you need. Template, Numbers, Primary Sponsor, Associate Sponsors. These will give you contact points or reference points when drawing. Why should you do it this way? It will help you keep your base proportional to the logos and the body you are working on.
2. When you are putting your decals on the template it's important to remember that straight on the car doesn't equal straight in the template. I have made some notes here on my rules of thumb as reference that I use when laying out my car.
I started doing this one way and have ended up going with a completely different approach after years of experience and finding what works best for me. There was a time I would have done the base first, pen that out buy eyeballing it and just drawing away. Later when I would add my logos, things would look ok, but they could have been better. Thus you always want to be learning. Even if you only do one thing better, and another the next time, in the end all those things will add up.
Anyway preparing to make your car. If you are making the base from scratch then I recommend you use this method to put your car together.
1. Place your resources you need. Template, Numbers, Primary Sponsor, Associate Sponsors. These will give you contact points or reference points when drawing. Why should you do it this way? It will help you keep your base proportional to the logos and the body you are working on.
2. When you are putting your decals on the template it's important to remember that straight on the car doesn't equal straight in the template. I have made some notes here on my rules of thumb as reference that I use when laying out my car.