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The Great Pumpkin

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Wow ...

This was originally intended as just a WIP render, but the car looked so fantastic, I couldn't resist showing it off.

This is JHoagland's PT Cruiser model for Poser (at Renderosity); I drive a 2006 PT Cruiser in real life, and his model, even though it's a 2005 model (the only really noticeable differences outside are the bumpers and grille), looked good enough in the promos that I thought it would be a good model to use to 'test drive' my intended modifications to my real car. Now I'm seriously thinking about swapping the older bumpers and grille to my car (I've always liked them better, anyway, but I honestly didn't know until now how perfect they'd look! :)).

Wow ...

Okay, I've made a few mods here - I modeled the hood scoop (to match the one currently on my real PT), the black vinyl insert on the roof, the custom gas cap and the chrome trim for the grille in Lightwave, and I went to town (as I often do ;)) on adding a whole bodyshop full of new material zones so I could make it what I wanted. The model is really excellent - this is the closest I've found anywhere, and the lines of the body are spot-on. The paint materials in JHoagland's model are also fantastic as-is, but I fiddled with the colors to get the exact burnt orange/copper color I'm going to paint the upper half of my car, over a pearl white lower body, and with the grille blacked out for that 'hot rod' look ;). I also decided to try chroming the bumpers and I have to say I like it!

This is a straight Poser Pro 2012 render, using the default lights - no postwork was done to the car at all, and only a wash of color was added to the ground. I was very happily surprised at the quality of the result.

Thanks for a great model, John! I hope you like what I've done to it! :D I can't wait to drive this next year!

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GermanIdolGod's avatar
Loving the two-tone paint here. Good color combo too.