When a blueprint lies?

[scrimski]

Sue someone.

Do a better research, get more accurate blueprints or construction plans(unlikely in your case), grab a camera and shoot photos.

You won't find 100% accurate and free blueprints, most of them are cleaned scans or something form magazines, so my advice is: DOn't trust them use them as a rough guide and use photos for the details.

[poltek]

Sue someone.

Do a better research, get more accurate blueprints or construction plans(unlikely in your case), grab a camera and shoot photos.

You won't find 100% accurate and free blueprints, most of them are cleaned scans or something form magazines, so my advice is: DOn't trust them use them as a rough guide and use photos for the details.
So, it's definitely not a different model of car?.. surely a different model of car wouldn't have the fog lights in a different position?

[poltek]

I just thought of something brilliant that never occured to me before.

Why not use a photograph on the internet by itself with viewing side/front position and if I wish - vector around it using illustrator..

[Mr. D]

Hello

Also remember blueprints are 2d orthographic drawings of an object, photos are 3d images and have perspective distortion.
Such as your fog lamp is misaligned to the wheel the the photo, but if you look at the photo and run a line out from the grill opening through the fog lamp you'll see it basically cuts the lamp in half horizontally; approximately where the blueprints show it should.
Also many items change from original concept to production, and some blueprints are based on earlier design and not nessisarily the production model.

Mr. D

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remember most models you make are 'Artists Impressions' which is a good get out clause for any inconsistantcies.

second: with any vehicle there are Mods depending on the model and use. There are 'battlefield mods' in the case of military vehicles and in the case of cars there are many official and unofficial aftermarket body kits/light clusters etc.

So this neatly brings us full circle, because you can design and make your own body kits for your realworld car you can also model it slightly incorrectly and it doesn't matter in most cases.

[poltek]

remember most models you make are 'Artists Impressions' which is a good get out clause for any inconsistantcies.

second: with any vehicle there are Mods depending on the model and use. There are 'battlefield mods' in the case of military vehicles and in the case of cars there are many official and unofficial aftermarket body kits/light clusters etc.

So this neatly brings us full circle, because you can design and make your own body kits for your realworld car you can also model it slightly incorrectly and it doesn't matter in most cases.

Thanks a lot.

It's just, I'm trying to sell this model... so I'm worrying if there's any inaccuracies.

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