- How many clashing stylistic elements do you want at the front?
- YES.
Ford really was at a move then. Frogeye Scorpio in Europe. Ovoid Taurus in the US. AU Falcon in Australia.
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Just a small guide as to how i made the side vent in the image above
It is essential that the the body that your are using does NOT have open wheels, or in other words you need to be able to place fixtures on top of the wheels
Step 1 is to cut out the shape, which I marked in blue. You can change the shape to be taller or wider ofcourse
Step 2 is to fill in the gap with angled patches, which I marked in green. I personally used a large piece to fill the gap completely, and afterwards used smaller ones on the edges to remove the gap between the body and the big angled patch.
Step 3 (optional) is to add the diagonal shape next to the front wheels. I used decals for that, shown in yellow.
Step 4 is to cut out the wheel well with cutouts so that the fixtures dont go into said wheel well.
And you’re done!
Here is the result as well as some other angles of the vents:
Feel free to ask me any questions ofcourse
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I‘d love a video demonstrating how to do this, otherwise, its a really great explanation
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Making Nonfunctional Ducktails Functional
Step 1: Place a lip/spoiler fixture on the rear of the car, using 3D placement to make it conform to the trailing edge of the rear deck, and set it to layer 1 of 4:
Step 2: Use 3D fixture placement to stack this body molding fixture (either this mod, or its vanilla equivalent, will suffice for this purpose) - specifically, a variant that creates an outward-facing extrusion (as opposed to an intrusion that extends inward) such as the one shown here - and resize it accordingly:
Step 3: Set the layer of the body molding fixture you just placed to one above that of the lip/spoiler fixture. For this example, having the lip/spoiler fixture on layer 1 meant placing the body molding on layer 2 or above.
And with that, you can create the illusion of a large ducktail rear spoiler that actually generates downforce, even though the body molding fixture itself serves no aerodynamic function whatsoever - that task is left to the lip/spoiler fixture buried underneath it.
The reason I’m posting it here is that nobody has bothered to mention it before - until now, that is.
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That of course works too. My own solution is to place a functional aero device where I want the non-functional one with 3D and then set the colour to transparent.
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