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Thinking Like a Model Designer > Let Reality Guide Your Design Decisions
Let Reality Guide Your Design Decisions
The idea illustrated earlier—finding one feature of an object upon which to base your model—is one that you can apply to nearly every creation you take from real life inspiration. It’s as simply as following these three steps:
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Take a distinctive feature from the item being modeled. In the shuttle example, you are using the unique wing as your guide. For a model of a train engine, you might select the crew cab. For a spaceship, you might decide upon the engines as your starting place. In all cases, you want to find something interesting you can use as a guide.
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Decide upon the types of elements that are best suited to represent that feature. In the shuttle example, you pick out wing plates that help you match the shape, drawn on the Design Grids, based on the real wings. You don’t pay much attention to size so much as you focus on duplicating the angles.
