Thanks Thibaut! I quite liked taking a diary approach to my progress even if I missed a couple days. I'm in love with the crispness of your model, looking forward to it being fully modeled and shaded.

You are correct Phil

I think I had it easy with shading my truck; paint on those older vehicles was a simple clearcoated diffuse color. Modern car paint is so much more complex and complicated

Seriously correct me if I'm wrong but the dull renders you get from Filmic isn't that supposed to be similar to the RAW images you get from something like a RED camera? Which then you are supposed to take into color correction to get the exact look your going for? or am I way off base here?

thecabbagedetective great work too Aaron, it was fun reading your posts and seing your progress and struggles :)

And the scarier, all the bumpiness in the modeling will start to become apparent

Yep, lighting can make or break a render, especially if you're going for photoreal. I learnt that the hard way.

And the lighting is the most important part

I really want to start shading, start creating that car material

Thanks Jake