Step 1:- Gather reference

Managed to get hold of this image with some good views to start modeling from. It's a little dark but it will do for getting the basic silhouette down, going to keep hunting for more images to get a better understanding of how oit looks up close.

1 Step at a time

Going to post some step by steps of my modeling process today so you can see the transformation from not much to Vespa in 3D!!!!!

Plan?

Right so after looking through the brief I've been given I need to do 2 separate meshes. The first has to be a nice working condition one that you would happily drive about in. The other has to be damaged to the point even vespa restorers may go hmmmm....... I don't think we can fix this! This made me do a quick paint over of the reference image I have been messing around with to produce a light bit of rusting to the paint job just as a quick look at where the textures may go, I'm thinking more DAMAGE!

Moody Board

Just thought i'd show a couple of images of the vast library of reference I've been gathering for this project to help get me going and understand what makes the machine up.

Colours, colours, more colours???

I thought I would mess around in Photoshop with the vespa image I uploaded before and started changing the colour and got rid of the sticker for a pin up that seems to be fashionable on these things!