I've done plenty of 3d work over the years but mostly in architecture. Years ago I tried to get into creating vehicles by following the famous Fiat 500 tutorial. But every time I did I lost the file to either corruption, hdd crash, or some other mishap.

A couple of years ago a friend of mine left his computer with me while was away on business and let me have access to it. Installed was MoI3d and I played around with it for awhile and really enjoyed it. Compared to Rhino, which I own, it was easy and smooth more like a 3d artist program such as 3ds max, only fun.

Anyway, I restarted the Fiat 500 project using my own references and without the tutorial. It would not have worked anyway since it was a polygon-based tutorial. After all that I almost finished (had to create the interior), created a few renders and believe it or not lost the file again!

So, here it is. I thought I would share it since this project was so much fun with MoI. My little Fiat (custom design :) )with a nearly complete suspension rendered in Maxwell Render including a light 'cage'. Hopefully I will be able to afford my own version someday.

Hi makit3d, your model turned out great! You picked a difficult project for your first model, I'm glad that it worked out well.

- Michael

I have used Rhino and before that Microstation for years. Using MoI was easy enough that the learning curve was very small. Once I grasped the basics of the tools it wasn't too difficult to get started on the Fiat. I did play around with a few tutorials to get a better understanding of MoI (such as the ferrari videos) which made the transition rather easy.

-Richard

Very nice model...

Haha that is one bad ass Fiat, 4x4, off-road, ... very nice! :D

nice work :)