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Volvo Estate Owners: I need your help!


vulgalour

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I've got a design planned and I'm struggling for references so I'm hoping you can help me.  If you have a camera and a boxy Volvo estate, I'd really appreciate it if you can provide me with a flat front, rear, and side view of it.  Ideally, it wants to be seen completely flat, no artistic upwards, downwards, or sideways angles.  This is surprisingly difficult to get references of, probably because it's not the most aesthetically pleasing view of a car.

 

The models I'm most interested in are 740, 760, 850, and 940

 

When I mean a flat view I mean like this.

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But not like this.  This might look like a flat view but the front of the car is slightly further away than the rear and the camera angle is too high meaning you're looking down on it ever so slightly.  Normally this isn't a big deal, but for the design I've got planned, it is.

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I hope you can help!  It doesn't matter if your car is a bit scruffy or pristine, stock or modified.  What matters is the angle of the pictures and that it's a boxy Volvo estate.

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Should do, those are the ones without the 240 cabin pinch or the roundy front end, right?  As long as it's boxy and fairly slabby, that's the important bit.

 

Absolutely excellent response thus far, there are several photographs above that are perfect and exactly what I was after so BIG THANKS for the rapid response there, Volvo fondlers!

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Warninglight, those are perfect.  Maximum points, top of the class you go.  Angles, resolution, details, model shape... can't fault a single item.  I hadn't even considered the XC90, but it does fit the bill so it will add a bit of diversity to the design.

 

I should now have enough to actually start building the design from all these wonderful pictures provided.  People are welcome to add more, of course.  Thank you all for your help :)

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You can sort of correct the perspective, but not really.  It ends up every so slightly off in a disconcerting way and you then spend time making lots of little corrections and making the whole thing look really off in lots of ways.  I like to start with decent reference.

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  • 2 months later...

Yes please.  If I don't use it for this project (about 50% complete at present, encountering some issues with translating what I imagined into an actual picture) I'm sure it will be useful for another since the 240 is a car I want to create some more artwork of.

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Hello every single crossover ever made and a startling number of modern saloons that are designed to look like hatchbacks (looking at you, XF),

 

You see these photographs above? This is the correct and appropriate ratio of glass to bodywork, allowing people sitting in the rear seats, to actually SEE WHAT'S GOING ON and preventing travel sickness.

 

Regards,

 

 

Someone who has never, ever previously felt disorientated as a passenger in any car.

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