How do the MH mags make those 'layout' pictures? (1 Viewer)

[RogerThat]

Any ideas how the motorhome mags make these pictures of layouts?

Or these ones:

Any ideas what they use?

 

[canopus]

Autocad or similar design software.

 

[Wildbill]

smoke and mirrors it's certainly some kind of trickery
bill

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[BobtheBass]

Etch-a-Sketch.

 

[Allan & Loren]

Agree with @canopus definitely computer aided design software, probably bespoke to each manufacturer. Off the shelf systems are available but pretty pricey.

 

[138go]

I liked to know how they get the pictures of the interiors. The one in the new Swift brochure looks like there is room to hold a party. Two kids in the back watching telly. Motorhome looks absolutely massive. Probably got one side wall missing completely just to get the shot. Then put it back on the production line and NAIL the other wall in place.

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[Treeeev]

Don't forget that a wide angle lense will make the back of a van look massive. Nothing like a little bit of artistic licence to make it look a lot more spacious than it actually is

Cheers

Trevor

 

[PeteH]

All, Now done by Computer Graphics. Gone are the days when a Guy was Paid to hand draw cutaways. I used to go into Haynes at Sparkford. And some of the drawings where Beautiful, real works of art.

 

[GeriatricWanderer]

Hacksaw?

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[Fletton]

If you want to draw stuff... I use the FREE package called sketchup...

Here's an example of a fitted set if pine draws. I did this for a guy to make them for me...
But you can draw almost anything...

Edit...
Here was the new garden... again to scale using Sketchup...

 

[Jim]

The makers will have professional CAD staff on the books full time. But I doubt its the same for the magazines and they all produce strikingly similar drawings so I guess they use an available software program or get them from the makers. I'll see if I can find out.

 

[johnandi]

For the design I'd have thought a 3D CAD package - press a button and out pops a completed Motorhome from the Rapid Prototyping machine!

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[Fletton]

For the design I'd have thought a 3D CAD package - press a button and out pops a completed Motorhome from the Rapid Prototyping machine!

I think they use 3D printers too...

 

[jdk62]

Another vote for sketch up - it's free!

We also use Revit which is a 3D drawing design coordination package, but not cheap (£7000 per license..)

 

[RogerThat]

Yup, I'd agree the manufacturers would use proper CAD applications which probably cost tens of thousands of pounds (as they use it to actually build and make stuff) but the motorhome and Caravanning magazines, I'm not so sure.

As for the wide angle lens to make the amount of available space in photos look much bigger, I think estate agents use the same camera trick

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[makems]

Makes you wonder about the skill of technical artists from the years before CAD doesnt it?

 

[Lenny HB]

If you want to draw stuff... I use the FREE package called sketchup...

Here's an example of a fitted set if pine draws. I did this for a guy to make them for me...
But you can draw almost anything...

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Edit...
Here was the new garden... again to scale using Sketchup...

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The boss is a dab hand with Sketchup she as done the same with our garden.

Like this you can even view inside & walk through walls.

 

[PeteH]

All, Now done by Computer Graphics. Gone are the days when a Guy was Paid to hand draw cutaways. I used to go into Haynes at Sparkford. And some of the drawings where Beautiful, real works of art.

I was looking for this, Just Found it. A Guy called Terry Davey was responsible for most of them.

I am currently Refurbing, the 13/60 Convertible Model.

Pete

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[PeteH]

View attachment 144723 Makes you wonder about the skill of technical artists from the years before CAD doesnt it?

So I`m looking at that and thinking, Is that a Marauder. and then I look in the Top LH Corner and, I was right!. More detailed that a lot of them, The EAGLE comic, used the feature them on a regular basis.!! (but then I am an OLD GIT)

 

[Podney]

Now,getting back to the subject of MH mags,am I the only one who thinks they are crap? Well,that's unfair,I'm really referring to MMM and their useless MH reviews. When did you last read that such and such a motorhome is rubbish? OK they won't use that word,but could say something more diplomatic that's means the same.
Maybe they are in the pockets of the manufacturers?????
I accept they are good for other stuff,including readers accounts of their travels.
Getting impartial advice about build quality of motorhome is very difficult. Where do you get it???
Maybe Im reading the wrong mag.
What do you think?

 

[makems]

So I`m looking at that and thinking, Is that a Marauder. and then I look in the Top LH Corner and, I was right!. More detailed that a lot of them, The EAGLE comic, used the feature them on a regular basis.!! (but then I am an OLD GIT)

I think you meant SAD old git?

I am one too. I remember making a Revell 1/72 kit of a Marauder when I was about 13/14.

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[PeteH]

I think you meant SAD old git?

I am one too. I remember making a Revell 1/72 kit of a Marauder when I was about 13/14.

Yeh! well along with the ones I used to "Fly" ("Control line" ,anyone remember that?). The ceiling of my bedroom looked like WW1 & 2!. Mother use to get uptight about the "dust and cobwebs".!! When I moved out, she had to have it Artexed, (new idea back then) just to cover the drawing pin holes!. (cue, "nostalgic" Music!!). And when the old man moved house after mum died, we found all my old Eagle comics in the loft!. Bloke gave my kids a fiver each, and took them away!.

 

[TheCaller]

Now if someone were to publish a book with all the Eagle cutaway drawings, it would grace the coffee tables of many an old boy's living room. I used to study those for hours & learned quite a lot from them.

I remember drooling over the Daimler Dart, the gas turbine Rover & discovering that some steam locomotives had a third cylinder between the wheels, as well as the ones visible on the outside.

The original drawings must be worth a lot of money, assuming they still exist.

 

[Minxy]

I think they use 3D printers too...

Nah ... if they did they wouldn't leak!

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