This is part of an ongoing project I’ve been working on and off with for some time now. Thought I share my progress here as an incentive to complete it within some reasonable time. The tires is just part of the bigger project, an McLaren MP4/6.
Added some details to the tyre sidewall, since this is like the third rebuild, I already had most of the basic outlines ready, just had to shrinkwrap it to the mesh and then extrude it.
With the risk of making you disappointed, the embossing is not integrated with the tyre mesh I’m afraid. It would take to much time, with to many vertices, to do. So I just use the shrinkwrap modifier with a small negative offset so the outline is placed just inside the tire mesh, then extrudes it back through the mesh.
Thanks! I did most of the lettering myself in Inkscape from various reference photos found online. The “Only for racing use” and “Made in U.S.A” text is the exception I think, for that I just used a good enough font, but I’m thinking of redoing it because it’s not entirely correct. I prefer to do that type of work in Inkscape since I haven’t really got to grips with the bezier curves in Blender yet. And then import them into Blender, convert them to meshes and of course spend some time cleaning those meshes up a bit.
Thanks! Are you sure they used different compounds in the 90’s? I was under the impression they only had one compound. None of my reference photos shows any indication or markings that there where different compounds.