Maxxis tire

[pailhead]

I did a model of a Van Hool bus for steve (stevesideas.net) a while ago, and while looking for some tire reference i stumbled upon this one, so i decided to model it. Interesting shape, i was able to test out some mapping ideas that i had, and displacement worked wonders for the letters. In between the letters is a hatch, that is also displaced, but it hardly gets picked up in the low res version. I pretty much used just one photo from the exact same angle. Surprisingly, i already made some tires but much less elaborate than this, and i had an inquiry about one that was probably supposed to be done with this level of detail since there was a whole set of engineering drawings available.