Been making this for some time in blender now, working off of a scanned model I purchased (real life this time) as a reference, presumably of a junkyard car. Most of the sellers' sales of his models are used in this exact way, but I did get written permission to use this model for this purpose. It's essentially a 3D blueprint of some 2.6 million very rough, polygons, unusable as any type of game asset on its own.

This mod is based on a (USDM) 1990 Mazda Protege 4WD. The FWD version is an already rare car for the States, but this one in particular came 4WD, with population estimates to be in the low thousands, with some forums even claiming low hundreds, imported for the domestic market.

The plan is to first make a normal stock version, as accurate as I can at least, then eventually go for a separate version/upload as a replica of my friend's old car (front lip, small turbo, slightly lowered, few stickers, etc.). If I think this version turns out good enough, I'd like to make it public, while the replica car might stay as a private upload, if and when that comes.

Along with pictures, I have live streamed a few times as further proof, although not as much as I could. I don't exactly model 'with confidence' all the time yet.

This is watchable at least
Rear Bumper and Trunk Timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XxA3lgLVI

look great. What is the resolution of your monitor?

Much wow! Such 90's!

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look great. What is the resolution of your monitor?

Looks like 1080p.

Model looks great!

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look great. What is the resolution of your monitor?

Just recently upgraded to 1440p, up from 1080p. Some of the screenshots and the Timelapse were still with my old ones though.

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Just recently upgraded to 1440p, up from 1080p. Some of the screenshots and the...

Much sharper than my 1080p

Some more progress on the interior. Fronts seats were hard, and are pretty rough. Hopefully textures will help. Maybe I can redo them but meh, they are meant to be sat in after all.

This finishes off the modeling.

Looks good and feels good. Very nice interior

stock car why not 60 lock max. good ratings on this mod

Yesterday we run this car in AWS 2025 round 1 and it worked out just like imagined - close bumper to bumper (and occasionally even door to door) racing,and unlike with most powerful AWD cars,this wasn't one of the typical LFS rallycross tyre burning races.

When making a skin,I encountered 3 issues which probably should be adressed to achieve highest mod quality:
1. The car's top part (roof,bonnet and trunk) of skin mapping is flipped.
2. Rims are transparent when looking from inside.
3. Part of the front is transparent when looking from underside,probably need to add few well placed triangles to block it.
Besides that the inside of arches seem to be very basic and front wheels at max lock will go through,but that's a minor issue. Other than that the model seems to be good quality and with bigger support might be a candidate for approved mod status in my opinion.