Music man Stingray bass

Doxturtle

I am currently working on this piece for my university application portfolio, to show off some high poly modelling skills.

My progress so far:





I am using floaters for these parts, I am not sure if I made them correctly:











I tried making some diamond grip, but it didn't work very well



so I will be remaking that bit.

These are my references:

http://imgur.com/a/eo1Dv#1

I still need to work on the other side, finish the fretboard and add some small details. I need to add all the strings aswell.

I don't know much about guitars, so if I have made some glaringly obvious mistakes, or missed details, please tell me

Doxturtle

I am going to go with this colour scheme

Noren

I think the best course of action would be to go to a music store and take a look yourself and shoot a few photos.
I think I'd model out the screws and wouldn't use floaters. It's one model that's used a lot, here and in potential future projects, and you won't have any worries about AO etc.

Doxturtle

I was looking at the ernie ball forum for references earlier and people seemed quite eager to show of their bass's. I might ask on there for some specific references, I am sure someone would offer to provide some

I only really need additional reference for 1-2 small parts

Noren

That's the next best thing, and of course you usually won't have the ability to look at objects in real life in a work environment, but I'd still recommend to do that now and compare what you read from the photos with the actual object. There are many parts that seem ever so slightly off, especially in the z-axis. (e.g. tone potis, profile of the pickguard, height of the neck and how high it's inserted into the body.)
Also pick one exact model and execution of that model in order to work from that, right now you seem to be using mixed references of the stingray and sterling and your main reference right now seems to be the sterling.
Is all that hugely important? Not necessarily, and few people will be able to tell. But some will.

You might have planned that anyway, but right now most elements are simply stuck into each other. If you want to do closeups I'd actually pay attention to the way the single parts are connected in real life.

edit: Wrote fretboard, meant pickguard. But the fretboard needs some slight convex curvature as well. (Perhaps not done yet.)