Drawing of Bus

Tikvah · March 04, 2016, 06:30:01 AM

I'd like to find a line drawing of my MCI (or something close) so the wife and I can color and work on some color schemes. Any ideas?

jav9956 · March 04, 2016, 06:52:13 AM

Perhaps you can take some wax paper and trace over one of the many drawings in the manual. Or simply measure the length of each horizontal line and draw them on a piece of paper making sure that the distance relative to each other is also held (you can scale as necessary).

I am not very artistic so I would probably just take approximate measurements and throw it in SolidWorks or SketchUp.

Dave5Cs · March 04, 2016, 07:17:53 AM

Take a picture of it and load it to computer and print it out. If you don t have printer than take phone to FedEx or a staples and they can print it from there. Or maybe the desk at camp site.

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Dave5Cs · March 04, 2016, 07:19:46 AM

They can also enlarge it for you any size.

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bobofthenorth · March 04, 2016, 08:19:43 AM

Quote from: Tikvah on March 04, 2016, 06:30:01 AM
I'd like to find a line drawing of my MCI (or something close) so the wife and I can color and work on some color schemes. Any ideas?

When we went through this I started with a straight on side photo of our bus. Then I used Paint on the JPG to erase the existing colour. It sounds like it would take a while but you'll be surprised how quick it goes. When you're done you'll have a blank of your own bus. Save that and then play with it.

Oonrahnjay · March 04, 2016, 08:35:19 AM

Quote from: bobofthenorth on March 04, 2016, 08:19:43 AMWhen we went through this I started with a straight on side photo of our bus. Then I used Paint on the JPG to erase the existing colour. It sounds like it would take a while but you'll be surprised how quick it goes. When you're done you'll have a blank of your own bus. Save that and then play with it.

Exactly what I did. Works fine and it's easy.

Scott & Heather · March 04, 2016, 12:56:41 PM

Someone good with Photoshop could actually just swap colors with a couple of clicks. I've seen it done I just don't know how to do it myself and it actually looks half decent it shows the various angles of the sun etc.

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Jeremy · March 04, 2016, 02:35:31 PM

Quote from: Scott Bennett on March 04, 2016, 12:56:41 PM
Someone good with Photoshop could actually just swap colors with a couple of clicks. I've seen it done I just don't know how to do it myself and it actually looks half decent it shows the various angles of the sun etc.

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It's just done with layers - each layer is transparent except for the coloured bit, so turning the layers on-and-off (with the uncoloured picture of the bus as the background) has the effect of instantly changing from one colour to another.

Photoshop has a steep learning curve but using layers is pretty close to the bottom

Jeremy

bobofthenorth · March 04, 2016, 02:39:46 PM

Yabbut ..........

For the average busnut Paint is accessible, usable and more than adequate to the task. We're comparing Paint to using some coloured pencils on a line drawing. If Photoshop was an option I'm guessing the OP wouldn't have asked the question. As a matter of fact I did use Photoshop for some of my planning but its not necessary. The OP can get an idea about what his intended graphics will look like and he can do it with the software that comes pre-installed on every Windows system.

Oonrahnjay · March 04, 2016, 06:55:36 PM

Quote from: bobofthenorth on March 04, 2016, 02:39:46 PM
Yabbut ..........

For the average busnut Paint is accessible, usable and more than adequate to the task. ...

Exactly what I did. Worked fine.

Geom · March 05, 2016, 10:22:29 AM

If you don't want the complexity let alone the $$$$$ that goes with Photoshop, but want something a bit more... robust than Paint (layers, easy to use tools that make sense, a program that actually works), I've had really good luck with a program called GIMP (Graphic Image Manipulation Program).
It's opensource software (i.e. No cost), is incredibly robust, very stable, and works really well.

For your actual project, you could take a photo of your current bus, then using the color area selector tool in GIMP, you can select the sensitity such to grab the area or subset you want. You can then erase the selected area and use the selection border tool to create a border around the area. Eventually you should end up with an outline as you'd like it.
If you wanted to stay digital, you could also just do the color manipulation and replacement entirely in GIMP, and using layers (as many as you'd like) you can add and remove colors and patterns at will. With layers I'd treat each discrete area as a layer. Flipping them on and off is simply a click of the layer.

Good luck!
George

Tikvah · March 05, 2016, 10:33:36 AM

Sorry guys. I'm going to find a way to stick with paper and colored pencils.

Still looking for a drawing...

Geom · March 05, 2016, 10:40:01 AM

Understood

If it's the bus in your avatar, just shoot me a higher res copy of that same photo.
I should be able to get you a fairly rough outline of it pretty quickly.

You can post it to Dropbox and send me a link or I can PM you an email address to sent it

Seangie · March 05, 2016, 10:50:55 AM

Dave - I'd take a picture of the bus. Square it up and size it up right. Then its your exact bus. Open it in paint and change it to a BW photo. Clean it up a little and size it to print on an 8.5x11" piece of paper then print it or take it to a print shop to print. Then buy lots of crayons and invite all the kids over to have a coloring party, hand them out and see what they come up with.

Its easier than it sounds. And you got the skillz to use paint

-Sean