Car clay modeling can be more expensive than the actual production of the car, the main reasons include the following:

Hand build and precision: Clay models are often hand-crafted by professional modelers who need to reproduce the details of the car with a high degree of accuracy. This precision and handwork requires a lot of time and skill.

Custom and uniqueness: Clay models are often customized for a specific design or concept, and each model is unique. This is in stark contrast to mass-produced cars on production lines, which achieve cost reductions through economies of scale.

Design and development costs: Clay modeling is often part of the automotive design and development process. At this stage, the design team will try different design solutions, which will require many iterations and modifications. The whole process involves a lot of design and engineering work, and these costs are ultimately reflected in the price of the model.

After the car designer has drawn the manuscript, clay model making is a stage that must be experienced. The clay model was able to systematize the plan manuscript more and more, enough to show a very realistic three-dimensional shape of the car. The whole process of clay model production, automotive product modeling design in the mud model of the basic clear plan or further repeated thinking is more convenient, such as the arc should be a little outward or a little inward, the curve should go up a mm or a mm down, and the whole process can not be maintained in the plane design drawing.

1. Industrial clay for making clay models

1, the key raw materials for the production of clay model industrial clay, but it is not soil, no water content in raw materials, there is no soil, just similar to the general color mud, but the requirements are higher, the key ingredients of clay raw materials are talc powder 62%, glycerin 30%, industrial grade wax 8%, such raw materials can be plastic strong, can not break drilling application. However, at this stage, the quality of stable and reliable clay is only dependent on imports, the key is French clay and Japanese clay two kinds, but the price is also more expensive, generally a 1:1 clay model of the project cost will be more than 200,000 yuan.

2, because clay is relatively expensive, the interior of the body is made of it is more extravagant and wasteful. The initial embryo of the model is generally cut and bonded with foam material, and the key is to show the basic form of the model. When making the initial embryo, it is generally about 3cm lower than the appearance design of the body (the thickness of the embedded mud), and try to avoid the protruding obtuse Angle, which is conducive to the polishing and scraping of the clay in the middle and late period.

3, after the initial embryo is carried out, it has just begun to make clay models, which are roughly divided into: filling clay, rough scraping clay, fine scraping clay, film, spraying this process, headlights, tires and other components are installed. There are many specifications and models of automobile clay models, generally 1:1, 1:4, 1:5 and so on. Its approach is also slightly different, generally speaking, the design scheme is used in the early stage of the small proportion of the model, the middle and late use of 1:1 model.