Continuous research. Research is such a huge part when wanting to create anything, even if its imaginary or not, you still need a good source of information to help create it.

Types of wood; depending on what I am aiming for there are ridiculous amounts of wood to even think of. To be honest it doesn't matter about the wood, but the look on the varnish. I want to go for something that looks new but has seen a good part of the world. So not so new that the wood all looks clean and tidy, but it has some sort of age and character to this. For me the wood is the main feature to this vehicle. There is so much detail in each grain of wood, the normal map is going to be interesting to achieve...

Some original images that I used to help model;