Vehicle designer

Abstract

A board game for developing skills in the functional and ornamental design of a land vehicle and land vehicle systems comprising an assortment of tiles magnetically retained to a board, having images of portions of a vehicle, for creating alternate vehicle designs that share common tiles, a board for assembling an arrangement of some of the tiles to images of vehicles that share common files and a design aid for creating a new ornamental and functional vehicle design comprised of a reference underlay for defining a minimum envelope for circumscribing a vehicle design.

1 . A board game for developing skills in the functional and ornamental design of a land vehicle or land vehicle system, comprising: an assortment of tiles, said tiles having images of portions of a vehicle for creating alternate vehicle designs that share common tiles; a board for mounting said tiles; and a means for retaining said tiles on said board. 
   
   
       2 . The board game recited in  claim 1  wherein said land vehicle is a passenger car. 
   
   
       3 . The board game recited in  claim 1  wherein said land vehicle is a commercial vehicle. 
   
   
       4 . The board game recited in  claim 1  wherein said means is a magnetic means. 
   
   
       5 . The board game recited in  claim 4  wherein said magnetic means is comprised of magnetic tiles and a magnetic board. 
   
   
       6 . The board game recited in  claim 5  wherein each of said magnetic tiles is comprised of an upper base layer and a lower magnetic layer. 
   
   
       7 . The board game recited in  claim 5  wherein each of said magnetic tiles is comprised of a base layer and a magnetic coating on a bottom surface of said base layer. 
   
   
       8 . The board game recited in  claim 1  wherein said board is a foldable board comprised of a first half portion for randomly retaining said assortment of tiles and a second half portion for assembling and retaining some of said tiles. 
   
   
       9 . The board game recited in  claim 8  further comprising a leg having an end portion pivotally attached to a lower portion of said second half portion for raising a rear portion of said second half portion upwardly when said leg is rotated away from said second half portion and a magnetic means for retaining said leg against said second half portion when said leg is adjacent to said second half portion. 
   
   
       10 . The board game recited in  claim 1  further comprising a reference underlay for defining a minimum envelope that an ornamental vehicle design must circumscribe. 
   
   
       11 . The board game recited in  claim 10  wherein said reference underlay is a thin sheet and said board game further comprises a board for supporting said reference underlay. 
   
   
       12 . The board game recited in  claim 11  wherein said board has a frame for locating said reference underlay on said frame. 
   
   
       13 . The board game recited in  claim 11  wherein said reference underlay is magnetically retained to said board. 
   
   
       14 . The board game recited in  claim 1  further comprising a set of reference marks on said board for locating said tiles. 
   
   
       15 . The board game recited in  claim 14  wherein said reference marks are comprised of a ground line and center marks for location apertures in centers of front and rear vehicle wheels. 
   
   
       16 . A board game for developing skills in the functional and ornamental design of a land vehicle or land vehicle system, comprising: an assortment of tiles, said tiles having images of portions of a vehicle for creating alternate vehicle designs that share common tiles; a folded board for mounting said tiles, said board having a first half portion for retaining said tiles, said first half portion having a leg for tilting the rear of said first half portion upwardly and a second half portion joined to said first half portion for assembling an arrangement of some of said tiles to create an image, said second half portion having a set of reference marks for locating said image of said vehicle; a magnetic means for retaining said tiles to said first and second folded board half portions. 
   
   
       17 . The board game recited in  claim 16  wherein said land vehicle is a passenger vehicle. 
   
   
       18 . The board game recited in  claim 16  wherein said land vehicle is a commercial truck. 
   
   
       19 . The board game recited in  claim 16  wherein said image is an image of a vehicle instrument panel. 
   
   
       20 . A board game for developing skills in the functional and ornamental design of a land vehicle or land vehicle system, comprising: an assortment of tiles, said tiles having images of portions of a vehicle for creating alternate vehicle designs that share common tiles; a board for assembling an arrangement of some of said tiles to create images of vehicles that share common files; a means for retaining said tiles to said board; and a design aid for creating a new ornamental and functional vehicle design, said design aid comprised of a reference underlay for defining a minimum envelope for circumscribing said vehicle design; a sheet of semi-transparent or transparent paper over said reference underlay; and a drawing implement to create said new ornamental and functional design on said semi-transparent or transparent paper.