I hope that 3D graphic artists will use this forum along with the kit builders. And so to kick it off Id like to show some planes Im working on. Im using Wings3D which you can download for free at http://www.wings3d.com . I hope to have these textured soon and post some more planes as they come along.
This is the way I would have designed the gripen
An open class sailplane
By: mixtec - 8th November 2005 at 02:56
Cool – did you work off some sort of technical drawings to get sizes etc?
Nope, I eyeballed it all the way. When using a program like wings I can just delete and mirror one side so everything I do to one side is automatically done the same to the other. And by constraining movement only in x, y and z directions I can be sure everything always in proper alignment. Thats why poly modeling is better than NURBs/spline modeling, because you just keep molding the mesh till it looks right. With splines you have to draw the curves correctly the first time and know the correct shape of each station in the object your making.
By: kukri - 7th November 2005 at 11:07
Cool – did you work off some sort of technical drawings to get sizes etc?
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