Show some love for the sky (post your aircraft)

[ptacnik]

I saw the super car thread and thought it would be cool to see peoples aircrafts... havn't seen many around here

anyway heres the plane I've been workin' on for the last 2 days.. ignore the mat/lighting, just wanted to show what I have for a model as of now


Keep the thread going, let me see what crazy stuff you guys got cooked up... and any C&C about what i have modeled so far would be great....

*oh by the way its a "P-38 D Lightning" (the D actually makes a difference)

[Goig!]

Quite good, except for the nose, nose not good. :D
It shouldn´t be so straight.

[Helix]

ptacnik,

Yeah I'm totally with you on this thread and I'm gonna try to get it started. This first post is a model I was making in conjunction with a B-17 Flying Fortress I had a long post on about two months ago. I did not post about my P-51 Mustang so its new to the forums. ;) Its not finished totally, mostly just the modeling. Still I learned a lot about modeling do this one. What do you guys think?

[Helix]

This is my most favorite helicopter ever! I love this thing. I have tried several times to model it years ago but never got very far. Last week I dove head long into it and I am making great progress. I still have to the the main rotor and various other details. The bulk of the modeling is done and I'm happy with my results. If anyone knows alpt about this helicopter please let me know cause I need some specific help on certain parts as far as reference goes. Let me know what you think or if you need to see other renders. Lets keep this thread going. :D

[novoAlias]

kewl models helix and ptacnik! i will make a model for this thread maybe, does neone know were to get blueprints for kitplanes lyk the velocity canard? i started a british vampyre but stopped wen the blueprints wuldnt line up properly :p :o

[novoAlias]

oh yea, this is a really good site with high qual blueprints (and info about aircraft if you can read russian, dam them :p)

http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html

[Splurgus]

Very cool planes you guys do.

Here's my contribution.

[ptacnik]

started this one earlier today... again ignore the tex/mat

the model is almost complete... just need to finish a few touch ups and get the cockpit created...

only took me a day for this one... but these two planes are my fist try at modeling an aircraft.... and modeling the cockpit for this one is gana be a pain i think, if any of you have some techniques for the best way to model cockpits please send them my way...

again C&C are welcome

* this plane is a German F-W 200 C3 condor

[ptacnik]

thanx for the comments so far

and here are a few good links if your looking for aircraft blueprints

http://www.onnovanbraam.com/index.php?m=blueprints

http://www.suurland.com/blueprints_archive.php

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Graphics/


Enjoy

[3Dan]

Your P38 is coming out nice, just a few tweaking needed esp. the pod ahead the cockpit is straight when it should curve and the outer horizontal stabilizers must be semicircular.
The Condor is nice too. There were civil versions of this a/c, or rather it was a civil a/c adapted to military service. As were all Nazi planes developed before the Spanish civil war, of course.
Here's my splined DC-3, still unfinished. I have to polymodel it - someday:roll:

[RickStefani]

Some very nice planes. This was something I did a while back and is going to be the first of the futuristic planes.

[Raf]

Nice to see thread like this.:D

I made helicopter also (there are too little of them). It is Bell-212 or UH-1N(millitary designation).

Helix- special greetings for you. I see we have similar helicopters. It is realy hard to find decent references on the net for your model. I have some small pictures of your bell-205 and will try to dig up something useful.

P.S. Decorative barrels by the helicopter on the picture are no mine. I'm sorry but i lost file in which was the name of the modeler.

[otacon]

This is the first plane i ever did...doesnt have much detail at all, but like i said it was my first try and i learned from it.

[Helix]

raf, nice BELL 212. I was making this one for ahile then noticed how different it was from the UH-1D. Not much different mostly different engine wise. My next step after my UH-1D I want to try and make it into a UH-1B varient and put big gun pods on it. Seen any good pics that have gun pods on the 212 or 205?

wOOt 3Dan I love DC-3 Skytrains ;)

Otacon, I like your plane I think it looks great. Is it a F-86 Sabre?

Rick, cool model, I want to see more futuristic, concept planes too.

[otacon]

You guessed it.;)

[gspinz]

i bow to the plane creators! :D

the main problem i have when creating aircraft is the wing roots/rudder fuse/ engine cowl to wing...

ie when attaching them to the rest of the plane my mesh comes out real crappy :( the smoothing looks crap as i've tried to make up for crappy out come of the boolean operation.

any idea's?

gspinz

ps: i still very much a newbie!

[RickStefani]

Very old. During the time I started and finished a model on the same day. Texturing modelling and scene. Never spent enough time on one part.

[3Dan]

These are great machines you boys churned out!
Helix, i love the Mustang too. (so much that i can draw it without a single reference)
I have blueprints for the Twin Mustang and plan to model it one day:roll:
Here's another unfinished one. I HAVE to get back to them...

[ptacnik]

Got some beautiful aircrafts so far!

Otacan, very well done for your first plane IMO

Helix : I love your mustang! Also : I did some hunting and found your older model (cant remember the name) but I must say its a great model... should most definitely add a screen of it to our collection.

RickStefani : Nice designs, very original, a little creepy, but cool non-the-less :)


BlackWolf : I look forward to seeing what you have to add to the post, and I hope you found the blueprint links usefull

3Dan-3DT : your DC-3 is awesome, and I figured out what you ment by the nose on my P-38 needing a little tweaking. The earlier models of the P-38 were not as rounded as the later models but I defiantly agree 100 % that mine needs some work.

The "D" model is a pretty rare model (only 36 made) and its next to impossible to find reference pics for it, and even when I think I may have found one I realize its a later (and more produced) model like the "J" or "G" But Ill giver her a facelift and post an update for C&C sometime maybe tomorrow.

Thanx to everyone for the comments, and contributions... lets keep this thread going....

[Raf]

THX Blackwolf:D . Your link is absolutely fantastic!

Helix: On that russian site there is zip file with 3000x2000 blueprints of UH-1B,C,D and N. I think that they used modified M-60s for gunpods on early Hueys. Here is the picture of D with M134.

[neo_mosher_zion]

take a look at this old model(really old)

cool concept bad model

[Radarhead]

No time to make a new bird right now but here's an old one...

[Radarhead]

Here's a new render of a clay version.

[Helix]

Yeah that was cool thread radarhead. I've wanted to make one of those for awhile now.

This thread is gaining speed. Lets keep it goin ;D

[neo_mosher_zion]

i did a little bit of work on the old model... little i can do unless i made a completely new main model. oh well. looks better thats for sure.

[mmiller]

ok
here's my contribution
one of my favorites :)

http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Miller/render/Albatros/htcat.jpg

[3Dan]

Hey Mark,
Where's the black smoke?:haha:

[mmiller]

Hi Dan
let's just assume everybody is healthy so far ;)

Here's something else I did that i haven't posted anywhere.
I worked this image to death, but was never entirely happy with it .... has some nice qualities though

[Helix]

Awesome WWI aircraft. I tried a Sopwith Pup awhile back but never finished it ;(. Honestly with a bit of photoshop tweaking you could actually get a good "painted" effect because you already have kind of a oil painting feel with the color IMO. I've wanted to recreate this painting that has my grandpa's signature on it. Only 500 were ever printed so I think art like this can get pretty valuable if it has some personal touch to it like stories or signatures from poeple in the art. Ofcourse no one is still alive to sign your WWI art ;( Just a thougt if your into making these types of scenes often. Again great scenes.

[gspinz]

i envy all of your skillz!!! i wish i had half the skills that everyone posses in this thread!!!

wtfg!

gspinz

[Dire Wolf]

All those aircrafts look good.

Just wondering does anyone here have any good quality blueprints an Apache. I checked suurland and Onno Van but they are pretty low res.

[Helix]

Dire I got some. I can email them to youor I can post them here. They are too large to post as an image. In total the fiels I have are prolly about 500k. If you can tell me how to post them as a link or upload them then I'll do that otherwise I can email them to you.

better yet go here http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html

they have large and very clear drawing of the stuff your looking for. Its mostly in russian but you can make your way around. GL.

I'm looking for good Blackhawk UH-60 blueprints or if any one has any plz let me know. Thanks.

Helix

[Dire Wolf]

Thanks Helix

That is a great website, nice hi-res blueprints.

[Splurgus]

Wow helix!

That's definately one to bookmark.:D

[ptacnik]

I posted this on the front page but ill throw it in again for you guys...

The first has over 700 modern planes and over 400 WWll planes, but are smaller in size, but this site has blueprints for about anything you could ever want

the second has over 400, most are nice

the third link has some pretty high res blueprints

and thax to BlackWolf for the fifth link (high res prints)


http://www.onnovanbraam.com/index.php?m=blueprints

http://www.suurland.com/blueprints_archive.php

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Graphics/

http://www.guillaume3d.com/blueprints/blueprints.php#

http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html


check 'em out and
Enjoy

[Zymotico]

Mine is not as nice, but I thought I'd join in the fun. I made this about the same time as that American/Chinese spy plane fiasco a while back. The mesh is very low poly (1030 triangles). I was going to use it in a Quake 3 map, but it never when any further than was you see in the pic.

[FrodoBaggins]

I see some nice planes here everyone! :D

Made one also some time ago.

It's modelled in Rhino(ceros) 3D and took me ages to finish it.
Never really serious started to texture it, so here's a kinda clay render...

[ptacnik]

Helix: These arnt the best... but hope they help

*edit - I think this is a UH-60a , but check out the next pic... might work better for you

[ptacnik]

and another.

[Helix]

Thanks, ptacnik. Those will come in handy.

Here is a topic that might be worth talking about. We all need to put our aircraft somewhere and I want to put mine in the sky. Anyone have any good methods for clouds, sky and ground within a 3D package? I've seen some nice renders with a sky in this thread so just throwing it out there. ;)

[otacon]

All i did for my scene was get some nice sky images doing a google image search, added some motion blur in ps, then put the image as a background, then you have to try and match the lighting of the background pic, and find a dramatic camera angle, add a tilt, and if your lighting is good enough you'll have a cool looking scene.:D

[Raf]

Good reference for Apache could be model from the scene "Apache-FlyBye" that comes with standard 3Dmax. It is not very high poly (55000 faces) but it has some good low poly details and the shape is right.

Here is the render of it. I exported it out of that scene a year or two ago. Almost forgot that i have it.

It needed some work on textures which also from come with max and added Helfires.

[karabo]

oh what the hell, I might as well post one of mine. This is a model from my early days in 3D when I didn't really know what I was doing and I hadn't discovered polymodeling. This was done in Rhino. It sucks, I know but it was the best I could do at the time.

[novoAlias]

if u cant find blue prints of your aircraft at ne of those links there u r guaranteed to find sum sweet ref images here!
http://www.airshowreport.com/asr-top500/index.html
its got a problem with another site stealing bandwidth but try it neway its got kewl links.
links for apache blueprints
http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/ah64.html
http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/ah64-2.html
now im gonna have to make sumthing for this thread :halo:

[ClayCreator]

THought I´d add some air of gloom with a dark pic of a couple of MIG 21s I made. I just finally got to texturing them recently and decided to make a pretty dark moody scene to bring out it´s malevolence in style. I love MIGs!

[primal]

i have a model of a SU-27 flanker on the network at my office if i can remember to bring it home ill slap it in a quick little scene.

[bunglo]

I love to build plane models (plastic) and I was thinking about modeling (3d) my latest model, the Tiger Shark. I love that plane, does any one know were I can find some blue prints of it?

THANKS!:D

[ClayCreator]

Be sure to do that,primal. Russian fighter jets are so cool and they totally kick their western counterparts´asses in manouverability and yes even rate of climb, ie the MiG 21 compared to the western fighters in production at that time had a phenomenal rate of climb. The Mig 29 and SU-27 are the only fighters able to perform the "Cobra Maneuvour" flawlessly btw.

I hope more ppl will send in pics of fighter jets :p

[novoAlias]

:halo: this is a wip forum isnt it?:halo: ... well im working on it :p

[XLNT 3d]

Here's a J8 Finback I was working on at the time of the collision with the P3. Texture need reworking and mesh is a bit sloppy, but I was trying to crank it out in a day or two with no drawings and rough reference photos.

Check out this site for some serious 3d aircraft illustration;
http://www.arance.net

mmiller: your work is really inspirational. I am working on a Stearman. I hope that my work we be as polished as yours when I'm done. My friend has one and I hitch a ride when I can.

[XLNT 3d]

Here's on with a watercolor filter

[XLNT 3d]

Still a WIP, but here is my true love for the sky. Basket is only a rough proxy model

[Rinne]

Yeah, I love planes, never was more interested in something else!

Radarhead's F-16 , and MMiller's Models definitaly rule, but all the other's look great, too (3Dan, never knew that you modeled planes:) )

I'll start an AV8-B Harrier II now, hmm..maybe we can make this a thread like the fastest car ;)

Just keep the pics coming :)

[mrc64]

this is my F117 it stills a wip i hope finish it some time.

[mmiller]

Originally posted by XLNT 3d
mmiller: your work is really inspirational. I am working on a Stearman. I hope that my work we be as polished as yours when I'm done. My friend has one and I hitch a ride when I can.

XLINT 3D
Thank you very much
I am very happy to hear that i have been an inspiration to somebody :D

A stearman would be an excelent project.
And, considering how many of them are still around today, you shouldn't have too much trouble with refs.
Also helps to have a friend who owns one ;)

I've also been considering starting a full blown structural model based on an aircraft from the same time period.
Not sure which make yet - kind of depends on what I can find adequate refs for:
P6, brf2b, Bristol Bulldog, Gloster Gladiator ... one of those

should be fun
Mark

[Rinne]

Hehe, here's my AV-8b, as promised ;)

[Rinne]

I've started the textures on the Harrier :P

Come on guys, post pics ;)

[T0XIC]

some very nice work here :) Heh, the only plane I've done is a an isometric of an A-10 Done in Autocad when I was first learning it :p Perhaps I'll post it when i get home...

[3Dan]

Originally posted by Rinne
(3Dan, never knew that you modeled planes:) )

Here's something from the Corel Dream days.

[RedEye(Co30)]

Kind of a synthesis of modern jet and Me-262. I was a total newb just learning Max at the time . . . the mesh itself is a complete horror-show. I'll redo it sometime when I know what I'm doing :)

[Tychoterryn]

Here's my contribution... It's an Aero L-39 trainer/ fighter plane.

I made it about a year and a half ago, so it's quite out of date

[novoAlias]

the lightings really kewl on that last one, how did u match it up so well? sum interesting models rollin in so i think ill try and finish mi one :o

[Tychoterryn]

Originally posted by BlackWolf
the lightings really kewl on that last one, how did u match it up so well? sum interesting models rollin in so i think ill try and finish mi one :o

I used a picture which I took while flying over Norway for the background. Then I just rendered the scene with a light blue skylight.

Good luck with your model

[vishnu_venky]

i want 2 model some great aircrafts.
i very new 2 3d but i know all the basics of edit mesh & poly.

can anyone recommend me a good fighter plane to start my modelling with.

[novoAlias]

omg thread digger :roll:

lol go to my page, links>resources and click on the airwar.ru thing coz i cant remember the exact link, then pick a plane :D

[vishnu_venky]

this is the problem with me
i cant choose the right plane
as i said i'm a beginner
i want to model a plane that is relatively easier and also cool looking
something like the red biplane on the first page.
please suggest a good looking WW2 plane with lots of GUNS and MISSILES:ufo: :halo:

[RickStefani]

Here is another

[novoAlias]

:D i love that one :p

[vishnu_venky]

can anyone tell me how 2 set up blueprints for modelling a plane.
in these aviation drawings i dont seem 2 find any perfectly orthographic blueprints.
and also every one please post the wireframe of your models

[vishnu_venky]

just thout i'd post this.
its not a plane though.
im goin to start my work on Mig29.
please someone help me with these blueprints.
try 2 find my name on it.