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.
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.

[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

[novoAlias]

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

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

[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.

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.