A Sailplane from blueprints
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I found the 3-view blueprints of the H-101 Salto at the-blueprints.com. I looked for this particular glider because I've actually flown one, and it's my favorite of all the aircraft that I've been able to fly.
This is a Sketchup export of the finished model, above the blueprint that I built it from.
From Sketchup, I rendered it in Kerkythea, then finished it Xara Xtreme 4 (with landscape from Google Earth).
My first render.
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Very nice. I can hear the wind blowing past the canopy now.
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Very nice and elegant!
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Great work Teezer.
How did You get that terrain looking so good.
Did You do aply postprocess in Sara? -
@mateo soletic said:
Great work Teezer.
How did You get that terrain looking so good.
Did You do aply postprocess in Sara?No post processing of the landscape -- it's a screen grab from Google Earth. The location and altitude were actually selected to represent a personal flight taken in April of 1977.
Thank you all for the kind words...
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From my backlog of projects, another sailplane files off the blueprints:
This is as far as I'm going to go with this one. It was another learning exercise, and I think I'm going to stick to organic forms for the next couple of projects. They're more interesting.
For anyone who cares, this is a Blanik L-13. It's a two-seater, and it was made in Checkoslovakia. I owned one of these in the 80's, and gave many a glider ride to friends and family.
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beautiful!
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