2 questions - wing tips and rudders

puck

Hi Guys,

Some of you may have seen my WIP. I'm building a FW-190 (posted in the gallery) but I'm stuck on 2 bits. I've attached 2 images to show what I mean.

The wing tips need to be rounded and closed but I've no idea how to do it.

Also, when I render I want to see some lines. The best example is the rudder. It is the same colour but not part of the main body. I want to put a line in there (as I have done in sketchup) which renders. Can that be done? I use Podium.

Thanks in advance.

Puck

Wing tip.jpg

remus

For the rudder, your best bet is to actually separate it from the main body of the aeroplane to create the seam. It's not to hard as long as you use groups to separate the rudder from the tail itself.

As for the wing tips, thats a little more complicated.
This method uses the follow me tool to get the initial shape and then stitches it on to the wing.

1.
Draw path for the profile.

2.
Select the path, click the follow-me tool and click the profile (i used the leading edge of the wing as my profile.)

3.
Clean up the follow-me by reversing the faces and deleting the unnecessary inner faces.

4.
Turn on hidden geometry (view->hidden geometry) then use the line tool to stitch the follow-me to the leading edge.

5.
With hidden geometry still on stitch the main curve of the follow-me to the end of the wing (will probably be more complicated than my example, but still possible.)

6.
Smooth over the linework (eraser+ctrl.)

That is the general method, although you will probably need to delete the last part of the follow-me and do some creative stitching to get it to match up with your aerofoil profile.

puck

Remus, that is fantastic. I'm going to give that a try now. Thank you for taking the time to reply. I look forward to your comments on the final model! This is my first time doing anything like this and it gets really addictive. Most of the modelling process I find very relaxing. Kind of like a sketchup meditation

Jean Lemire

Hi Puck, hi folks.

See this SU file for ideas.

Wing tip.skp

puck

Hi James,

That's an interesting way to do it, and really fast too. Thanks for your help.

Puck