Airplane Study

boofredlay

Thanks.

I don't think I will make any propellers. The author of the source image wrote the following:

i didnt want to do a propeller the engine should look like a mix between an old spark-ignition engine (i googled that translation ) and a modern jet-turbine-like-thing.

However I am adding missiles...? We'll see. I may just make some landing gear as well. Now on to the rivets

pilou

Astonished model

cadmunkey

Fantastic modelling skills Eric!

marked001

wow wow wow...this is so freakin awesome , eric! a ton of detail here... the cartoon style is really great... love it.

teofas

wow, can wait to see it with textures and then render! amazing stuff, coangrats!!!

boofredlay

As you should.

Thanks again all for the comments.

boofredlay

I added the rivets tonight. They were easier than I anticipated. What I found really interesting was viewing the rivets while hiding the rest of the model. I have added some shots for you to see. Pretty cool actually. My wife said it looked like The Invisible Man's airplane

lucifer1101

thats coming along very nicely, ilove the shots with the plane hidden just with the rivits LOL!...

david57

Nice, looks like some parts came from the Space Shuttle.

watkins

Dear Eric,

Perhaps you could take some of the trickier modelled parts and create a few 'how-to-do' tutorials. Perhaps some of the engine components?

Kind regards,
Bob

solo

Eric, you freak!!

business slow? as the detail is getting insane...but amazing.
If I may Inquire, whats the poly count and file size at this point?

This is going to look friggin amazing, this needs a great render and even an Animation (offering to do an animation if you willing to loan the final model out for a test flight)

boofredlay

I just may do that. I am at work now so I don't have the model, it is at home. Will check the poly and file size later.

I only hope I can do the model justice with a nice rendering and not make it look cheesy. Still learning.

And yes business is slow but I have done all this at home on my time, not at the office. I reserve office play time for stupid visual puns

mike d

Eric
that is looking amazing

mike d

marked001

damn....this is looking pretty crazy..any tricks for adding the rivets? or just hard work with copy and copy/rotate?

boofredlay

Copy and rotate. I did make a component for half the airplane so I only had to do one side since it is symmetrical. The fuselage and tail section took the most time. The wings and engine were easy. I also made the rivets a bit long so I did not have to make sure the face matched perfectly in each spot.

boofredlay

Ok Pete, the count so far is 229,799 faces at 6.13mb.

silver_shadow

you got my attention dude. Really nice model , love models with a lot of detail
One always start off, very excited and during the time you get bored building it because it take soo long to model, till then you add detail and cant stop doing it because it makes the model come alive.

You should make the cockpit window flip open, and a side panel next to it, to get easier into the plane. Also then you can see some inside panel detail, underneath the glass fixtures details and inside the cockpit itself which will look awesome. dont worry about poly count..su will handle it. I have a model over 3 mil poly count and su still holds.

teofas

this is really awsome like i told you before, its an insane model, i like it a lot, keep rocking bro!!

david_h

it'll never fly . . .

solo

@unknownuser said:

it'll never fly . . .

Wanna bet?

It will do loop-da-loops, I'll even post the video footage to prove it.