Low Poly Aircraft Modelling Tutorial

[SuperKungFu]

I saw this over at the FF forum and thought it might be useful here.

http://forums.netwings.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2358

[sp0nge]

thats a GREAT tutorial and especially useful for newer modellers like me.

 

Thanks HEAPS, its even got animations!

[Troffmeister]

This is a PM between me and Sponge yesterday which may help new modellers or just those curious - it has videos to download and watch , so download sit back and enjoy - these videos are invaluable and very very helpful in my opinion )

 

 

Originally Posted by sp0nge

Hi mate, i sent you an email! :P

 

please hav a read n try 2 answer my questions.

 

Cheers

 

PS. Its troffmeister@hotmail.com?

 

 

yep correct got your mail - this may be a liitle short / blunt as i am really busy here real life stuff today - but here is a short reply / help

 

view these

 

http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/SF3dMod...king3views.rar

 

http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/3dtutor...03%20views.rar

 

download all these , view them take notes / keep them safe - and these below

 

http://www.gulfknight.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2198

 

basically all 3 way drawings are normally wrong size wise - get photoshop or acdsee or some image manipulator , and cut all the views - top / side / front / back etc - views of your plane eg f16

 

then actually measure them and check they are all 100% straight , you may have to rotate them even by 0.5 of a degree sometimes !

 

you should - " open box model "

and stamp your cut images onto walls / planes in 3d max , as per above videos

 

that way you have correct sizes on all 3 walls - eg length 10 m , height 5 ms , width 8 ms etc - eg the box is correct / the images are correct size and all dead straight , so u can model correct and accurate - do exactly as the above vids - its the best

 

it takes time to prepare but is 1000% worth it )

 

all my model parts are 100 % cylinders / wings . tail . nose . canopy etc - i cut pieces out using the compound boolean technique - see the vid about creating canopy glass - i use exactly this to cut the flaps on tail . wings . bomb bay - whatever i need i try this technique

 

did i forget anything ?

 

Roger :-)

[SuperKungFu]

those are some great tutorials, thanks. While on the subject of low poly aircraft, here's a site that has some for download. Its pretty interesting to view them in and get an idea how they set it up.

http://www.freeflightdesign.com/gmax.html

[sp0nge]

That P-3C looks a bit like my lock on c130 without AA :P