3D reference material - photos & plans.

[Alfa]

I thought it would be a good idea with a thread dedicated to reference material for 3D modelling.

 

When posting material:

 

* please consider whether photos are useful for modelling purposes - i.e. preferably close-ups that show varies details of an aircraft(ship, vehicule, structure) rather than images of "scenic" nature.

 

* please post images/plans either as thumbnails or direct links instead of using image tags(full scale).

 

If you found the images/plans on a website(i.e. not your own), then please make sure that the way you link to them is in accordance with the policies of the website in question - this sometimes means linking to the website as such and not directly to individual files.

[SuperKungFu]

I posted this in the past, but this is the best layout site I've found

http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html

 

If you want some good close up (real pictures) of an aircraft, i would visit

http://www.b-domke.de/aircraft_in_detail.html

And also http://www.airliners.net/

 

This might be useful for damage model, it would be interesting to see some of the cutaway objects within a model

http://www.flightglobal.com/StaticPages/cutaways.html

 

And here's another site

http://www.the-blueprints.com/index.php?blueprints/modernplanes/modern-c/

 

I believe the last 2 sites were found by sp0nge so the credit goes to him

 

If you need help in modeling, i believe these sites would give you some tips

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

http://www.military-meshes.com/forums/index.php

http://www.lockon-models.com/index.php?act=idx

http://www.planesimulation.com/gmax2.htm

[Alfa]

Yup good stuff :)

 

Here is a link to another excellent site with great walkarounds:

 

http://scalemodels.ru/

 

The site is in Russian, but clicking the Union Jack banner will translate the pages to English - well it is an online translation, but it helps to navigate the site for the non-Russian speaker.

 

- JJ.

[sp0nge]

I believe the last 2 sites were found by sponge so the credit goes to him

 

Ahemm.. its .. Sp0nge...

 

jkz lol

 

Here is some more:

 

http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/manatee/272/

 

pooooooor quality but hey, theres heaps! :)

[SuperKungFu]

hahaha, and yea I'll change it.

[USSR_Gys71]

http://www.primeportal.net

[-akyla-]

This site helped me a lot.

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

And some Blueprints :

http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw_fn.html

;)

[Troffmeister]

akyla - yes i posted the link to those video tutorials 3 times in various threds recently , to help people out interested in 3dmodelling

 

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

 

the videos were made by a guy called Mustang i believe , so big credit to him , for such helpful video tutorials he made :-)

 

Roger

[Troffmeister]

blueprints of various quality / helpfulness - big site - explore / enjoy

 

http://www.the-blueprints.com/index.php?blueprints/

 

mounting blueprint pics in 3dmax - car example shown - for aircraft and ships etc - use same technique )

 

http://www.the-blueprints.com/index.php?tutorials/3dmax/

 

aircraft skinning tutorials

 

http://home.wanadoo.nl/r.j.o/skyraider/tutorials.htm

 

Roger :-)

[Troffmeister]

french govt archive of ships , from 1960s design backwards - released under freedom of information act etc

 

these are the blueprints actually used to build the ships and subs etc - big site - big pics - awesome !

 

explore and save files off for modelling usage )

 

http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/02fonds-collections/banquedocuments/planbato/planbato/listebato/listebato.php

[Troffmeister]

russian site on stealth aircraft , past , present and future

use a translator to read - nice pics / drawings

 

http://paralay.narod.ru/pakfasu.html

 

another blueprint site

 

http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html

 

the best aircraft blueprints on the web !

 

http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html

[Troffmeister]

for lovers of the F16 )

 

http://www.f-16.net/

 

more blueprints

 

http://www.beuliland.com/html/maquetas/planos%20pcx.htm

[Troffmeister]

another excellent site with so many goodies to view and download

 

http://www.f-15estrikeeagle.com/

[kam]

Panavia Tornado

[Alfa]

Thanks for the contributions guys - lots of excellent stuff from everybody! :)

[Alfa]

NP. I just went back and edited that first post to give a description.

 

Just the sort of thing I had in mind - it is nice to have a little background info :) .

 

I encourage the use of thumbnails on my site too, just to accomodate some of our members with slower connections and smaller screens. Thumbnails are nice because they automatically scale themselves to fit whatever size screen people view them on and nobody has to deal with the annoyance of having to scroll from side to side to read the threads.

 

Yup and they are especially useful for "walkarounds" - partially due simply to the number of images involved and partially because you get an instant idea of what image to open when you are looking for a particular detail.....even with my limited modelling experince, I quickly realised that organising my photo albums this way was time well spent :) .

 

I'll bring those others over too in the next few days. :)

 

Goodie! :) .

[Troffmeister]

a low poly vehicle skinning / uvw tutorial - spaceship object !

 

tutorial made by a janes usaf pc game - former employee

 

http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/Low_poly_texturing.htm

[sp0nge]

Thats a great tutorial. Im sure we should see some potential skinners come out after reading that. :D

 

nice one troff/3d roger :P

[borchi_2b]

thanks alot for the tutorial for the skinning aspekt for 3dmax objects.

was asking for help in my own post but i guess that is no all i need to know.

[sp0nge]

Dunno if this one has been found before but it looks like an okay site.

 

http://www.aircraftdesign.com/acpix.html

[FWT]

Wikepedia usually has blueprints if you type in a plane that image is usually there. But i use richard.ferriere.free.fr

[erol_da_boss]

http://www.the-blueprints.com is down... whats up?

[Ells228]

Aircraft Blueprints site I use a lot:

http://www.the-blueprints.com/index.php?blueprints/modernplanes/

 

They also have WW2 planes if you want them too.

[59th_LeFty]

S! Many-many-many useful links there! It's a real great topic, not only for 3D stuff.

 

:helpsmilie:However I need your help. As see there are some people maybe desperate enough (not like me) to have a MiG-29 cockpit design. I almost downloaded the whole internet to my PC, but I can't find more than photos. I hope its my fault, and someone can drop me a cockpit blueprint. To be clear, I dont need one like this but a real one with sizes. Actually, it would be for a 1:1 cockpit mockup.

 

I know its some weird stuff to be found on the web, but I make it sure :)

 

(Maybe I'll finish sooner if I get in the airbase 2km away and bring a tape-measure and some paper with me...:huh:)

 

Thank you in anticipation!

[monotwix]

Tire sizes for various aircraft.

http://www.goodyearaviation.com/img/pdf/db_airdatabook.pdf