Life beyond profiles?

[ratfugel]

Hey, I just found another use for my crap profiles! This is still an early WiP and needs a lot of detail adding before I take it out to fly. Modo is murder at first until you get used to the tools, from then on it's just painful.

rat.

[Supah]

I've taken this one step further and restarted doing models in plastic!

[Aircraftprofiles]

looks good! let me know if you need any help

[ratfugel]

Thanks for the offer. I may just take you up on that, particularly when I get to skinning it.

rat.

[Aircraftprofiles]

I be more than happy to help you ! Acctually the skinning process should already be considered in the modelling process.
Once thing that really have help me when i model aircrafts is: Never use SubD (Tab key and/or Shift-tab), when you want a more smooth surface just hit the SDS subdivide tap. You´ll get a large number of polys but the GL count is kept down, and most importantly: You´ll not have any problems with destorted edges once you unwrap and the mesh is much more "edit-friendly"

I´ll be happy to explain in further details, or if you need help with teh future process, drop me a line on aircraftprofiles@gmail.com

And by the wat, just because you move on to 3d, doesn´t mean that your profile days a numbered attached is a WIP

[inkworm]

I've taken this one step further and restarted doing models in plastic!

You're not the only one, though it has taken 4 or 5 months so far and I've not even finished the P-38 yet!

[BLOWHARD]

MARLIN! That looks really nice!