DA42 - Next steps recomendation

[HGC125]

Hello guys

I am modelling a DA42 for xplane (it will be later exported to blender -> xplane). I have been thinking to go on with the fin and elevators or the wings but either way how should I go on with them? Shall I extrude from the fuselage or make a new object like for the nose? If they are a new object, shall I then connect them to the fuselage and arrange quads?

Here is what I have until now, without much attention to details.
Thank you a lot in advance

 

[AerobaticsFS]

I would make the wings as a separate object. You can always make a fairing if you aren't happy with the 'wings-on-body' part (where the wings are attached to the fuselage).

I don't know what you mean with quads, so that question I can't answer ;(

 

[HGC125]

I would make the wings as a separate object. You can always make a fairing if you aren't happy with the 'wings-on-body' part (where the wings are attached to the fuselage).

I don't know what you mean with quads, so that question I can't answer ;(

Hoi,
I have started to try out, is this what you mean?
thank you
regards!

 

[HGC125]

I would make the wings as a separate object. You can always make a fairing if you aren't happy with the 'wings-on-body' part (where the wings are attached to the fuselage).

I don't know what you mean with quads, so that question I can't answer ;(

Oh btw,
quads, tris, n-gons.. are vertex united forming a face quads = 4 vertex; tris = 3 vertex ; ngons = multiple

 

[AerobaticsFS]

Hoi,
I have started to try out, is this what you mean?
thank you
regards!

Yep, that's it. Now you can shape it the way you want it. I haven't merged my fuselage with wings, I don't think it is nessecary.

Aha, I understand. (I see a lot of expressions and words I don't know, but I use the 'meaning' quite often )

Good luck!

 

[HGC125]

Thanks!!
I have decided to go with splines instead of starting from primitives.. More freedom

 

[LockeFP]

Be careful with splines: make sure you're using the same number of vertices per spline in each iteration. If that is hard to grasp, the idea is to make sure you're able to connect each vertex on all the splines to a corresponding one on the next spline out from the fuselage. Otherwise you wind up with mesh errors and odd triangles.

 

[HGC125]

Hey guys, I have re-made the topology quite some times because I was unhappy with it but I am still struggling... How do I get accurate airfoils?? what recomendations for the engine should I follow?
thank you very much

 

[AerobaticsFS]

This is the airfoil from which they say it is the one for the DA42:
http://airfoiltools.com/airfoil/details?airfoil=fx63137-il
It gives you a picture with the right shape.
On the engine, I can only say that they look quite difficult to model. I thing this will be a trial-and-error thing ;( Just start with the front and try to model it all the way to the back. Not happy? Try it the other way around. Still not happy? Start somewhere in the middle of the engine.

Suc6!