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Quite right! THe engines were TF-33s for a RB-57F model.
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I'm impressed, the man knows his aircraft!Quite right! THe engines were TF-33s for a RB-57F model.
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Quite right! THe engines were TF-33s for a RB-57F model.
Knew it! The nacelles are unique enough, after all.
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Glad they were easily recognized by an expert.
The original TF-33 engines my friend got for modelling the RB-57F were accidentally 1/81 scale instead 0f 1/72 scale, which is how they ended up in the spare parts box and later got incorporated into the Meteor PR-19.
The engines were the first thing I built quite a while back and they are both angled a bit. (not quite pointing straight forward). I may try to modify the mesh, or just redo them using splines. Although the first time I gave splines a try it was too confusing trying to look from all 3 directions. Now with some more Gmax time under my belt it does not seem as daunting.
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I was the same at first with splines but now it's my favorite method of modelling. If you were to look at some of my objects you will most likely find a spline at the bottom of the stack.Glad they were easily recognized by an expert.
The original TF-33 engines my friend got for modelling the RB-57F were accidentally 1/81 scale instead 0f 1/72 scale, which is how they ended up in the spare parts box and later got incorporated into the Meteor PR-19.
The engines were the first thing I built quite a while back and they are both angled a bit. (not quite pointing straight forward). I may try to modify the mesh, or just redo them using splines. Although the first time I gave splines a try it was too confusing trying to look from all 3 directions. Now with some more Gmax time under my belt it does not seem as daunting.
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Hello All,
Well after a long break for various reasons, I am now finally happily retired and able to jump back into aircraft modeling for flight simulator. I have switched from GMax to Blender in the process. I completed a 7 part youtube aircraft tutorial from Crossmind Studio and here are pictures of my production result. The first two pictures are the tutorial aircraft, and the rest are my produced result.
I have also subscribed to CG Cookie for a few months and am working on their hard surface modeling course which is another small airplane.
I was able to move my GMax aircraft mentioned above into Blender. Tried first with the GMax script gmax2obj.ms for about a day but it never worked. Then came to my senses and used this method recommended here instead which was successful.
GMax -> MDL file -> ModelConverterX -> Wavefront.OBJ -> Blender
Here were the files I needed to install:
FSX SDK GMAX Gamepack
MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3
ModelConverterX
ModelConverterX is fantastic!
Had my GMax model imported to Blender in less than an hour, and that included the GMax prep before the export - import.
Well after a long break for various reasons, I am now finally happily retired and able to jump back into aircraft modeling for flight simulator. I have switched from GMax to Blender in the process. I completed a 7 part youtube aircraft tutorial from Crossmind Studio and here are pictures of my production result. The first two pictures are the tutorial aircraft, and the rest are my produced result.
I have also subscribed to CG Cookie for a few months and am working on their hard surface modeling course which is another small airplane.
I was able to move my GMax aircraft mentioned above into Blender. Tried first with the GMax script gmax2obj.ms for about a day but it never worked. Then came to my senses and used this method recommended here instead which was successful.
GMax -> MDL file -> ModelConverterX -> Wavefront.OBJ -> Blender
Here were the files I needed to install:
FSX SDK GMAX Gamepack
MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3
ModelConverterX
ModelConverterX is fantastic!
Had my GMax model imported to Blender in less than an hour, and that included the GMax prep before the export - import.
