After my first attempt at P47D, here comes my another one. This time I am gonna go with german bf 109. Classic I know, but I have never done one. Virtual nor flesh and bone one.
This time I am using the guidance of mr. Witold Jaworski through his publication Virtual modelling. I hope the result are gonna be by far better than my first one.
So far I only prepared for myself some drawing. Downloaded them from some russian site, and did my check up and corrections. The front view looks kind of odd. I am not certain about cross section, since the rest of views had a quite few errors.
It will be interesting to follow your progress on this.
From my experiences of the spitfire model I am building, I would suggest you spend a little time finding good reference drawings and cross sections and making sure they all match up to the side and plan view you use. I have restarted my model twice because I found better and more accurate plans after starting the modelling, and a bit more time planning would have saved me a lot of time modelling.
Thx for the words of encouragement gentlemen.
ajcdfin, thank you for your link. I came across that one independently just day before yesterday and it looks stunning. Hopefully I will do anywhere near as fine.
robbur, thx for the advice. My drawings are not very trustworthy. So I am doing as you suggested and shuffling the www for some cross reference materials. It is hard to find anything reliable. So everything goes quite slow, my daytime job doesn’t help either BTW I follow your Spitfire work and its remarkable. Especially that its a beautiful plane and one of my favourite ones. Keep up the good work
cheers,
Here is my progress after todays work. I am not happy with the cab. I dont know the smart way of cleaning up edges without using the crease command. I anyone knows the trick, please let me know. Here is what it looks like
here is my mid and aft section of fuselage done I think. Added some details, that I took from original photos I found on one cool WWII hardware forum, check out the results:
So I think I am done with my fuselage. It is nowhere near perfect, yet I am happy with the progress compared to my previous one. yet is the time to work on wings and wings mounts. Hope you like it
thank you for kind word !!! Personally I think this model is far away from nice, yet its good to know somebody likes it kevjon, I am using subsurf modifier, thats the way I learned modelling so thats the way I go, and lukasz_ next week I will try to find time and post my wiring for you. Daytime job :(!!!
BTW kevjon, if you happen to be around AWM again, could you do me favor and snap the detailed underside walk around photos for me? They are reaaaaally bastard to find online.
cheers,
lukasz
If you PM me your email address, I am happy to send you the 8 hi res photos I took of the underside. Unfortunately some of them have a little blur due to the darkness of the room.