Hello, I am new to blender and 3D in general. I have been using blender for 2 weeks now. I just finished my first real render. I did it of my RC Helicopter. The workbook I was using told me to make my own render and post it in work in progress, so I did. Would like to post it here because it is finished. Sorry for the 2 posts. Please keep in mind I am a beginner. My other post has more pics. But here are some.
hey man…hats of 2 u…
even after a year and a half i am nowhere near u…u will go far
chela69
Thanks but dont say that, I bet you have really good stuff. I am a photoshop wiz, so that might have helped a little. This model took me about 40 hours. Thanks again.
double posting = bad
I know, I know if a mod wants to delete one of them feel free.
Nice job on the modeling, the render is a little too reflective.
I have the same heli, mine is in many more pieces right now though 
I guess I did a ok job with the model if you can tell what it is. lol. You have a Blade CP? I love mine.So much fun.
I like the modeling of the tube parts of the airframe. The shell could use some thickness though, it looks like paper. There are some smoothing errors on the closeup of the swashplate. You either need to fix the normals on this part, or turn on Autosmooth. Also I agree with previous poster, you could turn down the spec a whole lot.
All that aside, not bad for a first post! Are you going to give it a more interesting environment than Blender blue?
I’d like to but dont really know how to do anything cool yet. I know its got some rough spots in it but it came out better then I thought it would. thanks for the reply.
As far as the thickness of the body… it looks fine to me.
Yeah, I have the Blade CP, I tried flying inverted for the first time… didn’t go so well 
Back to flying the CX until the parts arrive.
Looks detailed, I can certainly tell its a helicopter. The materials need some work, but they’re not too bad. I’m more of a plane person myself (I’ve got a foamie, its a homebuilt one called a “knuffle”). This is certainly better than my first project (a stickman)!
For a background, you could place a plane behind the helicopter that has an image of clouds on it, so it looks like it’s flying. There are plenty of pretty pictures on google.
Thanks for the info guys. Maybe i’ll do the BG image like you said. I havent got the balls to fly mine inverted yet. I can fly good nose in and all other orientations. But not inverted.
I also have a blade CP:P But mine’s tail is diferent, the same for the skis. Did you change them?
And you could reorient the normals in the swashplate.
Kind of offtopic. I need a simulator to fly mine but I have the same problem as everybody else, the interface cable:(
Good first model (verry good even)
in the fift picture it seems that you forgot to weld 2 vertices, and due to the smoothing they went their own way. But then again I don’t know the heli so it could be done on pupuse.
And the white rotor blade is way to white but that has been pointed out above.
cheers and keep goin
Thanks for the info guys.
Hello Falk yes I did change them. I think it cost $20 for the landing skids and they came with the vertical and horizonal tail fins. Sorry for the noob question but what do you mean, reorient the normals in the swashplate?
its ok…he meant select the swashplate…go to edit mode…select all the vertices…and press ctrl-n…nice job tho…:yes:
I admire the detail you put into the mechanical parts. Looks like it could really fly.
yeah! good job! keep it up
Nice attention to detail! More work on the textures and a background and this would look awesome!
Thanks guys really appreciate it. Dont know much about materials yet. As for the BG, i’m thinking about taking a picture of my kitchen table and seeing if I can make the chopper look like its sitting on it.