Lockheed C-5 Galaxy design & build

[n810]

Personally I hate assembling petals, but I'm willing to work through my issues to have a nose section that looks that good.

[nando]

Ok, ok ... I'll consider to unroll the nose without the assembling petals, but n810 I saw them in your MI-6 also, or not ....

Here some progress on the forward fuselage.




Good night.

Nando

[nando]

Nando

[mldixon]

Nice work Nando. I also work in Sketchup.
Are you unfolding in Pepakura or with the unfolding script in sketchup?
The build is really clean and so is the design work.

[nando]

Thanks mldixon.

I'm using Pepakura and the entire process, that I'm currently using, is described in the thread in my signature, about the Sopwith Swallow.

Best, Nando

[nav]

These are a little late but hopefully you still can use them

[mldixon]

Originally Posted by nando

Thanks mldixon.

I'm using Pepakura and the entire process, that I'm currently using, is described in the thread in my signature, about the Sopwith Swallow.

Best, Nando

Yes then the next question I have is this . Do you find the 3d exports and then the unfolding way too complex. And have you found any other solutions. Other than lots of handwork in Pepakurs?

[n810]

Originally Posted by nando

Ok, ok ... I'll consider to unroll the nose without the assembling petals, but n810 I saw them in your MI-6 also, or not ....



Nando

You did, on the external fuel pods. Not my best work, but the only way to get that blunt of a cone on that small of an object

[nando]

Originally Posted by nav

These are a little late but hopefully you still can use them

Thanks nav. It's long time that I'm collecting references and documentation about Galaxy, first for generic interest in the subject, then in preparation of the project. At today I collected near 300 MB (?!) but I never found the pics You gave me. Where did You find them? There are bigger ones?

Originally Posted by mldixon

Yes then the next question I have is this . Do you find the 3d exports and then the unfolding way too complex. And have you found any other solutions. Other than lots of handwork in Pepakurs?

The process of 3D export and unfold in Pepakura is boring and painfull, with a lot of iterations to correct the "misunderstanding" between the two programs.
But in the Sopwith development the surfaces were simple (straight or round) and I had few problems. The surfaces of the Galaxy are very complex instead, and the process became a nightmare.

The only way to limit the problems that I found is to divide the big problem in smaller ones. It's for this that I procede with small sections. Any section that I completed is without problems in the unroll process.

If You have any suggestion, it is welcome.

BTW another section toward the wing root.



Good night, Nando

[nav]

Originally Posted by nando

Thanks nav. It's long time that I'm collecting references and documentation about Galaxy, first for generic interest in the subject, then in preparation of the project. At today I collected near 300 MB (?!) but I never found the pics You gave me. Where did You find them? There are bigger ones?

Believe it or not I've been trying to make one of these for a long time but never could.A simple image search on google yields good results you just have to wait for the pics you need 'to come to you it is the way of google fu and the universe' lol I sound like a tech monk but sadly no bigger pics but i will keep an eye out.