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Blohm & Voss P.212.02 (Luft46)
For my next design, I'll be paying tribute to the Blohm & Voss P.212.02 fighter plane. Just in case you don't know what the BV P.212 is, here's a direct link to the Luft46 page.
I started the wireframes for this one about a week ago. Unfortunately, they didn't turn out very well. I ditched them and started from scratch. Here's what I have so far: Creating the fuselage and the canopy was pretty easy. However, I couldn't say the same thing about the wings. At first glance, I thought the wings would be easier. Well, desiging the inner part of the wing was easy enough. But things turned nasty as I got to the nacelle and the wing tips. Yeah, they were also easy to make, but it was close to impossible to align them to the main wing. After nights of shifting and rotating, I gave up. In the end, I was able to get something satisfactory by changing the steps in the wing creation. I'll try to make a write up of what I did in a later post. Cheers! Eric |
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I wonder how long do you need the entire air fleet 46 to make.
Greetings Gerald
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Another excellent choice, like your others! I look forward to seeing you work your magic on this one.
Chris |
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Eric,
This is one of, if not my favorite Luft '46 plane. The P.212 is quite interesting and parts of it were started prior to the end of the war. This will make an excellent addition. I am really looking forward to this one progressing. Jeff |
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Thanks!
I created a tutorial on how to create smooth wing sections. If you don't mind the shameless plug, just head on over to my personal blog at: Cut, Fold & Paste: Designing Wings Using Metaseq's Magnet Tool (I thought of copying the whole tutorial here..but there are too many pictures. Kinda tedious.) |
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Landing Gears and Wheel Wells
Done with carving out the wheel wells and making the landing gears!
Here are some screen shots of the progress so far: It took a while to carve out the rear wheel wells. Boy that place is cramped! Notice how the engine intake tunnel bulges into the wheel wells. Taxiing on the tarmac...
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Small progress....
I made some minor adjustments and fine tuning on the rear wheel wells to ensure that they "can" correctly accomodate the landing gears. Next step -- carve out the wing slots on the fuselage and create the wing and body formers. |
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Looking good Eric.
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A little update.
I was still not satisfied with the way the wingtip nacelles looked like. Based on the 3-views at the Luft'46 site, the nacelles should be flush with the wing tips. Hence, I spent a lot of time resizing the nacelles and eventually ended up with this: I also spent an extra amount of time lining up the segments of the nacelle with the segments of the wings. This would ensure a cleaner BOOLEAN operation [ Wing (-) Nacelle ]. Once the BOOLEAN was done, I reduced the number of nacelle segments to make Pepakura's job easier later on. Next up, the formers! The fuselage formers (yellow) were relatively straightforward to make. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the wing formers. The wing formers required a lot of work. Due to the dihedral of the wing, I couldn't just slice away with the knife tool to make the spars. I had to do some basic trigonometric calculations to derive the wing angle. Once I got the angle, I created a couple of plane primitives, which I then tilted to intersect the wings at 90 degrees. After that, I did a boolean operation to intersect the tilted plane with the wing to produce the cross cut which would later be used to make the spars. With that out of the way, I'm hoping to start my first test build next weekend. |
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Eric, This is coming along great. I'm sure the extra work you've put in will pay off! Jeff
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