My sr-71 is done!!! made using Inkscape, and cone template maker

[Abdullahsamir]

Originally Posted by Siwi

This looks very tidy. Interesting to see the aircraft in white rather than the usual black, it looks good (although the black is to deal with skin heat when flying hypersonic). Based on your previous builds, I guess you designed the model from blueprints, which is impressive. The link to the cone truncator tool is really helpful as well, although from watching some railway model building videos on Youtube I believe this can be done in Inkscape directly.

If it can be done in inkscape I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW!!!

[Abdullahsamir]

Originally Posted by Abdullahsamir

If it can be done in inkscape I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW!!!

And yes I always make my builds in white so that the panel lines show better and the photos show it better.

[Siwi]

Originally Posted by Abdullahsamir

If it can be done in inkscape I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW!!!

I have never tried myself, but my hunch is that importing some blueprints and using the measure path tool to find the outer length of the cross-sections and the distance between points on the same plane would be able to draw fuselage sections built from a neighbouring series of trapezuims. As always these concepts are much easier to show in pictures than describe in words...

[Abdullahsamir]

Yeah I guess you could!!!