Cessna T-37 - Page 2

**3Turner** · #11 05-10-2010, 05:08 PM

Ryan, I checked. The 3view I have of the Cessna does not have any formers on the drawing. As a matter of fact, I think it is the same one you have in a post above.

**looker** · #12 05-10-2010, 08:04 PM

Not the simplest of shapes - A-37

**shrike** · #13 05-10-2010, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by looker

Not the simplest of shapes - A-37

Actually it is a set of pretty simple shapes once broken down.
The basic fuselage is just a rectangular section with rounded corners. The bubble canopy is an addition to an otherwise unbroken line on the top of the shape.
The engines are in separate forms best treated as over-sized wing fairings, and the wings themselves are simple tapered shapes.

Approach it as three separate forms, instead of one convoluted one and it's not that bad.

**RyanShort** · #14 05-11-2010, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by shrike

Actually it is a set of pretty simple shapes once broken down.
The basic fuselage is just a rectangular section with rounded corners. The bubble canopy is an addition to an otherwise unbroken line on the top of the shape.
The engines are in separate forms best treated as over-sized wing fairings, and the wings themselves are simple tapered shapes.

Approach it as three separate forms, instead of one convoluted one and it's not that bad.

If you simplify it a bit, sure, but if you want it to look accurate, no. The fuselage is more accurately a cross section of several different oval shapes that vary. I used to see them every day over my house!

Ryan

**shrike** · #15 05-11-2010, 07:20 AM

OK, perhaps I oversimplified my simplification, but he concept still stands. If broken down into it's component parts, there is still a typically Cessna cross section fuselage, the engines are 'tacked on' externally and faired over and the wings are just straight tapers.

I don't mean to imply that crudity is called for, just that viewing it in the same way the original was designed turns a complex and unusual shape into a much easier and approachable project.

**RyanShort** · #16 05-11-2010, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by shrike

OK, perhaps I oversimplified my simplification, but he concept still stands. If broken down into it's component parts, there is still a typically Cessna cross section fuselage, the engines are 'tacked on' externally and faired over and the wings are just straight tapers.

I don't mean to imply that crudity is called for, just that viewing it in the same way the original was designed turns a complex and unusual shape into a much easier and approachable project.

I've got a 1/72 pl@$t!c model that I've been looking at a bit for shape help. There are actually more straight lines than I guess I implied, but it's not going to be easy to get the curves looking good on the Tweet.

Ryan

**Meteor** · #17 05-11-2010, 07:28 AM

If you review at Thaipaperwork page in the What do you want?? section you find that A-37 is the most voted item, would be interesting to know when Nobi start to design this most wanted item