Tool Test: Bend

This tool could be extremely useful for creating curved objects

Creating the Tie Interceptor, Part 1

Unfortunately I forgot to take screenshots of the process up to this point.

As you can see from the screen shot i have set up the cross section as before the the plane exercise. For the objects that have been created so far i have just used basic shapes converted to editable polys and then manipulated the vertices into place.

Where as for the window for the cockpit I used a spline and the extrusion tool making use of the preset ngon and circle shapes.

I am very pleased with the model so far and particularly like the cockpit window as it is exactly what i was aiming for although, looking at reference images of the Tie Interceptor, I have noticed however that as i do not have a top view of the model some elements currently look different to as they should and will need to be addressed, for example the part of the ship below.

Concorde, Part 2

To finish off the model i manipulated the wing into place and added the engines under the wings, using the mirror tool on both of these to get them to the other side.

The using the front wheel as a base I created the two back sets of wheels.

Finally i added the back fin on the plane this was made from a box and manipulated into place.

I am happy with this for a first try of the model, but much like the house i feel a second attempt after further learning will allow me to produce a much mode detailed model.

Concorde, Part 1

One of the exercises set was to model a plane, the plane in the tutorial given was basic and I may attempt later on, instead I have chosen to model a Concorde as this seems a little more fun.

I first set up 3 planes and aligned them and added the blueprints for the Concorde.

Then I created a cylinder for the body of the plane and manipulated it into place.

Then I set up the front wheel of the Concorde using cylinders, a box with the chamfer tool applied and for the wheel a cylinder with the spherify and chamfer tools applied..

Then for the wing of the Concorde i used a spline with the extrude tool.

So far i am happy with this model, I think there may well be methods and tools that become apparent during my learning that would be more suited to some of the tasks I have performed here.

Tool Test: Lathe

This tool seems very useful and could help achieve the same results as insetting and extruding polygons, but much easier.

To test this tool i imported a picture from the internet and drew a spline over half of the image then by using the lathe tool it rotated the spline into a 3D object, I did have to change the axis of the lathe to get the correct result.

I found this tutorial very helpful in the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7szu5XK475s

Colleague Blog Review 1

I thought it would be beneficial to take a look at one of my colleges blogs to further improve my own.

http://blogforaru.blogspot.co.uk

I found it very helpful looking at this blog in comparison to my own, I particularly like the inclusion of the lecture notes from each week as this could be very helpful for somebody using the blog for learning purposes.

Tool Test: Polygon Inset and Extrude

This tool will be extremely useful when creating long objects that change size.

Also using a minus number in the extrusion tool will provide an indent instead.