Recent content by Witold Jaworski

My new book on modeling historical aircraft is already available in the web shops. This is the second volume of the new (fourth) edition of the "Virtual Airplane" guide: Here is the link to this project page. Below you can see a screenshot of two sample pages from this book: A longer...

Great! If you get stuck in Blender - feel free to ask me, I will help. You do not need a CAD NURBs model to create a 3D print. The basic input format for these devices (STL) describes everything as solids, which boundaries are made from thousands of small triangular faces. The key idea for 3D...

In this post I will complete the 3D reference that I started in the previous post. Here is a link to the Blender file that contains 3D reference skeleton of the "long nose" P-40, described in the text below. It was compiled from all available blueprints. Studying the dimmed blueprint scans, I...

Thank you, guys, for reading! Yes, Ronnie helps me in this process (he pointed me some interesting sources)

At this moment I am working on second volume of my book about 3D modeling. It describes building a 3D model of a WW2 aircraft on the example of the P-40B. Preparing for this work, I discovered that the original documentation of this early P-40 variant (also known as "long nose Warhawks") is...

I decided to upload the Blender file in which I reproduced in the 3D space the original ordinates of the SBD fuselage and wing. (I described creation of this 3D reference in my previous posts). I think that in this form they can be useful for other modelers, who would like to recreate the...

A new source of the accurate aircraft geometry and original blueprints! (this is an update of post #1 from this thread, because the blueprint source I recommended there - the plans.aero portal - disappeared a year ago) For over ten years Hugh Thomson has published marvelous posts in his blog...

A little bit off-topic: An interesting project realized by BEK Milling Solutions. Their CNC machine is cutting out a P-40 model in 1:2 scale, from a styrofoam block. For the input geometry, they used my old model of the P-40B: Actually, I am working on a more accurate one, based on the...

Currently I am working on a new edition of my book. I just saved some hours to discuss updates in the SBD Dauntless fuselage geometry, which I made using the newly obtained SDASM data. _____________________________________________________ In the previous post I used ordinals from the newly...

Wurger, Gnomey: thank you! __________ This February I found among the SDASM resources a diagram (dwg no 5060837), which describes the geometry of the SBD fuselage. This is the key piece of the information that was missing in the NASM microfilms I used before. Below you can see these lines...

This time a technical post about the overall dimensions of the subsequent Dauntless versions. We are using these values for scaling the reference drawings. If they are wrong - the whole model you are building is also wrong. That’s why they are so important...

I just published a book which discusses details of preparing/using reference drawings. I think that it can be useful for all modelers, including "plastic kit" modelers and the authors of the scale plans. Among other issues, it includes some materials presented in this blog. See here for details.

I just published a book which discusses details of preparing/using reference drawings. I think that it can be useful for all modelers, including "plastic kit" modelers and the authors of the scale plans. Among other issues, it includes some materials presented in this blog. See here for details.

I have just published a new book on preparing aircraft reference drawings. It is already available in the web shops. This is the first volume of the new (fourth) edition of the “Virtual Airplane” guide: It contains some materials from my two threads from this forum, related to: P-40B; SBD...

This June I started working on a new (fourth) edition of my book about aircraft computer models. Actually, I am finishing its first volume (“Preparations”). It describes how to prepare accurate reference drawings of a historical airplane, on the example of the P-40. Below you can see two of...