pplace
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DH mentioned he was having troubles shaping his A-26 V-Stab. I described the process I personally use (I'm not saying this is the correct or the best method) but it has been good to me.....so in the following posts I will describe the best I can what each attachment is showing.
I will try and break each post into a certain task (so not all posts will contain the max 5 attachments)
I will be creating half of a main wing in the following example. The same process applies for creating H-Stabs......and usually V-Stabs as well.
1. I did some research and found out the particular aircraft I'm modeling had a root airfoil NACA 23016. Some 3-views have the outlined airfoil on them already. This set did not, so I searched and found the correct airfoil and imported and placed it correctly in my 3-views.
I started with a cube and roughly sized it to the correct width and height of the airfoil.
2. I then started adding verts to the cube and lining them up around the airfoil. The only one I truly care about the position is the trailing edge (center it up nicely on the edge) The others I just add as many I feel necessary to give me a nice flowing edge around the airfoil. (They do not have to correspond top to bottom).....place WHEREEVER you feel they are needed.
I admit to probably using more verts than really needed......but I'd prefer to waste some polys so I can have a nice smooth wing when finished. There is nothing worse than a squared off wing airfoil
3. Same as 2 except I hid the 23016 airfoil image and also switch to "vert" mode so you can see my placement of each vert in order to achieve the correct shape.
Continued in next post.........
I will try and break each post into a certain task (so not all posts will contain the max 5 attachments)
I will be creating half of a main wing in the following example. The same process applies for creating H-Stabs......and usually V-Stabs as well.
1. I did some research and found out the particular aircraft I'm modeling had a root airfoil NACA 23016. Some 3-views have the outlined airfoil on them already. This set did not, so I searched and found the correct airfoil and imported and placed it correctly in my 3-views.
I started with a cube and roughly sized it to the correct width and height of the airfoil.
2. I then started adding verts to the cube and lining them up around the airfoil. The only one I truly care about the position is the trailing edge (center it up nicely on the edge) The others I just add as many I feel necessary to give me a nice flowing edge around the airfoil. (They do not have to correspond top to bottom).....place WHEREEVER you feel they are needed.
I admit to probably using more verts than really needed......but I'd prefer to waste some polys so I can have a nice smooth wing when finished. There is nothing worse than a squared off wing airfoil
3. Same as 2 except I hid the 23016 airfoil image and also switch to "vert" mode so you can see my placement of each vert in order to achieve the correct shape.
Continued in next post.........
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