CiTrus90's 3D Drawings of Unbuilt Aircraft

A "greased brick" it seems to me. A very fast one to be sure, but it looks like it would fly supersonically, without engines, vertically. As in - 1000 / 1. :cool:

It remains a brilliant piece of aviation art though.
 
CiTrus90 said:
Yakovlev MFI, in hypothetical DDR service.
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A different sort of Lang-Nasen...;)
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I like your style and the quality of your art. Please keep up the great work. I never heard of the Yak MFI before. Can we see more of that please? Especially in the DDR markings.
Thanks and have a good summer. Greetings and cheers!
 
athpilot said:
I like your style and the quality of your art. Please keep up the great work. I never heard of the Yak MFI before. Can we see more of that please? Especially in the DDR markings.
Thanks and have a good summer. Greetings and cheers!
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Thank you and sorry for the long wait, I had quite a number of things happening in the last 2/3 weeks.

Here's the 3 view of my interpretation of the Yakovlev MFI:
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Yak MFI - side 1 - small.jpg
Yak MFI - top 1 - small.jpg
I tried to base my work on publicly available pictures of the model, so this is mostly a reconstruction from small pictures, all taken from different angles. In no way I claim it to be accurate, I just wanted to see what I could achieve, so please take it just as that.
Cheers!
 
CiTrus90 you do some truly amazing work, thanks for sharing!

If you don't mind me asking, what application do you use to make these illustrations?
 
jalles said:
CiTrus90 you do some truly amazing work, thanks for sharing!

If you don't mind me asking, what application do you use to make these illustrations?
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Thank you for the kind words!
I use Autodesk 3ds Max 2015 for the models, Gimp 2.10 for the textures and photobashing.

Unfortunately, my PC crashed last week so I've lost all of my workflow setup. I've been trying to set everything up again (thanks to a few friends that stepped in to help), but I feel it will take me weeks at best (and months at worst) before I'll be able to make new illustrations.
 
"Big Game Hunting"
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Rockwell Surprise Fighter

Slowly coming back from the dead...
Apologies for the long lack of updates and the low quality of the artwork. I've essentially lost my complete workflow in the pc crash of a few months ago. No more Mental Ray render, alas I'm now trying to work with the Arnold render and I really do not like it one bit. Lots of stuff is done in a completely different way from what I was used to.
I even considered moving to Blender due to this, but, after having used 3ds Max for so long, I loathe Blender with a passion and every time I check it out, I simply give up on it after a few days (at most) of tinkering.
Lost all my brushes library and all the other gizmos I had accumulated over the years.
Trying to (ever so slowly) rebuild everything from scratch has not been a straightforward process, even more so when all of this was coupled with a bit of a mental burnout.
Here's to hoping things will get back in motion again, cheers everyone!
 
Sorry to hear about your PC crash and loss of datas :( but I can see you recover well ! I was a Maya user myself, indeed switching to Blender took a bit of time, but don't think I'll ever go back. Or maybe just to open old files and convert it.
What helped me is that Blender can easily be configured to use Maya standard key mapping. And I think it can be to 3ds Max key mapping too. The UI is very customizable anyway.
 
CiTrus90 said:
"Big Game Hunting"
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Rockwell Surprise Fighter

Slowly coming back from the dead...
Apologies for the long lack of updates and the low quality of the artwork. I've essentially lost my complete workflow in the pc crash of a few months ago. No more Mental Ray render, alas I'm now trying to work with the Arnold render and I really do not like it one bit. Lots of stuff is done in a completely different way from what I was used to.
I even considered moving to Blender due to this, but, after having used 3ds Max for so long, I loathe Blender with a passion and every time I check it out, I simply give up on it after a few days (at most) of tinkering.
Lost all my brushes library and all the other gizmos I had accumulated over the years.
Trying to (ever so slowly) rebuild everything from scratch has not been a straightforward process, even more so when all of this was coupled with a bit of a mental burnout.
Here's to hoping things will get back in motion again, cheers everyone!
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I know the experience of losing the computer and tools... Even worse, trying to migrate to others and simply giving up because I don't feel comfortable with the new procedures...!

Regards, Motocar

Although I recognize that I want to learn about the new tools to render my own projects
 
Thanks for the words of support and encouragement!

galgot said:
And I think it can be to 3ds Max key mapping too. The UI is very customizable anyway.
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If there's a way to get a UI close to the one of 3ds Max then I might give it another try. The way things are displayed in Blender has, so far, always been my biggest obstacle.

DASA TDEFS
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Nice! I like the lightning on the first one.

Here some links, seems someone even developed a plugin to customize the interface :
polycount.com

Making Blender more like max

I am attempting to use Blender at the moment, I usually use max, however this is a student license.
polycount.com polycount.com
Also a series of vids :
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqKoUqbzn1Q

But to keep in mind, Blender is updated very often. It's at V.4.3 now. so these may be a little outdated.
HTH
 
Wow that's a pretty impressive portfolio of crazy aircraft design! Cool stuff!

If I may give some advice, I think you could really boost the realism of your renders with more complex material definitions. Do you know/use Substance Painter? It's my go-to texturing program these days. It really makes it easier to get realistic-looking materials and textures. Though a good lighting and environment setup is still a must, of course.
 
Boeing SOFTA
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Modeled in 3ds Max, rendered in Blender (which I'm painfully trying to learn), composited in Gimp.

Rendering seems way more agile and intuitive in Blender than with Arnold (or at least there are many more tutorials available online), but I'm still a long shot from what I was able to do with Mental Ray in Max.
On the other hand, 3d modelling in Blender still makes no sense to me coming from Max. The fact that I can't immediately see the coordinates for vertices, faces, edges is maddening as is the case with the whole UI: why can't I do what I need to, without switching between modes? Also, it feels like one is supposed to know every shortcut possible to do the bare minimum with any modifier. And, most of all, I loathe dragging the view to move the POV without being centered on the mesh I'm working onto: it's pain, I have no other way to describe it.

Skyraider3D said:
Wow that's a pretty impressive portfolio of crazy aircraft design! Cool stuff!

If I may give some advice, I think you could really boost the realism of your renders with more complex material definitions. Do you know/use Substance Painter? It's my go-to texturing program these days. It really makes it easier to get realistic-looking materials and textures. Though a good lighting and environment setup is still a must, of course.
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Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words!

I've never used Substance Painter, since this is more of a hobby than my line of work. As I said above, I'm trying to learn Blender at present (since it's free), which comes already with something that seems "sort-of" similar to Substance Painter, albeit I'd imagine way less "powerful". It will take me some time to experiment with it, before I can grasp how it works.
But yes: materials, textures, lightning, environment...I struggle with all of them, regardless :D
 
there are some 'intuitive' ways to access Substance Painter.
I am a pretty low-level user of the program and it is still extrmely powerful. Texturing is now my favorite part of model creation!
Let me know if you need some help. Looking like you're off to a good start in blender though :)
 
CiTrus90 said:
It's going to take a few "few more days"...

Issue is I find helicopters really ugly I've encountered a lack of inspiration, but I'll get back at it.

And in the meanwhile have a Miles M.52 B)

Regards.
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Hi CiTrus90

I would like to make contact with you about your artwork, please could you reply when you have the chance

cheers Alistair
 
I hope that Luca does not mind, sharing the three artworks that he created for my Jaguar book.
 

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Hood said:
I hope that Luca does not mind, sharing the three artworks that he created for my Jaguar book.
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Absolutely no issues!
I just wasn't sure when it would have been fine to post them here as well ;)

(Are you sure you want them posted in their original format, though?)

BTW, great timing! I just had the mailman ring my door bell to deliver your Jaguar book, can't wait to read it.
 
Lockheed CL-2211-3 High Altitude Configuration Technology, found in the F-16XL An Illustrated History book by Tony R. Landis here.
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Wow! Four HUGE engines. I can't imagine it had enough fuel for extended flights (?)
 
yasotay said:
Wow! Four HUGE engines. I can't imagine it had enough fuel for extended flights (?)
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If my eyes don't deceive me, looking at the 3 view in the book, it would have been a smidge over 200 ft long (over 60 m) so, pretty much around MD-11 sized.
Gross weight (again, if my eyes don't deceive me) 200k lbs (90718 kg) and thrust at sea level for each turboramjet seems to be 112.23 kN.

Would have been nice to have a higher res version, but I'm already happy to have learnt about another aircraft to add to the "bestiary" ;)
 
SIAI Marchetti SM-133
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Reconstruction from the only picture available of a desk model.

I tried to match as much as possible the original picture, attempting to re-create the same camera angle in 3ds Max:
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...but there are still a number of misalignments.
Without the availability of further images of the model from other angles (or, even better, of a complete set of blueprints) I couldn't do much better than this, unfortunately.

I just hope that someone, somewhere, might still have the original documents for this aircraft's project (and for many others as well) and that one day, we will be able to read about them in an Italian Secret Projects book...
 
CiTrus90 said:
Oh, that's ugly.



...and I like it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Will definitely keep it in mind, even though I'm not sure when I'll be able to work on it!
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Thanks for your consideration CiTrus90

Regards
Pioneer
 
CiTrus90 said:
"Big Game Hunting"
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Rockwell Surprise Fighter

Slowly coming back from the dead...
Apologies for the long lack of updates and the low quality of the artwork. I've essentially lost my complete workflow in the pc crash of a few months ago. No more Mental Ray render, alas I'm now trying to work with the Arnold render and I really do not like it one bit. Lots of stuff is done in a completely different way from what I was used to.
I even considered moving to Blender due to this, but, after having used 3ds Max for so long, I loathe Blender with a passion and every time I check it out, I simply give up on it after a few days (at most) of tinkering.
Lost all my brushes library and all the other gizmos I had accumulated over the years.
Trying to (ever so slowly) rebuild everything from scratch has not been a straightforward process, even more so when all of this was coupled with a bit of a mental burnout.
Here's to hoping things will get back in motion again, cheers everyone!
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Tesla Cyberplane?
 
SNECMA AP 507E
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The F-111B CWIP will take significantly more time than I'd initially thought unfortunately, as the only 3 view available for it shares no contact point with any blueprint of the F-111/FB-111 I've found, so I'm left without a top view of the aircraft.
Surprisingly, only the bottom and side view appear consistent with pictures of the CWIP scale model (but they don't match each other), while the front view doesn't seem (to me, at least) to be representative of the model at all.
So, if I'll be able to make a 3d model of it, it will probably be a lot different from both the available pictures and partial blueprint.
 

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