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Old 11th August 2007, 02:26 AM   #1
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Default Modeling wingtips

I'm following a tutorial, but I can't quite grasp this part.

I'm having trouble modeling the wingtips, does anyone know a good way to do this?
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Old 13th August 2007, 04:44 AM   #2
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can u link us to the tutorial then im sure we could help you.
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Old 13th August 2007, 12:45 PM   #3
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It's one I bought from a guy at the targetware boards.

It's a pretty good tutorial, just not grasping this part. What he does is basically polygon the top of the wing tip shape, make a copy and drag it down. Then sets up the vertices's to match the shape of the front. After that, he deletes the surfaces, and manually draws the wing tip from vertice to vertice. I don't get how he was able to do that using only front and top references. The side reference doesn't help with getting the back of the wing shape.

I could extrude the rest of the wing out, to the tip, but I won't get the rounded off tip. It would just be flat edge on the side.

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Old 14th August 2007, 02:42 PM   #4
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It would help(at least me) to see the shape of the wing to get a grasp on what you need
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Old 14th August 2007, 03:28 PM   #5
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Yeah, I guess that could help

The reference images aren't to scale, thats why it looks off on the side view.

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Old 14th August 2007, 04:32 PM   #6
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This is how I would have made the tip. Possibly not the best way but its one way. Selct the vertices and extrude. Do this and shape the extruded parts to desired shape.
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