Looks like the beginning of an F-18A Hornet.

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Rick

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That's exactly what it is! great guess!

-Dave

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Dave

"I came! I slept! I went home!"

Lookin good. I little variation in the fuselage shape would be good.

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sure, more variation would be great, but i'm still a noob at 3d modeling.

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Dave

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Convert to edit poly. Then your cylinder should have divisions allong it already. Click one of the edges and then hit the Loop button, this will select all the edges of that section, then scale them all to suit.

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hmm...i usually convert everything to mesh.

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Dave

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Mesh might work the same. I think poly is better though.

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Agreed, editable poly has better tools.
Nice model by the way, much better than my first attempt at a jet. I didn't get much past the nose cone.

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these were my first 2 attempts at jets, oh man...

The first one, modelled in bryce with booleans! Haha before I had even heard of subdivision.

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I quick using Edit Mesh when they added "edit poly".

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Nice work

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thanks for the info, guys.

-Dave

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Dave

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btw, Steve, how do you make a good nose cone? that one is just a standard cone and i want to make one that looks realistic.

-Dave

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Dave

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Try starting off with your cylinder. Give it a few segments. Give it an "Edit Poly" modifier. Start reducing the size of the segments going out toward the tip. You should be able to give yourselve a nice rounded effect. Then throw a "Turbo Smooth" modifier on it.

Hope this helps. If I was at home, I'd show you a sample.

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Rick

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Did it for ya.

Use the same technique for a basic fuselage.

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And there you go. See man, VO is all over it. It's like we were thinking the same thing..

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Rick

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can you do that in gmax? ...i'm using gmax right now because i currently don't have a working copy of 3ds max

-Dave

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Dave

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I think so, try to get a good copy of max though. Its a million times better.

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Don't know anything about G-Max. Sorry

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k thanks.

-Dave

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