Concluding the Ki-27 and new updates for: B-29 / Tu-4, FW 190D-9 and Fokker Dr.I (new project) - March 15, 2025
Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another Blog here to start 2025.
I know. New year, new big surprises, new big changes and new updates related to my 3D projects.
Now that I'm working on the new role as health community agent, my colleagues and I are visiting the families as part of our job to improve the health quality in our community and town. Things are looking good and we're enjoying in our new role.
And, again, new Nightwave chapter has arrived. (NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!) I guess it never ends. (sigh)
Let's go for what it's important than Warframe. For this Blog, I'm going to share you the images of the Nakajima Ki-27 'Nate', the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Tupolev Tu-4 and the Focke-Wulf FW 190D-9.
Nakajima Ki-27 'Nate':
The Ki-27 'Nate' received a nice texture - from the main one to the Bump texture. The roundels are part of the main texture instead of being separate objects attached via Shrinkwrap modifier.
I plan to retain this texture as the main one, with plans for the others - with the Royal Thai Air Force and the Manchukuo Imperial Air Force as highlight.
Without anything else to add (except the framing for the canopy for the future), I'll mark it as 'Complete'. The Ki-27 'Nate' is my third 3D model finished in 2025. The 3D model is available in my Sketchfab:
Boeing B-29 Superfortress:
Tupolev Tu-4:
The two heavy bombers received a nice texture with their respective roundels. In addition, I've been working on the Bump textures for the wings, engine nacelles and fuselage. At the time the wings is nearly concluded while the fuselage was about to receive the first drawing lines.
Another thing to distinguish the B-29 from the Tu-4 is the main armament. The American bomber is equipped with M2 Browning machine guns located on the turrets and one 20 mm Hispano cannon on the tail turret. The Soviet bomber is equipped with 23 mm Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 cannons installed on the turrets. Quite a lot of firepower the Soviets had.
Both planes are available in my Sketchfab, even though I'm still working on the textures. Interesting enough, the B-29 has been the most liked model, with 11 likes - surpassing the Hawker Hurricane (8 likes) and the Macchi C.205 Veltro (7 likes). I guess most people are enjoying my content on Sketchfab.
B-29 Superfortress: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/b-29-superfortress-d7e6e82fb2974c04a82fb99bc0804d38
Focke-Wulf FW 190D-9:
Alright. The Focke-Wulf FW 190D-9 'Long nose Dora'. Unlike the A-8 model, the D-9 has a stretched fuselage, a V-12 inverted in-line Junkers Jumo 213 installed in place of the BWM 801 radial engine and it was armed with two 13 mm MG 131 machine guns installed in the engine cowling - firing through propeller; and two 20 mm MG 151 cannons installed on the wings instead of four MG 151 cannons like in the A version. Also, the D-9 could carry a 500 kg SC 500 bomb for ground-attack, two hacks for R4M rockets or Werfer-Granate 21 rocket launcher for bomber interception missions.
The FW 190D-9 looks good. The texture is based on the Doras that flew for the Jagdverband 44 (or JV 44) - with the belly still painted in Hellblau (light blue). Minor things I need to adjust is the painting and the smoke for the fuselage and the air intake for the Junkers engine. The Bump texture will also require an adjustment for the D-9. After this plane, the next aircraft designed by Kurt Tank I plan to make is the Focke-Wulf Ta 152 - the high-altitude interceptor intended to hunt B-29 Superfortress in case the American bombers would wreak havoc in Germany in 1944 and 1945.
Before concluding this Blog, I'm going to show you a new project I started these days. Yeah, I planned to conclude my other projects before starting a new one in this year. But my desire always take the best of me.
The aircraft of choice is the Fokker Dr.I - the famous triplane built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke for the Luftstreitkräfte (German Air Combat Forces) during World War I and famous because of the legendary Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. And yeah, I have plans of making the planes that fought in the Great War (1914 - 1918) and the Cold War era planes. Let's go for the brief story of the German triplane.
During World War I, the British introduced their Sopwith Triplane - superior to the German Albatross planes, despite being armed with a single Vickers machine gun. In April 1917, Anthony Fokker studied a captured British Sopwith Triplane while visiting the Jasta 11. In response to the new threat, Fokker instructed Reinhold Platz to build a triplane, although not giving any specifications from the British counterpart. The V.4 prototype was built for evaluation, but presented unacceptable high control forces from the use of unbalanced ailerons and elevators and lacked horn balances. After the tests, the V.5 was produced by Fokker - presenting horn-balanced ailerons and elevators, as well as longer-span wings. The V.5 also featured interplane struts, which were not necessary from a structural standpoint, but which minimized wing flexing. After the first flight on July 5, 1917, the Idflieg (Inspektion der Fliegertruppen - "Inspectorate of Flying Troops") issued an order for 20 pre-production aircraft. The first Dr.I that entered were issued to the Jasta 10 and Jasta 11 in August 1917. The aircraft proved to be superior to the Sopwith Triplane in maneuverability and firepower - consisting in two Maschinengewehr MG08; as well compared with the Albatros and Pfalz fighters. Despite these good characteristics, the triplane suffered from a series of issues from low quality materials, poor construction and the shortages of castor oil for the engine lubricants, with some crashes occurring that killed some of the pilots by October 1917 to the summer of 1918. Some corrective measures were taken to strengthen the wings, but the issues persisted, with NACA investigating the cause that crippled the Dr.I in 1929. The major cause for the accidents was the upper wing carrying a higher lift coefficient than the lower wing – at high speeds it could be 2.55 times as much. Production ended in May 1918 in favor of the Fokker D.VII, by which time only 320 Dr.I planes had been manufactured. Three models were preserved after the Armistice - including Serial 152/17, in which Manfred von Richthofen obtained three victories, but were destroyed during Allied bombing operations in World War II. There are several replicas built for individuals and museums. The aircraft made legends like the Red Baron and his brother Lothar von Richthofen, Werner Voss (or Voß), Kurt Wolff, Josef Jacobs and many other German pilots.
Here are the images of the Fokker Dr.I.
I started making the Dr.I with Bezier curves instead of the usual procedure like creating a cube, cylinder or sphere. The lines were made according to the schematics and extruding it to attach to another line. However, different number of vertices from one line to another could cause extra edges from one point to several others. For that I had to reduce the subdivisions.
The idea of going for Bezier curves over simple geometric shapes is to avoid using too much the Subdivision Surface modifier, although I had to use it for the fuselage and the elevators - but in low quantity. The wheels, the propeller shaft and the beams were made with simple objects and no addition of Subdivision was adopted.
The next renders will show you the Dr.I with wings and rudder.
Like the fuselage, the airfoil was made with Bezier. However, I struggled of making the tips for the upper wing. Yet, I think I may plan to remake them. The ailerons will also be remade due to a edge loop issue. I noticed the edges in between some others has been selected instead of a single edge while I was recording the timelapse for YouTube.
And yes, I'm making the Dr.I for another Blender timelapse video series. I'll leave the link to the video here in this Blog.
The rudder is also looking good. I hope you guys like it. The next thing to do is adjust / remaking the wings and ailerons, the landing gear, the MG 08 installed on the upper section of the cowling, the rotary engine, the wooden propeller bi-blade, the wing beams and a nice texture. Preferably, red.
Well, that's it for now my friends. I hope you like this Blog. Let us hope this year bring us new content and something different from the usual. In case I have some spare time to enjoy, I'll be working on other things aside from Blender projects and my personal things. Until the time comes, you will be surprised to see them. See you next time.
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