WWI fighter: Part 6 - the final model

I have completed my SketchUp model of a World War One fighter aircraft, and have - I think - met the original criteria that I set down for it's production. The model is simple, yet reassembles the original, was quickly assembled (in total hours) and I managed to avoid the over-complication and over-ambitiousness that marred some of my projects to this point.

Above: The final render shot of my Neiuport 17 fighter - in Royal Flying Corps colours. I am using SU Podium for my renders, because of it's simplicity and speed. I could have perhaps elaborated on this render by additional post-production rendering in Adobe Photoshop, to give it an 'authentic' WWI aerodrome backdrop. Maybe in the future (I may even add a pilot)!

The main purpose of this project was to stop me getting over-engrossed in unnecessary detailing and to match the complexity of my models to it's purpose. In other words, why built a 100% authentic 3D replica of an object when all I want is a component part in a larger illustrative scene?

I have uploaded this model to Google's 3D Warehouse if you would like to examine it: Click on this link to navigate to the Google 3D Warehouse download for this model (download size is 1mb)

I hope you have enjoyed following along with this project, and if you would like to see the progress of it's construction in pictures then take a look at the supporting Flickr set here: SketchUp Nieuport fighter - Flickr set

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