1928 Sikorsky Flying boat
AKA by my friends the "Secretive Winchester project",or "project orange" (It was orange an white for most of the building)
I'd work on it after work,and in my free time...it just kept dragging,on,and on...
I found a picture of this plane superbowl weekend on a random blog,but it didn't say what type of plane it was...So eventually I found out what it was,but very little reference pictures to go by.So then I thought about the Airplane from Mad max,it was too simple.Then I decided on the V4U Corsair,but it had been done to death.I wanted to do something different.I went back to the Sikorsky,and found out there are only 2 replicas in still around,Hence the few reference pictures..
I built the model in Separate files,and then brought all the pieces together,trying not to kill my computer..
I spent a month on the engines,then stopped for about 3 weeks to help a a friend to an animated short,that never came to fruition.I struggled to get back to modeling it,even came here,and started a post asking for help,in which I deleted an hour later...
I thought Ok, so the engine took a month,the body is pretty simple,I'll knock out the body in a couple of weeks,details in a couple of weeks...May 1st this project will be done...Boy was I wrong...
Late June- I had files Body,Wings,Props,Tail,Pontoons,Interior parts,and parts files.I took all the pieces,and copied them over to 1 file Sikorsky come together.As I worked I saved incrementally,so I was on my Sikorsky merged file 2,and had got all the parts,tweaked them so they would fit together.I ended up remaking alot of parts to fit better,and made changes that weren't in the parts files.
Computer problems...I did all my back ups,and copied all my files to Google drive,Amazon,and drop box,and on external hard drives.Upgraded my hard drive to an SSD drive..Went on and modeled the cockpit interior in a separate file,a couple of weeks later I went to open the merge files...They were blank,every copy I had of those files got corrupted. Months of work gone...
Motherboard had a Sata Port Die,got a new Processor,Motherboard,and Hard drive...
This project has been done for a few weeks,I've been struggling with a night scene for this,screw it, post this....Do the night scene down the road...
So this project was my own personal marathon...I still suck at texturing an lighting.So here it is....All these pictures are thumnails,Click to get the full 1920x1080 size picture.
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