attack helicopter

[demonmaster3k]

i've spent 3 solid nights working in the new 3ds max 9.0 system (which i find, not too different than 8.0, but easier to create better renders) to make this helicopter, it's part of a new line of vehicles to be included in my future mods among other vehicles (which i still have yet to make) so here goes to my first quality work-in-progress






now i do notice, that i have some more detailing to do (landing gear, missle thingies that come out of the compartments, cockpit detailing, ect...) but tell me what you think so far

[rossmum]

Looks pretty cool. Rotors seem a bit weak, though.

[mined]

Looks good. My only word of advice here is that the rotor wings need to be at least twice if not three times as wide as the are now. Realistically you would never produce enough lift to get that thing off the ground.

[rossmum]

Lol mined, beat you to it

[mined]

Lol mined, beat you to it

lol, yeah, but I was more specific.

[demonmaster3k]

Looks good. My only word of advice here is that the rotor wings need to be at least twice if not three times as wide as the are now. Realistically you would never produce enough lift to get that thing off the ground.

ok, i'll change the rotor placement so it's towards the front more (tried extension earlier but it intercepted the vertical fin; [that would be bad])
good advice thanx

[mined]

ok, i'll change the rotor placement so it's towards the front more (tried extension earlier but it intercepted the vertical fin; [that would be bad])
good advice thanx

??? I'm a little confused. I think you misunderstood my advice. You rotor placement looks fine (As long as the rotor shaft is balanced over the center of gravity on the aircraft). What I was trying to say is that the rotor blades are too skinny. The tip path radius looks fine since it is a tandem rotor system.

[demonmaster3k]

ok, i've tried a couple of things to make the roaders on the copter more believable
first attempt-elongalation-i elongated the tail and the roadders




the other thing that i tried was as mined reccomended was to make the roadders bigger
vertical stretch:

horizontal stretch:

combination of both stretches:


i think the elongations made it look better, and so did the horizontal stretches

[rossmum]

No, not vertical stretches... widen the blades. They're too narrow across. Doesn't look like they're any wider than they were to begin with.

[demonmaster3k]

i widened the blades, in this picture, you will actually be able to see the comparison (the top blade is the new size, and the bottom blade is the old size)