Lifter

[Le Bucheron]

My newest work

well most of you will surly say "what the hell is that :?: " so ill explain a bit lol

ok the "lifter" in only the kind of triangle. I post this here because this is a flying machine (yea it can fly ) and well.. we can post airplane no ?lol

i already constructed 2 of those triangle (in real life) but none of them never flied . but i saw that there was a little thrust at least.. so now i decided to do averything in 3d before trying to do my 3rd test and i decided to share this to everyone

oh and btw, i had difficulties to do the material for teh alluminium paper, any sugesttion?

[Le Bucheron]

and the last 2 pics, The lifter in action

[NightEye]

Well, first of all: You can attach 5 pics in one post from now on
Second: IMO you can post anything you want
Third: Looks very nice But yeah, that aluminum... Maybe apply a better bumpmap, en make it more reflective?

[2qwik4u]

i saw these on tv, they looked really cool, good job :wink:

[Le Bucheron]

i played with teh bump map a bit and changed teh reflection from falloff to raytrace. Look betther?

oh and 2qwik4u, yousaw them on internet too? :wink: http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm
http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/liftbldr.htm

[NightEye]

Looks better
But now it needs that aluminium silver colour..

[Le Bucheron]

ok i worked a bit on teh aluminium material. Now i see thats its really diffult to make a good Al material..

and btw, anybody have an idea on how to do the kind of blue ion wind between the copper wire and the Aluminium paper that appear when the lights are turned off? (see the pic) (btw, its really cool to see in reality )

[Le Bucheron]

ok here is my first try at doing teh corona
i must say that im really not happy with the result but for now this is the best i can do

[_]

Ahahaha this is so funny when i was in school some guys in my tech class did this and it was so sweet.i wish i had pics cus they made this one that was really big it was like a foot wide and almost 2feet long. they had too use 2 power sources just to get it to move...i cant remember if they got that one to fly but they had many others that did and one looked just like urs.
Nice model and a gr8 render

[samthegt3racer]

Damn, I seen those on TV, I think they are awesome. Thats almost looks as if it were real.