Deus Ex: Human Revolution VTOL

[willyt]

Hoping to make a CAD rendering of the VTOL from Deus Ex Human Revolution (photos below), to this end i have made some basic dimensions of the body. I am working off of logger pro and NX so any help would be greatly appreciated. The end goal is to make a 3D print so some of the detail might be lacking in the final product. Finally I might be talking to a wall but i will try to post updates as they come.

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[willyt]

Drafting is crazy time consuming and more inaccurate than I would care for but because of the scale difference I believe in the end the difference will be negligible.
I had to crop out the scale because it had my name on it but it is 1in to 1M

 

[willyt]

This is the body so far.

The complexity means that i will have to build most of the ship as separate pieces, the fuselage is unfortunately included in this, and that will make for slow going. Hopefully i can print the body as one piece but i will have to talk to a printer to figure out if this is possible.

 

[willyt]

I Added the Top Dimension today as well as edge blended the tail. I have found out how i want to do the wings and that will change how the final body looks, other than that and some detailing to the cockpit this is how the final body should look. Dimensions should fallow tomorrow.

 

[willyt]

Sorry for the delay here is the top dimension for the body.

 

[willyt]

Here is the final iteration of the body as well as the first actual dimension. The main wings and the tail are going to be attached in their respective slots which is why you will notice the massive slits cut out of the body.

 

[willyt]

Front Drafting

 

[Rats]

Nice start, and welcome to the RPF. Are you using Autocad for the 3D as well as 2D?

 

[willyt]

Yeah that is the plan, it is a little less accurate than i would have liked but then again what it

 

[willyt]

Finished up the dimensions for the body which means i can start to work on the wings next.

 

[Daeothar]

Forgive the treadomancy; if this is frowned upon, my apologies.

The reason I resurrected this thread is that I've been looking for a good model of this vehicle for ages, in a scale somewhere between 1/55 and 1/48. So I'm curious if you ever progressed further with this project.

Also, forgive my ignorance, but when 3D modeling a vehicle from a video game, wouldn't it be easier to extract the design form the game itself?

I know it has been done before, and it would save you a ton of time. Plus, it would be an exact match. Then, because the game's polygon model might be lacking in detail up close, you could super-detail it further.

Obviously, I'm aware of IP issues etc, but when not offering the physical model for sale afterwards it might maybe be allowed for private use?