Cockpit. And adding glass.

Propeller & Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeV13PdJzlw&feature=related

A Spitfire Propeller runs at 3000 revolutions per minute at full speed. That means it makes a full rotation 3000 times in a minute. To animate this I need to know the angle, in degrees. This is where maths comes in. A full rotation is 360 degrees. So I need to do a calculation. 3000 x 360 = 1,080,000 degrees. That's very fast! So in 1 second that 100 rpm.



This means when we animate the propeller. It requires motion blur, this can be applied in the render settings.

Tail wing.

Tail.

Wing and body.

Photography research

I have collected some High resolution photographs from the internet to help me create this spitfire. These photographs will help me create the shape and get the right look of the plane. Also details that the Blue prints/Line drawings don't show. It gives me another perspective, a real 3D view of it.

Nose continued

Now we can see the nose in a much better shape and the colours have been changed to a shade of grey. This is because the lighting is more clear to see if it's smooth or not.