A SketchUp Sailplane

[Terry]

I posted this over on the SketchUcation forum, but I thought it might be appropriate here as well. It was modeled in SketchUp, rendered in Kerkythea, and finished in Xara Xtreme 4. It's the first image I've done for fun in several years.

I found the 3-view blueprints of the H-101 Salto at the-blueprints.com. I looked for this particular glider because I've actually flown one, and it's my favorite of all the aircraft that I've been able to fly.

The first image is a Sketchup export of the finished model, above the blueprint that I built it from.

From Sketchup, I rendered it in Kerkythea, then finished it Xara Xtreme 4 (with landscape from Google Earth).

[-=Drifter=-]

Beautifully crafted. Well done. I would love to fly one of those (with instructions first, of course.)

[raynerj1]

Nicely done Terry. Looks good to me

[Randy Morton]

Excellent job on the graphics! I just took my first lesson in a sailplane and your view over the ground is exactly what it looks like. Randy

[Terry]

Excellent job on the graphics! I just took my first lesson in a sailplane and your view over the ground is exactly what it looks like. Randy

Thanks for the kind words, all. And Randy, congratulations on your first sailplane lesson, and welcome to talkgraphics...

[michael92]

Very nice design!