This June I started working on a new (fourth) edition of my book about aircraft computer models. Actually, I am finishing its first volume (“Preparations”). It describes how to prepare accurate reference drawings of a historical airplane, on the example of the P-40. Below you can see two of its pages (as they appear my screen):

Comparing to the third edition, I altered here the proposed workflow, using Inkscape as my basic tool. I also wrote more about eventual errors, which you can find in typical scale plans. In the appendices I included a section about the original P-40 blueprints, which is based on the posts from this blog. Here is the link to the excerpt from this publication. It contains the table of contents. I expect to release this book in January 2021. (I will write a post, when it will be available).
Looking very much forward to this edition! Are you using the latest Blender?
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The first volume is about the reference drawings, which I prepare using Inkscape.
Yes, in the next three volumes I will try to describe the latest Blender version. (This means that I will introduce updates to volumes II, III and IV when I finish the complete book. In that time it will be the Blender 3.0).
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JFTR, According Blender LTS releases timeline, Blender 2.83 LTS would be supported until 2022, and since 2022 there would be or 2.84 LTS or 2.90 LTS, which would be supported until 2024.
– https://www.blender.org/download/lts
So, I’m just not expecting Blender 3.0 in the next 4 years.
BTW, I’m still happy user of Blender 2.49b & «Wirtualne Modeliarstwo» (1st Edition of «Virtual Airplane») 😉
– https://nitter.net/app4soft/status/1274084993179009024
– https://nitter.net/app4soft/status/1279777182122946561
P.S. Blender 2.8x/2.9x theme & icon set for Blender 2.49b (2.3x-2.4x) coming soon!
– https://nitter.net/app4soft/status/1280958729127628821
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Excellent! Followed you for years on Military-Meshes.
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Great!
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This looks amazing. Looking forward to when I can buy a copy.
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This is wonderful! Thanks for the hard work man!
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Page 15 of the sample you’ve got a typo: Acrobat Rader (instead of Reader)
Nice work.
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Thank you very much! Fixed.
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Well done! This book and its content could be very useful for all those who aspire creating 3d models. The game modding community in general.
God speed!
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Czy książka będzie również w języku polskim? – czekam na nią. Pozdrawiam
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Oczywiście: http://airplanes3d.net/wm-007_p.xml#excerpt1
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Great news, will the 4th edition again be the P40 or another plane? Good luck with the writing process
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