Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis is definately the project that I am dragging along for the longest time. I started it in 1998 while working with one of the earliest versions of 3D Studio Max. I wasn’t skilled enough yet though to get complex parts like the nose section or the tips of the wings finished so I put the project in a folder and waited. Shortly ofter I switched to Lightwave 3D. I pulled the Spirit out of the drawer and tried again, but I still did not get the expected results. Years later I found the files on a disk and thought I should try it again but, whatever happened, I didn’t finish it then either. I don’t even remember why I started to model exactly this plane but whatever it was, I won’t give up. One day I will pull it out of the drawer again and finish it, just because.
Somewhere there are more pictures of the plane and the engine but for now I will just post this one, more to come soon. The posted image was rendered in 99, must have been the first Lightwave attempt.
Creation Date: March 1999
Software used: 3D Studio Max, Lightwave 3D

~ by Liam Nikolas Mueller on March 2, 1999.