I'm done with my ocean paintings for now, but I'll definitely return to them. I always love painting seascapes.
In today's post, I am going introduce you to an airplane that I quite enjoy seeing. Then in future posts, I'll begin to describe my process of creating a 3D model and using that as a visual reference, along with photograph references, of the old Ryan PT-22 Recruit airplane.
A little bit about this plane.
The plane was developed in 1941 as a primary military trainer for the United States Army Air Corps during World War Two.
The fuselage was a simple monocoque structure with corrosion-resistant aluminum skin (alclad). The wings were reinforced with aluminum structural support but were covered with fabric. The tail area were also fabric covered with aluminum structural support.
The aircraft featured a tandem cockpit arrangement with the instructor in the rear and student pilot in front.
The Ryan PT-22 Recruit featured a Kinner R-540, 160 hp five cylinder radial engine.
The Ryan PT-22 was used heavily for training through WWII with 1,048 being built. It was retired from the USAAF after the end of the war. However, it remains a popular WWII collector aircraft.
In 2015, Harrison Ford had made an emergency crash landing of his Ryan PT-22 Recruit upon a golf course in Lose Angeles. He experienced engine trouble and was unable to land at Santa Monica airport.
Coincidently, this was when I was building my 3D model of my PT-22 and had just finished it.
I was building it in Cinema 4D back in 2014 through 2015, and finished it's major features at the time of Ford's crash.
I have since converted the model to Blender and am continuing to build it in that software.
You can see an overview video of my 3D Model of the PT-22 in Blender here:
In Part 2 of the Ryan PT-22 Recruit project, I'll describe my process of building my 3D model.
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