High Poly Hornet Staff Pick
- March 30, 2013
- 11,771 Downloads
- 77 Likes
- Blender 2.6x
- Render: Cycles
- Creator: ChrisKuhn
- License: CC-BY
Description:
A fairly accurate model of the F/A-18 Hornet (two-seat "B" version). Details include landing gear, engine areas, etc. Cockpit is "blocked out" only.
Note: Textures must be unpacked before rendering!
Most of the textures are included... but I made the decals and a few "tweaks" in GIMP after the render. Shouldn't be too hard to reproduce. The textures are fairly basic, anyway... most of the details are modeled.
In anyone's interested, you can also vote on my future BlendSwap projects here.
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ChrisKuhn
Edited March 31, 2013Thanks, man... means a lot coming from you. Unfortunately, the textures aren't up to the same standard as the model... they break the illusion on a zoom way before the modeling does. Ah, well... live and learn, right?
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bor3d
Written March 31, 2013Amazing work !
I noticed a little problem on GBU-12 bomb. One of the front wings is slided down on some reason :)
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ChrisKuhn
Edited March 31, 2013Huh... I just took a look and you're totally right. Not sure how I managed to screw that up:) Should be an easy fix, though - just set the cursor to the bomb's tip, set your "Piovt Point" to 3D cursor, and then rotate the misplaced fin on X-Axis by -45 degrees. Textures won't be affected. I don't figure it's worth re-uploading a 26 MB file to fix this little glitch:)
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stealthworks
Written April 01, 2013Fantastic model-you've got the proportions just right! Any plans to do an F14 Tomcat (Top Gun)? Would love to see a properly modelled Tomcat.
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ChrisKuhn
Written April 02, 2013Oh, dude :) Funny you should mention that... I was torn between the F-18 and the F-14. Finally went with the 18 because a friend of mine used to work on them and he offered to give me a few pointers. But I would love to do the 14 someday. Got too many projects on the plate right now, though, unfortunately.
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stealthworks
Written April 10, 2013Well if anyone could do justice to the Tomcat its you! Go on mate - do it - you know you want to! :)
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Astro1derboy
Written June 23, 2016I agree with @stealthworks - do the F-14D. Pleeeeeeeease?! (In my best whiny-voice-via-text. Ha!!) Would love to see one.
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Neubi
Written April 04, 2013great model chris, your technic is very interesting and very exact. use you blueprints or photos?
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GLakie
Written April 10, 2013Hi Chris: Very nice detail work as usual. Downloading as we speak. I'll dissect this one as well to maybe learn something more. Thanks for this. You rock man keep it up.
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Trager
Written April 10, 2013That is a heck of a modeling job, probably the most detailed fighter jet I've seen in a long time. Kudos KuhnIndustries! Great work!!
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rard
Written April 10, 2013Brilliant modeling, well done. You said you were looking for a plan of the Titanic. Try - The-Blueprints.com there are over 55,000 drawings of all types of ships, planes, trains to name a few catagories
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Anuga
Written April 14, 2013Makes me wanna go to the ocean and record some ocean scene and then add the plane swooping down and making waves =)
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ChrisKuhn
Written April 14, 2013Please do... but you'll need a supercomputer in the basement to render that out :) Or maybe not... maybe mine is just old :)
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Anuga
Written April 14, 2013Hehehe I think mine will do, 2xGTX690 ;) not fully functional yet with Blender, but I guess the next updated drivers will work better.
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kevbojackson
Written April 19, 2013It seems that when I try to export an OBJ from this the UV on the fuselage gets messed up. Anyone else having issues with this? any ideas what I might do to get it correct?
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ChrisKuhn
Written April 20, 2013At one point in the modeling process, I was using multiple UV maps for the fuselage. They may still be there, and Blender may get confused during export. Try deleting any unnecessary ones... (you should only need one on the final model). Can't remember what I called them off the top of my head, but I'm sure you can figure it out.
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RoryVickers
Written April 30, 2013How do I learn how to make something like this? Best I can come up with is some shitty low poly stuff.
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unknowndude
Written May 24, 2013Can you please model the TurboKat from Swat Kats. :)
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/235/2/5/TurboKat_Side_View_by_Xanatos4.jpg
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ChrisKuhn
Written May 24, 2013Actually.... actually... I just might:) Gotta see what reference material is available, but I watched that as a kid and loved it. And being that it's a cartoon, there should be lots of options to "upgrade" it. Let me know if you stumble across any more pics :)
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unknowndude
Written May 25, 2013Can you please upload this Hornet as FBX or OBJ file so that i can work with 3dsmax. I tried importing this in max but UVs doesnt work.
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ChrisKuhn
Written May 25, 2013Well I'm not going to upload it that way on BlendSwap... it would increase the download size for everyone and most people won't use it. But it's an easy conversion if you want to do it - Just open Blender and go to File -> Export -> Wavefront (obj). But I don't use Max, so I can't make any promises about textures, UVs, materials, etc. The mesh should carry over, though.
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unknowndude
Written May 25, 2013Yes the mesh imports fine but UV's dont. I tried both FBX and OBJ. Front landing gear textures, Fuselage textures are all messed up in 3dsmax.
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ChrisKuhn
Written May 25, 2013Hmmm... I think there are actually two separate UV maps for those parts, which may be why it's messed up. If you wanted to, you could probably bake out the textures to new maps and then delete the previous two. That's the only reason I can think of why those parts would be different... but it makes sense.
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unknowndude
Written May 26, 2013Actually this is the very first time am using Blender. I downloaded blender just to get this model.
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STAM
Written June 09, 2013THE UV NOT SHOW IN BLENDER I EXTRACT THE FILE BAT THE TEXTURES IS NOT COME
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ChrisKuhn
Written June 09, 2013It's not enough to extract the file... you have to unpack the textures themselves under External Data. Did you do that?
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heraSK
Written August 26, 2013holly s....!!!! the details are amazing! i just spent half an hour just looking at variable exhaust tubes and landing gear... kudos to you, man!!
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jzp706
Written September 13, 2013We are looking for a Vehicle modeler and UVW artist for a game project we are working on. If you are intrested we would be extremely honored for you to join our team.
If interested, contact: Jacobpaul76@gmail.com
Please Consider
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ChrisKuhn
Written January 12, 2014Hey,
Textures are included. You already have them, but they need to be "unpacked" before you can use them. Open the model and go to "File -> External Data -> Unpack Into Files". Then Blender will create a directory with the textures, and you will see them when rendering.
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richardvdoost
Written March 18, 2014Amazing model, thanks for sharing Chris!
I just used it to test a new way of creating heat distortion in blender. http://youtu.be/UY7ieTwPDXY
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erel96
Written January 01, 2015Great work as usual! Here is a little something I created with it: Blender: Airbase Render V2_3 (WIP): http://youtu.be/7rmAkTlJAAs
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craigs
Written October 14, 2015This is indeed a great model. But I need it with the gear up. I tried to rotate the landing gear doors in place. Worked great with rear main, but the other rear doors are linked. Not sure how to unlink. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Even better would be a version with gear up. Thanks in advance.
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Mar2014
Written April 13, 2016Hey, do you have a tutorial on haw to do this kind of textures (jet texture)
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aritra
Written April 10, 2017hii its really a fab model just hats off....... and I have one question ..if u dont mind actually from where u have learned blendr 3d...?
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sle7endarystudios
Written August 21, 2017Very Sexy Model of the F-18. As a triple SAG represented award winning Actor, Filmmaker, Post Production Editor, and just now getting into VFX, Compositing, & 3D Modeling, this is incredibly inspirational. I'm letting my studio rendering machine [27" iMac 5k Custom] render out a simple animation to play around with it combined with some footage I shot here in on the square in downtown Denton/North Texas. I'll post a YouTube link when I get something rolling bringing your model alive. Thanks for this. I agree with the above. As a Top Gun fanatic...F-14D would be pretty gnarly or an F-16 in any livery. You can check out my past, present and future projects at www.imdb.me/randyshoemake & www.sle7endarystudios.com. Thanks again for this amazing model!
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lambocomm
Written November 02, 2017You are such a Good Modeler Chris, Do you have a fiver or do any freelance work? I am interested in linking up with someone of your talents. Regular payments for models is what I am offering. Let me now :) Lambo LAMBO-Mods.com
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BirdieBronze
Written June 17, 2018damn, i want to make this jet but i can't find out of the body ends going down.
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Wickster
Written December 11, 2018Amazing work. I've run into a couple of F-18 models in the past and I gotta say this is one of the better ones out there.
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pau001
Written February 12, 2019Hi Thank you for sharing! I Have a problem with the body texture, the body texture is not match with the UV mapping, is there any quick way to fix it?
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evandop
Written April 21, 2022Superb asset! Im totally new and wondering if there is a way to toggle or animate the landing gear so the wheel bay doors are closed while flying? Thanks!!
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As always an amazing render, i followed the wip in facebook and the result is as stunning as the construction itself, good work and thanks :)