Problem with 3D model of Wildcat

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Originally Posted by the_frog

... oh my ... I mixed up 3ds and max ... right, wings3D has very good 3ds importer. For maxr, there's no importer ...

yep, unlike .3ds, the .max format is a proprietary format. No importer that I know of for it

Originally Posted by the_frog

When lacking proper plans, I also used exisitng 3d models as templates. I meanwhiel avoid that practice because seemingly many models have been done not based on plans but just on wild guessing ...

Well, when you have nothing but your eyes for guessing the proportions of an object, someone else's estimates are better than nothing, especially if compared with photographs of the same object from different angles. By the way, my squid launcher model was mostly done by pure guestimation, and if someone else wanted to create a better representation of it, he would have no better option than using my model as template for his own work (as far as I can understand, there are no other models of it around), unless he had access to original plans indeed

P.S: I had a look into the Pack 3D website (thank you for pointing me to it!) and I norticed they even have a Grumman F6F Hellcat model in their collection (an high-poly one though). Has this aircraft ever been released for SHIV?