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Have you ever made a miniature of a real airplane? Today you can make it on the computer! If your PC was built less than 6 years ago, it is powerful enough to become a real graphic workstation. You do not need to spend any money on the software: there are free (Open Source) programs that you can use for this purpose. So — you can start right now!
I have practised this new kind of hobby since 2006, without any previous experience. The results are published on this site: details about the software and hardware, links to complete guides, some useful tutorials, scripts and plugins. You can even download my complete models from here!
2023-04-12: New edition of "Virtual Airplane" guide: published second volume I published second volume (of the planned four): "Modeling". It describes how to build a 3D model of a historical aircraft, using various references. This book counts 684 pages and contains 1170 illustrations. 2021-02-01: New edition of "Virtual Airplane" guide: published first volume Due to changes in the software and modeling workflow which occured during last 5 years, I am back at writing the new edition of the popular "Virtual