Side view Lego Douglas DC-3/C-47 Skytrain

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The real-life aircraft has the capacity to hold up to 28 troops, length of 19.43m (63 ft 9 in), a wingspan of 29.11m (95 ft 0 in), and a height of 5.18m (17 ft 0 in). The crew consist of four individuals (radio operator, navigator, co-pilot and pilot). the US as well as other nations involved with lend-lease (the UK, Soviet Union etc) used these aircraft during World War II, even axis powers such as Germany and Japan had variants of the aircraft through obtaining them prior to the war.

 

Many countries still use this aircraft and its variants to this day.

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The LEGO model (MOC)

 

This project took a good couple months to design in stud.io, mainly due to the limitations of olive green and the availability; I personally try to make sure my models use parts that only exist in high enough quantities while ensuring that the model is stable enough in case the model is made in real life.

 

The scale I have used in this model is 1:40th.

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Acknowledgements:

@mecabricks Scrubs and Renderbricks made the blender add on (blender advanced and lite) to allow 3D Mecabricks models to be imported to blender for the photoreal rendering.

 

Blender guru: most useful tutorials for beginners using blender.

 

Ldraw and LDD (lego digital designer) software: providing more 3D model Lego pieces for more photo-real renders.

 

Blender bricks discord server: providing useful tips and tricks and assistance.

 

Stud.io software: used for designing Lego creations

 

blender 3.2: 3D software was used to render the image.

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Done