With military and aviation history as a backdrop, learn how to blend scale and 3D modeling into a very enjoyable hobby and creative outlet.

1. 1:72 Scale Model 3D Model
MODELING
Finished 3D Model
RENDERING
RESEARCH
TEXTURE MAP
3/1/21
A presentation by a scale and
3D modeler who loves history

2. www.shortfuse3d.com
Presenter, Konley Kelley
Avid scale and 3D modeler
Commemorative Air Force member for 10 years
Education Officer, B-29/B-24 Squadron
Richland College employee for 24 years

3. Agenda
• What is 3D modeling and where do
you see it in popular culture
• 3D modeling step-by-step / project
case studies
• What and who inspires my art
• My best work and some history
lessons along the way
Outcomes
• Learn how 3D is featured in our
media, movies, television and games
• Plan and implement a 3D project
• Get a look at the software used by
the presenter
• Planes, tanks and ships - WWII history
lessons using 3D models

4. Modeling history honors heroes
Yeah, we have our
comic book heroes…
Want to see my
3D Avenger?

5. A real-life hero
President George H. W. Bush
U.S. Navy TBF-1 Avenger
Pilot-LT (jg) George Bush
USS San Jacinto, CVL-30
58 Combat
Missions
128 carrier
landings
in WW2
*by age 20
41st US
President
(1989-1993)
1:48 TBF-1 Avenger
3D model

6. 3D in movies Can you name the movies?
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Digital Domain, WETA Digital
1991
2009

7. Pixar
Can you name the movies?
1995

8. John Lasseter
He signed this poster for me on the back
of his car, which did not have eyeballs.
Pixar founder /
Director of TOY STORY

9. 3D in TV
Can you name the TV shows and commercials?
1998
3D Studio Max
Rhythm & Hues
1993

10. 3D in Games
Can you name the games?
Minecraft

11. How games used to look…
…Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Doom Wolfenstein

12. Myst
Created by two brothers, Robyn and Rand Miller
Top selling PC game from 1993 – 2002
Inspiration for the TV show LOST
3D made with Strata 3D

13. Background, Early Work and Inspiration

14. P-38 Lightning in 3D
…one of my first models at AFI (1993)
AFI in 3D
1:32 P-38 Lightning
1:48 Zero
Photoshop

15. Volunteer/seat filler
Katie, me, Moses and Mickey
“Hollyweird”

16. The Alamo in 3D
… made this while living in LA (1996)
The Alamo (1960)
John Wayne
Richard Widmark
Laurence Harvey
Alamo office shrine

17. The Alamo / renders

18. The Line in the Sand
What did the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
think of my 3D Alamo? Caretakers of the Alamo.

19. Planetoids

20. Wanted: 3D artist
…showers and beds (1997)

21. Teaching 3D
Caligari Truespace (1998)

22. 3D Model Kit
Who was the Red Baron’s greatest adversary?
A dusty
Revell 1:28
Fokker Dr.1

23. WWI Flying Ace & his Sopwith Camel

24. “How is it done?”
“Spirit of St. Louis”

25. Strata 3D Interface – 3 views

26. Rendering options

27. Raytracing

28. Animation path and timeline

29. Spirit of St. Louis flies!
I need to look for more accurate engine noise 

30. “Starting a Project”
PBY Catalina

31. Scale model and reference books
….use the Internet for research!
www.squadron.com

32. “Enemy Carriers!” Battle of Midway
...Lt. “Howie” Ady’s PBY “Strawberry 5”

33. “Build the model”
USS Fletcher DD-445

34. You can use scale model
instructions as a guide

35. How to make a 5” gun

36. 5” gun parts – exploded view

37. Extrude - turret

38. Lathe - gun

39. Paint/texture-map the parts

40. Fletcher parts and subassemblies
…cloning objects

41. Streaming
on
Fletcher in 3D

42. Fletcher at “Doolittle Raid”
With Jimmy Doolittle’s Co-Pilot, Lt. Col. Dick Cole on June 22, 2013
Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942

43. 1:48 Doolittle Raider
signed by Dick Cole
Mark Twain bombsight Dick Cole in co-pilot’s seat
Broomsticks for tailguns
Japanese friendship medals
attached to the bombs

44. Fletcher at “Battle of Midway”
June 4-7
1942

45. MIDWAY (2019)
State of the
art SFX,
true stories
Midway veteran,
John Hancock
WOD 2019
+

46. Charlton Heston as “Matt Garth”
MIDWAY (1976)
Now just wait a minute, Tiger…
What MIDWAY did you like better?
Huge cast, focus only on BOM, actual
combat footage, John Williams score.
SENSURROUND
+

47. Roy Grinnell, Aviation Artist
1933-2019
“Aviation art doesn’t have to match your sofa”

48. “Harry, Frank and Oscar” “Yeager’s Conquest – Mach 1”
Bookcovers

49. “Stuka’s Hard Landing – Alternative History”
Collaboration
Calvin Spann’s 90th B-Day
@Frontiers of Flight

50. Roy Grinnell Art
www.roygrinnellart.com

51. Lockdown project
My home set-up

52. Original Angry Bird?
1:48 B-25J Mitchell Gunship

53. Lockdown
Cats
1:48 F8F Bearcat
Bearcat at
WOD2019

54. 4 Cats
“Gladys”

55. Pre-made models
Viewpoint Datalabs

56. “Silent Hunter”
Viewpoint Datalabs model with tweaks, texturemap and sea floor
1:125
U-99
3D U-Boat

57. 1:48 Avenger
“Hunting the Hunter”
Avenger operating
in the Atlantic

58. T-shirt and DFW Wing R4D
R4D in 3D
CAF DFW Wing
www.dfwwing.com

59. U-Boat sunk in Gulf of Mexico
U-166
Sunk 45 miles off the coast of Louisiana
July 30, 1942
“Operation Drumbeat” 400 ships sunk first 8 months of WW2
Sunk Robert E. Lee (passenger freighter w/407 people)
Spies/Shipping off US East Coast and Gulf of Mexico

60. “Texture-mapping”
P-40 Flying Tiger

61. Basics of Texture-mapping

62. Flying Tiger Texture-map

63. P-40 wireframe/textured
P-40 in markings for Charlie Bond’s AC
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
https://cavflight.org/
General
Charles
Bond
Bond
Disney

64. “3D People”
PT-109
What attacked Lt. Kennedy’s boat?

65. PT-109 in tub

66. PT-109 in 3D
1:72 PT-109
Lt. John F. Kennedy

67. PT-109 crew
Konley Kelley as Lt. John F. Kennedy

68. PT-109 crew on deck

69. “D-Day” in 3D

70. “Curahee!”
101st Airborne over Normandy
1:72 C-47

71. “Rendezvous with Destiny”
…transparency example (C-47 seen through parachute)

72. D-Day Diorama with sand
from Omaha Beach
“First Wave”
29th Infantry Division
1:35 scale

73. Finally, keep in mind
practice makes Perfect
America’s Top Ace, Major Richard Bong (40 aerial victories)

74. I want to make a King Tiger in 3D from scratch…
After seeing the “how to” what do you think?
1:35 King Tiger “Battle of the Bulge”

75. Time to show you some of my best stuff!

76. 3D USS Lexington CVT-16
souvenir patch
“USS Lexington Museum by the Bay”

77. USS Lexington meets “Bazooka”
….take pictures / visual library of ship

78. “Walking into a Dream”

79. Lexington 3D images
Lex modeled as a CVT (training carrier). Many new pilots probably took off/landed on Lex.

80. Real or 3D?
F-14 Tomcat
www.usslexington.com
Museum on the Bay
Top Gun (1986)
Tom Cruise
Kelly McGillis

81. Battleship Texas
Another Scout trip…so did I make a 3D Battleship Texas?
Battleshiptexas.org

82. Battlecar Texas
…Pinewood Derby car with 1:350 USS Arizona parts

83. 3D Battleship Bismarck
823 ft. long
50,000 tons
8, 14” guns
1960
See free on YouTube

84. Battleship Bismarck scale model
1:350 Scale

85. Battle of Denmark Strait
May 22, 1941
DKM Bismarck vs. the HMS Hood
1,300 British sailors / 3 survivors
3D Bismarck
1:600 Hood

86. w/HDR Toning
Battleship Bismarck in 3D

87. PBY spots the Bismarck
1:600 Hood
1:72 PBY

88. HMS Ark Royal and Swordfish
1:600 Ark Royal
1:48 Swordfish

89. 3D Bismarck under attack?

90. Swordfish in the kitchen

91. Swordfish and torpedo(minus kitchen)

92. Swordfish attack 3D Bismarck
Bismarck 50,000 tons
Swordfish 7,700 lbs.
Bismarck’s
Sister
Battleship
Tirpitz

93. Tirpitz fires!

94. Bent-wing Birds
Ju87 Stuka
F4U Corsair

95. F4U Corsair in 3D
…combined with Zero I made a long time ago

96. Corsair – Korean War
Restored Corsair
@ Vought Aircraft
1:48 Corsair
4 blades / transparent wedge

97. Aces’
Stories
Sakai
published
(1957)
Boyington
published
(1958)
TV Show 1976-78
“Gathering of the Warbirds”
Madera, CA

98. Pappy’s Corsair in 3D
“Pappy” Boyington

99. “Snake” Stuka – my favorite model
….which one is 3D and which one is a scale model?

100. Stuka texture-map
…use decal sheets to make texture maps – SCAN BEFORE PUTTING ON MODEL

101. Stuka in 3D
Ju87 Stuka

102. P-47D Thunderbolt in 3D
“Hairless Joe”
Lil Abner
Dave Schilling
56FG / 8th AF
132 combat missions
22½ aerial victories
Jack Bradshaw

103. Lyle Jansma, Aviation Photog
www.jansmadesign.net

104. New texture map
for Gabby
Top American Ace in the ETO
Francis “Gabby” Gabreski
166 combat sorties
28 aerial victories

105. 1st. Lt. Oscar Perdomo
Last Ace of WWII
1:48 P-47N Thunderbolt
Roy Grinnell
book cover

106. Dream project come true

107. “Sahara”
M3 Lee Tank

108. “Sahara” 1943 film
starring Humphrey Bogart
Honey, I
have two
model kits.
Let’s both
build a scale
model M3
Lee tank!
Today’s contemporary Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson?

109. No…this isn’t Bogey’s tank!
My wife built this. She calls it “Beverly Hills Tank.”

110. M3 Lee Tank Scale Model “Lulubelle”
Sgt. Joe Gunn
reporting for duty!
General Rommel,
“The Desert Fox”

111. 3D M3 Lee tank wireframe/texture map

112. M3 Lee Tank in action
3D model

113. That’s not good…

114. 3D M1 Abrams & Apache
1:35 model
3D Apache
3D M1 Abrams
Desert Storm (1990-91)

115. “Jet in a Weekend”
ME-262
No paint or glue to dry!

116. ME-262 in 3D
Under wing panel from an ME-262 at the
Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler, Texas
German Ace Heinz Bar’s “Red 13”

117. ME-262 in Action
…with 3D B-17G Flying Fortresses…SPEAKING OF BOMBERS

118. Commemorative Air Force
B-24A Liberator “Diamond Lil”
B-24 Liberator
Henry Ford
Willow Run
“Rosie the Riveter”

119. “Diamond Lil” right/left side
Right Side
Left Side
Luckily I can photograph
Diamond Lil’s features and
her nose art because she is here!

120. “Diamond Lil” in 3D
First ever make a 3D model of a B-24A Liberator?
Neutrality flag

121. “Diamond Lil” and “FIFI”
ME

122. Ploesti Raid
August 1, 1943
One third (53) aircraft lost / 310 aircrew killed, 108 captured
Five Medal of Honor* recipients (3 posthumously)
*Most for any single air action in USAF history
SSgt. Robert Phillips
B-24 Top Turret Gunner
343rd BS/98th BG

123. Monogram 1:48 B-24J Liberator
Robert in WWII
“Grumpy” in 3D
“Grumpy” for my friend
Robert Phillips

124. UNBROKEN
Louis
Zamperini
3D B-24 in Unbroken (2014)
Director: Angelina Jolie

125. Crew 713 – Alex Mena
Nemesio Mena
Radio Operator
“The Irishman's Shanty”
492nd Bomb Group
Scale and 3D model
“The Irishman’s Shanty”
Alex Mena
Filmmaker
www.crew713.com
“Lil” banner w/Crew 713 picture/story

126. Reenactors with “Diamond Lil”

127. P-51 Mustang “Cadillac of the Sky”
Major Eugene "Dick" Turner, 356th FS, 354th FG
1:48 P-51 Mustang

128. P-51 pilot Maj. George Preddy
“Top Mustang Ace”
26.8 Air-to-Air Victories
Crew Chief was a barber in civilian life
1:48 scale model

129. P-51 pilot Lt. Roscoe Brown, Jr.
332nd Fighter Group “Tuskegee Airmen”
1:48 scale models

130. “The Brat III” w/“FIFI”
P-51D Mustang
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
1:72 scale models

131. “Red Nose” with “FIFI”
CAF Founders
October 17, 1957
$2,500
CAF Dixie Wing
Memphis tour stop

133. FIFI on 7/4/20
www.airpowertour.org
www.cafb29b24.org
Fort Worth, Texas
March 20, 2021
McKinney, Texas
April 24, 2021

134. “Diamond Lil” and “FIFI”
I am in here!

135. AWESOME!!!
Photo by Konley Kelley

136. Flying on “FIFI”

137. Scale model, homemade decals

138. “FIFI” Texture maps

139. 3D “FIFI” takes flight
Wireframe
“FIFI” Challenge coin

140. 3D “FIFI” becomes “Enola Gay”
8:15 a.m.
August 6, 1945

141. “FIFI” and “Doc”
3D “FIFI” and “Doc”
Photo by Scott Slocum

142. Printing “FIFI” in 3D
6 hrs 15 min to print

143. 3D Printing the Bell X-1
Chuck Yeager
October 14, 1947

144. “Chasing the Demon”
3D B-29 Mothership / 3D Bell X-1
Wireframe

145. 3D Printing
the Bell X-1
THE RIGHT STUFF (1983)
Displayed for the first time FoFM
August, 2019
www.flightmuseum.com
Beemans gum story

146. B-29 “GOIN’ JESSIE”
1st. Lt. Charles Chauncey, B-29 AC/Pilot
Chauncey signs B-29 model

147. B-29 “GOIN’ JESSIE” in 3D
1st. Lt. Charles Chauncey, B-29 AC/Pilot
“Needs some little friends”
1st Lt. Charles Chauncey
35 Missions
5th BS/9th BG
*Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

148. “GOIN’ JESSIE” w/Little Friends
3rd Place
Major James Tapp
78th FS “Bushmasters”
*First ace over Japan
April, 1945

149. Capt. Jerry Yellin
1:48 P-51 signed by Jerry

150. That’s the end of our “tail” for now.
Thanks for being a great audience.
Learn a new hobby and
“Keep Em’ Modeling!”
Q&A
konartist@verizon.net
www.shortfuse3d.com
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