Retro Airframes in 3D

Here are sixteen aircraft concepts for an alternative history/dieselpunk setting. All of them were made with Sculptris, an excellent 3-D modelling program which can be downloaded for free. Although Sculptris is easy to use, it is overall much better suited to modelling organic shapes, so these concepts are very rough  – though they could provide a starting point for more detailed 2D or 3D work.

Most of these designs are quite conservative by genre standards, but I’d like to think this stems more from practical considerations than a lack of imagination. The functions of each are listed below:

1 Flying Boat

2 Inline Engine Fighter

3 Heavy Fighter

4 Heavy Bomber

5 High Altitude Interceptor

6 Experimental Canard Fighter

7 Night Fighter

8 Medium Bomber

9 Radial Engine Fighter

10 Nonrigid Airship

11 Rigid Airship

12 Seaplane

13 Torpedo Bomber

14 Trainer

15 Strike Aircraft

16 Heavy Transport