3-view help
 

Hello everyone. i am looking for an online source of good quality 3-veiw drawings of warbirds. In particular, I am looking for the p-39, the P-51D, and the Corsair. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Hi Richard,

Some time back, I stumbled upon a site out of Russia that has some pretty good three-views. I just checked and it has views of the P-39, several variants of the Mustang and of the Corsair. You can get to it by entering www.airwar.ru/other/draw_fw.html.

Once there, click on the first underlined area below "404". Being in Cyrilic, it's kinda tough to describe. Sorry. After you've moved to the next page, click on the British flag to get to the English language. Then click the "Drawings" icon. The next screen will have a link to "WWII Fighters". This is where you'll find your aircraft in three-views.

Hope this helps.

Al

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Great! Thanks Al!

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Al,

Just looked at the site. That is a tremendous resource! Thanks again for pointing it out.

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http://members.fortunecity.com/inedesca/
http://avia.russian.ee/air/usa/l_usa.html
http://www.penio.narod.ru/
http://wherewolf.narod.ru/drawings/Drawings1.htm
http://wherewolf.narod.ru/drawings2/Drawings2.htm
http://www.vought.com/heritage/html/down.html
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/guide/drawings.htm
http://membres.lycos.fr/wings2/3vues/3vues.html

Some of these, especially the Russian sites are a little slow, but there is a lot there.

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www.bobsairdoc.com

Bob has over 38,000 3-views and is the only authorized dealer for Koku-fan 3-views. Koku-fan has a great P-51D 3-view. Give bob a call and see what he has. He also has 3-views from foriegn sources. Koku-Fan 3-views are by far one of the best 3-view sources I have seen so far.

Be careful about what 3-view you pick to develop our drawings from. For Example there is a 3-view for the B-29 that was drawn in the late 40's that has a rudder shape that is not correct. Some 3-views are artist drawings and were never intended to the scaled for actual dimensions, these 3-views were meant to be used for general viewing. The Paul Matt series of 3-views were based upon actual dimensions.

Always compare the 3-view to actual photographs of the aircraft to see if they are correct. Example - I am looking for a 3-view for the Bristol Frieghter and Aeroplane monthly published a great looking 3-view several years ago, but to my dismay the wingtip shape is completely wrong when you look at pictures of the real aircraft. Be very careful.

Good luck

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Thanks guys, all great links. I clearly have some research to do :)