GI Joe Toy Cobra Rattler Toy Airplane 3D Model

Cobra Rattler – GI Joe Toy Airplane

by Daca Master Daguao | Jun 4, 2020

A GI Joe Toy Cobra Rattler Modeling for practice. One of the most important things for any artist is practice. Just like athletes in sports, artists need to keep practicing evolving and develop skills. Here is a step by step journaling for the modeling of a GI-Joe Toy Airplane called Cobra Rattler.

I started this project back in 2017 with Blender 2.79. Had to put it aside for work with clients and have worked on it over the years little by little. The summer of 2019 I had plenty of time to learn Blender 2.8x and tackle this project again.

The same process applies to your product

Cable harnesses. Medical devices. Heavy machinery. Electrical components. The workflow is identical to what I did with that toy plane:

Gather reference (photos, drawings, or physical samples)
Block out primary shapes
Refine topology for clean rendering or animation
Deliver files you can actually use

The Rattler was personal. Your project is professional. The craft is the same.

See how this applies to real client work

Same modeling discipline. Different subject matter:

→ Unirise
→ Ethernet
→ NEMA

GI Joe Toy Airplane Model Progress

Here a collection of screen shots for the GI Joe Toy modeling progression. As I get the project evolved I will continue to update this journal with screenshots and videos of the process. Eventually I will 3D print this file for fun, or maybe to sell it?

GI Joe Toy Orthographic View of Cobra Rattler blueprint and start of 3D model

Orthographic View of Cobra Rattler blueprint and start of 3D model

4 way view of modeling for Cobra Rattler plane in Blender 2.79

Modeling for Cobra Rattler plane in Blender 2.8

Top 45 degree view of Blender workspace with Cobra Rattler blueprints and wings section in process.

Screenshot of left wing for Cobra Rattler in Metacap Texture

45 degree perspective view of entire plane with wing parts modeled. Body still one piece

Full body and wings separation of parts and 45 degree view of entire plane

Full body and wings separation of parts and 45 degree view of entire plane textured in metacap

45 degree fly-by of metacap textured plane

Screen shot of a cobra rattler toy plane.

Comparison of both texture systems of entire plane. Above: individual colors, below metacap

Forward view of a Cobra Rattler Toy Airplane from GI-Joe.

Top view of a Cobra Rattler Toy Airplane from GI-Joe.

Back view of a Cobra Rattler Toy Airplane from GI-Joe.

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Progression Videos

Here are videos of the process of modeling the GI Joe Toy. As you can notice, the process started with Blender 2.78 and progressed to Blender 2.8 to the point of having to start from scratch at one point. Compatibility issues between 2.78 and 2.8 forced the restart of the project at a point where the reference blueprints did not make much sense and had to replace them.