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Deserthawk - Ornithopter Design

Since watching Dune I have been wanting to take a stab at doing a ornithopter model heavily inspired by modern day aircraft and helicopters.
I initially started this project a couple of years ago for a competition at Focal Point for a scholarship, earlier this year I went back to it and did some heavy reworking of the initial design I had.
Its been a really fun to jump back and forth between 3D and 2D to iterate on the design while researching aircraft, explore some geo node tools to place bolts and help with making bolted panels, kickstart a personal kitbash library and learning more about how aircraft functions.
Hope you like it!

Process sketches

Process sketches