Creating Spaceship Orbiter using Sketchup

This time, I will present a step by step illustration on how to create a spaceship Orbitter using Google Sketchup. Sketchup can be downloaded from Sketchup.google.com and this is an Immersive Education course taught at Boston College (ImmersiveEducation.org).

First, I created a cylinder.

Using the Autofold tool, I made the top pointy.

I thought creating a triangle and merging it into the tower would make the wings.

By rotating the tiangle a little and using the move tool, I successfully embraced the wings into the cylinder.

I changed the camera angles to make sure everything was measured accurately, and used the rotate tool to make everything perpendicular to each other.

I drew four circles on the bottrom, and used the pull tool to pull them out.

For the third wing (center wing) I just used the pencil tool and drew directly on the surface of the cylinder.

Once the base was complete, I used the offset tool to decorate the spaceship.

Once all the patterns were engraved, I used the paint tool to color them.

Just to make things took more appealing, I drew a flaming pettern on the bottom, and colored it.

By using the Match Photo tool, I imported a picture of space, and played around with the angle to create a cool effect.