Airplane without texture

This Klemm L25d VIIR LX-MA airplane is an exhibit at the Aviation Museum in Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxeumbourg. The airplane is hung from the ceiling of the tall museum building and would therefore be an insurmountable challenge for a short-range scanner, but not for Artec Ray, which can scan an object from up to 110m away!

Artec Ray was placed in 26 different positions around the airplane to make a complete 3D model. We used 12 small and 6 big spheres. As the spheres were magnetic, it was very easy to attach them to the metal constructions which were set up in the museum.

It was not exactly easy to scan this plane, since the view was partially obstructed by some of the other exhibits on show. Also, there was a staircase in the middle of the hall, which meant that we couldn’t place the scanner right under the plane.

In order to set up Artec Ray at the right distance from the plane, the scanner was placed outside the walls of the exhibition hall. And some parts of the plane were scanned through the glass doors.

As the scanning process was not quite easy, it took us a whole day to scan the airplane and we used 3 three full-charge batteries.

But despite all these difficulties, Artec Ray was able to make a high quality 3D model of this plane!

And in fact, only during post-processing did we notice that there were two mannequin pilots sitting in the cabin!

The pilots and windscreen were modeled in third-party software.