Looks like I'm back although I have much better things to do... :(

GhostWolf: That's the entire point.  If you like, go ask Lockheed how much they want you to pay to license the use of one of their designs in a 3D model.  I'll guess it at $100,000 per anum (or some similar per-usage scheme).  Yeah, I can afford that.  As noted, most of the plastic scale model companies can barely afford that.

Again - black and white.  A small individual business needs to plonk out just as much as some major corporation or movie studio - there are no advantages or levels.  Either the enterprise dries up (no more 3D models except of trees and horses) or some major corporation steps in to fill the gap (wonderful) and charges major corporation prices.  It is a win-win-win situation for Lockheed and a lose-lose-lose-lose situation for these 3D modelers.  And they don't even get public government money.... Sad, sad, sad.

The Bell UH1 is a prime example of a major problem.  It is associated with several wars - Korea and Vietnam to name two.  With a restriction on selling quality 3D representations, only bankrolls can afford to use them in any related way - or every CG person wanting to use one in a render or animation will have to model it him/her self.  I'm sorry, what security breach is caused by a representation of a 50 y/o helicopter again?

I suggest that any 3D modeler that works for or is contracted out by companies like Lockheed start charging hundreds of thousands of dollars for their work - trademark your individual modeling technique and request a license for the contractual use of it! ;P

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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