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3D Jetliner Model OverviewThis premium 3D asset is a fully original, fictional narrowbody passenger airliner concept. The design is heavily inspired by mid-century commercial transports, specifically blending the classic low-wing, quad-engine aesthetics of the early Douglas DC-8-50 family with modern high-bypass CFM-56 style turbofan powerplants.

Because this is an entirely original, fictional aircraft layout, it serves as a non-IP asset. You can safely deploy this model in commercial video games, flight simulators, retro aviation titles, cinematic films, and real-time visualization projects without trademark licensing fees or legal restrictions from real-world civil aviation manufacturers.

The model is sourced directly from engineering-grade CAD and NURBS surfaces, ensuring mathematically precise skin transitions, clean fuselage curvature, and smooth specular highlights across all surfaces.

Technical Specifications and GeometryPolygon Count: Approximately 39,770 triangles.

Topology: Clean, optimized polygonal topology generated from smooth NURBS source geometry, built specifically for high-performance real-time engine rendering.

Surface Quality: Zero surface wrinkling, normal pinching, or shading artifacts around complex geometric intersections like wing-mounted pylon mounts, engine nacelle intake cowlings, and conventional tail surfaces.

Versatility: An ideal baseline asset for custom hard-surface concept development, historical livery skinning, or interactive media modifications.

Textured Formats and Workflow IntegrationThis 3D asset package is production-ready out of the box, with high-quality textures and vintage airline livery maps applied across multiple workflow types:

Real-Time Engines: Optimized low-poly meshes feature pre-baked, engine-ready livery texture maps for drag-and-drop integration into Unreal Engine, Unity, and web-based GL workflows.

High-Poly Masters: Premium master setups feature rich, vertex-based color values calculated directly from the original CAD source for high-fidelity visualization without external texture node dependencies.

Supported File FormatsReal-Time and Exchange FormatsOBJ, GLB, GLTF, PLY, FBX, ABC

CAD Engineering DataSTEP AP214, IGES, CGR, X_T, X_B

Native Source Files.BLEND (Blender 3.6+ Cycles-compatible layout)

3D Printing FilesSTL, 3MF (Engineered to scale reliably for FDM and resin printing display models)

Note: This 3D model focuses entirely on static geometry and baked liveries. It does not include rigging, animations, or interior cabin details.

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Native file format
BLEND2 files
Size: 15 MB
Cycles | 3.6
Cycles | 3.6
Exchange formats
OBJ
OBJ | 2 files<br />File Size: 6.76 MB
FBX
Autodesk FBX<br />File Size: 2.23 MB
GLTF
glTF | 4 files<br />File Size: 5.76 MB
3MF
3D Manufacturing File<br />File Size: 556 KB
STL
Stereolithography<br />File Size: 2.33 MB
ABC
Alembic<br />File Size: 4.88 MB
PLY
Ply | 2 files<br />File Size: 3.71 MB
IGE
IGES<br />File Size: 12.6 MB
STP
STEP<br />File Size: 6.72 MB
X_T
Parasolid | 2 files<br />File Size: 3.89 MB
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