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Overview

Elevate your digital aviation fleet with this high-precision, fictional narrowbody airborne command post and electronic warfare platform. While sharing a core aerodynamic heritage with classic 1950s transport airframes, this specialized variant introduces a prominent fuselage-mounted dorsal radome and a re-engineered JT3C / J-57 turbojet engine configuration—evoking the historical evolution of Cold War-era strategic SIGINT networks like the Looking Glass EC-135E series.

The asset features a distinctively tapered, pointed nose profile inspired by early 367-80 and Model 717 configurations, highlighting exceptional craftsmanship across its updated powerplant pods and specialized electronic surveillance fairings. It serves as an ideal, highly detailed expansion or specialized alternative for tactical digital deployments.

Commercial-Ready & IP-Free

Built completely from the ground up, this 3D asset is a 100% original, fictional military concept. Because it is completely free of intellectual property restrictions, it is fully cleared for commercial integration across video games, cinematic VFX, flight simulators, and interactive visualizations. You can deploy it without any of the legal overhead, royalties, or complex trademark licensing agreements typically associated with real-world aerospace manufacturers or defense contractors.

Production-Ready Textures & Workflow

Engineered to meet strict production standards, the asset combines high-fidelity visual quality with an optimized technical pipeline:

  • Specialized Radome & Engine Geometry: Features bespoke, CAD-derived detailing for the upper-fuselage radar housing and period-accurate turbojet engine cowlings.
  • CAD Surface Precision: Translated directly from precise NURBS engineering models to guarantee flawless hull curvature, clean edge flow, and smooth surface shading transitions free of rendering artifacts.
  • Baked PBR Pipeline: Optimized with high-fidelity texture maps baked from industrial-grade CAD geometry, delivering pristine, reliable material responses under modern real-time engine lighting.
  • Pre-Applied Livery & UVs: Fully UV-unwrapped with an included custom tactical livery texture set, providing an immediate drop-in solution that remains effortless to re-skin or re-brand.
  • Kitbash-Ready Baseline: Functions as a highly flexible base mesh, offering an excellent engineering foundation for custom airframe modifications, specialized antenna arrays, hardware kitbashing, and rapid concept design pipelines.
Included Formats

To ensure seamless integration across various industries, the model is delivered in a wide array of production formats:

3D Real-Time & Engine Deployment
  • Native .blend (Blender 3.6+ source project optimized for Cycles)
  • .OBJ (Optimized, untextured low-poly mesh variant tailored for custom livery artists)
  • .GLB / .GLTF (Drop-in ready for real-time applications, web viewers, and AR setups)
  • .PLY (High-poly variation incorporating vertex-based colors mapped straight from the CAD source—ideal for close-up visualization without external texture dependencies)
CAD & Industrial Engineering
  • STEP AP214
  • IGES
  • CGR
3D Printing & Scale Modeling
  • STL / 3MF (Engineered to scale reliably across FDM and resin printing hardware. Depending on your targeted physical print scale, thin structural antenna cross-sections, radome mounts, nose fairings, or trailing wing elements may require slight adjustments).

Note: This asset focuses purely on model geometry and textures. It is delivered unrigged and non-animated, providing a clean, professional baseline for your studio's custom control-surface rigging pipelines.

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Native file format
BLEND2 files
Size: 13.9 MB
Cycles | 3.6
Cycles | 3.6
Exchange formats
OBJ
OBJ | 2 files<br />File Size: 6.09 MB
FBX
Autodesk FBX<br />File Size: 2.04 MB
GLTF
glTF | 4 files<br />File Size: 5.09 MB
X_T
Parasolid | 2 files<br />File Size: 2.39 MB
3MF
3D Manufacturing File<br />File Size: 509 KB
ABC
Alembic<br />File Size: 4.39 MB
PLY
Ply | 2 files<br />File Size: 3.31 MB
STP
STEP<br />File Size: 3.54 MB
IGE
IGES<br />File Size: 6.9 MB
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