Westland Whirlwind for microarmor

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Westland Whirlwind British heavy fighter of early ww2 was quite impressive, but ultimately fell short due to its underpowered design. Since it was originally designed to utilize the Rolls-Royce Peregrine engine, switching to a more powerful engine would have required significant redesign efforts. As a result, it was retired from service in 1943. A model of this aircraft has been recreated in full dimensions using Blender 2.79b and scaled down to 1/100 for STL file creation. The slicer software was used to further scale the design by 35%. 15mm dice are being used as a reference point for printing purposes, and only models that can be successfully printed will be posted online. The original model used as inspiration for this recreation is based on Emmanuel Baranger's work for the FlightGear simulation. The licensed .blend file is available under CC-BY-SA terms via the website BlendSwap, specifically at https://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/67831. For printing purposes, the model has been modified to create a single manifold mesh and parts have been thickened to accommodate 1/285th scale printing with a .4mm nozzle.