Contemplating Avian wing sizing...
posted on: Saturday, 22 August 2015 @ 6:18pm inI can’t remember how I came about my original calculations but I worked out that a 1.8m tall (because that’s how tall my base model is, no other real reason) Avian should have a 10-12m wingspan. Because I didn’t want to make the wing arms too big (because heavy plus looked stupid past a certain point) I managed to end up with 3m long primaries.
![Blender Avian model with 10m wingspan](https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2015/08/contemplating-avian-wing-sizing/avi-10m-wingspan_huc8d314a4f23515c8d8701d1025f18f7e_24907_3d874cb3a53aed060f021ce693bf439e.jpg)
For comparative purposes one with a 7m wingspan (made the wing arms longer but used the feathers I’d done originally, didn’t zoom in for size comparison):
![Blender Avian model with 7m wingspan](https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2015/08/contemplating-avian-wing-sizing/avi-7m-wingspan_hueb8ac9c8df795d9ce57b210608e15cd0_23704_f53f034569673e83142ae56b2cc8ecbf.jpg)
And the original 5m one where I eyeballed the size of everything and thought that looked about right (it does also have much shorter arms):
![Blender Avian model with 5m wingspan](https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2015/08/contemplating-avian-wing-sizing/avi-5m-wingspan_hu1b7f1b393239b046badd5bbe6911af26_18826_04fada3ae94ca1aa62e80989249a8b4b.jpg)
Sitting and thinking about this one for a bit, especially as the Dragonkin model is going to be 2m tall with a possible 15m wingspan, and said wingspans were much easier to talk about and fudge when I was drawing them. Collecting opinions in the meantime!
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