Gentlemen, and ladies hopefully, with this being my introductory post, first I would like to greet you all, as well as offer my thanks to MoI project leader and developers for creating such a wonderful piece of software. I, a complete newbie when it comes to 3D art, have managed to make models with complete ease. The attachment is proof - the entire model which is a good approximation of a 1:35 tank road wheel, took me, well, maybe not just a few minutes, but neither an entire day spent slavishly in front of the computer. MoI devs, you've got yourselves a devoted fan. Not to mention the fact, that I can do something my wife, a 2D graphic artist (in training, although) wouldn't touch with a 3 meter pole.

Still, enough schadenfreude, frankly, I'd have two questions, one concerning the interface and one about general modelling techniques.

Interface: is an object inspector planned for MoI? I wouldn't mind having something, where I could check exact dimensions, as well as adjust them a bit.

Technique: first, in order to explain my problem, I need to write a bit more about what I need a 3D modelling tool for. Perhaps some of you have heard of Makoto Kobayashi or Yokoyama Kow, two Japanese SF modellers. Right now, I'm toying with an idea of recreating some of their designs in 1:35 scale, perhaps add some of my own as well. For real life modelling, I use various scale model parts, kitbashing as I go, but some things are impossible to get or just too hard to make. Now, I've found myself a company, offering cheap rapid prototyping services, what made creating 3D models of hard to make parts and printing them a possibility. Unfortunately, I need to keep all parts in the same scale. The question is: would it be more feasible to draw 1:1 models and then scale them down, or draw in 1:35 from grounds up? Second option seems easier to me, but I've noticed, distortions in scaled down dimensions. Advice would be greatly appreciated.