Tank Museum UPDATE - new renders
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Tank Museum UPDATE - new rendersThis post shows just my models of varios tanks. Straight up SU renders. Any comments welcome.
Starting with american tanks: Ford 3 ton tank 1918 M4A4 Sherman (one of my first tanks, no blueprints used, wrong proportions, angles, dimensions...) M1A1 Abrams Last edited by shareck on Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Tank MuseumAmazing!
Very impressive stuff. I love the level of detail! Just for curisity, how many hours did you spend on them? Re: Tank MuseumNow the British tanks:
Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank: Conqueror: Challenger 2: Last edited by shareck on Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Tank MuseumI spend from 8hr to about 30hrs or maybe even more on each tank. It's 3rd week now and i still havn't finished the King Tiger but i can't tell how many hours a day i spent. I only model these tanks in work whenever i have some spare time.
Now. Time for the Soviet tanks: KV-1 1941 variant (one of my recent ones - very accurate) T-34/85 T-62 Re: Tank MuseumGerman tanks:
Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf.H (with older cupola) - my favourite one, still need to correct these floating nuts on the steering unit hatch. Panzerkampfwagen V ausf.A PANTHER tank Panzerkampfwagen VI ausf.H1 TIGER tank (my first tank model - wrong in so many aspects) Panzerkampfwagen VI ausf.B KING TIGER (WIP my most detailed so far) Re: Tank MuseumThis is awesome!
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RAM: OCZ Gold DDR3 1600MHz 12Gb Video: Asus Radeon HD4870 X2 2Gb Mobo: Asus P6T Deluxe 1366 Intel X58 Re: Tank MuseumAstonished modeling!
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Re: Tank Museumwow is right! didnt realise you had so many of these... and they're all amazing... great detail... so impressed.
Re: Tank MuseumIn a previous life I was a mechanical engineer, In one of the companies I worked I was involved in making the radiator grills/engine covers for the challenger II's. (along with the commode/seat for the driver, ughh)
I can tell you now that I instantly recognized the part(s) from this image: All I can really remember is that they were very very heavy, were made from alloy stock that had to be kept under lock and key and that even the arc welding rods were rather special. We even had to return any swarf to the 'customer' in a locked container when finished. All this for a radiator grill!! Well done, these are fantastic models. If I may ask, what are your source materials? Paul Russam
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Re: Tank Museumi think this are great, but i think you need to add some details to it.....hehehe. seriusly this are insane models, very impresive, congrats my friend!!
Re: Tank MuseumThanks for all the comments. As for the source materials - i use reference pictures from sites such as http://www.primeportal.net , http://www.svsm.org . Blueprints, technical data and pictures from Osprey New Vanguard magazines, and also http://www.smcars.net for blueprints.
Re: Tank MuseumIm blown away. The amount of detail is incredible.
How many faces does one of your tanks have? Does it still handle okay in SU? Re: Tank Museumimpressive detail, I love seeing models with this level of detail and definition, plus learn a lot from sketchup must know a lot of tanks and mechanical.
Re: Tank Museumyour passion for tanks truely shows in these models, as does your tremendous skill and dedication... keep up the incredible work.
Re: Tank MuseumReally impressive work! While the overall detail is astonishing, I'm really taken by the level of detail in the tracks and bogeys...
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Re: Tank MuseumWhat a work you've done. Deep in items, one word : awsome. Shareck
Just au suggestion: in order to make them more realistic, you could dirty them with mud, metal oxidation or some hurts... Maybe using SketchyPhysic you could animate them too! ![]() MALAISE La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée
Re: Tank MuseumThese are beautiful!!
Pretty amazing modelling imo. Those tracks look fantastic, I would love to see your method for creating them. Re: Tank MuseumWOW
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http://www.Twilightrender.com try it! Re: Tank MuseumHOLY CR#P!!
These are mind blowing. I just wanna play with them, animate them, dirty them, pose them. Excellent work, I'm truly humbled by you skills, eye for detail and your abundance of patience.
Re: Tank MuseumGorgeous!
Just another little question: What plugins did you use most frequently during this astonishing modelling work? Re: Tank MuseumThanks for all the comments.
The lowest poly model here would be the T-34 with 290175 edges and 113783 faces. I was aiming at small file size which is only 2,8mb. The king tiger so far has 850214 edges and 338435 faces. It's not difficult to make these track links. Each link is quite simple in shape and than you just need to copy it along a path. I only use standard SU tools. Only plugins i have installed are Sketchyphysics and Kerkythea exporter. The only plugin i'd wish to use is subdivide&smooth by smustard. All these models are done by me just as a hobby. I'm not a military enthusiast, i was just learning sketchup and i couldn't find an interesting topic. I came across some tank model in the 3d warehouse and wanted to do a tank myself. Before i finished my first one i already knew that i'll be doing another one. I find some strange joy in these machines. If anyone wants to use these models for rendering, animations, texturing or anything they're in the 3d warehouse (all except KV1 and King Tiger). Just search for the tag "shareck". There is only one pic of Abrams in the first post so i'm posting some more below: Re: Tank Museumshareck, hope you don't mind but I did a bit of mucking around with a couple of styles.
I think the 3rd and 4th image look fantastic. Here's a link to the Picasa album I've dropped them in : Picasa Album Paul Russam
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Re: Tank MuseumShareck. . .YOu magnificient B***ard--I love your Tanks! I salute you sir.
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