Tank Museum UPDATE - new renders

[shareck]

This post shows just my models of varios tanks. Straight up SU renders. Any comments welcome.
Starting with american tanks:

Ford 3 ton tank 1918

ford 3 ton tank.jpg

ford 3 ton tank1.jpg

ford 3 ton tank2.jpg

M4A4 Sherman (one of my first tanks, no blueprints used, wrong proportions, angles, dimensions...)

sherman.jpg

sherman1.jpg

sherman2.jpg

sherman3.jpg

M1A1 Abrams

abrams tank.jpg

[Gjenio]

Amazing!
Very impressive stuff. I love the level of detail!
Just for curisity, how many hours did you spend on them?

[shareck]

Now the British tanks:
Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank:

churchill detailed.jpg

churchill detailed1.jpg

churchill detailed2.jpg

Conqueror:

conqueror color.jpg

conqueror color1.jpg

conqueror color2.jpg

conqueror color3.jpg

Challenger 2:

challenger 2.jpg

challenger 22.jpg

challenger 23.jpg

challenger 24.jpg

[shareck]

I 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)

kv1warehouse.jpg

kv1warehouse1.jpg

kv1warehouse2.jpg

kv1warehouse3.jpg

kv1warehouse4.jpg

kv1warehouse5.jpg

T-34/85

t-34.jpg

t-341.jpg

t-342.jpg

t-343.jpg

T-62

t-62.jpg

t-621.jpg

t-622.jpg

t-623.jpg

[shareck]

German tanks:

Panzerkampfwagen IV ausf.H (with older cupola) - my favourite one, still need to correct these floating nuts on the steering unit hatch.

panzer4.jpg

panzer41.jpg

panzer42.jpg

panzer43.jpg

panzer44.jpg

panzer45.jpg

panzer46.jpg

Panzerkampfwagen V ausf.A PANTHER tank

panzer 5 a.jpg

panzer 5 a1.jpg

panzer 5 a2.jpg

panzer 5 a3.jpg

panzer 5 a4.jpg

Panzerkampfwagen VI ausf.H1 TIGER tank (my first tank model - wrong in so many aspects)

german tiger best.jpg

german tiger best1.jpg

Panzerkampfwagen VI ausf.B KING TIGER (WIP my most detailed so far)

koenig tiger.jpg

koenig tiger1.jpg

koenig tiger2.jpg

koenig tiger3.jpg

koenig tiger4.jpg

koenig tiger5.jpg

[Aidus]

This is awesome!

[pilou]

Astonished modeling!

[Luis Esteves]

Hi,

Great job shareck !!

Luis

[marked001]

wow is right! didnt realise you had so many of these... and they're all amazing... great detail... so impressed.

[Paul Russam]

In 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?

[teofas]

i 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!!

[shareck]

Thanks 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.

[remus]

Im blown away. The amount of detail is incredible.

How many faces does one of your tanks have? Does it still handle okay in SU?

[rcossoli]

impressive 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.

[rdluther]

your passion for tanks truely shows in these models, as does your tremendous skill and dedication... keep up the incredible work.

[IdahoJ]

Really impressive work! While the overall detail is astonishing, I'm really taken by the level of detail in the tracks and bogeys...

Cheers!

[MALAISE]

What 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

[dylan]

These are beautiful!!
Pretty amazing modelling imo.
Those tracks look fantastic, I would love to see your method for creating them.

[boofredlay]

Amazing work.

[xrok1]

WOW , are these for a project or just hobby? they would be great for paper models in pepakura.

[solo]

HOLY 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.

[urgen]

.... BRAVO!

[Gjenio]

Gorgeous!
Just another little question:
What plugins did you use most frequently during this astonishing modelling work?

[shareck]

Thanks 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:

abram1.jpg

abram2.jpg

abram3.jpg

abram4.jpg

abram5.jpg

abram6.jpg

[Paul Russam]

shareck, 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

[mike d]

Mind blowing
these are amazing images

[david_h]

Shareck. . .YOu magnificient B***ard--I love your Tanks! I salute you sir.

[spence]

This is some incredible work, soooo nice. I want to see more of your work!

[ely862me]

I m impressed...veeery nice!!

[paul j]

Hi Paul

Really impressed with the 4th style in particular.

Can you advise if that is readily available or what it is called.

It has the look that really appeals

Thanks

Shareck
You have done some pretty neat modelling there - well done indeed.