Tank Museum UPDATE - new renders

solo · 10 Mar 2009, 05:56

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 · 10 Mar 2009, 06:51

.... BRAVO!

Gjenio · 10 Mar 2009, 08:57

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

shareck · 10 Mar 2009, 09:13

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:

Paul Russam · 10 Mar 2009, 10:36

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 · 10 Mar 2009, 10:59

Mind blowing
these are amazing images

david_h · 10 Mar 2009, 14:32

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

spence · 10 Mar 2009, 17:52

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

ely862me · 10 Mar 2009, 18:15

I m impressed...veeery nice!!

paul j · 11 Mar 2009, 09:24

%(#0080FF)[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]

%(#0080BF)[Shareck
You have done some pretty neat modelling there - well done indeed.]

Paul Russam · 11 Mar 2009, 10:01

Its one I made by combining 2 that were in the Style Builder Competition Winners set and tweaking the settings a little. All credit to the original authors.
Both Image 3 and 4 are the same style but with different face styles (Hiddenline, Shaded, Monochrome etc) and 'Use sun for shading' switched on or off.
To be honest I cant remember the exact combination but you get the idea.

I've attached the mashed style.

Pencil Sketch _ Traced lines _ Boarder1.style

Huggkruka · 11 Mar 2009, 16:53

The threads are so perfect it's making me nervous! Amazingly well done.

shareck · 11 Mar 2009, 23:07

Hi All. The King Tiger is nearly finished. I'm posting a quick render from kerkythea. i'll be trying to put some textures on it later.

the render came out too bright and the reflection shouldn't really be there but i've no patience to run it again.

david_h · 11 Mar 2009, 23:26

paul j · 12 Mar 2009, 10:46

%(#0000BF)[Thanks Paul for posting your style - just downloaded it and will give it a go shortly.
A bit of experimenting and hopefully get the same effect

Thanks again]