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

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

M1A1 Abrams

[Gjenio]

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

[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)

T-34/85

T-62

[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.

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)

[shareck]

Now the British tanks:
Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank:

Conqueror:

Challenger 2:

[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.