Tank Museum UPDATE - new renders

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: