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Inspired by the well-known tank, here's a WIP:

What are you planning to accomplish?

Looks good.

Nice you using sketch-up?

@ Smolo: I wanna try out exactly what I'm capable of
@ Spidey: SketchUp was used to make the model, I used Photoshop for some post-processing!

Here's a new update:

The shroud over the assault cannon is too square, make it 5 total planes (vertical, 45 degree, horizontal, 45 degree, vertical). Also make the assault mines a bit taller (deeper?) they look a bit flat.

Another small update:

It's beautiful!

get it 3d printed, not so you can pull one over games workshop

but you build that from scratch, now have some one print it. It would be really cool to actually have a physical copy of it!

I advise against the 3D printing; with the current technology for private copies it'll come out with a horrible lined texture that just won't do your model justice.

Bravo by the way.

Thanks for all the positive comments

Not sure about the printing tho, gonna give that some thought. For now, here's a little update:

Beautiful

Cheers!

Any other C&C which might improve the model?

aWesome, what program was used? I am using Google Sketch up to create Buildings and models for my Cryengine 3 adventures so it would be nice to see what other, (better) programs are put there.

Model was made using SketchUp with top, front and back view as reference material

Thrawn2600 wrote:get it 3d printed, not so you can pull one over games workshop

but you build that from scratch, now have some one print it. It would be really cool to actually have a physical copy of it!

I like this

That's staggering. At first I thought it was a hand made drawing, but then I realized you applied some sort of PS filter.

Looking forward to seeing it finished!

the grenade launcher or armor thingies on the front of the threads still have a 2d shading.

other then that it looks really impressive!!

are you gonna color it?

If you can acquire a copy of Autodesk Revit you could make micro-millimeter perfect copies of any tank, provided you have the drawing skills.

More positive reviews, awesome!

About coloring the model, it has crossed my mind. Problem is I need to make it realistic, or else it'll look like a simple plastic model

About Revit, It'll take me quite some time to master it, so maybe later


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Experimenting with coloring the model:




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And some more experimenting:

looking good imho

Cheers!

It turned out pretty good

This looks brilliant. +1 Exalt to you, sir.

Thank you very much, good sir!

@OP: In the future please add your other drawings to this thread rather than starting a new one for each.

Here are some links to OP's other drawings:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/450053.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/449875.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/449666.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/449558.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/396920.page

Will do!

Can you also change the title of this topic?

Matsuo wrote:Will do!

Can you also change the title of this topic?

Hit the Edit button in the first post and you can change it.

Good work so far though.

Ovion wrote:

Matsuo wrote:Will do!

Can you also change the title of this topic?

Hit the Edit button in the first post and you can change it.

Good work so far though.

+1

If you edit your first post, you can change your title as often as you want. That is what I do for my P&M Blog. You can make it something generic like "My 3D Model Project" and then update it to what you are working on "Bolters on pg. 2 (date)". Makes it easy to follow one thread and know when you are working on something new.

Maybe it'll be easier if I put all the pictures in this topic? It'll save some time I recon


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New model:

Nice. Getting better each time

Thanks!

There's a long way to go tho