[WIP] Warhammer 40k Space Marine Helmet

BallistikBiskit

Hey everyone,

Working on a space marine helmet with some missing panels and exposed frame/internals.
I want to make a helmet that looks much more high fidelity while maintaining the iconic shape/first read.

Here's my concept/orthos, I referenced the original models, along with Ted Beargeon's and Mike Hill's work when drawing this. -Also my tablet's driver is broken right now so excuse the wobbly linework. 



Ref board for modelling:



I'm not sure if i'll make the final asset truly game ready or not. I think for this one I just want to focus on making nice art, all of my recent projects have been for my degree and have had tight technical restrictions, so i'm thinking it'll be nice to relax a bit and just make something shiny.

Any feedback/crit/ideas please let me know!!
Thanks for looking, I'll update with a blockout model soon

BallistikBiskit

Got the model blocked out today, not much, but it's a start. I'm fairly happy with the proportions etc. I also began work on the HP, starting with the grille.

BallistikBiskit

More work on the HP

BallistikBiskit

More Hp work, just a few more tweaks and small details to add and i can start on the internals!

BallistikBiskit

More progress, most of the external details have been added, i've decided to go all the way and produce a game ready asset. 
Started on the framework too:

BallistikBiskit

More progress
Slow at the moment because of the heat and the nature of these small details. 
If anyone has any feedback, especially crit I'd very much appreciate it!
Feel like i'm talking to myself a little here haha

Brian "Panda" Choi

Beautiful.  Looking forward to the greebles

jaker3278

Keep on going, please push this though to completion would be a shame not to. 

BallistikBiskit

More progress on the framework and greebles,
Just the 'ear' section and a few more tweaks and i can move onto the low poly

BallistikBiskit

HP is almost done

BallistikBiskit

I Finished the HP a couple days ago and I've been on an off working on the low poly, which is finally done. Just unwrapping and baking left now. I'd prefer not to explode this model for baking, I've been told that there is a method in max where you can bake parts separately without exploding, before I spend time learning that, can anyone recommend the fastest method they'd use to get all these little bits baked with minimal errors?
-Thanks for looking!

BrianShray

You could try baking with substance painter instead if its available to you.
Bake by name matching.

BallistikBiskit

So I baked with substance, thanks brianshray, It Worked pretty well.
Got the texturing done last night. Here are some screengrabs from sketchfab. Is it worth rendering this out in some fancy software? Keyshot or something? If anyone has any tips on that I'd much appreciate it.
SketchFab link: https://skfb.ly/6s6AL