W40K Tau Sniper Drone

Bauken

Hey all,

Just getting back into modeling after a long hiatus and I've always loved the look and feel of Tau units in Warhammer 40k. I started on this Sniper Drone based off the tabletop mini. Comments and critique would be greatly appreciated. This is the high poly model and I'm about to start UVing the low poly model.



Cheers
-Bauken

Bartalon

I don't really have a reference to the 40K stuff, but the giant domed screws kind of throw me off. Everything else has this nice squared, flat finish except for those. They just seem kind of slapped on there to cover empty areas.

Some of the grooves might be hard to bake as a normal map because they are perfectly perpendicular to the surface. You might want to consider narrowing the base so more of the walls can be caught by the bake.

Other than that, I like the angular thing you have going on. Looking forward to your future updates.

Steve Schulze

Looks pretty accurate to the original design, bar some vents missing from the panel just under the front camera lens.

Now that you've gotten it to this point, it might be interesting to take what you've got and then push it further seeing as you've got a lot more fidelity available to you than a 1 inch long model - take all those abstract shapes and build it into something that looks like it might function.

Bauken

Thanks very much for the critique. This is a fist pass high poly. For this first pass, I was trying to stay as faithful to the original model as I could. as for the vents under the front lens, they are there, just on a separate plane and that plane will be used in the normal map baking process. Now that the first pass is finished, I'm going to begin going through and adding small details and greebles. I'll post an updated pic once I've made some progress on that.

Bauken

Been working on this little guy on and off now for a while. Still working on putting more detail into the stuff on the underside and I have a lot more work to do on the texture, but the base shapes and colors are there

Cheers
-Bauken