Panzer 3 TIII Finished

Psychotic_Mike

Hi just finished my W.I.P. panzer ausf. N piece (WIP posted on another thread) I've been working on for the past couple of weeks.

I know its not polished but I only started this to practice my hard surface modelling skills and to show that I can create accurate models based on reference. :poly142:

Hardest and most challenging part was to find the correct reference for this project (spent endless hours looking for it).

Have a look and tell me what u think.
Any ideas/feedback on anything u dont like or think is off would be really helpful.

Cheers!!! :poly136:

So everything started from this:


to this:







more details to come.....

Damian Nachman

You made great progress on this model!
Are you planning to retopo? Cause if so, I see a few edges that look a bit too sharp for proper baking.

Also, I'm not sure if its "historically accurate", but I Would totally model some cool looking outskirts. They look great on these adorable tanks.

Psychotic_Mike

Hey thanks!
yeah its not 100% accurate as I'm not sure if some of the details I got from some models are from the same Panzer version, but the N series had a couple of different variations so they could be right.
There are plans for retopo, sculpting and texturing but not for now.
You are right though it does look look sharp to me too but I though that's because its 'clean' and that if I added some sculpted details and textures that look would go away.

Psychotic_Mike

Here's a small construction process

Mr Smo

looks great, would love to see some wires. but no need to start a new thread just for finishing it :S just post in your earlier one.

Psychotic_Mike

Haha you're right,though to be honest I thought nobody was paying any attention on the old thread since no one posted any comments on it . I thought it either got buried or people were not interested (plus dont know if the thread's title can be changed or refreshed from WIP to finished). So I decided to start a fresh one

I've got some wires coming up just need to piece em all together for a nice presentation

Bubba91873

http://www.artemstudios.com/2010/tutorials/material/MaterialRenderingTut.htm

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60887

Try that render setup on this model with the suggestions in the 2nd link. Be warned it will show any modeling errors brutally but if everythings clean, it will look awesome in your portfolio.

Nice clean model. You should also post your military model work here as well for feedback.
http://www.military-meshes.com/forum/

Psychotic_Mike

Hey Bubba, thanks for the links def going to post this on the other forum as well.

I'm afraid I used Maya for this so the tutorial is not good for now, as I am still slowly learning Max I'm sure it will come in handy in the future.

Psychotic_Mike

Wireframe time:
Here are some breakdowns. If there is any specific details u want to see more closely or something u dont like let me know
Enjoy

Psychotic_Mike

coresplendor

As i said on the other thread, great work on this on. But i don't like the final render though, it deserves a much better (and big) render, with much less grain. Congratz!

Gazu

Really cool images up in here!

Is this the Tank from the DigitalTutors HighPoly Course?

Psychotic_Mike

Thanks guyz
(coresplendor) yeah I didn't like those either, I decided to keep the white renders for now I think those look better. Prob have to re-render them with different settings as the white gets blown out in some areas and its hard to see any details.

Gazu it looks a lot like mine but I think that one is from a different panzer version

Bubba91873

Well thought out presentation and it's always good to provide reference images of the real thing to compare to what you modeled.
The final render does have too much grain/noise in it.

Also consider modeling the inside of the hatches and opening them up.