Rail Gun Tank

James R Jenkins

Hey guys i am working on a Tank with a rail gun any tips of suggestions, this is my progress non my high Polly and my ref

Javibcln

Wow! Looks really cool already! The reference is not very clear, but the modelling looks good even if it is not done yet.

CougarJo

Good start!

I don't know if your are following the concept at 100%, but I have one or two things I can say :

-On your model the hull is longer than the barrel, on the concept it's the other way around and it looks more balanced imo. (Just googled modern tanks, and it's often the case, it can look more believable to do the same on your model )

-On the concept the hull on top of the front ''wheels'' have more rounded shapes, you can do the same to break the "clunkiness" of the overall model.


Good luck

WadeWT

yours looks a lot longer than the concept, I think you could chub it up quite a bit. Even if you're not trying to match 100% I think it would look nicer that way.

James R Jenkins

I have worked on the size or the gun compared to the hull and i think i got a better understanding of the shapes also have been working on adding more derail and plating exc.

penE

Apart from the back I actually really like the design changes you made. I'd make the base of the tank under the gun tower thingy a lot stronger though in the back, to support that massive firepower. Good progress though, keep it up!

Cibo

Hard to see the scaling.
1. The smoothing between tower and the rest is very different. The tank doesnt look like one unit.
2. No vertikal armor segment! The lower tower segment is wrong in every modern way and a great weakpoint.


In general the tower design is very "Retro" and not modern with many weakpoints.

Here a example of a modern tower.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_2#mediaviewer/File:Leopard_2_A5_der_Bundeswehr.jpg

James R Jenkins

got an update on whats going on

James R Jenkins

an update on the high and start on the low

low

James R Jenkins

Here is a update on what i got here is the low with the baked normal map on it

James R Jenkins

ok so here is first pass on the textures, i still need to add the dirt and logos and much more just first pass

RegalToad

Looks awesome!

Dan Powell

This is looking bad-ass! On the first maybe consider having a few blue emissive areas? Usually Railgun blasts are a blue-y colour so it might be cool to have other illuminated blue parts on it.

I'm probably a little late to the party here too, but looking at the mechanical design of the turret, how does it move up and down to aim higher and lower respectively? It looks like it can rotate around but not move up/down. :P

Looking forward to seeing the finished piece.

av0101

nice bakes what method you use(my bakes not as clean)?

James R Jenkins

If anyone has an idea on how to make the dirt look more real please need some feedback
but here is how the textures are looking now

James R Jenkins

ok worked on it some more and got it some where where i like it