Carter and Hakes Milling Machine: Hard Surface Practice

Subtle 1rony

I've been wanting to complete a hard surface project lately, and after looking around for interesting subject matter, I decided on an old milling machine manufactured in the early 1900s.  

I think it has a good amount of complexity to be challenging yet still manageable as a side project. 

For those interested, I found my reference on this site that documents the history of old machine tools, organized by the companies that designed them. It may be of interest to other hard surface enthusiasts out there.
 http://www.lathes.co.uk/page21.html

And here is the page for the Carter and Hakes machine where I grabbed my reference from: http://www.lathes.co.uk/carterhakes/

Below are some screengrabs of my progress so far, blocking out the forms and proportions. Trying not to go too detailed in any one area at this point, til I do a once over on everything. 

side view. Proportions are not quite there yet. 

In this last one, I'm trying to get some of the larger forms solidified. I'll need to integrate that base in next, before I go much farther. 

Subtle 1rony

Making sure I don't forget about this guy! Here is a little more progress:

Lokthar

Nice Progress! Looking for more!  
you should take a look at the Hard Surface Challenge here on Polycount, there is many awesome hard surface concept! 
http://polycount.com/discussion/132146/week-40-the-weekly-hard-surface-challenge/p1

Subtle 1rony

Thanks for the link @Lokthar I was actually looking at some of those before starting this project. It would be cool to start up a thread like that again. I did participate in the hardsurface reboot thread made by @Shinigami a while back, though I don't think it went as long as the original: http://polycount.com/discussion/167400/hard-surface-challenge-reboot/p1

Lokthar

I know @Subtle 1rony that sucks...im doing the old one, it has more than 40 object to make, and some are really challenging!
Are you planning to do a game version?