Thanks for the comments, and bubba for sharing those links. And basic render settings I posted a bit earlier. But basicly just MR with A&D material and some sky portals. Picked it up from this tutorial:…
Try this render setup and the tips that people posted. you might like it. Here is a link to my Elefant where I use the same setup for rendering in max.To give you a feel for what it looks like. http://www.military-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6143…
Modelled in max Render is done in mentalray (there is a tutorial on cgtutsplus where someone makes like an old huge sort of sowing machine thing, and there is a bonus video with some basic render tips that I tried out). Basicly a A&D material, then rendered out AO, and some slight tweaking in PS afterwards on the final…