W40K Black Templars Battlebarge

[andrea1969]

After a long period of inactivity I've resumed my 3D hobby and decided to start a new piece from W40K universe.
After the theme variation on the Phalanx weapon model, that I'll use as base model for a new idea; a sort of Atmospheric Sentinel), I'll try to model a Space Marine Battlebarge conversion to the Black Templars chapter (my favourite) by means of spline and poligonal modeling tools.
Probably I'll introduce a second (or third) level of detail exploiting the Greeble plugin capabilities in a selective manner.
I don't mind of hard edges generated by its application on a polygonal model ... my rendering engine will take care of them thanks to a built-in fillet shader .
I'll post the first pics very soon, meantime, here it is a reference image of the spaceship.

[VinSpeed]

Sounds like a great project. Don't forget your best friend.. Coffee

[sbcarshops]

Looks like a Great Project, Can't wait to see more.

[budweizzer]

Good choice for a new project indeed. Can't wait to see wip pictures

[Vide_Infra]

stop making awesome 40k starships!

Maybe make enough for a battle fleet gothic style space battle soon? :P

Looking forward to it mate

[andrea1969]

Thanks for the comments
@ budweizzer & sbcarshops: I'll try to do my best on it
@ vinspeed: you're right ... I have the coffe machine at my side (your spaceship looks cool for being your first model)
@ Vide_infra: you could say "not another battleship !!!" but you know, I love their design ... adeptus mechanicus vs space marine ... it's a hard game.

Let's start with the rendering and the hidden line screen capture of the central part of the ship hull (you note I always start from this point).

[andrea1969]

A little advance on this part: the battlebarge heavy weapons.
I'm currently working on the upper deck with some more detailing than the priginal model.
A little note on rendering test environment settings:
- skylight with intensity = 0.8
- main light (rectangular with area shadows, color: pure white, intensity: 0.75, high shadow samples)
- fill light (rectangular with area shadows, color: RGB(250,231,201), intensity: 0.4, high shadow samples). The main light, as the fill light, is at 90° from camera direction (so main and fill lights are at 180°).
In terms of materials, the model has a simple blinn shader (diffuse: 151,164,170, specular level: 59, glossiness: 42).

[budweizzer]

Nice details. I like where you're going. I think if you can keep up with such details all over the ship, you'll get an awesome model in the end

[dmacb]

Very nice start andrea1969!

I'm shure you'll deliver another excellent piece at the end...

The only flaw is not being from the glorious ALPHA LEGION!!! For the Emperor!!!

[andrea1969]

Thank you mates for comments.
@Dmacb: finally I know you're addicted to chaos
A little advance in the project: upper deck main structure completed.
Next step will be the two lance turrets.
Hope you like it.