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[DarthSloth74]

Haven't posted recently I have been a bit distracted by 2nd Manassas for my PC. Anyway I found this great Land Raider conversion on the net and I decided to have a go at making it. Only put about 3 hours in so far the plan will be to develop some battle scene pictures using several 40K models which I am in the process of making so watch this space.
As always your comments and criticism would be greatly appreciated. I don't mind negative comments as long as they are constructive.

[alrichards240]

looking really impressive so far, can't wait to see how you progress. at this stage the only thing i would change is to scale up the smoke dispensers as they look too small and out of place. other than that its looking really good.

[Heroblob]

Nice work Darth.

I'm going to move this thread into the work in progress forum, since you haven't finished it yet.

[FLUXITY]

Pretty cool so far, still some work to go though.

Still some plating on the side to go and it needs to be thicker. Side guns need to be brought back and the barrels extended and made bigger. Middle cannon type thing needs to be thicker with the holes added. Smoke things scaled up. Top middle bit is too high. The bolts on the side should be inset rather than on top as well as some of the other details. Bolts are like a cog shaped cut with a bolt in the middle. Top and bottom side gun covers need a bit of work and the thing on top of it needs a little reshaping and the scopes scaled up and detailed.

: )

Sorry, you didn't say whether you were trying to model it accurately or whether you're getting the general shapes with a few details, as you're making loads of them.

[DarthSloth74]

Thanks to all for the comments and advice. I have been rather busy of late and haven't had much time for modelling. Now I have some time again I have returned to this project.

Here is an early Rhino model I made it's far from perfect not entirely accurate but since it only took me an hour to make and the fact that I managed to keep it under 10000 polys it will do for the time being.

To FLUXITY, I don't want to be making these models really high poly since I have some really big battle scenes in mind. Another reason is I despise UVUnwrap so I prefer to minimise my headache by keeping the models as low poly as possible. Many thanks for your suggestions I see exactly what you mean I really should pay more attention to details and getting myself better reference pics would help.

To everyone please note I tried a texture on one side of the rhino purely for test purpose so don't tell me the texturing looks like it isn't finished.

[DarthSloth74]

Alright I had one of those ideas for a picture in the middle of the night again, anyone else suffer from that problem it 's so annoying. Anyway I digress, I got up made a sketch and yesterday decided to do a concept drawing which ended up taking two hours and looking more like a painting, now that's going off on a tangent isn't it!

Firstly I won't apologise for my poor drawing skills, but it should give people an idea of what I'm trying to make. Importantly I do not not intend to model this based on a specific Chaos warship, so please don't tell me it doesn't look like a specific class etc. Besides I feel the whole nature of Chaos means that no two ships would look alike after spending thousands of years in the warp.

I have only just started work on this so there isn't much to look at. The plan is to build the decks out of 50m long detailed sections, overall I want the ship to be roughly 1800-2500m long. The two sections shown have 60000 polys in them, so I think the complete model should be about a million.

I plan to put in animatable hanger doors, deck guns, gun port hatches, anti-fighter turrets and anything else I feel the need to do.

Will put up some more pics as work progresses.

[DarthSloth74]

Hello everyone, here are some renders of my Chaos Battlecruiser including WIP and the finished plain grey model. The final image I have posted in the Out of the Maelstrom thread in the finished works forum, so anyone interested should check it out there.

[InProgress]

It's damn pretty! It would suck to unwrap every part May we have some wires and a polycount read?