CX439 Urban Eliminator Tank (WW3) (Final Comments Appreciated...)

Nitronic755

I've been working on this for about two weeks, It was origionally meant to look like something out of star wars but somehow it ended up a dreadnought from 2015 WWIII. Big work in progress, haven't even started the turret. So this is what I've got so far.

In the end, sticking with my theme of riddiculously overarmed and overpowered, I hope to end up with:

Four fixed six barrel machine guns (Done pretty much)
Four (Or more) Missile Launchers
One chemical laser mounted on the turret
One or two light machine guns mounted on the turret
And some other stuff.

Please don't say it's got too many weapons because that's the whole point!

It's grey and orange because I like that combination. Probably would stand out like a strobe light in pitch black.

C&C Welcome. This is my third major project.

UPDATE: Here's the final list of weaponry:

Four six-barrel machine guns
One chemical laser
Two light grenade launchers
One rail gun
Six mortar launchers
Two Flamethrowers
Eight Missiles

Nitronic755

This is my design for the missiles. What do you think?

Buster

You are doing great with the details, I can't wait to see what you decide to do with the upper half.

Nitronic755

Thanks Busterhymen. I've been working on the laser, which looks a lot like a standard tank projectile gun ecept for all the pipes and stuff... The turret it obviously still in it's very early stages.

Nitronic755

Update: This is starting to look like a tank! Also, my last attempt at a tank... which I think isn't bad for my first detailed project.

Nitronic755

Update: Machine Guns and Missiles added, gun barrel modified slightly. Headlights have also been turned on...

Also, If people could post their ideas on what a decent flamethrower looks like, I'm completely stuck on Ideas...

I'll keep working.

Buster

You can get some really good results using particles.

Here is a great website with different effects, one of them is a flamethrower. You can download the blender files and see how they work.

http://www.centralsource.com/blender/flames/

Nitronic755

Thanks, although I was looking for inspiration on the actual flamethrower and not the jet...

Nitronic755

Update. Please comment.

Nitronic755

Another update. Not many replies...

Zordan

Impressiv model

i love the antennas.

How about some smoke grenade launchers and one of those infraret camera devices.

Soenke

Anthony

That is amazingly groovy

Nitronic755

Zordan: Thanks, the smoke grenades are a great idea, the IR cameras are located behind the screens in between the front machine guns.

Anthony: Thanks

Everyone else: Expect a mortar launcher soon...

Nitronic755

Taking advantage of BlenderArtists large size limit on attachments and to celebrate more than one person replying to my thread, here's a nice big image. Also, any reccomendations on a decent renderer to use? All images done so far have been in Blender Internal, I have Yafray but don't know how to set it up, and have also heard of Indigo. Any Help???

ecgilboy

Looking good...nice modeling...keep it up

Kannon

That is a sweet tank.

Probably for something like this, I'd stick with the blender internal. The mechanical stuff has always worked better for me in it.

Zordan

Some tanks have MG turrets on the top where soldiers can sit in. How about a camouflage carpet and of coursse a camouflage texture with some stylisch numbers

Nitronic755

Ecgilboy: Thanks
Kannon: Thanks, I'll stick with Internal.
Zordan:I like the grey/orange colour scheme, and camoflage paint is pretty stupid when you have bright orange glowing energy vents everywhere... Textures will come eventually. My perception on the turret on top of the big turret is the soldier is too open to attack, but a mechanised version might appear.

Nitronic755

Update: More Detail on the Side Panels

Nitronic755

The Mortar Launcher... Thre Barrels on each side, Six Shots in totla before manual reloading. Can rotate 45 degrees for accuracy (shown at horizontal). Big explosive rounds. Please Comment.