Aft Mast Nimitz

[Erwin23p]

Hi, I’m giving a hand on a mod for a game, the project is the Nimitz class aircraft carrier, and for now I’m only working on the aft masts of the carrier, I did already two masts for the different ships of the class ( one for cvn 71-72, and the other for cvn 73-75) and I am working on the third one now (cvn 76, 77).
For now I’m not doing LODs so it’s pretty low poly but I want to work on higher detail for the future, as for now I have a pretty bad hardware I’m only doing modeling.
I only recently learned rendering, and don’t have a lot of hours in the day to work, but progress is slowly made:

Old renders of the other masts and original island for reference:

I would like some feedback on the overall scale/size, and for the renders I used an hdri, in cycles.

Thanks a lot,
Erwin.

[Erwin23p]

Added a new radar (AN/SPN-46) for the bottom platform, more detail on the top platform and trying an alpha texture for the catwalks, I added also a normal map to try to look like it has some thickness.

For now, I can’t add a lot of detail because I want it to match the rest of the ship.

[sundialsvc4]

This work so far looks extremely “solid.” Keep going. Don’t sweat the small stuff (yet).

[Erwin23p]

Little update, finished the modeling last week and now I’m finishing the UV mapping.
I will try texturing with substance painter but I’m limited by my hardware.