Ordnance QF 25 pounder Howitzer field gun

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hi everyone :slight_smile:

So about a week ago I found this photo of a 25 pounder gun while celebrating christmas at my grandmother’s house. I literally fell in love with it. when I got to my computer at home, I decided to start up Blender and heck, why not recreate this thing? And so here I am with my progress after five days of work. Please criticize the heck out of it because when I am finished with this I want to have something really good :stuck_out_tongue:

(P.S. any idea of what this badass could fire? As I don’t want a normal bullet shell because it would look boring I was thinking a pokemon or a sheep but then it would look like the pokemon or sheep was being abused :D. No, but seriously bring it on!)

Here is every piece of it I have created separated. These will soon be put together to make the actual gun. Haven’t really gotten much time to spend on this project, so I will try to work more and not sit at this website all day long :slight_smile:

Wire Render:

wire render.png836×350 8.81 KB

OpenGL Render:

opengl render.jpg2300×970 63.7 KB

Material Render:

all parts render.jpg2300×970 69.1 KB

Sorry if these images look dark to you, I have a very bright monitor. (If you can, turn up the lightness of your screen.)

I would also like some feedback on how the materials look, especially on the wheels. I know I need to work on the shield a lot but that’s just some basic blocking and it will soon look okay. Hopefully I will continue to try to stay as active as possible in this thread, and sorry if I don’t. (my first work in progress thread :3)

Here is a real Ordnance QF 25 pounder Howitzer field gun
Ty :stuck_out_tongue:

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not much in the way of technical advice…but i like the looks of it…and you have presented it nicely…whats not to like :slight_smile:

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nice start look forward to seeing it finished (did my basic on them many many years ago lol )

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Textures look really promising

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UPDATE: I have been very busy lately, so that means I haven´t had a lot of time with Blender. Been a long time now, but I finally got the shield to a level of completion. Half way in I realized the scale of everything was wrong, because I have no blueprint of any sort to follow (I usually work with blueprints). This lead to that the topology is quite a mess at the top, but at least it works.

I am close to where I can begin to assemble the gun.

(EDIT) I added some tiny details, not really big so I won´t post any pictures of it.

Wire Render

wire render.jpg1645×1131 226 KB

OpenGL Render

shield render opengl.jpg1440×1080 74.3 KB

With Materials

shield render.jpg1440×1080 147 KB

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