Blood Angels Dreadnought

[wraithe1972]

Hi all, just thought I would show a model I am working on, based on the metal/plastic miniature by Games Workshop. The Blood Angels Dreadnought from the world of Warhammer 40K

The actual modelling is finshed, but as you can see from the front detailing I have been messing about with some displacement mapping, first time I have tried this, the map is just layed on the object as a whole, so I need to lay out the UV's for that. I did an extrude after the map was applied so that needs sorting as well.
Here are a few images of the different versions.

I created a full gallery of these models, on my website with different views and the different weapon variations. If you are interested in viewing them then click the link below

The Graffix Tablet

Although it looks like there are 3 models, all I did was modelled the weapons on different display layers, and seperated them into different groups, then all the animator has to do is select which dreadnought he wants to animate and turn on the relevant layers. When it is rigged, it will be 1 rig controlling everything. The only time I created more than one model, was for the first image.

Hope you like it.

Mick

[flipnap]

Very cool models

[wraithe1972]

Well after alot of bugging from a few a few peeps I finally decide to texture my dreadnought, this is my first serious attempt at texturing.
I did have some techniques in texturing that I still need to practice, but for the most part the dreadnought is textured.

TEXTURING - Well, it's been a long time in the making, I have to say, I hate UV mapping, but I did like painting the model though, it's not perfect but not bad for my first serious attempt at texturing.
METAL - Although the metal looks nice and clean, I'm not happy with it, it's too reflective and I'm not sure how to mess around with the ramp node to get it right. Also I might add a different metal for the gun barrels, I want them a dark black metal colour like real weapons.
SCRATCHED PAINT - Not too happy with the scratched paint. Basically I had a base grey colour, then the base red paint colour. In photoshop I cut holes in the red paint and gave it a dro shadow. I did also give it a bevel but it looked too deep even at low settings.
SPECULAR - I left out the specular mapping, when I did it, I followed the Simply Maya Mech tut, but my specular maps looked horrible, you could blatantly see them on the model so I removed them. Some more practice needed there I think.

Other than that I pretty much like it. Any comments crits n tips would be appreciated.

Next step.......... Rigging :jump

Mick

[toast--2]

He's looking great!

Although he looks like he just stepped off the showroom floor and hasn't seen any battle yet (textures are brand new, no wear or tear or rusting). But if that's your intention you've shown it well.

Good job mate.