Page 1 of 3

RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:35 pm
by japme
Decided to pull my old RC-135V/W RIVET JOINT model, and modify/upgrade it to a RC-135U COMBAT SENT.

Image

Fortunately, that consists mainly of rebuilding the nose, tail, and wingtips, with minor detailing changes across the model, but I also tweaked the nacelles and pylons, as well as optimizing some of the poly flow across the fuselage an wings.

Base model and details are done, so now to start working on the shaders/textures!

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Based out of OFFUTT AFB, Nebraska and assigned to the 55WG, COMBAT SENT is the USAF's premier heavy TECHNICAL SIGINT collection asset.

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:14 pm
by Nils
Now that one has come a long way since the old 707, solid and good looking model!

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:40 am
by denders
Nice looking! Lots of appendages :D .

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 10:16 pm
by japme
Gotta catch them beeps'n'squeeks! :)

Started the texturing process.

Image

Image

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:05 pm
by japme
Color/Bump for Nacelles & Pylons completed... including the #3 nacelle having some additional details...

Image

Image

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 4:39 pm
by japme
Wing Color / Bump - Complete... still need to add landing lights (modelled) and detail the wingtips.

Image

Image

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 3:00 pm
by Nils
Looking really good, but what is going on with the shades under the wings?

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 4:19 pm
by japme
Lower quality lighting/GI for preview... since it isn't getting direct light, it results in the patchiness. Once I crank the GI quality, it will look as good as upper surfaces do.

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:48 am
by japme
Started on the fuselage... left side color map (no markings) completed.

Most of the finicky work will be around the fairing for the wings and making sure that the side/top/bottom maps mesh correctly.

Image

Image

Re: RC-135U COMBAT SENT

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2022 5:33 am
by Nils
It starts coming to life 👍