Railway Gun (German WW2 Super Cannon)

[Lashy]

Hello guys,
This Gun is modelled in 3ds max, I worked on it some 50 hours,
this is a skylight render, i had to take out 2 different skylight renders, then finaly merge them together to get this final render. I did this because of my computers incapability to render the whole thing in 1 shot.
Sorry for the large size.
I hope you like it, if you dont, please give reasons..
Take Care
Thankyou


http://img.photoamp.com/i/G8vNAf.jpg

[cobra6]

That is actually looking very nice! Only crit I have is that it seems to float a little over the track :)

Cobra 6

[Lashy]

yaa, thanks, you are right, i noticed it after the render was done,
aaah, i didint want to render it again (7 hours)

[Servo]

DAMNED impressive! Ditto on the "floating above the tracks" comment and maybe add some thickness to the gun barrel? I looks paper thin. Other than that it's awesome!
Servo

[Lashy]

thanks servo, i'll make the necessary changes and post the result.

[cobra6]

precalculate Radiosity and see what it does. Every computer should be able to render that in one pass, unless you have an 133 Mhz processor...

Cobra 6

[Lashy]

thanks cobra for the suggestion, i'll try it out.,
cheers

[Lashy]

Suggested changes made. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

http://img.photoamp.com/i/avJwy.jpg

[Lukem]

Very nice modelling - it looks much better now with the barrel thickness added.:)

Is this one based on a K5E Leopold?

[Lashy]

thanks buddy, yaa, now it looks better
whats k5e leopold ?, i didnt understand..

[Lukem]

The K5 Leopold was an 11" railway gun (see the one in the gallery) - I think there is one on display in either America or Europe somewhere. I seem to think it was the most common of the railway guns.

It's a great idea though - take a battlecruiser gun and put it on a train!:D

[cobra6]

Thats much better.
And... did it render in one pass this time? :)

Cobra 6

[Lashy]

No, two passes again, my computer aint healthy enough !!

[Skyraider3D]

Good to see some more military trains on the forums! Nice work.

[Lashy]

thanks skyraider3d.

i was wondering if this Rail Gun has any qualities of reaching the Featured Photos colomn. If it doesnt have any such quality, then how can i make it have some.
Please guide me.

[Lukem]

It would be nice to see it textured - just my opinion though.

[Lashy]

I would texture it for sure, you just have to wait.

[Lukem]

I look forward to seeing that. What camo. scheme are you thinking of painting it?

[Lashy]

I would like it Old , scratchy and dusty.
Or u suggest something ?

[Skyraider3D]

i was wondering if this Rail Gun has any qualities of reaching the Featured Photos colomn.If I'm not mistaken, the Featured Photos section is a random selection of Gallery (http://www.military-meshes.com/gallery) submissions.

[Lashy]

@skyraider : Does that mean i should try posting it in the "gallery" ?

[Skyraider3D]

Yea, you can do.