[RobMitchell]

Stu: Many thanks! i'm glad to hear you like my work. ..the best is yet to come

Rob: Thank you! i try to push my own limits when modeling now to be able to produce even more accurate and better looking models than before. I have a update i will post later today with something i been working on this morning

Btw, some news completly unrelated to this topic i'm flying to London for a day on Friday. Got me a jobinterview there, more news about this later..

/ Max

Good luck with the interview! Let us know how you get on. Looking forward to the benchplane update, too.

[Maximus3D]

I remodeled a nut to use on this benchplane model, this one is built from measurements of the real thing to get the correct proportions. The current nuts on the benchplane are only freehandmodeled so they're not that accurate. Anyhow.. i have no Maxwell renderings of this but i do have some Modo renderings i did of it. Hope that's still ok to post here so you guys get a better idea of what i want the final rendering to look like once i'm done with the texturing.

- Modo 302 used for modeling, UV, lighting, materials and rendering.
- 3D-Coat v3 used for dirtmap painting.
- Dirtmap texture resolution 4096x4096 pixels.
- Rendertimes vary between 30 minutes to 3 hours.

Referensphoto


Final rendering


Early testrenderings



1600x1200
http://img2.pict.com/34/5b/e7/1b96a4cd1 ... onutsd.jpg

Wireframe


One more..


/ Max

[JCAddy]

Oooo Max, that rusty render is great. Awesome work pal.

[djflod]

yeah max those renders really are awesome

[devista]

yep, maximus you are the materials master

[Maximus3D]

JC: Thanks glad you like it, it looks like alot can be done with Modo's renderengine. Although i'm rather fresh to working with Modo's shadertree and renderer i'm starting to like it more and more now. It's so fast and produces highquality results almost all the time. Rendertimes with dof and high AA and more can end up about the same as Maxwell renderings so..

djflod: Thank you!

devista: Those are too kind words, i don't deserve them KurtS is the real master Yoda of materials, not me. I'm only his apprentice.

Btw, my one day trip to London went pretty well. If all goes as planned and if nothing unexpected happens i'm most likely going back next week on Monday, then i will stay there for a while.. hopefully. Oh and what a huge city i had no idea it was that big and pretty. I wish and hope i get to see the rest of it soon...

Two more pics..




/ Max

[rusteberg]

looking good max! thought these might help you.... grabbed them from the tool shed out back this morning... looks like you are almost there, maybe missing a little bit of bump on reflective surfaces. they seem a little too smooth for me, like someone has been handling them in their coat pocket for couple of years...?

[Maximus3D]

rusteberg: Thanks those references were great! just what i need to see details i could not spot otherwise. I saw some things on those which could be added to my version. The level of surface detail ofcourse also depends on what type of weathering effects been thrown at it. Some of these can look as good as new while others are so rusty and beaten up you can't even recognize it's a nut. One thing i wanna improve is around the sharp edges of the nut, there should be more erosion on those to sort of eliminate some of the shiny metal coating layer and to show off more of the dull darker metal below. Thanks again rusteberg, i'll look into it as soon as i got more time. I'm off to London again on Tuesday so my schedule is suddenly very full.

/ Max

[JCAddy]

I'm jealous. Wish I was off to London as well!

[Maximus3D]

Nah, don't be jealous JC. I won't be home for weeks..
Maybe you can come there too.

/ Max

[JCAddy]

Nah, don't be jealous JC. I won't be home for weeks..
Maybe you can come there too.

/ Max

To not be home for weeks and be in London.....Um...no problem!

Actually, I'd prefer Manchester, but hey.....England is England.

I was supposed to be working and living in Liverpool actually, starting last October but the guy screwed me over and ends up now that he owes me money. ugh.

[Maximus3D]

Manchester, sounds like a nice place aha.. Liverpool, but it sucks they screwed you like that no fun when that happens. You won't have a problem finding a new job, i mean you do have the skills. The big city was pretty chaotic, the few hours i spent there was ..interesting. Never seen so many cars and people before in my life.

/ Max

[JCAddy]

I'm guessing where you live in Sweden has a pretty small population? London felt just like Los Angeles for me and I am a regular there.

Anyway, sorry to get your thread off topic. NICE BOLTS!

[Maximus3D]

Hehe yep, i'm from a small city of around 60,000 people which is nothing compared to the one i'm going to now. LA must be huge.. i mean even bigger than London is with it's 13 million people.
No worries about the derailing, these things happen it's my thread so i don't care if it goes offtopic from time to time.

Bolts (or nuts), yep thanks JC

/ Max

[glebe digital]

Nice bolts Max!

Say hi to the 'big shitty' for me... .....lived/worked there for 18 years.........if you get time to do ONE thing, do the British Museum [just off tottenham court road in the west end]........you'll have modeling inspiration for the next ten years at the very least. oh, and it's free too!

Good luck with your gig amigo.