[Bubbaloo]

Decided to model a flashlight.
I'm going to try to model the light and cone accurately to see if I can reproduce the lighting in Maxwell. This is a "spare time" project so it might move slowly...
Here is the real flashlight:

Here is my start:

[Bubbaloo]

[killian2828]

Looks very accurate so far, godspeed.

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks, killian.
Got a liitle more modelled:

Excuse the bg material. It is just diffuse texture (I turned off displacement for speed.)

[tom]

There are a lot of sharp corners. You could (should) add tiny bevels.

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks, Tom. I can (will) add the bevels.
Here's the cone and bulb:

[Bubbaloo]

Small Update:

[sandykoufax]

nice model. good start!

[JCAddy]

I am guessing that you're modeling this in Max?

Can you explain the process you've gone through to model the plastic head of the light and the plastic peice at the bottom of the light with the cutouts/bevels around it?

[Bubbaloo]

Jason, I tried several attempts to poly model those ridges cleanly, but I gave up and used proboolean on them. The result was fairly clean, but it prevents me from adding bevels to the edges like Tom suggested. Anyway, it looks ok for what it is.
Now I'm having material issues. Trying to get the brushed metal to look like the real thing.

[martgreg]

hey Brian :


what is that little scratch thingy on teh outer case for the bulb area ?

[Bubbaloo]

In the last render?
That's a weird result of the material I used.
It's one of the default anisotropic plastics.