M3 Grant

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What Calibre is the Gun on top?

 

[DingBat]

What Calibre is the Gun on top?

It's 37mm.

 

[sethodie]

Hi DingBat,

Grant is looking very good.
I have a lot of photos of this vehicle (including interior). If you want them let me know.

Baest regards,
sethodie

 

[Athena]

I'm truly impressed DingBat, your model looks great!

 

[DingBat]

Not too bad for a first attempt. I'm pleased, but only cautiously. There's still unwrapping and texturing, after all.

sethodie: I may take you up on the references. I picked up a bunch of books designed for plastic modeller references that are doing the trick so far, but I haven't really looked at their interior shots yet.

Thanks guys!

 

[Faustnik]

And I imagine, the Bow MG'er will be firing a 75mm instead?

I wonder how this will work? The bow MGs have have free shoulder rotation, the 75mm should move more slowly like a Stug/Su76 gun. What a lot of fun to have a second cannon!

Great model!!!!!!! The lend-lease tanks will be a great addition, M3 medium, M3 light, M4, all used by the Soviets in significant numbers.

 

[DingBat]

Ok, I'm calling done, on the model at least.

I totally redid the turret and added several hundred polies there. IMO, it looks a lot better. The total is still sitting just shy of 5000 polies. Since this is a learning project I'm going to call an end to modelling and move on to uvw mapping and unwrapping <cringe>.

 

[Manstein]

wow, that turret is really impressive!

 

[Capt.Marion]

not bad. not bad at all!

 

[FYROM]

Very nice work! So will the skin be US, UK or Russian?

 

[Britney Federline]

No--Japanese:

 

[sethodie]

Hi,

Your model looks really great. Maybe you can remodel this parts

VVSS bogies needs springs (parts 1 and 5). Without them boogie looks too thin (it is very thick, massive part):

Maybe you can bevel samll covers and add hinges:

and the last thing - visor should be connected with cannon cover (sorry for my English. I am not sure if it will be understood):

Model looks really great.!!!!! good luck,

sethodie

 

[UncleDrax]

Looking darned nice for <5k triangles Ding!

 

[DingBat]

Thanks guys, and special thanks to sethodie, who's provided a ton of material for the interior (when I get to that). It's nice to have veteran modellers around.

I'll look at those suggestions and try to update the model soon.

Oh, does anyone have any tut's or special advice for mapping and unwrapping something like this? This is easily the most complicated thing I've tried to unwrap.

Cheers

 

[daschewy]

you can probably do the springs as a texture instead of actually having to model it in.

 

[R1G4M0RT1Z]

It looks really really good, keep up the good work

 

[Moz]

you could likely remove a whole edge loop from the turret, you have strange poly density with all the edge loops. You could likely merge those 4 loops of polys on the midsection on the turret and save alot of polys and balance the triangle better.

 

[DingBat]

you could likely remove a whole edge loop from the turret, you have strange poly density with all the edge loops. You could likely merge those 4 loops of polys on the midsection on the turret and save alot of polys and balance the triangle better.

Not sure what you mean there, Moz. Can you elaborate?

Thx.

 

[FlashPanHunter]

Not sure what you mean there, Moz. Can you elaborate?

Thx.

I think what he means is to pull remove an entire ring of polygons making up the top turret of the tank, which makes sense, but might not be necessary for the model as you are already comfortably within the limits. It looks pretty straight forward to uv, just map single parts and duplicate as necessary for the wheels and the pieces holding the wheels, the exausts and maybe even the two gun barrels. The body as a whole looks like it will be pretty simple, though it will definately involve some gruntwork, just do the body faces one at a time to get the preportions and then arrange the pieces. Maybe try mapping the turret as a cylinder first and then edit the uv from that base. Good luck with it, uv mapping has a bad rep, but I don't think it quite deserves it.