Heinkel He111 bomber progress in Maya [4th update - UV texture maps]

[kiwicolin]

I've been working on this one for about a week. Still have a fair way to go, but most of the base model is there and I have begin to detail it a bit.

I need a bomber for my battle of Britain series I'm going to do :)

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/post/heinkel.jpg

[Edited on 7/1/2009 by kiwicolin]

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[Edited on 7/6/2009 by kiwicolin]

[TheDoc]

Very cool, one of my favourites from that era. Something about having four to five crew members in one ship always intrigued me.

[elemento]

is looking good boss........
could you render a spaceship?
im trying to learn C4D,

[kiwicolin]

Elemento: I'm in the middle of a spaceship. I want to finish the plane first

[kiwicolin]

An update
All I have left now is the wings [they are just temp right now) and then some clean up. Then time to start texturing

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/post/heinkelparts.jpg

[kiwicolin]

Ive made a lot more progress.. Be ready to start texturing soon :)

[elemento]

keep em coming, looks like a puzzle....
show the space ship when you are done, if you want we do something around it......

[kiwicolin]

For Sure Ele, lets do a colab

[kiwicolin]

Now I'm starting to prepare the texture maps

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/post/heinkelTM.jpg

[kiwicolin]

Trying to finalize the UV maps. There are still some areas of distortion. This is a tough one!

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/post/heinkel-tm.jpg

[Edited on 7/5/2009 by kiwicolin]

[rAyVoLvEz]

its really cool to see such a step-by-step process.. maybe boss can push it further --> a tutorial please!

[kiwicolin]

I have now applied the rough texture.

This is just some "kit bashing" I just roughly pasted in bits from different low res reference shots and then painted the colors to the edges roughly. Now comes the long process of painting all the textures by hand.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/post/heinkel-tm2.jpg

[kiwicolin]

This is what the UV map looks like so far

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/post/uvmap.jpg

@Ray, I don't mind doing a process series, but a tut would be way to much work for now, I wanna finish the model :)

[rAyVoLvEz]

@Colin, of course! I'm dying to see the model first!

Tutorial can wait :)

[kiwicolin]

Ok I have painted the solid color now
Here she is with a new paint job. This is mainly to make sure that all the parts are in the right place and to lay down a base color.

Next up, its time to start to paint all the detail :)

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/post/heinkel-paint.jpg

[TheDoc]

Very cool, love seeing the step by step.

[Hermie]

I see now where you got the parts from :lol. Great project, big too. I love WWII scenery. And it got me thinking....