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[matej]

Hello Octaneers!

I'll use this thread to post my finals. At least those that are deemed good enough to show, anyway. Opinions and especially critics will be much appreciated.

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Currently I'm finalizing a long overdue project of mine - the Vintorez sniper rifle (and related stuff). There's still mesh cleaning and UV-unwrapping to do. I have also yet to create half of the textures & materials. As usual everything was modeled in Blender with GIMP for textures & postpro. I'll post related renders as I go:

* The rifle itself, without the scope. Clay render

* 9x39mm subsonic sniper cartridges for suppressed rifles. Normal & armor-piercing bullet variants.

* VSS ten rounds magazine. Second render is degraded on purpose.

* Standard Soviet PSO-1 scope

[dhamoeba]

absolutely fantastic
i love all the texture! looks like real film!

[Furumaru]

Wow, great pictures.

[Populus]

Very nice model work!

[matej]

Thank you, guys

[r4ytrace]

seriously - your renders are constantly beyond impressive - nice one man

[PeJotL]

Great work! Thank's for sharing.

PJ

[Timmaigh]

Brilliant, the texturing of the scope is jawdropping. But why Vintorez? Its such an awful looking rifle... PSG-1 or M14 EBR next please

[matej]

Brilliant, the texturing of the scope is jawdropping. But why Vintorez? Its such an awful looking rifle... PSG-1 or M14 EBR next please

Thanks (and to all others).

I find Vintorez a very interesting exotic design (I like the buttstock and big integral silencer). With the scope attached it looks less ugly than without. The next thing will probably be the AS Val, because I will be able to reuse most of the model. In the future I was already thinking of OC-14 or SVU (I obviously have a thing for ugly-looking Russian firearms ). The M14 EBR looks nice & 'techy', but I think it would be a big modelling challenge (but there are probably a lot more reference images and drawings around)...

BTW, I was hoping to finish it for this week, but I found some better reference images and had to remodel some parts which were not accurately done. Also the original model is one year old and I had less experience back then, so there was also a lot of mesh cleaning to do before I UV unwrap.

BTW2, I must give my thanks & credit to KardeN, who is sharing a ton of hi-res pictures of Russian small arms & gear on his photo-blog. I wonder where is he employed...? So if you need such reference pics, check it out.

[hadouken]

Great renders Matej. And thanks for the link to that site. Really helpful.