Since I've been dabbling in armor lately, I thought I'd do another armored unit. This is the BTR-152 APC. I just finished painting it in DeepPaint 3D. I still have to add a human model behind the machine gun.

Removed image for space. A full preview can be seen in the "Finished Units" forum.

Looks good so far. A little dark.

The first preview is dark due to the default lighting in 3DMax.

Civ3 scale preview further down.

Hey :) you really seem to dig wheeled/tracked units now that you completed your masterpiece glad to see you are carrying on with them by perfecting perfection! I think the civ-scale preview colour is fitting.

http://www.warwheels.net/images/BTR152harris9.jpg
Note both painted-over patterns... the one serving as background for the white numberings is about the same colour you are using as texture.

Man he even has it down to the mud tires on that thing.

Looking Kool Joe.

Very impressive!

The bumper looks a little heavy, but a great looking model and very fast turn around too.

The original bumper I made was the correct U shaped (a U shaped piece on it's side). When I transfer Nurbs to mesh in Rhino3D, it always puts more polys than needed in the mesh, even at it's lowest setting. So when I imported it into 3DMax, I just quickly whipped up a blocky bumper, this helped cut down on polygons, of course, at this stage high polys aren't really an issue.

Hmm, now that I looked back at my referrence photos, it wouldn't hurt to
scale the whole bumper down entirely.

Okay, here's a new Civ scale preview with a resized bumper, I think it does actually look better.

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TCW 1.5 Gfx Patch here i come!

vingrjoe: This really looks awesome! Great work! :)

Here is an ingame screenshot. The Civ color may be hard to see on some civs, if they use a darker color, like China in El Justo's TCW. I am not adding any more Civ color though, since I have all but the death animation done.

excellent as usual my friend!

is there an ETA?

Thw new bumper looks just right. Fantastic looking unit.
I know this is gonna be contradictory... But have you experimented with an over sized gunner?

Make the bumper the right size, make the gunner the wrong size. hehehe.

I don't know what sort of mesh you're using for the gunner, I'm guessing it is just a a textured version of one of the little humans figures, which should be just a few seconds of work to fiddle with in scale (if you are so inclinded).
Looking fwd to seeing the final unit.

It's done, check out the finished units forum.

Now that was a Quickie ;)