SMC M#04 - Hammer88 - 19SPSD

[hammer88]

I was looking for a new approach and because I suck at modeling SF stuff I wondered.... How would they have done it 100 years ago? Well using a mix of revolutionary technology (solar power) as well as a tried and tested one (steam+trains), so here comes the name: 1900 Solar Powered Steam Drill.
A mix of steam locomotive, crane, drill, 1800's solar receptor...

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/5809/49621492.jpg

[Psycho Mantis]

cool, reminds me a bit of

http://www.modellbau-koenig.de/catalog/images/Dora.jpg

with that thing, you dont need to drill - you just shoot holes into everything :)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Gosh you're good at detailed models, excellent so far :)

CG.

[TNTxGRAVE]

Very nice man. "Ctrl C" and "Ctrl V" for the win.

[hammer88]

thanks...More progress

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7307/15684790.jpg

[TNTxGRAVE]

Dood your pics take a while to load up. How big are they? Any way that has to be the mother of all drills. This thing has a friggin warehouse on it. lol looks massive, slow, and well modeled.

[hammer88]

They are 0.5 MB big, I have now changed the image hosting site, so I think it should be better now. More progress

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5214/27641677.jpg

[Tiberiy]

cool! I like steam models ;)

[ill]

wow, this is coming along very nicely!

love those huge machines, is it a krupps - machine?

got some nice roundup and reference pics about those here
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/biggest-and-hungriest-machines.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/even-bigger-machines-dig-bigger-holes.html

maybe they could be useful for you?

[Rachel vd M]

oh sh*t Hammer88 joined in on the fight,
nice to see you at this section, and i see you brought your train skills with you ;)

[hammer88]

Thanks for the reference, actually it's called a "Max brothers" machine (the first name I came upon in the rush). I still have to do the drill and the solar->steam plant, hopefully I'll make it in my remaining hour... still working on the drill concept...

[paulius-st]

good one. looks stuning. the share size of it. ceep it up.

[Dann-O]

Impressive machine there. like the level of detail and the look of it.

[hammer88]

I'm done with the modeling, although I wish I had more time to do a few more hoses...time to start thinking about textures...

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6125/45135004.jpg

[alfonzoaqui]

Oooo....

Steampunk! Love it.

[Tiberiy]

may be not very functional, but looking cool.

[hammering3D]

that's a biggie :d, defiantly not for drilling holes for ice fishing :D

Impressive scale, sweet original concept, one of my favorite so far, with many others in this completion I can say.

Don't forget today is the final day to post the finals in the final thread.

[hammer88]

Well..I'm quite done... I wish I had textured it, but it would have taken way too long...

[andrewhall1234]

This model is extreme. Such a good concept and modelled nicely too.

Great work