Saturday, December 12, 2009

Landkreuzer P.1000 Ratte

I was inspired by the sheer ingenuity of Nazi Germany tank designs from the formidable Panzer to the fearsome King Tiger. But one particular tank, the Landkreuzer P.1000, a mega tank that never made it past the drawing boards that caught my interest. Nicknamed the Ratte (Rat) this 1000 metric tons tank would have über-dominated other super tanks in the WWII theaters if it was ever built.

And here we have a P.1000 Landkreuzer Ratte model made up from scratch. If you think the skin looks familiar then there is a big chance you have played Company of Heroes. It only weighs 308KB due to simple design based on China's Emperor Overlord and the Soviet Union's Apocalypse tanks.
The twin cannons can move up and down 0°- 80° but the turret is fixed. I tried rotating it and it looked awfully out of balance when it rotated barely 90° to its sides. As with other Nazi tanks in CoH, 2 turret-mounted MG42 were added to ward off those pesky infantries.

Ham: Will continue to modify it to look even more epic and hopefully give it the ability to rotate its gun turret. Would want to see the P.1000 cruising the maps of CoH and running over columns of Sherman tanks and flattening the Allied HQ P:

Mil Mi-8T

This is a weekend project, so it's kinda crude compared to its Mi-24 counterpart. A low-poly Russian transport helicopter, I managed to reassigned the desired physics based on the older Mi-24 model after a long break from 3D modelling. It's smaller in size, 556KB compared to Mi-24's 783KB.

Ham: Honestly I feel disgusted by it and most likely will remodel it and make a better looking render.