I needed some old, rusty chemical tanks for an abandoned factory map. I thought I could be lazy to find it, but I didn’t, but I found the basis of the tank as an obj-file. Now I know I could have done it pretty easy myself though.

So, we start Cheetah3D and get to work. This is the model, I stripped away the tanks underneath it, but kept the hatch and the ladder.

Now I needed some texture, so I make something very simple in FilterForge, could have been done in anything else but I had FilterForge opened, this is what I thought those tanks looked like when they were new.

Now, using one of my favorite filters that I haven’t been using much before, Derelict by Carl, a wonderful filter.

A diffuse map, see the gorgeous rust.

And a bump map.

Now, I apply those in Cheetah3D. I also use the old radiator texture for the hatch and the ladder.

Tank one

And a second tank, just changed the UV-mapping a little.

Looks pretty old and abandoned to me.

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