And I'm still not at this time, but I was digging through my storage box of WIPs that I hope will find the finish line someday...figured I'd share these with you for the hell of it to get some opinion. :) Mind you they're in the early stages, but that's what WIP basically means, right? ;) Check 'em out, hope you like them! MD WIP #1 I'm going retro...built a diner and named it after a famous diner in my hometown. Have yet to come up with much of a backdrop yet, but it'll come to me. WIP #2 I'm going OLLLLLD school with this one...Fort Fisher, famous site of a couple of Civil War battles between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean. This depicts a scene just after a battle. I plan on adding bodies to finish the scene...whenever that will be. Enjoy! :)

And WIP #2. :) MD

Guess I could explain how I did them. Everything in both pictures are custom. The phone booth sign was made in Photoshop as was the diner sign. Everything in the Fort Fisher was basically from scratch. The dirt photo texture on the hills has some green in it b/c I used the paintbrush and threw some simple green basic color on it. So there ya have it. :) Any other questions, just hollar! MD

wow, both of these look great---excellent modeling on that diner!

Great looking diner MadDog, and that battlefield is coming along too.

Yeah! They're both good but that diner model is looking sweet!

Lol... there is a Whitey's Pub in Grand Forks, ND.... Used to drink there. Not quite a diner... Your diner looks excellent. That battlefield is pretty cool too... nice work with the cannons and fire.

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Yeah man, Both are great. Awesome modelling on the top one =)

I agree--they both look very good, but the diner is top notch. I'd love to see the completed render!

Very nice beginnings, both of them! :) I bet there will be more diner renders around here the coming weeks though. lol .. pointing down to a couple of my previous posts. Hope you don't mind that!

Brit...hehe...nah, that's usually why I don't post WIPs because of someone else coming up w/ the idea then but I figured for anyone that's having a hard time coming up with ideas, here's a couple that may jog your creativity. :) MD

I think that a uber modern/futurist city behind/over/surrounding the diner would be cool. Call it "Nostalga". Just a suggestion! Cool work!

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don't feel bad, I see multiple subjects of stuff I've done..what stings is they're usually better..;) Never been to Ft. Fisher, but I've been by it many a time, on the way to Southport, Myrtle Beach, et al..;) have fun, I think Orton Plantation isn't too far from there..

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