should know Flakmonkey who posts on the military meshes site and is one of some very good modelers on there is selling a challenger , king tiger and leopard model at 1$ each on turbo squid

you do then need to know someone who has got maya and can convert the mb file into obj files for you - and a huge amount of memory (the challenger and king tiger in c4d format average about 280 meg each and in obj format about 300 meg)

then you'll have to texture it

but you wont find a better model for a dollar today

or if you do post the link!

2,500,000 polygons... I don't think I have software that could handle it.

280 MB? tanks, but no tanks. :lol: ISTR hoagland or vanishingpoint also had some battle-tanks.

"I'd buy that for a dollar!"- The Marching Morons, and also Robocop..;) I'm just surprised at seeing something that cheap for...;)

It is a remarkable offer, and from what I could see in the pictures, the models are pretty good. Just too much for my system to handle, even though I'm tempted by the prospect of a Tiger. Hmmmmm, should I rephrase that? There are other good free or cheap tank models out there, at places such as the Lightwave Group (free registration required). but they can be a lot of work to get into Poser. The Lightwave data can cope with every tracklink being a repeat of a single object, but Poser doesn't import the repeat/positioning information. (I think you can do the same in Poser, but you have to rig the model, and there are a lot of tracklinks on a KV. This sort of detail may be behind the polygon count I saw.) And the freebie Jagdpanther from Vanishing Point. (At this point I'd speculate as to why the losers should have the most romantic uniforms, and it is claimed that the Wehrmacht uniform was designed to enhance the soldier's pulling power, but I caught a bit of The Way to the Stars on TV, and the RAF boys still looked hotter than the USAAF.) Anyway, I can understand somebody from Russia making models of WW2 Russian tanks, and everybody was fighting the Germans, but where are the detailed tank models of WW2 British and American tanks? I've seen M3 and M4 medium tanks, but not the late-war versions of the M4.

And if everything goes well, there may be another new free tank soon to accompany the free JagdPanther from Vanishing Point.

PS All my tanks featured fully animatable tracks and are made for Poser, no conversion neccesary from other programs. If anyone makes tanks for Poser, and want the tracks to be animatable, just contact me. I don't charge much. In fact, I don't charge at all, lol. Just as long as it's your model and not someone else's.

I will post a pic of a Tiger II and an M4 Sherman tomorrow

Whoah. Love to hear how you solved the tread problem.

The Panther looks good. Do you have the saddle-drum feed for the AA machinegun? I don't remember ever seeing pictures of a bracket for a standard ammo box, unlike the standard mountings for the American Browning.

Here is a pic of my King Tiger

Interesting... It turns out that German AFVs used this special bag instead of conventional ammo boxed. Pity I can't read German, there's a lot of German-language sites on this stuff.

Attached Link: http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/freestuff.asp?StartNo=174

Just download the tank at the link. Install, select the body tab, and turn the dial for the tracks. There is one dial for each track, to turn it forwards and backwards, and one dial to turn both tracks together.

Then you can open the CR2 in a text editor and see how it was done.

Helgard