This was a personal project aimed at practising my hard surface modelling skills. Iron Man being one of my favourite characters served as the perfect subject as he has plenty of soft flowing curves that meet sharp edges. It's based upon the MK IV armour from Iron Man 2.
I then took it a little further to push my skills with some weathered material creation.
Going to just leave him as a bust for now.
Modelled with 3DS Max, textured in Photoshop and rendered with V-ray.
After 2 iterations of 'turbosmooth' he wound up at just over 300,000 polys.
Here is a look at the materials. I used v-ray blend materials using masks to mix between the different layers.
