my first ever handpainted model, like shinigami eyes this thing took years off my lifespan (painting textures is difficult apparently).
Style-wise inspired by one of my alltime favorite games, borderlands. Theme wise inspired by both the given assignment theme ‘the golden age of aviation’ and a biographical book i enjoyed a lot, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. Just like the retired warplane fighters modifying their airplanes, racing and consequently kickstarting the gold age of aviation, this book tells the autobiographical story of interbellum ex-soldiers who had fought in ww1 and after the war, finding themselves traumatized and not fitting into normal everyday life, who undertook expeditions (includiong a final fatal one), trying to be the first to reach the peak of the then recently discovered mt everest in 1924. As a climbing / alpinism enthusiast i decided to give this twist to the assignment.
polycount plane: 11k (20k with backface culling)
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