Glorious Peoples Bats

[toxicpiano 125]

Pretty!

[Silur 3,306]

Hi, Patrick ..

Is this monument in Kiev  or Moscow Mitino memorial cemetery ?

[pnorrell 4]

Originally posted by: Silur Hi, Patrick ..

Is this monument in Kiev  or Moscow Mitino memorial cemetery ?

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It's in the town of Chernobyl, near the plant. It's a monument to the firemen who gave their lives. Here's a better shot:

Here's the one at Mitino:

[BurroDiablo 222]

Yes, i've seen that before. Even up to the mid 1990's the Scientests who worked at Chernobyl wore nothing but a jump suit and a cotton wool face mask and a gieger counter... no hazmat suits, no Gas masks, nothing. The most hazardous place after the Chernobyl explosion was the roof where alot of the debris lay, so they employed guys known as 'Roof Runners' to go out for 20 seconds at a time and shovel as much radioactive debris they could back into the core before running back to be decontaminated. It was certainly a mess.

I heard a massive lump of the Sarcophogus fell into the reactor just a few days ago.. not that it makes any difference... Chernobyl's Core is so scantily clad its basically doing a striptease. Not that that matters either since most of the radioactive material is underneath the core in neat glassy stalactite formations.

[Yoman3 5]

I think they plan to seal up the thing in some kind of dome? Its also interesting that they operated the other reactors there until the late 90s....idiots I say.

[ianpaschal 77]

Yeah actually. After reading pnorrell's post I spent all of drafting class reading about the disaster. You're right El Burro, it is weak, but a collapsing shelter is very dangerous. It has already filled with rain water which is now some of the most highly radioactive waste on the planet, and a collapsed shelter also is prone to raising another dust cloud laced with radioactive particles to be scattered across Europe. Since this is actually such a threat, Yoman3 is right; a french firm has been hired to create a massive metal dome to enclose the entire dying shelter.

[Silur 3,306]

Hi, Patrick ..

Thank You very much ....

I worked in Jakutia (SAHA now) and we must gave all our X-ray devices to Chernobyl ...

[toxicpiano 125]

Originally posted by: Yoman3 I think they plan to seal up the thing in some kind of dome? Its also interesting that they operated the other reactors there until the late 90s....idiots I say.quote>

Not really, there would have been massive power outages in Ukraine otherwise.

Also

On 17 September 2007 it was announced that a new steel containment structure would be built to replace the aging and hastily built sarcophagus that currently protects reactor core #4. The project, financed by an international fund managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, will be designed and built by the French-led consortium Novarka, which includes the companies Bouygues and Vinci. Novarka will build a giant arch-shaped structure out of steel, 190 m wide and 200 m long to cover the old crumbling concrete dome that is currently in use.

It is expected to take a year to design the new building and another two years to build it. The steel casing project is expected to cost $1.4 bn (£700 m). A separate deal has also been made with the U.S. firm Holtec to build a storage facility within the exclusion zone for nuclear waste which has been produced by Chernobyl.

[BurroDiablo 222]

Don't mind me sneaking in the Chernobyl Steam chimney -

[Jasoncw 11,933]

Looking good so far. 

It seems like your rails on the top are too big overall.  Because of the natural thickness of the walls, and the general planeness of the facade, it is hard to get a good sense of scale from it, but a good sense of scale can be given through the railings.  The sizing of the other rails looks good.

Also, you could probably give all of your textures a sharpen filter in Photoshop.

[BurroDiablo 222]

I made the rails smaller but I wasn't sure how much sharpening I should be doing on the textures so I left them as is. I also resized the stairs on both the Reactor and the outer-wall and added a bunch of other stuff -

Our Plant - Our Pride

Also... too far, or not far enough? I'll probably render a few versions in the end to add some diversity -

[ianpaschal 77]

Looking very good. That beard though... Looks MS Painted in

[BurroDiablo 222]

Originally posted by: Scipio Looking very good. That beard though... Looks MS Painted in quote>

Its just straight render colour... I didn't texture it although I should really. I might darken down one of my crumbly paint textures.

[Godzillaman 21]

If it isn't too much trouble, could you do a newer looking version too?

[BurroDiablo 222]

Hmm... it would probably lose about 95% of its detail but I could give it a shot

btw... better, or do I need to turn down the volume on the crumbliness? -

[Explodingsims 3]

Looks Good to me. I think you got the crumbling effect perfect!

[mightygoose 92]

i assume there will be a version with a plain end?

[pnorrell 4]

Lenin vechna zhivoy! Atlichna, tovarish! Looks very realistic. Why would anyone want a new-looking version? Where's the fun in that?

[ianpaschal 77]

I think he said plain, so one without the painting. If you just want a deteriorated power plant.

[Yoman3 5]

Looking great here burro! Just one thing, maybe add 1-2 more levels on the Steam Tower? Seems a bit short, it might just be the fact that we're looking at it from the air, and I'm so used to seeing it from the ground.

[BurroDiablo 222]

Thanks guys

@ Mightygoose - Yes, i'm going to render one without the Lenin Mural. Also going to render one without the steam tower

@Yoman - I'll see what I can do. Also, i'm being demanded by Glenni to fix the window textures so it appears i'm not totally finished yet.

I'm also planning on a little bit of ground clutter around the plant... some planters near the front door with dead stuff in it, pipes, bits of masonary etc.

[autoVino 26]

nice.  Propoganda.

I've heard many stories about russian propoganda, especially in the stalin time period.  It was tot he point where they had in a year many many kilograms of newspaper and only a few rools of toilet paper in the stores.  Often people used the newspaper instead, but if it had a picture of stalin it was the end for you.

[AlexandrosK 0]

MAAAANNNNNNN it is amazing all that stuff............................. did you upload them or you will keep it only for SAKHALIYA???

i f yes pls tell me where i can find them, this is great stuff mz friend ..

[BurroDiablo 222]

I've rendered 3 versions today, i'm in the midst of looking at them in Lot Editor to see if their looking alright.

So far... 2 of the Models didn't render properly which is severely annoying

Annoyances aside, after this I'm going to the stuff here thats outlines in red -

No. 3 is a water inlet pump house by the looks of things, the other 2 however, i'm not entirely sure what they do. I'm going to do those 3 buildings before I release it.

[zzazzmatazz 3]

Hey El Burro, what happened to all the BATS you made in the first page? They look real good!

And about that Chernobyl power plant, it looks great!

[BurroDiablo 222]

I never released them... either because they were un-finished or not up to my standards... if i'm not going to use something because its terrible then I highly doubt others will use them.

Although, there are things i'm willing to go back to and fix for an upload like the Library.

I just remembered the TV tower I did however not that long ago, i'd totally forgot about it (since when I rendered it last time it was alot smaller than I'd envisioned). I may render that again... an upload however, hmm... we'll see.

[sparkythepenguin 90]

Speaking of a structure that has to be unbuilt in a communist country, how about the undisputed king of the failures of design-on-the-cheap? The infamous Ryungayng Hotel (probably spelled it wrong) in Pyongyang, North Korea! At least Chernobyl wasn't some high-rise monstrosity smack dab in the middle of the capital that people had to look at every day.

[wir3d 2]

Wow never have started on a BAT.  I just let people like you guys make them for me

[BurroDiablo 222]

Originally posted by: sparkythepenguin Speaking of a structure that has to be unbuilt in a communist country, how about the undisputed king of the failures of design-on-the-cheap? The infamous Ryungayng Hotel (probably spelled it wrong) in Pyongyang, North Korea! At least Chernobyl wasn't some high-rise monstrosity smack dab in the middle of the capital that people had to look at every day.

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The Ryugyong would have been nice had it been finished... many people believe that what you see right now is it basically finished, all it needs is windows. Not the case however, it was to be encased in Sapphire blue glass... i've been tempted to BAT it but i've been told Paulvmontfort has beaten me to it (which is a good job because would have made a mess of it ) and its practically done. If it makes the game is another question but the renders are amazing... I would post them but I don't know if Paul would like his unfinished models being gawped at without prior consent

If it isn't released though, you can guarentee that i'll give it a shot.

[ianpaschal 77]

Originally posted by: El Burro The Ryugyong would have been nice had it been finished... many people believe that what you see right now is it basically finished, all it needs is windows. Not the case however, it was to be encased in Sapphire blue glass... quote>

What's your point?   Adding glass to a building doesn't save its skin.  Even with blue glass it would still be a monstrosity.  Just the shape is unbearably ugly.  It looks like a big cartoon mountain.