Tank

To start off I created a cone shape for the tank, then a cylinder for the body, and another cone for the base, but made the cone not form a point to have a flat lower surface. Then I realised that the top of the tank looked different, so had to edit that to create a cylinder and another cone on top which involved remaking the first cone to not include a point. Following this was adding materials. This involved finding an old wooden plank texture, then figuring out how to make 36 planks. I attempted to make an individual plank, but this would have made the render time way too much so started looking for another way, and found about tiling. The original image had 6 planks, so I increased the tiling to 6, so that there were 36 planks on the main section of the tank. Following this I added bumps to the texture to make it more realistic. I then reopened the image in Photoshop, and slightly edited the contrast to make the wood darker for the lower sections of the tank. Then repeating the previous steps for all the sections of the tank, but with lighter and darker versions of the plank texture.

Following this I created a shape of one side of a cannon in illustrator, then used that lathe tool. The first time I did this my cannon was too thick, so I redid it in illustrator, which ended up with it looking like a candlestick, so went back and redid it again. There was one more problem though that the wood texture was visible through the cannon when it was indented into the tank so I extended the base which gave room to indent the cannon into the tank without seeing the wood texture.

After creating my cannons I had to duplicate them. This involved creating a circle around the tank, then aligning it with the center of the tank. Fixing the cannons to the path constraint of the circle. To duplicate them I had to right click on the the tool bar to add extras, hold my mouse down on the array button to select snapshot, from the snapshot menu select range, 37 ( it placed cannon 01 and 02 ontop of each other), then instances and that made my 36 cannons.

A problem occurred here when I duplicated the cannons because they were all facing the same direction, I had to click on the follow box so that they were all facing outwards from the tank, then repeat the snapshot tool.