Whoa, baby - totally steampunk! Love your choice of the body texture. I see you're really into the heavy machinery, and tho I wish those gauges were larger, you've made a wonderful construction with the hydraulics and other textures. Great job!

great job author...great example of steampunk machine...well done

Author, this is a fantastic design, but it needs some Steampunk materials for the surfaces, I think with some brass and wood added (and even leather if you want) it would be a most formiddable Steampunk Choptron! Right now it looks awesome but too futuristic. The steam chamber is great, as are all the gears and tubes. Also, the steam probably could be less black, which is like smoke, and more white or gray, like steam. Would love to see it with those elements added. You have quite an incredible design here!

great work author...good luck

congrats

not bad work at all...modeling is fantastic...but hard to fit with this background

This is pretty cool, author, and I'm thrilled to see those gears, tho I wish they had slightly more light on them. The brass parts are good, as are the hoses and spiral tubes. One nitpick is the bright edges of the 'legs', I think it's much too bright. Not sure what the disk material is, but that would look great as a nice finished wood. Overall, very good work, good design.

I can't quite tell what the object is, perhaps you can explain?

By the way, as a whole the render looks great, i'd just like to understand exactly what it is

the object is a helmet, if you look at my sbs there are a few more renders

Author, this is quite an interesting chop, your steps 3 and 4 show the great modeling you did, but in the final image, they're all covered up, not showing. The straps are great - I hope they're leather! But the material for the top of the helmet looks too contemporary, not sure what it is. I like the glass view window on the front, and the little steam stack on the rear, it would be great to see some steam! Maybe try a wood texture for the helmet top, with some brass and leather accents - and then I'll want to order one!

The base plate of this is too small, and doesn't show any form of mounting. It looks like the gun should fall over.

Really nice rendering of the wire and nuts!

@mircea What are you on about, did you read about steampunk, its about Victorian age steam powered machines which are applied to modern technology. Adding laser systems or LCD screens would just be taking away from the point of the task.
The Tubes which follow through valves from the cylinders to the back of the gun carry high pressure steam which fires the projectiles. This is certainly steampunk and no way off topic.
About the scene. I did like the two guns and the idea of having it on a fort, but when it came down to it, I could just not get that looking how I wanted so I went simple.

I think you're on the right track, author, and the brass look on the rightside element is good, the copper looking material is ok, I think, tho brass would be much better. However, try changing the material for the base vertical post to wood and brass, the 'bumpy' parts on the right to more recognizeable wood tone, and the color of the hoses to something more neutral, then you'll have that great look! I agree with MossyB, it could use a larger base. Don't give up on this, you've got a great design.