Scenery - oil drum

Creating an oil drum

It was now time to create an oil drum , or two , to accompany the other objects created for the airstrip environment. 

I wanted the oil drum to be rusty and authentic looking, like the ones shown below:

To create the oil drum I used the cylinder tool - to make sure that there was no gap in the middle.

I then used the tube tool again to create the ridges around the outside. I then placed them accordingly and applied a bitmap texture of rust by opening the material editor and clicked the grey box next to the diffuse option (making sure I was on the 'compact material editor' - as I find it's easier to use.

Time spent: 25 minutes