Hi,

recently I eventually had some time to finish this up:

It's a 4-track tape machine made by Philips, built around 1976, which is currently located in my shelf. Mine is quite dusty since it is over 30 years old, but the one on the image is supposed to look new.

Modelling was done in CINEMA 4D R10, only for the reels I used MoI3D. There are no hard edges in this model, all edges are rounded off. For lighting I used area lights, AmbientOcclusion and stochastic radiosity. All materials except the wood (which is part of my Seamless Reality Textures series) are made of procedural shaders, the decals were all made in Photoshop. For modelling, I took all dimensions of the machine myself with a measuring tape, so the geometry should be quite original.

Rendering in 2560x2048 took about 22 hours on 2 PCs (Core2Duo E6400, 2GB RAM and AMD Barton 2500+ with 1.5GB RAM). For rendering I used the tiled camera expression to split it up into 4 parts to make it suitable for NETrender.