Lastest Composite

Latest Composite

Original 

I am not quite pleased with the results. I managed to finish the foreground objects/vegetation which turned out okay, but the vehicles in the distance defently need more work

WIP Composite Image

Maya file Dropbox Download Link

I decided the best course of action would be to individually render each object and use Photoshop for layout and composition.
The above maya file contains just the models I made. 

WIP Models

 Military Transports

 Foreground barrel & ammo

I cant say I enjoyed modeling just with Nurbs and learning Maya at the same time. It was a complete change of pace from the simple and efficient polygonal modeling I am used to when working in Blender. 

The biggest challenges were probably not being able to easily combine multiple meshes and unable to find the equivalent of face/point extrusion and face creation. 

Hitting ingrained hot-keys over and over again didn't help either. 

Photo and Movie Soruce

Source/Inspiration:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Photograph turned B&W and blur added to closer match source style.

Original Photograph.

I also used additional partial images to be used at the foreground vegetation.