Naval War - Arctic Circle Key Art

This is a cover I did for Paradox interactive's Naval War - Arctic Circle game a few years ago. This particular cover was on a very tight schedule and a very tight budget but I was given a lot of creative freedom by Paradox from the very start and was responsible for the image from concept to final execution and retouch. I started,as usual, with in-game (in this case very low res) models and built up detail by modeling and also stock models. Background was a mixture of digital painting and photomontaging.