Dark Forces Remake - Phase 1

So being the huge Star Wars Nerd that I am, I really enjoyed the last fan project I did along with several friends of mine, the Mos Eisley UE4 tech demo, so I recently decided to start a new fan project. With the Mos Eisley project, I didn't get to push it as far as I wanted to, namely there were no characters and no game-play in it, so this time I wanted to do something more complete. I was a HUGE fan of the old 1st-person Star Wars shooters from Lucas Arts back in the 90's, so I have started a fan remake of the first level, the Imperial Base. I am striving to take it even further than the Mos Eisley project in terms of visual quality, and also include characters and gameplay similar to the original game. This is probably going to take some time as I don't have a lot of free time these days, but hopefully I can get it done in the not-too-distant future. Here are some VERY EARLY WIP shots out of the 3ds Max viewport.