[Paul]

I still thinking figuring out how to do this in 3D is the best option, if someone who knows 3D modelling could show how to get the perspectives correct it would be fairly easy. You could use blender and then task people will creating boom machines, platform types, etc.

Then you could just compose them all together in blender (or render them out and use photoshop/gimp).

Edit: And also this is pretty much how the originals where done - but blender running on an old laptop is still more powerful than the best machines they had back in 1994-1997.

Edit2: Also the rupture farms do it yourself scene has tons of textures and models that could be used.