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A commission I took on a little while back from 
The Evil Fox
I don't think I'll be drawing a tracked vehicle again for a very, very, very long ass time >.< was fun to do, if a little tedious with all the details, but that's what I get paid for ^^
Working on things in the background. Sorry I've been so absent lately, but life's keeping me pretty busy X3
Scar is © to The_Evil_Fox
Art is © to iPoke
The Evil FoxI don't think I'll be drawing a tracked vehicle again for a very, very, very long ass time >.< was fun to do, if a little tedious with all the details, but that's what I get paid for ^^
Working on things in the background. Sorry I've been so absent lately, but life's keeping me pretty busy X3
Scar is © to The_Evil_Fox
Art is © to iPoke
Category Artwork (Digital) / Miscellaneous
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 1200 x 960px
File Size 514.1 kB
That's what we actually called it in the army: a sausage helm\hat. Warm in the winter, hot during summer. Protects your head from the elements so thoroughly that I'd often wear it outside the tank if weather was cold.
We also had a winter variant with fur liner, but the summer one was more than enough anyway.
We also had a winter variant with fur liner, but the summer one was more than enough anyway.
Oh I know. I' have a couple of these. one is WW2 with three ribs across the top of the skull, and no electronics, and a modern four ribbed one with electronics, both in black cotton. they are VERY useful, and probably should be spacecraft head wear as well. (I used to serve as crew on a T-34/85 in a Re-enactor Cluband worse the sausage hat, and a black Kombi, because there was grease EVERYWHERE.
The T-34 sounds SO soviet with its dirtyness. I'd give anything to try driving a ww2 armoured vehicle. One actually had to work in order to drive the thing because of the lack of power steering. I read somewhere that in order to fully press the steering lever on a t-34, one had to apply about 40kgs of force on it. Talk about a workout.
Kind of. When everything it properly maintained you can steer it well, with just two fingers, but Hard maneuvering, there is a trick where you pull yourself up on the laterals, let them pass underneath your arm pits, and then lean back putting your weight into them for hard stops or hard turns. You get sore, but with a few tricks and a wooden mallet for the shift lever you can deal with it. it's really a fun vehicle. (I just need a post it note on the bottom of the oil pressure gauge, for the shift pattern because it's really strange for one used to car shifters,.
Actually, the way the 30mil chaingun works on the CV is that it ejects the shell-casings outside from a small hatch at the base of the gun. I'd often have the casings rolling around in front of my driver's periscopes during exercises where we'd move and fire away at the same time. Thank god for advanced gun stabilizing.
Unless you already had one stashed away somewere better cross your legs during travel. :P
Unless you already had one stashed away somewere better cross your legs during travel. :P
Mm I know it's a tough choise out on the battle field, I kinda was meaning those pictures where you see the character blood spattered, armor torn to pieces, enemies everywhere and yet they have such shiny soft tailfur! On a tail that's still attached to them. Ears too, blood everywhere helmet on and their ears, so shiny and soft and intact! :> It's all in the role that they are of course, I guess most would have to have their ears clear in the more standard marine/trooper role, but this guy's in a tank and them things are loud! And he's got sensitive hearing with those big ears. :D
Don't take me wrong, I never grew tired of the engine noise on the CV. To me as a driver the engine was my baby and I learned to listen for any sounds it shouldn't make. I think the CV has one of the most distinct engine sounds there is and it will always remain as pure sex for my ears.
oh FYI. apparently for Armored Vehicles, all the cool kinds are getting the models from Google Sketchup and arrianging it for a snapshot to trace over. saves time and delivers correct perspective.
Look what
pyrosity has done with it
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10504016/
Look what
pyrosity has done with ithttp://www.furaffinity.net/view/10504016/
Lazy? only if you aren't on a commercial deadline. This is an old Commercial artist's type trick. in the old days it was referencing from a filing cabinet full of photos and magazine clippings, called a Morgue, occasionally traced or light boxed. Possibly lazy, but deadline had to be met. The problem is keeping perspective consistent on something like an armored vehicle is often a problem especially if you are dealing with portions of the vehicle only and the vanishing points are waaaaay off to the sides.
I used to work in illustration for game publishers (the table top kind), and the comic book industry, before I started work in video games. I see using Sketch up as no different than taking the photos yourself as you ARE composing the background image for use in your work. Lazy maybe, but efficient, yes.
Scott
I used to work in illustration for game publishers (the table top kind), and the comic book industry, before I started work in video games. I see using Sketch up as no different than taking the photos yourself as you ARE composing the background image for use in your work. Lazy maybe, but efficient, yes.
Scott
Ah the good ole sausage helmet, because swinging your head around in a box full of thick metal... you /will/ bang your cranium on something eventually. Tho - something tells me those ears are going to be getting quite a few knocks, I would even dare say they don't need nearly as much padding as they retain quite a bit of flexibility.
Well I know that you need some firepower to take these out. Those BTR and LAW APC's are pretty tough, in means of getting them destroyed. And no, i do not know anything about tanks, but still, i know where the best places to hit one are, and little stuff like that, but it would really be interesting to get full detail of a T-90 or similar tank :D
And for some reason this pic. gave me a Arma 2 Wasteland kind of feel. (Most probably because of the "break" in the woods, and a tank, and a man eating food.) :D
And for some reason this pic. gave me a Arma 2 Wasteland kind of feel. (Most probably because of the "break" in the woods, and a tank, and a man eating food.) :D
Thinking of Soviet tanks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K17_Szhatie
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