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05-30-2010, 01:53 PM | #1411 |
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Liking the pairings. The HVT teams are great.
Stalker and Dusty are awesome. Pathfinder really came out good.
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05-30-2010, 02:41 PM | #1412 |
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thanks for the quick explanation Zulu.
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05-30-2010, 03:25 PM | #1413 |
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The more I thought about it though, the less it made sense that an intelligence/recon unit like how I'm re-imagining GIJOE to be would be tooling around in vehicles that are so conspicuously military in nature. I decided to dig around the 'net for any evidence that special operations forces might be using COTS (commercial, off-the-shelf) vehicles in combat zones. I found these pictures of alleged US Special Forces and their Northern Alliance brothers-in-arms using Toyota Tacoma and Toyota Hilux crew cab pick-up trucks in Afghanistan:
The choice of the Toyota Tacoma (and its international version, the Hilux) makes sense when you think about a recon/intel unit trying to blend in with the local population. The Tacoma/Hilux's worldwide popularity makes parts procurement and replacement in the field comparatively easy and it has a reputation as a particularly durable and relatively fuel-efficient vehicle. And the fact that it uses gasoline, instead of military-grade JP-8 fuel, means that users can gas up at local stations (gasoline engines are also quieter than standard US tactical vehicle engines, which are basically diesel engines modified so that they can use JP-8 fuel). Anyway, I still haven't settled on a "named" vehicle for the GIJOE team (in fact, I don't know if I'll even make a chapter on vehicles in the reference bible). All I know is that if I do choose one, it's going to be an NSTV (Non-standard Tactical Vehicle) like those Tacomas/Hiluxes above.[/list] http://img232.imageshack.us/i/mambamki01ui8.jpg/
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05-30-2010, 04:16 PM | #1414 |
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Is there any place where we can still view all the characters you trimmed? The old Picasa album was a really neat resource.
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05-30-2010, 11:58 PM | #1415 |
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... some South African armored vehicles (one was called a Mamba, I forget what the other was called) that I got to drive around, which was a blast. And surprisingly wasn't too much different driving on the right side of the vehicle from the left. But the strangest thing about these is that the engine is a tiny little 4-cylinder the same as what was in the early-90's Toyota Corollas.
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zuludelta - Unused Designs You can also access this picture folder from the photo gallery I link to in my signature... just go up one level (by clicking on the "Photos" link in the upper left) and then look for the folder named "Unused Designs". Last edited by zuludelta; 05-31-2010 at 12:07 AM.. |
05-31-2010, 02:06 AM | #1416 |
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06-02-2010, 02:32 PM | #1418 |
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Glad you like them SP00K.
Well, here are the first 10 personnel files. I've made the decision to simply list them in alphabetical order (based on surname), since I'll be releasing the document as a PDF, it'll be text-searchable anyway (I'm not rasterizing the text, which is also the reason why I'll be sticking to a common-across-all-OSes font like Arial): File deleted. Please see my next post for the updated document Let me know what you guys think. Last edited by zuludelta; 06-03-2010 at 04:00 PM.. |
06-02-2010, 02:50 PM | #1419 |
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Those look great Zulu.
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06-02-2010, 05:50 PM | #1420 |
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Looks good to me.
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