[SP00K]

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Originally Posted by zuludelta

[Troynos]

Liking this Storm Shadow much better.

[Loose Cannon]

Nice Zulu! I like the updates alot. Storm Shadow looks perfect. The Nikes look good too. Bludd looks good too. Does he have a holster for that sidearm? He seems to be missing his sinister smile. But I can't imagine its easy getting into facial expressions.

Firefly looks great too. Ok what's the deal with his choice of weapons? I'm really just curious. you usually have a reason for everything you do so I just curious why you choose that one?

[zuludelta]

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Originally Posted by SP00K

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Troynos

Liking this Storm Shadow much better.

Yeah, ditching the sleeves improved the design a lot.

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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon

Bludd looks good too. Does he have a holster for that sidearm?

Yep. It's on his right hip, partially obscured by the RPG7 (I figure he's right handed, but he's holding the semiautomatic pistol in his left hand because he's using his right hand to keep the RPG7 from falling over).

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Firefly looks great too. Ok what's the deal with his choice of weapons? I'm really just curious. you usually have a reason for everything you do so I just curious why you choose that one?

No particular reason. I just want a sense of consistency with the weapon assignments. If you look at the Joe designs, I rarely went for "unique" weapons (apart from the personal sidearms/pistols). The riflemen are all armed with AR15-style assault rifles (M4s or M16s) with the rare HK416 and FN SCAR thrown in (and although those two are internally very different from the AR15 design -- they use short stroke pistons -- they use the same STANAG magazines), the designated marksmen use either accurized AR15-style rifles or improved M14s, the SAW gunners all use the FN Minimi or derivatives thereof, the machine gunners all use improved M60 machine guns, etc.

I wanted the same type of consistency with the bad guys, with the "standard" rifle being the AKM/AKS (in my mind, Cobra and its mercs prefer the 7.62x39 mm cartridge over the 5.45x39mm cartridge, but at the resolution I'm working in, AK-47 derivatives aren't really distinguishable from AK-74 derivatives, so I freely use one in place of the other and vice-versa depending on what pictures are best suited for the character I'm making an image of).

[Loose Cannon]

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Originally Posted by zuludelta

Thanks!



Yeah, ditching the sleeves improved the design a lot.



Yep. It's on his right hip, partially obscured by the RPG7 (I figure he's right handed, but he's holding the semiautomatic pistol in his left hand because he's using his right hand to keep the RPG7 from falling over).



No particular reason. I just want a sense of consistency with the weapon assignments. If you look at the Joe designs, I rarely went for "unique" weapons (apart from the personal sidearms/pistols). The riflemen are all armed with AR15-style assault rifles (M4s or M16s) with the rare HK416 and FN SCAR thrown in (and although those two are internally very different from the AR15 design -- they use short stroke pistons -- they use the same STANAG magazines), the designated marksmen use either accurized AR15-style rifles or improved M14s, the SAW gunners all use the FN Minimi or derivatives thereof, the machine gunners all use improved M60 machine guns, etc.

I wanted the same type of consistency with the bad guys, with the "standard" rifle being the AKM/AKS (in my mind, Cobra and its mercs prefer the 7.62x39 mm cartridge over the 5.45x39mm cartridge, but at the resolution I'm working in, AK-47 derivatives aren't really distinguishable from AK-74 derivatives, so I freely use one in place of the other and vice-versa depending on what pictures are best suited for the character I'm making an image of).

Thanks Zulu. I see the holster now.

I guess I had not seen a Cobra in a while so I didn't make the connection with the AKs. I figured Firefly picks whatever he wants. Which is really you living vicariously through him.

[zuludelta]

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I guess I had not seen a Cobra in a while so I didn't make the connection with the AKs. I figured Firefly picks whatever he wants. Which is really you living vicariously through him.

Heh.

I'm giving the mercs a freer hand with their weaponry, though, since they're less bound to things like logistical standardization and whatnot compared to the "full-time" Cobra personnel: Zartan's got a Vintorez silenced sniper rifle (just like the one that came with the 25th/ME single-carded figure), Zandar's got an M14, Kwinn's using an M1 Garand (he's old school like that), and obviously, a number of the Dreadnoks don't even use what we would normally call weapons.

[zuludelta]

Encountered a bit of writer's block today and didn't really get much done in the way of writing filecards. Finished the glossary for the PDF, though (7 pages!).

Here are a couple Dreadnoks:

Thrasher and Zanzibar

Design notes:

• This is my take on Thrasher... my concept for him is "lacrosse player meets motocross/off-road driver," hence the motocross armor and the mitts. I find him to be annoying, based on his various filecards (spoiled rich kid, engineers parents' deaths so he can get his inheritance) and there are few things that annoy me more than a grown man sporting a fauxhawk, so I replaced his old duck's ass pompadour with one.

• Zanzibar took me a good long while to make (about 4 hours all told). The problem with him is that his clothes (particularly his half-shirt upper garment thing) don't have any real-world equivalents, so I spent a lot of time scouring my image archives and the internet for comparable references and suitable source pics. Took me awhile, but I'm much happier with this image than my previous take on Zanzibar.

Thanks for looking!

[Loose Cannon]

Well it shows, Zanzibar looks real good.

[SP00K]

[Troynos]

Thrasher is cool.

I liked the previous Zanzibar better though.