Ares' little color conversion workshop

[Ares de Borg]

I have re-organised the thread a little, to keep things orderly.

 

[El Justo]

lookin' good dude i like the organization, too. well done.

 

[BadKharma]

lookin' good dude i like the organization, too. well done.

I have to agree excellent job.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Next part of my Commonwealth pack: The M3 Lee in British service, known as the Grant.

Downloads on first page.

 

[Fredeye]

Funny how little consideration was spent on the high silhouette back then compared to the modern armored vehicles.

Is the Leopard I suppose to be glossy?

 

[Ares de Borg]

No. it's just old.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Two more Shermans added.

First, the Commonwealth version of the M4A4, the Sherman V.

It was used by the UK, Canada, New Zealand etc, but also given to Belgium, Holland and the Free French.

The second is a dark-green Sherman V, which was widely exported after WW2. Brazil, Peru, Paraguay and others used these. Dark green camo was also used by the Allies in the Pacific.

The upgunned version served in Chile until the end of the 1980ies!

 

[Mr_Fusty]

I do love the Sherman V- it's a damm shame my scen only uses Soviet units.
(And there is no way I can write them into the story )

I have DL them and stuck them on a CD-R though. Never know when I may need them.

For simplicity sake, I may just file off the logos and have them naked. Still will need to recolour them though - some are desert camo, some woodland, some urban. I'll see what looks best. I can imagine rust is a pain, but my scen is set in the mid 80's and there is a few T-34's lurking around. Thought that at that age, they may be a bit worn...

 

[Ares de Borg]

I'm not sure what you mean... you can't change the textures, only recolor them.

 

[Mr_Fusty]

Yeah, I've now learnt that too . I've managed to re-colour most of them (so their colours match up, kinda) and after a lot of pain managed to file off most of the logos. Done the map, put on the cities and civs, now fighting the tech tree. Still trying with rust, I will go to any length to put it on....

 

[Ozymandias]

Funny how little consideration was spent on the high silhouette back then compared to the modern armored vehicles.

That was born of necessity: America didn't have an off-the-shelf turret that could carry a decent size gun, so they put a 75mm in a sponson and a 37mm gun in the turret as a stop-gap measure.

-Oz

 

[Wyrmshadow]

A high silhouette was the result of a radial aircraft engine being used. The M3 Grant was meant as an stop gap measure between the inadequate M2 medium and before prodction could be started on the M4 Sherman. But it was still more powerful than any UK tank in the desert at the time, so it was desperately needed against Rommel's panzers.

 

[Fredeye]

All true...and I forgot about those big radial motors they used. That would require a lot of verticle space.

 

[Ares de Borg]

After the hacker attack:

All files and previews in this thread are repaired.

 

[Redback]

Tnx m8! Good work!

 

[Ambrosia]

Ares, I am rebuilding my unit archive and discovered that your post in the unit artists library has some problems. several of the links are taking you to a different post. For example, the helecopters link takes you to WWII tanks. you can eventualy find everything if you go through all the links but I thought you would like to know about it.


BTW, I like the new look

 

[Ares de Borg]

Thanks! I'll go and correct the links.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Guess what unit pack is next...

A hint:

 

[Ozymandias]

Hmmm ... Has somebody made a Hummel I don't know about? Or are we talking F/A-18s?

Best,

Oz

 

[Ares de Borg]

Not even close...