Vive La France! Happy Bastille Day 2012

Here's a LeClerc AMX-56.

In Soviet Russia....

Concept "Black Eagle" Tank. (Chyornyy Oryol) This was a cancelled project. The tank was based off the body of a lengthened T-80 chassis. It got cancelled due to the fact the T-80 performed poorly in the First Chechen war. The reliability issues of the T-80 design was apparent and it presumably got translated into the Black Eagle prototype. However its easy to blame the design of the tank when the tank platoons were sent into the capital Grozny with little training, no infantry support and lack of tactical knowledge of the area. For better or worse, this model is now consigned to model kits and the history books. Shoot over to wikipedia and read about it and the T-80.


Indian T-72 Ajeya variant with ERA armour. Ok its not Russian, but its of Russian make.

Wheels

Concept Troop Transport


Rollin' on quad bikes.

Big Cats

Leopard 2A6 rolling through. Once again, pardon the inaccuracies. This is just a practice sketch and I try to work with watercolors directly. So there's really no planning.


I have a few 1/144 miniatures to take reference from. As well as photos on the internets.


Update. Leopard 2A4 with pen and watercolor.

Dirt

Merkava IV, winged it to test out the Moleskine Watercolor Pad. The paper isn't too bad, not as bad as the really crap Moleskine Sketchbook but nowhere near the orgasmic feeling of an Arches Hotpress. Direct watercolor sketch, so pardon the inaccuracies and the non-sharpish angles.


Workdesk shot.




Concept Jeep on another cheaper sketchbook.


And a detail shot.

First Post 2011

Here we go.

As per SOP - The smallest guy gets the biggest gun. This is the Machine Gunner. I haven't had the chance to add the A-Gunner sketch yet.



A couple of Armoured Vehicle concepts. A Troop Carrier and an armoured truck.




And finally....where it all takes place. This European-esque town is really an amalgamation of 3 river towns in Central France. It probably resembles Château-Thierry the most in terms of layout.


More details to come when I get the artwork done. Working on several things and so far its been a productive first week of the new year.