Something big

[Torben]

This is not really an art update, but a heads-up in case anyone is wondering: updates will be extremely slow for a while. Having a new baby boy in the family will do that. When I do get back into it, finishing touches and a gallery for the lambda and the corvette (plus a name for the latter) will likely come first. Till then, I might be lurking for a bit.

Not sure how I missed this...Congratulations, man! I can certainly sympathize with the time issue, my 2yo daughter is sitting next to me, and my son will arrive in about 2 months. Enjoy them while you can, they grow up so darned fast!

[fractalsponge1]

Some more updates. I know the pattern is a little more complex than the reference in the ICS, but meh, that's ok, right? :p

[phred]

quick question, why are the treads so deep? It seems the wheels would be pretty fragile built like that.

And congrats on the kid man!

[Count Chocula]

Well, this is Star Wars. Those wheels could be stacked discs of Imperator hull material with reinforcing force fields.

And add my congratulations on the little one! My six-year-old was a newborn just yesterday.

[fractalsponge1]

He is growly extremely fast.

Model updates.

Rocket/grenade launchers - these scale out to ~70mm diameter tubes - someone at ILM was thinking.

[fractalsponge1]

Added the little retractable chin guns:

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Topside details - the sensor dome and the gun mount are obviously not done - debating what kind of gun to put in there (original or something bigger and more interesting).

[fractalsponge1]

About finished with the dome area (minus the I-don't-what-I'm-going-to-do with the mast and the cupola), right before I go completely berserk detailing the side antipersonnel cannon mount (well, maybe not completely berserk).

[fractalsponge1]

Made the flank twin antipersonnel guns - thought the funnel shaped default barrel was odd, so I made barrel shields of sort of the same shape.

[Norade]

Damn! As always your work is amazing.

[fractalsponge1]

Thanks Norade.

More stuff:

[fractalsponge1]

This thing is starting to come together:

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Vaguely complicated turret:






Animation:

[fractalsponge1]

Emplaced with some more of those lights ILM festooned this thing with

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Some light plating to finish off the middle area:

[Littlefoot]

Sweet Jesus, is that a laser Vulcan cannon?

[fractalsponge1]

Sweet Jesus, is that a laser Vulcan cannon?

Pretty much

OK, so here's the lookout thing. I thought the idea was stupid but looked cool, I decided to remake it into a sensor pod, with the "lookout" platform a narrow light mesh thing around it (~1m wide). Kept the ladder bit. Still not quite final, but this is the gist of it.

[fractalsponge1]

Now in place, with some suspension-area greebles.

[fractalsponge1]

So this is how the enlarged dorsal gun turned out - actually pretty close to the original :p

[Crossroads Inc.]

Wanted to say amazing work as always Fractal.
I will admit that the tank has not been one of favorite EU designs, largerly as it just seems, well, poorly designed. The main guns are high on top and I would feel it has a hard time actually hitting anything on the ground. The side guns are mounted on those wierd stocks and don't seem to have much flexibility. I guess it works better as a command vehicle, though it is always shown in the middle of battle.

Still on your end it is the best incarnation of the thing, and I can actually imagine the thing in battle now looking and what you have done

[fractalsponge1]

I think the A6 is pretty well designed, more or less, for a SW vehicle the size of some corvettes. It's much faster than an AT-AT, retains the ability to pass through shields, can turn or reverse much quicker and in less space relative to its size, carries a whole infantry company with a much saner method of deployment, and has a big integrated comscan suite. A lot of the odd stuff is ancillary things like the lookout tower, which I've tried to ameliorate somewhat.

Armament wise, it's probably like the AT-AT and modern tanks - designed to fight at some range. There's no hull-down position or anything reasonable for something the size of an A6; the top guns must be for fighting at distant targets, not firing up-close from ambush positions. The main gun position has approximately 360-degree coverage, with a dead zone near the vehicle much smaller than an AT-AT's entire wooded hemisphere. It's mounted higher than an AT-AT's chin guns, so better range. Anything that gets close enough to use the Juggernaut itself as cover from the top guns is likely to a) get a face-full of spinning armored wheel segment, b) get shredded by the anti-personnel blasters which actually have *extremely* good coverage, or c) win anyway having shrugged off the gatling and top gun. Note the stalk guns have the mounting articulation at the tip - near 360 degree coverage in the vertical plane, and is far enough out from the hull to cover both ends. The one sort-of wooded spot (under the "front" nose) has two autoblasters of its own.

The juggernaut is basically done, bar some touch-ups and fixes here and there.




Comparisons, which is the first time I've dusted off the AT-SE mesh in years, which also reminds me how awesome it eventually did turn out . The walker is ~24.5m tall (a little taller than an AT-AT).

[Littlefoot]

i tink I just saw one of your models in a fan film on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3Dj042 ... re=related
3:32

[Captain Seafort]

i tink I just saw one of your models in a fan film on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3Dj042 ... re=related
3:32

You're right. That's fractal's Allegiance without a shadow of a doubt.

[fractalsponge1]

That it is - I believe it's just a transition animation using the old ortho render. I'm not credited, I don't think, but it's pretty minor, and it's only a 2d shot, so meh, no point kicking up a fuss. None of my meshes themselves are ever really distributed these days.

[Azron_Stoma]

Man, the AT-SE makes me wonder what it would look like if the Empire took and redesigned a Warhound Titan from Warhammer 40,000 and put their own spin on it. Which would likely look allot like the AT-SE only with heavier leg armour, no AT-TE cannon and two arms with some very big guns on it, plus the reactor of a small corvette or something.