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Armored scout car from the Gastronomic Empire (IG), scouting the effects of an artillery strike on bazik forward positions, before launching an infantry offensive.On travel! So I will return to normal activities... monday or so. X3
Just a little sketch done during a reunion, on the paper used to cover the tables. I later ripped it to save it. XD
will scrap this later
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Need to clean and update this scene. Β Looks pretty good, though I don't see a radio antenna on the vehicle.
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Hm. If you're scouting with a car, you've got to be pretty confidant you're scouting through fairly level and/or domesticatd terrain.
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As well, it is because you don't have the budget for vehicles with treads, or they aren't still goof enough.
Armored and scout cars come before than light tanks for such roles, and there where even less roads then, but it was due other reasons. :3
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Go back to WW1 when Rolls-Royce built armored cars for the Royal Navy.
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Love the wonderful look of the armoured car, and the detail on the scenery! Guessing from the armour mantle, the scout car is armed with either a 7.5, 7.62, 7.65 or 7.7-mm gun in the co-driver's position, and a 12.7 or 13-mm water-cooled heavy machine gun in the turret, which would make for a pretty decent armament for such a period vehicle. :3
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yeah, I was thinking in something in these lines, but maybe for the size of the machinegun in the turret, both are 7.62 or 7.7 machineguns instead, being the one in the turret water cooled.
Is less powerful than the 12,7, but I think that otherwise the turret would be too small :3
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Meh, the 12.7 certainly wouldn't pose a problem, even if it was water cooled - the French even managed to squeeze a 37-mm gun in a somewhat smaller turret back in WWI: [link]
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You know, back then it was a well a matter of weight. -well, always is with armored vehicles- and somehow I don't think this specific vehicle suspension to be sturdy enough to carry a gun. XD
But about the machine gun could be... but I don't know if it will be necessary a 12,7mm? Supposedly is an armored scout car.
I guess it can fit, thought!
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Well, actually... the Minerva/Mors and Peugeot armoured cars of 1915 both used the 37-mm autocannon, so it certainly could be done. I know the 8-mm/.3/.303 was a more usual armament, though, both on the (Belgian!) Minerva armoured cars (which were the first! ^_^), as well as on the Rolls Royce and Lancester armoured cars of Great Britain...
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they did? Didn't know that, then I suppose it could work then. :3
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thanks! :3
going more for a midwars period, thought.
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Nothing beats that turn-of-the-century look. : 3 I love the tiny engine body and angled windows. The setting is of course very nice and moody and REAL - you can feel the curve of the road. : ]
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Many thanks!
glad you liked it Tom
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"Gastronomic Empire"? 
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Gastronomic Empire, the "IG" -Imperio GastronΓ³mico-. X3
Glad you liked the design of the armored car!
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There is a "period" look about it. Looks too heavy, underpowered engine, too little traction to do much off road travel, particularly in mud. Looks like a strict "road tank" to me. Its high profile is terrible, at least in an age of anti-tank armor and anti-tank guns, it doesn't look very machine gun proof either. But I can see it being useful for short range transport along roads along the front lines, and in an era where air power was not fully developed.
Despite its many detriments, there is a certain charm to it! Like a car from a century ago, or in use in the first world war.
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Yeah, not the best for other periods, but I like it's retro look. :3
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Quite cool.
If your goona scrap this, I think you should redraw it... and stuff... yeah, stuff... (-_-)
(Oh god, I fail)
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Thanks!
But when I say to scrap something, it mean I send it to the scrapbook, a somehow "hidden" gallery within the main gallery: there I have about 1.200+ drawings, aside from the 800+ from featured -more or less-
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