Pheylan

Finished with the Vespasian.



*Edited for clarity.

Evening all.

Since I have a bad habit of jumping around a a lot when doing projects, I've spent the last two days dusting off and updating the files for some of the other old wip's that I started. Some of which haven't seen the light of day for a number of years.

The first up is the Eliminator. It's one of the newer good guy vehicles. It's heavily armed and armored but has a very sluggish acceleration rate even for a heavy grav tank, so it's mainly used for defensive operations. There is another version of this tank called the Cincinnatus which is used by the Renegades. The two are nearly identical except the Cincinnatus carries extra supplies and ammo. I'll probably do that version as well only I'll take the liberty of swapping the Mass Driver Cannon for a heavy Laser.....just because I can.

There's very little reference material on this so I'm making up some things as I go.



Next is the Deliverer. Personally I think this is one of the uglier designs, but I feel compelled to build it because it's the primary heavy tank for the Commonwealth and I want to do all ten of the main front-line vehicles (five for each side). Don't have much to show yet because it was one of the last models I worked on.



And lastly the Lupis. It's the standard light APC used by TOG. It's very light on weapons but excels at doing it's job of getting troops to were the fight is.

Got a little work done on the Spartius. Mostly refining the turret shape and size and rearranging some things around. I moved it more to the center. It was originally offset to match the schematic, but it seemed a bit too much imo, so I exercised some artistic license. I also added the crew hatch windscreens and the hull number for the 8876th Strike Legion (The Mailed Fist).





In addition to the models I've already started, I'm thinking of building at least 2-3 more for the CW/RL faction. I will probably build one medium tank and an antiaircraft vehicle, and I'm still debating the third. We'll see.

Well, I was sitting here and once again I got sidetracked as I'm prone to do and I cranked out another prototype.

Like the Horatius MK III, I had this one in the back of my mind for awhile and decided to get it out of the way. This one is a variant of the Romulus. The changes are similar to what I did on the MK III. Mainly I just enlarged the turret and moved it further towards the middle of the main hull. Added the Vulcan mini-turret and AP Laser, and revised a few details.







This was done just for fun and I'm not planning to make it part of the "official" line-up, but who knows, maybe I'll use it in a few renders down the line.

Quick post.

Finally got started on the last model of the main ten armored vehicles....the Nah Tikal or Viper Light APC.







So far, it's mostly just blocked in at this stage and I'm concentrating on the back end and turret because those areas are pretty easy. The front end will be a real challenge, however, and I'm not yet sure how I'm going to tackle it.

As you can see, it has a lot of similarities with the Wolverine due to the fact that both where designed by Naram engineers. The Naram are a humanoid race with factions allied with both the Commonwealth and TOG.

Another fun fact, is that the Viper also shares a design trait with the enemy Lupis. Both have the same turret! In illustrations and on the miniatures, they are identical. The only time this is not the case is on the vehicle ortho drawings which show the Lupis's turret to be asymmetrical and the 25mm cannon mounted to the side.

I was originally just going to fudge it and use the same one on both models, but once I got going on the Viper, I decided I had to go the extra mile and now I'm in the process of re-working the Lupis even though it goes against my earlier practice of favoring the miniatures as my main source of reference.

I'm back.

Finished up the MK III. Not much to show since my last post, but here it is.







Still can do more to it, but it's ok for now.

Anywho, don't forget to check out my other thread in Finished Works for the Recognition sheet.

Btw, I know I may be a bit biased because I came up with this particular variant, but if I was a tank commander living in this universe I would want to ride around in this tank. It's just something about the sense of rugged toughness I get looking at it.

Hey guys.

I finally got a few days off from work so I'm gonna devote some of the time to this project. Got inspired to fiddle with the Lupis.





The Lupis has a lot of grav coils powering it so that explains why it's one of the fastest APC's on the battlefield.





I'm not going to model the interiors of any of the vehicles, but I wanted to show this one with the doors up. As you can see, even though the Lupis is relatively small compared to other Tanks/APC's, it's still pretty spacious in the back of the main troop compartment. A standard infantry squad is made up of four legionnaires, so there's plenty of room for supplies and equipment. Also the eight doors (four per side) allows for rapid on and off loading of personnel in a hot combat zone.



Some of the details are just blocked in, but I'm nearing the end of this particular model. I think I would like to try and export this into Substance Painter once done and give it a nice paint job.

As an added bonus, I'm including an auxiliary vehicle I call the Chariot. It's named in honor of the Lost In Space land ram. Also, it seems fitting considering that TOG's society is based on an Ancient Roman theme. The Chariot is based on the Lupis chassis and is used as a grav supply vehicle. Back when I started this project, I got into a discussion about the need for such a vehicle, and so I went ahead and whipped one up. It only has defensive weaponry in the form of two anti-personnel lasers and a Vulcan 2 anti-missile gatling gun. Also, the doors are replaced by two large sliding panels.

More lighting effects.

I got the engine glow looking just the way I want it. A very subtle change but it makes all the difference.



The previous look kinda grew on me also, so I've decided to use the blue/green tint on all of the TOG models and the cyan color (above) for the CW/RL's.

And a first test shot of the 3/6 laser. The small round light below the beam is the AP laser.



On a side note, the AP laser was turret-mounted on the MK II. There were two objects that I couldn't readily identify, so I just assumed that this was the laser. I moved it to the forward hull section, well....just because. I know the firing arc is somewhat limited but I don't care, I think it looks cool mounted in this location.

Next thing is figuring out the lens flare effect. One step at a time.

Tonight's experiment is a winter camo scheme. I think it goes really well on the Spartius for some reason. Unfortunately it's now harder to make out all those cool panels that I worked so hard to model, but that's the whole idea of camouflage....right!?





Since the hull is so curved, I couldn't use an image projection like I did on the Horatius, so I made use of Modo's new decal feature to apply the Renegade logo. It took a few try's before I got the hang of it, but it turned out nice.

Back to modeling.

First, I altered the Lupus' turret enough to set it apart from the Viper. It's now closer to the blueprints rather then the miniature which is identical to it's counterpart. (Blame FASA and the miniature makers for being lazy). lol

All I have to do now is finish up on those weird details on the upper rear of the troop compartment. I considered not adding them or reducing them somewhat, but I want to stick mostly to the original design. I also began playing around with the surface shading by experimenting with different color schemes, adding some "grunge" for discoloration, and some very subtle pot marks and scratches. Once I come up with something I'm happy with I'll try adding some edge wear and decals.





Next, I'm just wrapping up the Chariot.

I added two upper access doors to allow for larger items to be lifted into cargo hold instead of going in thru the side doorways.





Can't think of much more to add to this one, so I guess I can place it in the done column. Stay tuned for the upcoming Chariot Recognition Sheet!