3D & Animation [REF] WW1 colour plates

[Major von Mauser]

Nice batch of photos there.

If you remeved that German desert troopers hat, his uniform very closely resembles DAK uniforms. Which makes since the DAK uniforms were patterned after the WW1 ones, seeing the Germans didn't have much desert experience. Many early DAK troops were actually issued WW1 deset equipment, such as pith helemts, which once in the desert were soon discarded.

 

[Maphisto86]

These pictures look like they come from the books by Osprey Publishing's Men at Arms and Elite series. Ska, am I correct? I have always wanted to get books with these kinds of illustrations and information.

 

[Nimsky]

These pictures look like they come from the books by Osprey Publishing's Men at Arms and Elite series. Ska, am I correct? I have always wanted to get books with these kinds of illustrations and information.

Check out my "books on uniforms" in the History boards. People linked to some good stuff there.

 

[Ska Wars]

These pictures look like they come from the books by Osprey Publishing's Men at Arms and Elite series. Ska, am I correct? I have always wanted to get books with these kinds of illustrations and information.

Correct mate.

 

[fOgGy]

Is the guy on the far right using an early machine pistol similar to that of a Glock 18 ?

But yes those WWI pics are so lovely I think TW should do the Great War as their next project.

 

[CrazyThumbs]

It just looks like a Colt .45 with a large clip. Think it held 20 rounds? Don't know how common they were though.
I know they had an SMLE with a 20 round clip towards the end of the war.

 

[Ska Wars]

Is the guy on the far right using an early machine pistol similar to that of a Glock 18 ?

No, it's a 20 round clip for Trench Raiding. Saw limited action and was generally unpopular with shotguns being seen as a better alternative. Some .45s were also fitted with foregrips/stocks but I have no sources on whether they saw action or were just show pieces.

Yeah the Enfield and G98 came in variants with larger magazines. The Enfield was also modified to fire automatically which proved popular but had sever jamming problems. The Royal Armouries in Leeds houses one (I'll try and find the photo I took) from the original WW1 batch. As far as I remember the ANZACs converted a load to auto fire in early WW2 when it looked like the Japanese were preparing to invade, but they were all lost in a warehouse fire. Bas might know more about it, it being his neck of the woods and all

 

[Britney Federline]

Going through all those pictures makes me realize that a successful WWI game would have to include ALL of those many wierd things to make it fun. I mean, that Serbian officer looks so sharp, and the funky grenades and wacky helmets are so much more interesting than the gameplay would be.

 

[Ska Wars]

Definately a very diverse war but by no means was it only the trench stalemate everyone makes it out to be. Hell, the first British/German class was on horse back with sabers and lances The Eastern, African and Middle East were pretty interesting and could make some amazing set piece battles IMO, but to be honest I can't see it ever happening.

Saw some sneak peaks of To End All Wars last month at a games convention (I study Games Design) and it's looking pretty good but it wasn't clear from the screen shots if it was a FPS or RTS.

 

[Novogradov]

Artist's Rifles 2nd Lieutenant, 1916 - "You want me to sit in no mans land and paint pictures of the Germans?"



Nice pics mate, thanks for sharing.

I think I recall you being on the Flanders fields mod team? I May be wrong though.

 

[Ska Wars]

I was a modeller for Over The Top for a while. Too busy with my Masters degree in animation recently but definately wanna get back into a good WW1 mod once that's done.

I help out a few other WW1 mods here and there but not a perminant member for anything at the moment.