Under Seige Redux

[Sarsstock]

Yes... yes... and did I mention YES that will come in handy Typhoon!! Those will definatly have a place in this project. The desert camo is just perfect for the various conflicts.

Say Curt, as you've shown interest in this project might you remember what became of those new generation fairline style tank units you posted on Steph's Oktyabr thread?

[Sarsstock]

No need to worry Curt, Typhoon just gave me the units in question. I've attatchem them below in the event they might help some other designers out there.

Now my next search is for the modern looking warships that Steph had posted in the Oktyabr thread. Once again, did anyone per chance download these graphics before the crash?

[Jimmywax]

My god, look at my craptastic B-57 and A-10. My T-64 isn't looking all that hot anymore either. I am still proud of my Centurian though by god.

@ Typhoon: awesome units there man

[Jimmywax]

I was just thinking, didn't the Isrealis use upgraded super shermans. Would these be any differant graphically speaking from the sherman that Ty posted. Also was the super sherman a upgunned, uparmored version of the M4A3E8 Sherman used in Korea.

[jim panse]

Sure *someone* has them

[(Escort) Frigate, Guided Missile Cruiser, (USN) AEGIS Cruiser, Submarine, Carrier, (USN) Fleet Carrier]

Here you go, Chris

[typhoon]

Originally posted by Jimmywax
@ Typhoon: awesome units there man

Thank you, but credit should go to fairline, Steph and Catfish, since the actual units and most of the colouring are the results of their efforts. This is merely a small compilation of their work, and I had little to do with it aside from some minor tweaking.

BTW, amazing ships Steph.

Originally posted by Jimmywax
I am still proud of my Centurian though by god.

And rightly so

I was just thinking, didn't the Isrealis use upgraded super shermans. Would these be any differant graphically speaking from the sherman that Ty posted. Also was the super sherman a upgunned, uparmored version of the M4A3E8 Sherman used in Korea.

Yup- the Israelis operated several different variants of the Sherman for the better part of four decades- base M4A1, A3, and A4s, French upgraded M-1s, and the indigenous M50 Super Sherman and the M51 ISherman.

The M50s were apparently M4A3s and M4A4s upgunnned with French 75mms.

An excellent source of info on the topic here.

Here's a crappy example for illustration. Its modified from the Sherman in the compo, which itself is a recoloured Sherman Firefly by fairline (it was extremely wrong of me to do that, but there was nothing else availabe at the time.)

[Sarsstock]

Well here are three new additions to the unit family. A camel rider, a new version of the "Obselete" fighter and an Arab Horseman. If anyone has any thoughts and comments on these please feel free to let them be known. I wonder, does anybody out there have a fairline style image of a camel standing upright? If so then I could potentially mount the camel rider ontop of the camel.... just an idea.

[Sarsstock]

Now here's the very secret I've been dying to learn for a little more than a year. I was wondering if anybody out there, from Curt to Gareth to Tom or Typhoon could possibly tell what colouring technique is used to turn Tank A into Tank B as shown below.

I've tried and failed many a time to duplicate this recolouring effect, but if I could learn it for this project it would go a long way to making the units look uniformily consistant.

[Sarsstock]

*edit*

Tank A & Tank B.

[Broken_Erika]

i only managed to do that once,
and i basicly followed the colour of another tank closely,
i used that method for the ram-1
it seemed to have worked,
another mothod i have tried is carefully recolouring the tank with darker shades, i used that method for darkening a t-72,
i always use another tank as a reference for colouring, i find it is easier that way,
edit: i seemed to have posted the wrong original ram tank, but you can pretty m,uch see how i recoloured it anyways so it doesn't matter,

[Sarsstock]

Well the technique seems to work really well for the older era tanks Erika, but it doesn't seem to produce the same results for the later tanks such as the T-64.

Do you or anybody else know of a similar technique that can do the same for the modern era armored vehicles as it does for the WW2 era tanks? If not then I will try to implement this one. Thank you in any case.

[Sarsstock]

Also, what does everybody think of the Israeli city style I suggested higher up the thread? Do they look too european and in need of a middle eastern touch?

[Sarsstock]

Say, I have a question for the forum. I've gotten the impression from some conversations as of late that there might not be as much interest in this project as I had previously imagined.

So I want to know flat out, if there was indeed a graphical update of "Under Seige", would you want to play it or would you be no more inclined to play it than you were before?

[our_man]

I've no real interest in just a graphical update. For reasons I've already mentioned above, I feel that the scenarios are fundamentally unplayable and while a graphical update might make it look prettier, it still wouldn't be fun to play. Major work would need to be done to make it work.

TBH, I'm more interested in the World of Jules Verne.

[Boco]

If you're still looking for $0.02, then I'd have to admit that I'd prefer to play Mr. Verne rather this remake as well. However, work on the one that's more fun for you.