WW2-1979 Graphics Showcase

[jim panse]

Well ... I think that´s basically the same with those "Balkenkreuzen" on the German tanks ...

IIRC, the Germans initially used only-white crosses to make it easier for the Luftwaffe pilots to distinguish them from enemy vehicles ... but those white crosses made the Polish anti-tank gunners quite happy and so the Germans painted most of those crosses black ...

[jim panse]

Oh, btw, I edited myself a M4 Sherman to some kind of M12/40 GMC ... rather pathetic effort ...

[curtsibling]

Nice job -

[typhoon]

Originally posted by jim panse
rather pathetic effort ...

By no means, that is a great unit.

[jim panse]

I don´t know ... that gun looks a bit odd ...

[Broken_Erika]

Originally posted by jim panse
I don´t know ... that gun looks a bit odd ...

mabe try to tweak the tip of it,

[fairline]

An M3 Stuart for ToT.

[Broken_Erika]

I think i'm gonna faint!
The BEST M3 EVER MADE!!
if it looks that good as a gif, then i can't wait to see the bmp version

[Eivind IV]

Breathtaking!

[jim panse]

I´d like to second the two posters above me ... but: where is the *.png or *.bmp file for ToT, Gareth?

I mean ... I do not want the 256 colours edition ... I want the 24 million colours edition

[Broken_Erika]

Anyone made really good units of these?
i alredy have the basic one but these are cool

[typhoon]

Originally posted by fairline
An M3 Stuart for ToT.

[fairline]

Originally posted by jim panse
I´d like to second the two posters above me ... but: where is the *.png or *.bmp file for ToT, Gareth?

I mean ... I do not want the 256 colours edition ... I want the 24 million colours edition

Thanks all. Jim: if you check this gif you'll see I've only used 164 (not 24 million!) of the possible colours available in a 256-colour gif; this means I have lost no colours or definition by saving the bmp original to a gif. Obviously a set of different coloured units would use up more than 256 colours, so check before saving a bmp as a gif. You'll also notice I HAVEN'T loaded the civ2 palette which certainly would reduce the detail / f-up the colours of the original bmp. The only reason I posted a gif was that png's are darkened by IE as explained by Catfish (and I've lost the gamma-correction-thingy tool to get over this), and bmp's aren't displayed by the forum.

As a sidemote to Typhoon: I really like your compilation of units for Patine's scenario (particularly the Japanese infantry!), but I suspect you have run into the png problem as well as it all looks a tad dark.

Here are slightly tweaked M3 Stuart and the later M5 Stuart as shown in the Eivind photo on the previous page:

[jim panse]

Well, as I am with you about that colour thing I have to admit I am using Firefox, and - who would have guessed that - there does not seem to be a problem with too dark *.png files hereabouts ...

Anyway, thank you for that marvellous tank, Gareth!

Btw, do you have a M12/40 GMC like the opne I posted above that really looks like such a gun motor carriage?

[jim panse]

Oh, I somewhere had a fairline-style P-38 ... but I cannot find it. Could someone help me out and re-post it here?

Thanks in advance!