Modern Graphics Showcase

[Jimmywax]

Originally posted by vodkakov
Some Brits from the Malayan/Kenyan Emergencies with Lee Enfield rifles (they'd probably also do as WW2 Brits from Burma or similar).

How about British troops for the Korean War? Would they work for that?

[vodkakov]

Some Brits from Korea. (The bottom row would also do for Western Europe up until about the mid-1950s).

@Jimmy: I think the Brits used the standard battledress in Korea, as the climate was colder. I think the tropical uniform was only employed in jungle environments, but it's kind of hard to tell from black and white photos

[Jimmywax]

Thanks man, I have tried to draw some korean units before but like you said it is tough to tell what they should look like from black and whites or just a written description. I have a hard time visualizeing them anyways.

[vodkakov]

Was watching Rambo last night... got fed up of writing an essay on insurance law, so made a unit

[Eivind IV]

nice!

[vodkakov]

...and something even more destructive than Rambo... a barrister...

(Yes, I've had a very boring day )

[Eivind IV]

the Rambo: His face skin colour is different than his body. Looks a bit weird. and why don't you keep signatures as they were and add your own to it?

Nice barrister

[fairline]

Originally posted by vodkakov
Some Brits from the Malayan/Kenyan Emergencies with Lee Enfield rifles (they'd probably also do as WW2 Brits from Burma or similar).

The British were wearing the much smaller jungle hat rather than slouch hat by 1950 in Malaya. They wore standard WW2-type jungle fatigues, cut-down equipment with ammo pouches worn low on the hip and had long canvas boots rather than gaitors and ankle boots. Aussie Owen guns and the short jungle version of the SMLE were used.

@Jimmy: I think the Brits used the standard battledress in Korea, as the climate was colder. I think the tropical uniform was only employed in jungle environments, but it's kind of hard to tell from black and white photos

They arrived in the summer of 1950 dressed in WW2 jungle green and KD with the new jungle hat as worn in Malaya. As you say, battledress was substituted for the first winter along with 1943 cammo smock and over-trousers, but this proved inadequate for the 'kin freezing climate. US-style parkas and M43 uniforms were subsequently used along with khaki BD until a prototype version of what became the 1958 green combat dress was introduced for the second winter of the war.

The 1944 steel helmet was worn (kinda like a modern cycle racers helmet: swept back) together with blue berets for the infantry / green for 40 Commando RM.

Aussie, Canadian and NZ troops in the Commonwealth Division were dressed similarly, with the slouch hat and Australian tunic replacing the British jungle fatigues for the Anzacs. Khaki berets were worn by Canadians with maroon for Canadian airborne.

[CapTVK]

Rambo's and barristers on a single thread!? That can't be good for you. Why not play with some trucks instead?

[Patine]

A favor, if I may. Could someone tell me which type of helicopter gunship is most common among Western-supplied African countries that actually have them (like Uganda and Liberia) nowadays, and make me a good graphic for it? I don't think this still includes Ivory Coast, given what's going on with France...

[typhoon]

fairline.... again, you outdo yourself

[Eivind IV]

@Fairline:
Nice!

Originally posted by CapTVK
Rambo's and barristers on a single thread!? That can't be good for you. Why not play with some trucks instead?

I like the truck, but I'm afraid it won't be as nice inside civ. You see, you have to keep the unit within the frame of the purple diamond. Everything that is within the purple area will be cut away (like the one in #3). And you must also use the colour palette of civ, which you hadn't.

Hope this helped, ct!

[typhoon]

@Eivind,

I think he made it for free civ, which accepts larger graphics

@patine

Uganda has Mi-24 Hinds from the USSR and UH-1 Hueys from the USA. Liberia I'm not so sure. Probably the Huey as well.

Here is a member of Seal Team Six (DEVGRU), a US counter-terrorist unit. Thanks to vodakov, whos SBS I shamelessy ripped off.

[typhoon]

Pre-Iraq War US infantry, updated

[vodkakov]

Nice units, though it wasn't my SBS unit, I think someone else made that particular one