More alternate official factions

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

BTW, D, would Secretary-General be a better leader job-title for the UN Forces? I mean, You might want to use this alongside the New Spartans, and he's a General, too, unless you go with Marshal for Zhukov...

[Darsnan]

I gave the faction the full name of “United Nations Peacekeeping Force” in the pcx credits. In-game anywhere space is at a premium, just “United Nations” ought to serve, though variations like “UN Forces” and “UN Peacekeeping Force” are good, too. D, I credited you for names and concepts- from what I gather of your interests, you’ll love this one more than most.

You don't have to credit me - you're the one breathing life into these new leaderheads.

With a last name like Haj, he HAS to be Muslim. Adaman doesn’t pin him down much ethnically, to my ear- the Jihad spread Arabic and Arabic names all over. I don’t know what you had in mind, D, but I look at his complexion with the hazel eyes I left alone, and think Afghanistan. Afghani-Canadian, of course. The little flourish I added to his mustache goes with that, too, I think. The only other thing that’s come to me about him is that off duty he drinks a wee bit too much.

I like the weathered, determined look about the man, like he's thinking "its Democracy/Green/ Knowledge, or else theres gonna be trouble!".

I like the thought of him being an Afghani: is there any chance you can make his headgear more traditional in that sense?

Probably going offline for the evening - am training hard for a 10 miler next month and I overextended myself a little today.

D

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

You don't have to credit me - you're the one breathing life into these new leaderheads.

Oh, no. I mean, sure I am, but I'm mostly cannibalizing your names and ideas.

I’m flipping through my alt. factions mentally, and the Flower Children are the only ones coming up where you didn’t pick the picture and/or give a name and/or an idea to get me started. And I didn’t credit you on that one, either. Even for the Intellect, you at least picked the faction to do, but maybe it counts, too. I dunno.

Ideas are powerful and valuable. I want credit for what I do, and you should get your due, too.

I like the weathered, determined look about the man, like he's thinking "its Democracy/Green/ Knowledge, or else theres gonna be trouble!".

Heh. Yeah.

I knew you'd like him.

I like the thought of him being an Afghani: is there any chance you can make his headgear more traditional in that sense?

You're asking for a turban? That would probably be pretty easy.

Pity taking the little wedges out of the edge of the hat didn't show up more. I'm sure I'll have cause to revisit the notion, though. I doubt he's my last contemporary/past military officer to make faction leader.

[Darsnan]

You're asking for a turban? That would probably be pretty easy.

A turban looks more in line with what I envision, so if you can do it, great! It wouild also de-westernize him more, which is another tendency I think we need to keep in mind.


D

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Pawkul hat

I found the hat below with minimal goggling. Much better than a turban, I think. It would only call for an alteration of the existing hat, too. I wonder if I can pull off keeping the bill?

You’re right about western styles, but they’ve conquered the world when it comes to uniforms. IF I CAN pull off keeping the bill, it’ll be another style-fusion, look more like a uniform cap, and do more to make it strange and futurey. I hope.

[Maniac]

I think you should change Haj' background. That's a map of the Belgium/Lower Rhine area in case you didn't know.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I think you should change Haj' background. That's a map of the Belgium/Lower Rhine area in case you didn't know.

I didn't, but it comes as no surprise. I was rather assuming Egypt to the extent I thought about it at all.

I think it’s arguable that he’s just got an old map on the wall- or maybe he fought there in WWIV or something- but I’ll look into it.

The simplest thing would be to do a modest recolor to make it a map of somewhere on Planet, and alter the course of the mighty rivers a bit. I can do that.

Good enough?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

(…Also, there's a bayonet behind him, and those haven’t seen a lot of use in combat since before the Civil War, but okay.)



I’m looking at the attached shot as the Rainbow Warriors leader. I’ve tarted up much less usable shots before.

I think he’s a Finn, in which case he wouldn’t tend to like Zhakarov or Zhukov at all. Finnlanders are typically quite gloomy (the one I went to college with was very rude, too,) and transliterations of their names have wonderfully strange spellings. I’ll have to research a good name.

I’m gonna go work on Secretary-General Haj now (and try to keep my hands off Mrs. Obama for now) before I mess with this one.

...So you’ve got a little time to chip in.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Okay, I hope the map is sufficiently less sprout-y now.


I blurred and darkened it too, to add depth, and put focus on Haj more.

Now for the hat...

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

This was not that hard to do; just time-consuming.

The original hat was too big for his head, and the perspective was not good. Those didn't help any in making a fusion of a pawkul hat and an officer’s cap. The one on your left below is an earlier stage I include chiefly because the indentations around the top stand out more, and because it has the original proportions for comparison. The one [in the middle] is perhaps the finished product. [But perhaps not.] Had to draw in more of not-Belgium when I reduced the hat

I don't think [the middle one] looks all that good taken merely as a pawkul with a bill. But it's not near so western as before, and is very strange- he's even more of a space general now.

Well gentlemen- am I done?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I’ve added new version to the line-up above, right. It needed the rolled-up hatband wider to work as a modified pawkul at all. The perspective is improved, too.

Of course it would help if I ditched the insignia, but I’m reluctant to do that- it would look too little like an officer’s cap then, and probably enhance the German Navy look it’s in danger of taking on.

Really; am I done with him yet?

like he's thinking "its Democracy/Green/ Knowledge, or else theres gonna be trouble!".

...Just wanted to add that with his British education what he'd say would likely be more like "It would save you ever so much trouble if you went Democracy/Green/ Knowledge. There's a good chap."



Now to decide between more Eye of the Beholder and giving Mrs. Obama dreadlocks…

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

...Ended up doing some of both. Mighty quiet in here.

[vyeh]

Those CFCers are a lot friendlier.

While I'm more into strategy, I do appreciate the work you're doing. I just don't have much to say.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Those CFCers are a lot friendlier.

I hear that.

While I'm more into strategy, I do appreciate the work you're doing. I just don't have much to say.

I hear that, too. It's just that I've given over two months of pretty much all my waking hours, and often not slept enough at that, to this work, and I need to be able to discuss it with someone.

It's really tough to be a grown-up about it.

A post like yours here and there helps.

[vyeh]

Well, I do like the smaller hat size, but the size of the band does not make much impression on me.