Nitronian Special Forces APC

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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by Phred » Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:24 am

This is a great little APC. I working on my own with much less success. I'm going to have to copy some of your building techniques. I also look forward to its armament.
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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by M220 » Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:15 pm

I don't mind people copying stuff, as long as they make it their own in the end.
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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by Honore » Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:34 am

You could have like sand bags on top of the tank, surrounding it, that's what American troops did during Vietnam with their M113s. That way you have troop transport inside, and then you have a squad on overwatch outside, plus, you utilize space efficiency.
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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by Kaplan » Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:06 am

Great design. I like that the this vehicle is quite low but still figures fit inside it in sitting position.

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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by M220 » Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:46 am

HonoreBalzac wrote:You could have like sand bags on top of the tank, surrounding it, that's what American troops did during Vietnam with their M113s. That way you have troop transport inside, and then you have a squad on overwatch outside, plus, you utilize space efficiency.
It can't hurt trying. It even looks half decent:

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On a side note, I really could make use of a better camera.
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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by Kaplan » Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:21 am

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You need to edit your pictures before posting.

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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by Tzan » Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:15 am

M220 wrote:On a side note, I really could make use of a better camera.
The image is very grainy.
Needs more light.

Kaplan has the right idea, altered the white level, but took it a little too far, almost blowing out the sandbags to white.
But with all the rainbow speckles in the gray, its almost not worth doing anyway.

There is a despeckle buttplug, it basically blurs everything, then you can fade it back a bit.
Then sharpen, but oh wait, doing sharpen again brings back the speckles, so more light, better camera.

Sandbags look good :)

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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by M220 » Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:02 pm

Yeah, I usually do my pictures at night (and where I live, its dark inside during the daytime let alone night). (Also, I keep forgetting I can adjust the light buttplug levels on my camera.

The sandbags on the apc are SI-Dan BH12 Sandbags. Since I live in Australia, I buy from minifigworld.com, where they cost around $0.42AU ea. I have 12 currently.
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Re: Nitronian Special Forces APC

Post by Honore » Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:15 am

I fucking love it, give that guy a 50 cal though :(.
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