MikeyD Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 For you Russian camou lovers: **CAMOUFLAGE Russian T34-76 Model 1943 (early) with histocal turret art** Get it at our favorite site: http://www.cmmods.com/ Based on my early T34-76 M43 mod posted last week, this new mod recreates an often-printed photo of a T34-76 of the 30th Guards tank brigade which was decorated in late 1942 for eight tank kills in the Leningrad area. The slogan reads "Stalinets". It also sports the "Order of the Red Banner "badge decal. Once again, all praise to the BFC polygon designer! Absolutely fantastic to work on! Next to come: T34-76 M43 (late) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauCoupDinkyDau Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Nice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchlstrt Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 What VJ said. strt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Wow! It almost looks real! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntelWeenie Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Cool 'flage! :cool: Anyone have any info on use of camo on Soviet vehicles in WWII? I'm not disputing it happened, just wondering how much/how often... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 18, 2003 Author Share Posted August 18, 2003 If you're not counting winter white camou, not much and not often. The original b&w photo I had based my camou mod on looks like nothing more than hard-edged standard Russian khaki over standard Russian green. Perhaps it's a distorted impression based on available photos, but it seems to me mid-war Guards units were more likely to try their hand at camou than others. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Carr Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 One of the best T-34 mods I've seen yet. Great stuff! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 I've just noticed the shell impacts. WOW!! :eek: :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 BTW Thanks for listening to us guys, who when confronted with the greatest mods ever go:"Wheres the camo and the slogans?" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 18, 2003 Author Share Posted August 18, 2003 You'll recall when I announced my T34 M41 (cast turret) camou mod a few weeks back I said "Because Tweety asked for it..." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlrender Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Mikey You mention above 'standard Russian khaki' and 'standard Russian green'. I wanted to post this question on your non-camo thread but dare not in case anyone - especially you - saw it as criticism. Anyway - here goes. The green you are using is very different from the BFC base textures or any other mods I have seen, but Panzermartin reckons it is accurate. And because it is your mod I trust you to have achieved an accurate colour. Which means unfortunately that all the other Soviet armour in the game is the wrong colour??? Or is it just that The Russians used a variety of different shades of green and this is just one of them? I would appreciate your comments and possibly the names of any sites that show colour photos of WWII Russian armour. The mods are really great - I'm just confused about colour now! Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen. Longstreet Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 I defenitly like this mod, Keep up the good work ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 18, 2003 Author Share Posted August 18, 2003 If you check out this site... http://www.battlefield.ru/camo/camouflage.html ... you see that some vehicles are illustrated more green, some more khaki (or olive drab). Don't know if the colors are based on research or imagination. Zaloga says in several of his books that the standard color was green. But color photos of old Soviet artillery pieces are khaki/olive. I figure so many manufacturing plants, so many regions, over so long a time it's pretty likely every imaginable shade of green would've been seen at one time or another. Reminds me of the ongoing stink over U.S. olive drab and Israeli sand colors! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlrender Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Many thanks for the link Mikey. Yeah your right there would've been many different shades of green - which is better for the game, rather than having everything looking exactly the same colour. Thanks again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntelWeenie Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 OK, since you opened the Soviet camo can 'o' worms, I want to see this next... I followed the link you gave and saw this near the bottom. The caption says it's an IS-2 from 4th GTA, summer '44. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 I don't want to seem ungrateful, Mikey, but though it's an awesome piece of work I'm no fan of slogans (at least not until we get separate textures for both sides of a turret). Could you please post a plain BMP option for this one? Or send me one? I really want to use this mod. Thanks in advance, I hope. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 18, 2003 Author Share Posted August 18, 2003 Juju, the camou mod's of a specific historical vehicle. Otherwise I would've happily stuck with my nice generic green mod from last week. I still haven't decided which of my T34 M43 mods I'm going to keep in my OWN game! I've been reminded of the existance of the hex-turret 57mm gun T34 in the game too. Maybe I'll renumber and repost a camou 57mm gun T34 without slogans. Kill two birds with one stone that way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 Mikey D... your camoes are crap! they may look good but they dont serve their purpose :mad: i have clear and undeniable evidence that this is the case! out of all the t-34 mods you have made it is only the camoed ones that have been hit! on your camoed versions there are several hit marks on the front hull plating... but on the non camoed versions there are no visible hits. this must mean that your camo is faulty and actually attracts more attention than the non-camoed ones (not surprising, since they are indeed splendid ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew H. Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 Originally posted by Oddball_E8: Mikey D... your camoes are crap! they may look good but they dont serve their purpose :mad: i have clear and undeniable evidence that this is the case! out of all the t-34 mods you have made it is only the camoed ones that have been hit! on your camoed versions there are several hit marks on the front hull plating... but on the non camoed versions there are no visible hits. this must mean that your camo is faulty and actually attracts more attention than the non-camoed ones (not surprising, since they are indeed splendid ) No, you've got it backwards - first the tanks were hit by the shells, and *then* they put on the camoflage, so it wouldn't happen again. Tanks without shell marks are green or conscript tanks that haven't yet learned the need for camoflage. Although, on a historical note, you have to wonder who, after the tank was camoflaged, came up and said, "Great job comrades! Now I need you to paint a large white slogan on either side of the turret, on top of the camoflage, and then, oh, paint the red banner on the turret as well." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcm1947 Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 Thanks for another outstanding looking tank MikeyD but now I have a problem. Which of these do I use, this spendid one or the spendid one you did last week ? Couldn't I change one of these BMP numbers for another tank? I just hate not being able to use both of these mods of yours. What a waste it seems to me. Truely nice, both of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zukkov Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 outstanding!!! if i were a russian tanker in ww2,i would've been proud to kill germans in that tank! [ August 18, 2003, 08:44 PM: Message edited by: zukkov ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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