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Submitted: April 23, 2007
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Concept design for a futuristic tank. I gave it hydraulic suspension and a vertically-launched missile system as its main weapon in order to keep its height as low as possible - 1.8 metres with the suspension fully lowered and the turret not deployed. This makes it harder to hit and transportable by shipping container. The gun turret can be raised up to fire from behind cover. It's powered by two large hydrogen fuel cells (mounted over the front tracks) driving twenty hub-mounted electric motors in the wheels. The large blue cannisters in the rear are hydrogen fuel tanks. The two crew don't have any windows but see vio VR headsets and backup flat-panel displays. All the driving and weapons controls are fully duplicated between the two crew stations in order to allow the most efficient division of tasks between the crew in a given tactical situation.
The missile system is in a self-contained module, containing 4x6 "Wolverine" surface-to-surface missiles, 4x5 "Storm" surface-to-air missiles, or any combination thereof. Missiles can be reloaded either individually, in 4- or 5-unit pods, or en masse with replacement of the entire module.
The weapons module itself can be replaced entirely with a railgun turret modue, a mortar, a passenger compartment carrying six troops, a command unit, or an ambulance unit.
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Coooooooool....

Color, persepctive, lighting, line quality...all very nice.

You handle lots of information very cleanly. I am very impressed. Going to your gallery now...

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A beautiful little problem...
The only critique I can make is that the actual summation is not very dynamic. its a box with wheels. Very simple, if the exterior of the tank had some real cool lines and decent artistic cuts it would add alot of artistic value to a delightfully pragmatic design.

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A beautiful little problem...
thanks! You know, this and your above comment are two of the most insightful, well-thought-out comments anyone's made on my gallery for ages.
Yeah, I see what you mean about the "box on wheels". I'm planning to do a drawing of the exterior of the tank, without showing the insides. Maybe I can take the opportunity to give it a bit of a restyle...
Then again, in real life, the box on wheels look does seem to be pretty popular with designers of military hardware.

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Its a balance of realistic design and artistic ....wastefulness? I am a concept artist as well and I have had many a discussion about how big the bolts on the tank should be to be practical in a desert environment...things that in the long run don't really matter...it all depends on what you want to convey...and how much you care...and whos paying you...lol...yeah...concept art is fun...

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A beautiful little problem...
Interesting design and perspective. nice.

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Thanks! Regarding the perspective - it's in isometric projection, meaning that vertical lines stay vertical, but the other two dimensions are drawn along axes 30 degrees from the horizontal. It mean that all the lines stay parallel rather than converging towards a vanishing point, and things don't get smaller in the distance. Basically I chose isometric projection for this piece because it makes it a hell of a lot easier to draw than in twp-point perspective, and I knew that it was going to be a big enough challenge as it was.

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Very interesting concept...did you picked a name for it?
Name? - uh, no, actually. I hadn't thought of that. I'm willing to take suggestions!

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i may be a female but i love weapon machinary! (sp), this is a very great design. I love the details.

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