Shipbucket

Mods,

Not sure if I should put this here, as it's a beginner's drawing (my first... ever) or in the FD section because it is FD scale. Please move if appropriate.

Anyways, I stumbled across a photo of one of these today and it's pretty cool looking. I figured it would be interesting to try as a first go at an SB-style drawing, albeit in FD scale. I think SB scale would be a little too simple and miss some detail, but maybe if I like doing this, I'll eventually give it a go.

I originally planned to do this as part of an AU storyline I've been tinkering with - specifically, Nigeria falls into civil war and various countries intervene. I was gonna give a couple of these to the Nigerian military, with Niger river and littoral color schemes. To keep things historical, I'll try my hand at a Soviet, and maybe later Russian, border guard version first.

Anyways, here is is. So far it's 100% mine, save the Soviet color palette. Traced a high res drawing I found in GIMP, made some layers and am coloring it in with Paint since I'm still a bit confused about how to get my coloring layer in GIMP to be semi-transparent.

And yes, it is very much WIP.



Edit: Hm... photobucket seems to be blurring it a little bit.

Err... That is SB, FD is one pixel=4.45cm

Welcome however

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It almost looks like he drew a ship to FD scale on an SB template.
A handsome ship for a riverine vessel.
Looks like a T-62 tank turret forward.

Uh, it's 22 pixels to the meter, unless my calculations were totally off.

It is a tiny ship in real life. And with a T-55 turret, not T-62. That may be my lack of skills showing, though.



And yes, it's a modified SB template. I just wanted to check to see the right places to put things. Note the scale at the top...

Meh... all those Russians look alike- they're just so short and dome-headed.
Hard to tell one of them from another.
Awesome little ship, though... really like her.
Wonder if there are any hulls around for sale- would make a nice little live-aboard cruiser for here on the Gulf Coast.

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Update with details. Any advice on shading?