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A digital sketch that I finished up over lunch. His jimmies seem rustled. Mine probably would be too, if I had to carry that. I was thinking about the Lahti and the Solothurn anti tank rifles, and one thing led to another.
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Mood: Love ~Sagittarius-A-star Feb 27, 2013  Student
Very cool!! :) Yeah, he sure looks annoyed, anyone who has to carry that giant antitank rifle around on their shoulder would be. You are good at human anatomy- do you do a lot of life drawing?
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*MikeDoscher Feb 28, 2013  Professional General Artist
I wish I were better. I haven't taken much systematic training with the figure, but there was a point where that might have been useful. Mostly I just look at old photos of soldiers and such, and concentrate on getting the gestural feeling of movement and weight out of the pose.
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~unkownsoldier1 Feb 26, 2013
He looks Wehrmacht, and it looks cool.
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~MetalSnail Feb 25, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
very cool!
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~redroguexiii Feb 25, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
More like a giant mg42 than a lahti or solothurn, I see a tank muzzle break, but exaggerating it's size even more would probably help your design though.
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*MikeDoscher Feb 25, 2013  Professional General Artist
The muzzle brake is kind of a half assed copy of the one on the Boys. The cartridge is a 20mm, but a short one with a relatively low propellant charge, like you might see in an MG FF/M. I justified it in my own mind as being an experimental select-fire version of an AT rifle with a lighter round and shorter barrel. It's a bit of a muddle, really. A stamped receiver for this is a terrible idea, in hindsight. :)
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~ndgmtlcd Feb 25, 2013
Heavy stuff. Last time I saw those kinds of things was in an old documentary which showed a Siberian squad of anti-tank riflemen on skis on a snow covered landscape, supposedly moving West. They were shown to illustrate the fact that Stalin had decided to move them to the German front over from the far east once he had learned from Sorge-san that the Japanese had no intentions of attacking the USSR.
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