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[Mig Eater]

Got some rare French units for this news post, most of which where made with only a few granny black & white photos as reference. The AGK steals the show this time tho, the ten hours I spent working on it was worth it!

Renault AGK


Panhard 201


ARL-40


Renault GR-1 3d image


Sud-Ouest SO 4000


I’ve also updated the unit montages in the other thread with these & the pics from the previous news post.

[Athena]

I love that plane . Rest looks good too, nice job . My second favourite would have to be the Renault AGK.

[Andre27]

It appears not all pictures are working :(

Edit: Odd. They're working now.

Edited by Andre27, 22 July 2007 - 09:36 PM.

[Mig Eater]

That's cos I fixed them XD

[Andre27]

Now shiver me timbers <just felt like pirate speak>






































































































































As you may have guessed: Beer involved.

[Mig Eater]

ROFL that was random

[Jeeves]

lmao
Think you're quite right though, that AGK is increadible.

[Mig Eater]

What is even better is that now that I've made it I can start adding France to the beta.

[Verrückt]

What a long post, it was almost as long as my....







































































































Copy of Peter Jacksons King Kong, that movie was way to long.

On a side note, those voxels look good.

Edited by Verrückt, 22 July 2007 - 11:23 PM.

[wilmet]

nice, and at last the ARL-40
don't know why but I've got a soft spot for it





















































just trying to be "in"

[Mig Eater]

What do you mean move forward :/

[Verrückt]

Although the joke never gets old, the joke was started by the fact that the french are rarely on the offense, during ww2 that is. Ford doesnt have shit on Skoda, those 38t's really know how to haul ass.

Edited by Verrückt, 23 July 2007 - 02:18 PM.

[Mig Eater]

Well we all know that French tanks only have 2 gears. Reverse and retreat

TBH I wasn't sure if you where being stupid or lame but it seams it was both

[wilmet]

ouch got to admit it does get old (and I'm belgian for christ's sake, we loathe the french )

btw mig, do you happen to have a pic of the autocanon de 75mm, it seems to be one of the few remaining things for the 44-45 period and I'm pretty curious of the looks of it.

[Mig Eater]

The autocanon de 75mm is possibly the most illusive unit in D-day, the French had hundreds of them but trying to find pics requires you to go on a monumental Google search (so illusive in fact it took me a while to find the pics saved on my comp XD)





It’s not all that brilliant TBH but it’s all they had. I do have another photo from a book that looks like a 90mm AA on a more modern truck but I can’t find anything else on it, other wise I’d be using that instead for the mid/late war.

[wilmet]

wow did they dig that up from a field in Verdun? It belonged in a museum even then, but I guess it was better than nothing.

I wonder if they didn't try sticking some AA guns on a few Lorraine 37L, they did try sticking AT guns on them (same for some Laffly trucks) quick modifications done out of desperation.

[Mig Eater]

There an old WW1 design but the French thought that fighter planes where enough so they never came up with anything better.

[Ash]

Well we all know that French tanks only have 2 gears. Reverse and retreat

TBH I wasn't sure if you where being stupid or lame but it seams it was both

Oh, come on, it wasn't that bad!

There an old WW1 design but the French thought that fighter planes where enough so they never came up with anything better.

Yeah. The French war effort did have one or two little holes in it. It wasn't just their war effort that had holes in it tho.

Edited by Paradox, 23 July 2007 - 10:42 PM.

[wilmet]

after some quick digging



Canon de 90mm modèle 1939



another view of the autocanon modèle 1933



canon de 25mm monotube Mle 1940

http://www.alsace141...e-0704-p01.html

Edited by wilmet, 23 July 2007 - 10:52 PM.

[Rattuskid]

Well to be fair, recent times have seen an age where ground based AA is fairly expensive and crap compared to modern fighters. Hell, if it wasn't for the fact that the Russians were so gung-ho on SAMs, there may have well been no ground based AAA after the Cold War.

The French weren't a nation of cowards, they just had their heads in the clouds militarily and their strategies never were cohesive, even if they were on the right track in some respects... They just didn't bring it together when needed. But In D-Day, who knows? Maybe you could fight your way to Berlin on French and BEF units alone?