Just a quick post of the Russian quad mechs I've been working on. You can see the old scheme here. I call these walkers Pokhodnaya Boyevaya Platforma, but I'm still noodling the nomenclature I'm going to assign them.
All for now, catch you later.
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Just a quick post of the Russian quad mechs I've been working on. You can see the old scheme here. I call these walkers Pokhodnaya Boyevaya Platforma, but I'm still noodling the nomenclature I'm going to assign them.
All for now, catch you later.
ochen' khoroshiy Tovarishch!
ReplyDeleteSpasibo, tovarishch, moy drug.
DeleteStill... lacks wheels.
ReplyDeleteAnd shafts... to make horses tug it.)))))
Lol.
DeleteTo be authentic Russian. ;-p
ReplyDeleteThey're not authentic Russian as these are meant to represent Russian Commonwealth forces after Belarus breaks away from the Federation, and Russia adapts to its waning empire.
DeleteI should add, for those who don't know I'm talking about a fictional future I wrote about in my Gate Walker trilogy.
DeleteOf course!
DeleteBut, there is times, when reality FAR more weirder than any fiction.
And... sorry in advance. For lapses of foreigner.
But AFAIK there is Ruritania cultural ref in your culture.
Like.
Aetheric Mechanics
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The year is 1907, and Britain has entered into a terrifying war with Ruritania, whose strange metal planes darken the skies, and whose monstrous war engines cast looming shadows from across the channel.
Which have a deep roots (of which, as foreigner, I did know only Herbert Wells)
DeleteLike here https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/crawford_alexander
Sorry for notorious noise.
noisy anon
Your link is forbidden, but I think I found it.
Deletehttps://militarnyi.com/en/news/assault-hedgehogs-russia-equips-tanks-with-massive-steel-cable-domes/
Yeah.
Deleteyet one example
Means... it need to be bulky. And inelegant. As ruritanian's beard. ;-)
//Your link is forbidden,
Sorry.
That is modern Internet. :-(
That became more... less and less free.(((
Yet one... %-))))
DeleteBrutality + Monstrosity ™
Well... and that is not my bias. Do you know that historical examples?
Like this one -- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Tsar_tank.jpg
I bet, model of it would looking great in your collection.