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Frohickey β WWII French Tank
Published: 2008-04-13 04:08:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 5445; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 136
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This is not any specific french tank, just sort of a generalization of all french tanks in the first year of WWII. It is ink and watercolour pencil.Related content
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good job on the painting and the tank is a S35CA Somua, looks great and added to favoritesΒ
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I was just faking it. Sometimes I'm too lazy to look up the proper reference.
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lol fair enough sorry couldnt really help but point it out, im kinda a tank buff XD but no matter really good jobΒ
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Looks almost like something that could be on Metal Slug... hmmm.... anyway, great job,
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Metal slug, indeed.
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I would say this looks more like a combination of a Sherman with the turret of a Renault. Also, judgining by your deviant artworks, i take your a treadhead like me right? Would you say the American tanks and even Japanese and Italians were influenced by the French tank designs?
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I seem to focus on WWII armour but I enjoy making up my own designs using bits from all over. 
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I also enjoy making up tank designs mostly futuristic ones inspired by vintage ww1-ww2 tanks. Cold War ones look so bland compared to the "exoticness" of old ones like machinegun armed tanks or multiple turrets. I enjoy drawing doodles at school of my tank designs. Maybe later i'll scan em and put them online to show you guys.
Also, i've been having a realy freaky idea of combining a gothic cathedral(lots of skulls) with a tank to create a super-heavy tank loaded with guns of different calibre (800mm anyone?).
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Hope to see them sometime soon.
Have you heard of the "Carthedral?" [link]
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For a generalisation it looks remarkably like a Somua (S35?)
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That's pretty much it. I like the solid, stubby nature of WWII French armour.
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yeah, they had some good tanks, they just didn't use them well. The S35 was probably one of the best medium tanks until 41/42.
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The one-man turrets and small crews made the vehicles inefficient to fight on a hectic battlefield.
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yeah, but it had decent armour, a decent main armament and was reasonably good crosscountry. If properly organised, like the Germans did when they used them, they could make up for that.
Also, just to correct myself, I meant 40/41 not 41/42. My bad.
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I agree.(the germans used them against their makers any time they got their hands on one. Just a quick paint job and a unit number and new addition to the panzer division) (I'm sure you know all this)
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Yeah, Rommel especially.
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That's a very nice drawing,I must have more of a soft spot for tanks than i realised !
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Thank you. That could be a cool project for you sometime. A sheet metal tank.
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Yes it's something i have been thinking about and i probably will have a go at,cheers !
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That would be great! Would you design your own or research an existing one? My first thought would be a WWII German Tiger I. It has a lot of flat surfaces and a semi-cylindrical turret.
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Usually some particular piece of junk suggests a component or feature of whatever i have in mind and i take it from there.I'd imagine i'll make my own design as most things i make seem to develop as i go along.I have a few other things in the pipeline before i get to the tank though.
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Very nice. 
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Thanks,i always listen to suggestions,good or bad !
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