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Published: 2010-07-21 23:39:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 9889; Favourites: 154; Downloads: 0
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Him wearing an old Battle Dress Unifom on Woodland camouflage, holding an M16A4 with M203 grenade launcher and a Pentagon MD3R tactical light. (Note: I am not sure if it's recomendable to attach a flashlight to an assault rifle while at the same time having a grenade launcher attacked to it. I am just following the requesters wish)

He is also wearing Delta Force patchs.

I used some photos he uploaded in his deviantart account to try make him look as close as the real deal is.

Next to him is Victoria lying on the HMMWV while wearing the current ('Though soon to be replaced) ACU. On her feet there's a Barret XM-109 anti-material rifle. Similar to the well known Barret M107/M82 rifle, this beauty is known for firing 25 x 59 mm grenades. Something you do not want to get hit with.

On top of the HMMWV there's a FN MAG Aka the M240 Machine Gun. I had to scale down a bit the MG because once I've finished inking the drawing I realized that the thing way too big. like 30-40% too big. I mean... I had draw it so big that if it had been a real weapon.... it'd be firing freacking 50. Cal.
So I scaled it down.

The Golden Brigge is located in the background so that should give you a clue of where the scene is located.

I used like usual the Pixelized camouflage from for Victoria's ACU

The Evening sky was perhaps the most dificult part, I was using a real life photo as reference as to improve my sky painting. It didn't came out identical but it looks pretty good.

I'm quite happy with this project although I wish I could have drawn Kahunasniper and Victory with more detail. I guess including the HMMWV accidentally send the characters to a second place. My apologies.


I hope you like it. My free time has shortened again so I will be slowler at uploading stuff. No worries 'though, I still got three linearts scaned and ready to be colored (Which I shall do soon withing the next days/weeks), got another ready but unscaned and got another one in the makings.

Next project I should be uploading when finished should be 's request.

These last two weeks have been definitively profitable so I'm in a real good mood.

PS: Oh.... and made a new and more intrusive watermark signature. I thought it would be time for a change

See'ya in the Battlefield!
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Comments: 128

ColonelBSacquet [2015-06-04 11:05:40 +0000 UTC]

Victoria ... is that an OC of yours, Sven?

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Panzerfire In reply to ColonelBSacquet [2015-06-05 01:52:55 +0000 UTC]

No, she's from .

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BottledButterfly [2014-04-06 13:31:14 +0000 UTC]

I think this was the very first piece I saw done by you. I found it through Kahuna. It wasn't long after that that we became really great friends (: You know what's kind of funny? The sky, how you painted it, was my favorite part. 

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Panzerfire In reply to BottledButterfly [2014-04-06 15:55:27 +0000 UTC]

But I am very much glad that you like it

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BottledButterfly In reply to Panzerfire [2014-04-06 19:10:40 +0000 UTC]

I always will (:

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Panzerfire In reply to BottledButterfly [2014-04-14 21:08:32 +0000 UTC]

Cheers.

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Panzerfire In reply to BottledButterfly [2014-04-06 15:51:54 +0000 UTC]

hehe I have to admit that when I made this picture, I used a photo as reference. But just as reference for the cloud patterns and colors. It was also the time in which I was using only the basic brushes to do my clouds. I think I could do better in the future.

I am meaning to do more sky paintings and sceneries in PhotoShop without so much technical stuff in it. ahhhh soo many ideas, projects and so no time to do them

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BottledButterfly In reply to Panzerfire [2014-04-06 19:10:34 +0000 UTC]

I think it's good to use reference. I know I use it sometimes to help me in my writing. We are always working to better ourselves (: And I totally understand. I wish I could write everything and magically have the capability to draw my characters. D:

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Panzerfire In reply to BottledButterfly [2014-04-14 21:08:17 +0000 UTC]

Hehe yup. Well practice does the trick as with anything.

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BottledButterfly In reply to Panzerfire [2014-04-15 00:12:18 +0000 UTC]

Indeed. But you need time. Rwar

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Panzerfire In reply to BottledButterfly [2014-04-23 00:53:55 +0000 UTC]

Very true. Like baking a cake. Gotta give it the right time to cook

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SkyCaptain91C [2013-03-31 12:46:34 +0000 UTC]

are they a couple?

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Panzerfire In reply to SkyCaptain91C [2013-04-01 15:32:27 +0000 UTC]

I don't know, you'll have to ask the guy who requested the picture in the first place.

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Sev808 [2012-05-11 18:31:29 +0000 UTC]

Nice!

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Panzerfire In reply to Sev808 [2012-05-12 14:38:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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kojurokatakura [2010-11-03 07:13:26 +0000 UTC]

do you have a brush preset for woodland camo?

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Panzerfire In reply to kojurokatakura [2010-11-06 15:08:21 +0000 UTC]

Nope. I simply use the basic brush tools and I make it old style.

Akthough making a woodland brush would make the whole thing easier.

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Solidsnake2236 [2010-08-12 19:56:18 +0000 UTC]

Dont they also put Browning M2 MG's or M-1919's on the HMMWV's?

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Panzerfire In reply to Solidsnake2236 [2010-08-13 13:10:57 +0000 UTC]

Yes they do. But it's not all that odd that M-240s are installed on top of Humvees.

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KodyYoung [2010-08-10 13:57:28 +0000 UTC]

Awesome job and detail here mate

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Panzerfire In reply to KodyYoung [2010-08-13 12:30:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I'm glad you like it.

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notrace [2010-07-26 20:32:37 +0000 UTC]

very nice sven ^^

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Panzerfire In reply to notrace [2010-07-27 21:41:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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notrace In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-30 16:46:41 +0000 UTC]

anytime man

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RedWingsDragon [2010-07-26 04:10:25 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work here

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Panzerfire In reply to RedWingsDragon [2010-07-27 21:43:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much

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attila1987 [2010-07-24 19:07:55 +0000 UTC]

About the ACU camo, US army will replace them for the "multicam" : it's a special camoflage wich take for the human eye the dominant color of the soldier surrounding, look here [link]

On the three photos on the left it's the same uniform! Amazing isn't it? It's the camouflage that every military wished for so long! ^^
The only defect known about his camouflage capacity is that it emerges in an intense green environment, like jungles!

But for the moment, only the US troops in Afghanistan will have these news uniform, because they cost a lot more to produce than "classic" camouflage!

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Panzerfire In reply to attila1987 [2010-07-24 22:24:38 +0000 UTC]

I'm aware of that

That's why I said that the ACU was bound to be soon replaced. I like the ACU but yeah I guess it's not very useful. Multicam on the other hand looks like quite a good choice. Gotta see how can I reproduce Multicam on Photoshop without having to use someone else's brushes, Perhaps I do my own? 'Though maybe I can combine betwenn my Flecktarn brushes and some of the basics.

But yeah right about now the US Army in Afghanistan is set to get the new unifom.


And yes... Multicam looks like the wet dream of militaries short from getting the Optical camouflage from Ghost in the Shell.

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10thdoctorwhooves [2010-07-23 00:51:48 +0000 UTC]

O_O the m82 smi auto 50 cal rifle
the badass of the military.

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Panzerfire In reply to 10thdoctorwhooves [2010-07-23 12:04:30 +0000 UTC]

Well that's actually the XM109... Identical to the M82 except that it fires grenades rather than bullets.

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10thdoctorwhooves In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-23 19:50:02 +0000 UTC]

i still like the m82 50 cal rifle.

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sabekuji-kaneda [2010-07-22 13:26:09 +0000 UTC]

All that's left are zombies

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Panzerfire In reply to sabekuji-kaneda [2010-07-22 13:53:14 +0000 UTC]

But even those shall get their deserved punishment.

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Jetfreak-7 [2010-07-22 12:41:01 +0000 UTC]

Nice colors man, very moody.

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Panzerfire In reply to Jetfreak-7 [2010-07-22 13:26:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 11:10:24 +0000 UTC]

Man. I wish I could pay for the cool things like these but I have almost no money and no drawing skills.
Still, awesome work as usual man.

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Panzerfire In reply to Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 11:15:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot. And drawing skills don't pop out of thin air It takes practice.

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Nightbringer24 In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-22 11:20:43 +0000 UTC]

Yeah practice makes perfect. My main art form however is the written word.

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Panzerfire In reply to Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 12:20:20 +0000 UTC]

That's cool. Lots of people should work more on the artistic expressions of words. Lots of Graphic Desginers, painters and cartoonist but few poets.

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Nightbringer24 In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-22 12:24:53 +0000 UTC]

I'm actually more of an author than a poet. But I can write very depressing stuff.

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Panzerfire In reply to Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 13:03:00 +0000 UTC]

Still a good artistical style

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Nightbringer24 In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-22 13:05:05 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. Hey have you played Metro 2033?

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Panzerfire In reply to Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 13:26:43 +0000 UTC]

No I haven't.

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Nightbringer24 In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-22 13:39:46 +0000 UTC]

It's a good game. But since it's centered in Moscow, anyone can make up their own stories for what happened to the rest of the world. Now I'm starting to wonder what America woul be like after the apocalypse.

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Panzerfire In reply to Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 13:54:39 +0000 UTC]

That's food for thought

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Nightbringer24 In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-22 14:03:48 +0000 UTC]

Very. Since the Russian metro is infested with mutants, bandist, communists and...um...fascists.

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Panzerfire In reply to Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 14:19:31 +0000 UTC]

lol.... all it's missing are zombies.

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Nightbringer24 In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-22 14:27:32 +0000 UTC]

Well. In a nuclear apocalypse, I don't think zombies are going to be that common. But their are lots of strange anomalies that can kill the player. Also weird mutated humans that can kill you telepathically, but that doesn't happen to the player.

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Panzerfire In reply to Nightbringer24 [2010-07-22 14:51:05 +0000 UTC]

lol... I bet the mission goal is simple: Kill'em all.

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Nightbringer24 In reply to Panzerfire [2010-07-23 10:03:32 +0000 UTC]

Well, that is the whole premise of the game. But if you complete some missions differently, like go through a frontline without killing anyone, you get a completely different ending.

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