How do,

This is another of my hack jobs. This time its Brits in trench coats. At the mo I'm jus using these for myself and a few mates but once V1.0 is released I'll try and make them look a little better.

Pretty much all of this pack is parts from Devins SS trench coats and Klowns Brits. The only thing i made myself on this is the officers hat (which doesn't really look right so any tips are more than welcome). Anyway, I'll probally release after V1.0, providing Klown and Dev don't mind me using parts from their models.

As these models look pretty WW1ish Dances With Wolves is gonna make some 'BlackAdder goes Forth' skins for their faces lol Which should be pretty good as I love Blackadder.

Comments and suggestions are more than welcome as usual.

Ska

They look very nice, excellent work. Its hard to get long trenchcoats looking good with the HL engine. However:

Black? Maybe it would look beter in traditional British Khaki? I dunno, I just cant seem to remeber many black British uniforms.

The cap - it looks like something that would be worn on the parade ground for inspection, rather than on the battlefield.

Apart from that, they look great so far. Nice job :)

and may i offer you, my sincerest, contrafribularaties :D soon you will be able to here the "sir?, I have a cunning plan!" comeing froma cross the battlefield.

yes indeedi, this pack will be as cunning as a fox who has just graduated with a dregree in cunning from cunning university :D

They're not black they're brown and green lol

Mabye its jus the quality of the pic but the coat is brown with mud splatters and the trousers/sleeves are a dark(ish) green. The body of the coat is also brown.

Hmmm, I'll have a go at lightening them and see if they look better. The cap was made from scratch so thats probally why is looks weird lol As for the colour, I couldnt find any pics so the whole skin is taken from the hat worn by Horrocks in a Bridge too Far lol

Cheers for the complements, I'll see what i can do about the colours and that.

And Wolf, please, please, please make a sound pack to go with this! lol That would rock!

Ska

of course :) already udner way, ive got the skins ready im jsut waiting for you to finish the model so i can put the face textures on :D

cool. I'll get these done as soon as I can.

Ska

4th man looks like ADOLF Hitler, but they are very GOOD.
OK BYE

Oh ****! lol Your right, thats does look like bloody hitler lol

I never noticed that before lol Hmmm, mabye I should make Churchill, Roosevelt, Tojo and Stalin too lol

Ska

i shouldn't worry... the faces are getting changed ;)

Ska....is it historically correct that brits wore trenchcoats durin WWII? Iono myself but i THINK they didnt. n e way...gj though

those look good, except for the gas mask and hat, it makes them look more ww1 unless thats what your going for then they're good.

its nice, bit WW1ish though. wich is fine in my book, i love WW1 too :D

SKA you need to make some Scottish Models in 1.0 ;)

Looking very nice, =D.

I'll still help you with the hat symbol. You on MSN?

hehe i like the guy in the gas mask...very creative ;D

smooth. go ahead man they look good.

Lookin Good. Trenchcoats rock!

VERY nice

They look great Ska!

unfortunatly, i dont think i will be able to use em..i have Trenchcoats for my axis...and i can tell you, there would be some horrendous freindly fire incidents if i had em both in at the same time:rolleyes:
But they do look great, so maybe i will...just stay away from the servers im on!

told ya you'd get a great response didnt i ska :D

As far as I know the Brits didn't wear trenchcoats in WW2, or not to a great extent anyway.

I know these look a little WW1ish but I was kinda going for that look lol I was originally going to jus make some WW2 brits but with V1.0 very close I couldn't see the point so I thought i'd go for a "fresh from the trenches" look lol
I got the idea back in the old forms when we started talking about Blackadder goes forth lol

@ Warlord, I know what you mean about ff. I got kicked from two servers while tesing these cos I was killing my own team too often lol

@ devin, cheers. Any help is more than welcome, especially from you.

@Toejam, I was thinking of making some scots actaully lol Mabye after these are done and dusted.

I still need to add ranks and insignias to these, and the officers hat badge needs changing (its a warrent officers badge at the mo). I'll probally release these after V1.0.

Cheers for all the support and kind words,

Ska

Ska. I've been following your work secretly for ages. On the old DoD forums, and now your back here. Ska, your work is once again tremendous. The details. Those skins on Thunder in the rain would look utterly awesome. GJ

lol Cheers cheeseburger, I'm still pretty much a noob though, but thanks for the complement.

I tried them on Thunder tonight and they are very hard to see. Shame thunder ain't gonna be in the new dod but I think these guys would look good on the new snow map. I might add some snow to their boots and see how it looks.

I'm not gonna be able to relase these before V1.0, but then again there isn't much point

This question has probally already been answered (sorry if this is the case) but does anyone know/have any idea if the skeletons will be changed for DoD V1.0?

I'm assuming they will be but I'd just like to know if anyone has heard anything. I always **** up when assigned models to skeletons so I'm hoping they haven't changed it too much or I'll have to reassign these models (which i'm guarenteed to **** up lol)

Ska

i dont know if the skeletons will be changed.. but im pretty sure that all the animations have been redone/changed.

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
They're not black they're brown and green lol

Mabye its jus the quality of the pic but the coat is brown with mud splatters and the trousers/sleeves are a dark(ish) green. The body of the coat is also brown.

Hmmm, I'll have a go at lightening them and see if they look better. The cap was made from scratch so thats probally why is looks weird lol As for the colour, I couldnt find any pics so the whole skin is taken from the hat worn by Horrocks in a Bridge too Far lol

Cheers for the complements, I'll see what i can do about the colours and that.

And Wolf, please, please, please make a sound pack to go with this! lol That would rock!

Ska

Under closer inspection, I can see its more of a brownish colour. Think my monitor was just a bit dark. I take back what I said about the colouring, nice work :)

I was afraid they were gonna do that lol

lol @ "Under closer inspection" Did you have a Sherlock Holmes moment then conscript? lol :)

Ska

Have my babies Ska

Elementary, my dear Ska_wars, elemantary....














Erm, my idea of closer inspection was just scrunching up my eyes and peering really hard at the pic. Sorry, I dont have a magnifying glass, a funny hat or a pipe. Sorry :/

I guess you like them then Bishop? lol

Damn, I was really hoping you had a pipe conscript, and a pair of dodgey side burns with the hat lol

Ska

lol :D

lolololol

I've made some changes to the badge of the officers hate, but aside from that I aint done much.

I'm up to my eyeballs in school work (exams next week) so I won't be able to do much work on these really. Whats the release date for V1.0 anyway?

Ska

ska is as cunning as an extreamly cunning fox that has just got a degree in being cunning from the most cunning university... etc

very nice :)

Cheers

I see all the Blackadder fans are coming flooding out of the trenches now lol Hurrah for British comedy! lol

Ska

may 6th for retail amte and d/l is gonna be just before it.
sometime between may 3rd-5th i reckon saturday-monday as 6th is a tuesday.

Cheers mate, not long then eh?

I've only got a 56k modem so I'm probally gonna have to ask a mate to download it for me instead lol

Ska