New updates for: B-17G and KV-1 (new project) - August 8th, 2024
Hello everyone. It's me Antony, back with another Blog in 2024. We are now on August 8th - past the half of 2024.
I know. I've been absent without writing anything new here. Job, studies, playing video-games, watching some YouTube videos, listening to some musics and doing my chores at some moments.
I'm now working on the new role as health community agent. These days were pretty nice and easy, despite they were related to the administrative, reception and pharmacy routines. Few were related to the role we (my colleagues and I) shall perform. For now we are in the training phase.
The 8th semester is finished. Another thing I won't be bothered with. After the second university, I'll give a break for good.
New Nightwave intermission chapter is now complete, again. Yet, I'm waiting for the new 1999 update where you can play as Arthur (Excalibur).
Enough of that, let's go to the important thing in this Blog. I'm going to share you the new rendered images of the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress.
Alright. The B-17 with its Bump texture. I've been working on it while I was concluding the Romanian IAR 80.
I decided to insert the original texture while working on the lines. The American bomber looks good, although I may change the intensity for the Weathering markings. In addition, I made a door with an extracted piece from the fuselage's mesh.
The next thing to do is rigging the B-17, adding the internal components and making the Specular and Metal textures. After that, this American air bomber shall be the first of its kind to be ready.
Before concluding this Blog, one more thing: I started two new projects. I said I won't start another one while I have lots of them to finish. Again, my habit of starting new projects projects spoke louder.
The first new tank I started is the Soviet KV-1 heavy tank. As always, I like to share the story of planes, vehicles, ships, weapons and more.
The Kliment Voroshilov or simply by the initials KV are a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the defense commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov who operated with the Red Army to support Soviet soldiers and vehicles during WW2. One of the main tactics adopted by the Red Army was the Attrition Warfare - consisting of large masses of soldiers and vehicles to advance towards the enemy, wearing down their defenses to the point of collapse at the cost of personnel and war material. Before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the main Soviet heavy tank was the T-35 - a multi-turreted tank designed from the T-28 to address a series of issues presented during the Winter War. However the heavy tank had disappointing results in mechanical, firepower and leadership performances, making the People's Commissar for Defence to request for a new heavy tank. In 1938, a new model was built at the Kirov Factory and was sent for test along the SMK and the T-100 tanks, proving to be a great asset for the Red Army. During the Winter War, the Soviets realized the lack of a powerful gun capable of destroying concrete bunkers. It was from this need that the engineers installed a 152 mm howitzer gun on the chassis of the KV tank, but redesigning a new turret to accommodate the gun. The two tanks were initially known as 'Malen'kaya Bashenka' (little turret kv) and 'Bol'shaya Bashnya' (big turret kv), but would receive the designations as KV-1 Heavy Tank for the 76-mm-armed tank and the second model as KV-2 Heavy Artillery Tank. Both tanks faced the Germans during the initial days of Operation Barbarossa. Their frontal armor deflected any anti-tank fire from German PaK artillery pieces and Panzer guns, making the KV-1 and KV-2 near invincible at front assault. However during the Battle of Raseiniai, the Germans managed to outflank the KV tanks and destroy them with explosive charges or lure them to within point-blank range of direct-fire artillery - including the usage of their 88 mm FlaK guns to take them out at safe distance. Of the more than 200 Soviet tanks lost at Raseiniai, 29 were KVs. Due to their incredible armor and firepower, Wehrmacht soldiers often nicknamed the KV tanks as the "Russischer Koloss" (Russian Colossus). Another issue that crippled the KV tanks was the heavy weight due to its armor, the lack of ergonomics, low visibility and was difficult to steer due to its transmission based on a twenty-year-old Holt Caterpillar design, making the driver use a sledge hammer to shift gears. Additional armor would increase the KV-1 weight's, making it unsuitable to cross wooden bridges. Through the war, the KV-1 underwent a series of upgrades and modifications to face modern German tanks like the Panzer III, IV and the Tiger I. One of these modifications was the KV-1S, a light armored version of the KV-1 with thinner armor and smaller turret to regain speed and mobility at the cost of armor protection. Over 1,300 KV-1S were built before production ended in August 1943. Despite these features, the Soviets deployed the T-34 in great numbers compared to the KV tanks. One last attempt to maintain production of heavy armored vehicles, a new variant was designed: the KV-85 - having a new turret from the Object 237 (IS-85) and housing a powerful 85 mm D-5T gun, capable of penetrating the Tiger I from 1000 meters. However, both the SU-85 and the T-34-85 would also receive the same gun between 1943 and 1944. Between August and October 1943, only 148 KV-85s were built and production ceased in favor of the new Object 237, later known as the Iosif Stalin tanks or IS.
Here's the images of the KV-1:
The KV-1 looks good. The first components are pretty simple, with some of them having no need for Subdivision Surface modifiers (like the turret for example). Others were appended from other projects, like the wheels from the Panzer III. But I'm sure they need refinement.
The tracks were appended from the T-34. I plan to make the original tracks for this Soviet tank. For the time being, the KV-1 looks good.
Next components are: the decals, a refinement on its tracks, wheels, chassis, the cables, boxes and tools.
Well, that's it for now my friends. I hope you like this Blog. Let us hope this year bring us new content and something different from the usual. In case I have some spare time to enjoy, I'll be working on other things aside from Blender projects and my personal things. Until the time comes, you will be surprised to see them. See you next time.
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