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[ffutures]

Another illustration of the Kobold tunnelling machine (for Forgotten Futures 9) mentioned in a previous post. Minor spoilers - don't read on if you might be playing in one of my adventures:



This one shows it on a railway wagon and makes it clear that it has treads - that it's a tunnelling machine rather than a really weird submarine. This isn't going to be known at the start of the adventure, of course, and the adventurers will have to work pretty hard to learn this much.





This looks a little phoney, and I may mess with it a little more. Also needs some troops guarding it. Comments please...

Update 17/8/04: Now messed with, troops added, etc.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I notice that in the new Thunderbirds movie, International Rescue's Mole no longer sports a giant screw thread, but rather many smaller revolving cutting-heads, looking more like a real-life tunnelling machine. That screw looks like it would go through clay or soil just fine, but how would it stand up to rock?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Good question...

Without wanting to say much about the adventure, it isn't quite up to spec in some respects. One of the goals of the adventurers will be to find out what it can really do...

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

The lighting between the two parts of the machines is off. Try darken the top of the Kobold's body and add a lighter strip along the middle to correspond the frontal diggy part (think that would be easier than to get the diggy bit correspond the main body.
Also, the background (carrier) bit needs a bit more contrast for the added parts not to stand out so much.
Finally, the sizes of the men in front and those to the left don't match up (and the lighting for the front guys again).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The guys to the right are supposed to be a lot nearer the camera than the train, hence bigger than would be accounted for by perspective alone. Also possibly lit by a flash? I see what you mean about the difference in lighting between the screw and main hull, probably easier to fix this by darkening the screw. I'll experiment with this. Thanks very much for your comments.

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

Actually, the guys to the right seem a bit too small compared to those to the left (or rather the ones to the left are a bit too large). Also for a flash-lighting there is too much shadow in direct line of sight that would be illuminated by the flash.
Also, I just noticed, you could make it a bit more realistic by adding noise to the people and the Kobold so they match the noise of the background picture.
The two soldiers to the left also could use a little pool of added shadow at their feet.
(I actually refer to the updated picture in your other post for these additional suggestions. It's the one I have open right now in another browser tab.)