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Progress Report: Texturing are go (again)

Added 2018-10-12 05:16:08 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone, we're back into the polygon mines again, so without further ado let's begin the summary recap of how things are.

C96: Texturing

Yep, it's certainly getting textures. I've got one complete done minus stock, so there's 2 more to go.I'm going all out on trying to replicate the important minute details on the surfaces, like the machining marks, different grades of Blueing, that sort of thing.

Plus, as well as doing "in-service" sort of condition skins, one of the things I'd like to do is also do Current condition skins for these. Reason being is to allow them to be used contextually appropriate for modern era ops (including things like CWGH Wolverines stuff or Zombie survival things, you get the idea). It's a LITTLE extra work , but I've got my material library fully prepped to fill all the crevices with Cosmoline. You'll see.

Anyway, here's pictures.

FN SCAR Platform: LP in progress

Finally properly underway. Gas Block and the basic form for the upper and lower are now done. Not much to comment on with these yet. Hard confirm to-do: PWS Brake.

Wait no, one thing: that Gas regulator on the end of the gas block: REALLY cleverly designed there, FN. Also probably going to be able to do the First-gen prototype of the platform, because like 90% of it remained unchanged to the production model.

M1941 Johnson LMG:LP in progress

Actually had a half-complete receiver, but on inspection, I wasn't happy with it, dumped it to start again. (Things like the Rear sight rail and some other notable pieces of it looked out of spec to some new references I collected- Wrong shapes, not feasible with the way I had it before). So I'm rebuilding that. Threw on the stock/recoil/trigger assembly too, now it's starting to actually take some sort of shape, and I have a fairly good frame for building some of the dimensions I have no other reference frame for. The more Forgotten the Weapon, the harder it is to get dimensions.

Keeping it fairly basic until I've got more of a feel for the form of some of the parts.

XM29 and XM8: LP in progress

Haha! You thought I was just doing the OICW, but I was tricking you because I'm also doing the XM8 with it, and they'll all be in the same release. Aren't you all lucky?

part a: XM8

So, Where to begin? XM8's have been started , and I'm almost a full quarter of the way into them. Mostly because I pinched most of the internals and mag off my G36, and TBH you only need to figure out the changes on the platform form the... plus the polymer shell.

Thanks to the interview that Larry Vickers did with Ian McCollum, I actually got basicalyl what I needed to know in regards to actual differences- Flip-up iron sight on the gas block. Thank plus a those shots he did of his Tommy-built replica using actual XM8 parts, I'm actually fairly confident I've got the main thrust of it down. I'll put the pics at the end, but it's advancing really smoothly.

part b : SABR

Right, so with the better resourced one out of the way, I'm making hell-for-leather progress on the XM8's deadbeat father. the FCS unit is done, just got some minor tweaks on it to make after I got new refs. I actually added some extra details to it that don't exist on the mockups- sensors for the IRTV and Laser systems (those are notably absent for a device that supposedly included those functions). I've also continued the sleuthing game about how this whole thing is supposed to work, hold together, dissemble, etc. It's PURE speculation, but short of someone getting shots of any of the prototypes, it's the best I've got.