Now that is some pretty darn cool design work. That inspires me to do some fancy sci-fi tank designing of my own!

Funny you've brought this up, i´ve just complete the game and considered doing some of the tanks from it. I love how the game designers have clearly looked at Russian tank design to arrive at this, and it generally looks like a pretty realistic 'what-if' based on previous Russian tanks, and not just some total fantasy tank-it looks believable. If you like this you should check out the allied tank-looks like a merkava/abrams cross breed!

Anyway, i think the best bet would be to start with a T-72 hull, and perhaps some bits off a T-80. The rear of the turret looks kinda like that off a merkava, but with sloped sides. You going to have to do a lot of scratch building and kit bashing, but it sure would looks sweet!

Cool looking tank this is!

I think rather than only a T-72, it looks like the combination of several Russian vehicles (and then some more).

The front glacis plate and front mudguards look like they belong to a T-72. However, the small road wheels suggest a T-64. The round turret also looks like more T-55ish or T-62/64ish rather than the shorter, sharper turrets of T-72 and T-80. IMHO, upgraded T-55 and T-62 turrets look like this one. The rear section of the side-skirts definitely resemble the BMP-2 side skirts.

If you can find them for cheap you can try acquiring old Dragon kits to work with... or go scratch-crazy!

The game is made by THQ Games apparently:

here is their contact page:

http://www.thq.com/contact/

A carefully and very politely worded message saying what you want to do, your desire to contact the people who do design elements/artwork for the game, or simply saying would like 3 view graphics of that particular vehicle might yield results, or might not.

I know nothing about this company, and it looks like they contract out their design work all over, so there are too many variables to have a clue as to what kind of reception you'll get. they might be enthusiastic and geek out with you, or they might be suspicious that you are trying to steal trade secrets or recruit a designer away from them.

It's worth a try though.

Any other screen captures of the vehicles in this game? The BMP-T (T-72 Ramka) look alike in the last picture is intriging as well...

the2S10 Telker looks like it is based on the T-64 APC "Bulat" with a new AAA turret...that would be pretty cool if it was true. It would show that the designers really were paying attention to the real world.

What about this M1A3...any pictures? Or the US APC? This is really good stuff.

I´m gonna fire of an email, hopefully they wont think that I'm some rival games designer out to swipe their designs and ideas. Although i noticed that there´s some mentioning of " Kaos studios" what sounds to me that it might have been them that designed etc. the major part of the game and THQ merely acted as publishers. But i´ll keep you all posted.

Wish me luck /
Christian

What are the specifications on this "what if" T119? What makes it so special? Does it fly?

Charlie

Hey Christian!

I have one T-64 kit in stash and I would send you the Roadwheels if you like. But still, you will have to cast two on your own as the T-64 has only 6 wheels per side.
I would be glad to support you on this awsome project. If you need other bits from a T-64, T-80 etc. let me know and I look if I have the parts. Of course for free!

Let me know if that helps you.

Best regards,

Andreas

Not a very good "what-if" in my opinion, very cool designs though and fun to scratchbuild.... but big tanks like these will be sitting ducks for all the UAV drone and NLOS weapons that are sure to dominate the 2020 battlefield... plus by 2020, fuel and steel will at least cost double what they do today.