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westrim wrote:Hey, can we load a few nukes into a shuttle for its last mission, launch it into to orbit, then portal it through to heaven? Probably not, but I'd like it just for the fulfillment of Ripley's suggestion.

That's overly complicated and in no way an efficient use of either the shuttle or the nukes

It'd be more plausible for "Aurora" to be used for an orbital/inter-dimensional nuclear drop (since we don't know exactly what it is)

Overall I'd say A Marine amphibious landing in the Eternal City is by far cooler than just nuking the place, with that in mind...

Anybody going to draw up what 'Heavenly Urban' MARPAT's would look like?

Or better: is anybody going to draw anything?
As Chewbacca said: we need more fanart!

I would -totally- break out my art materials...if I hadn't spent the past two years losing them through my University course
no seriously, two years ago I'd have had great artwork online within half an hour, nowadays, my art is crap. really frustrates me.
that's what spending two years basically doing nothing but computing will do... (Computer Games Development & Artificial Intelligence)
bleh..I think having accepted that into my mind. I need to go for a walk or something..just so I can tell myself it ain't so....

Something is always better than nothing. Which is what we have...

I can draw, but I'm not sure WHAT to draw. Generally, pictures of demons and angels like the ones in the stories are easily findable with google images

PaperJack wrote:I can draw, but I'm not sure WHAT to draw. Generally, pictures of demons and angels like the ones in the stories are easily findable with google images

I am terrible at drawing, but something really cool would be military art drawn in the colonial-era style, like this:

Except that it would obviously contain demons or angels. The style is not very realistic, but it's not abstract either. The individuals are much too close together, and there are other unrealisms, but it's the kind of stylized art which would work well for this sort of thing (especially since it comes from a very religious era).

Too close together? Maybe not in the case of the Battle of Hit, where that might actually be an ideal (romanticized) style.

TithonusSyndrome wrote:Too close together? Maybe not in the case of the Battle of Hit, where that might actually be an ideal (romanticized) style.

Well, certainly you could have very close melee fighting in that era, but you can see how the artist tries to compress every element of a wide-ranging battle into a small piece of land. That is artistic license.

Up to a point. On the other hand, the artist is painting a cavalry unit overrunning an artillery battery, which is definitely going to turn into a confused point blank melee. It might not really look like that, but if anything would, it would be this kind of action.

Spekio wrote: How come you are not offended?
Every single christian I talked about this series of books either told me I was going to hell(or to go to hell).

This one isn't. I figure He can take a good bit of humor.

I'll save you a seat by the Fire.

Save me one too.

Just had an idea for the Battle of Hit as "Armageddon" cover art: the 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division squad that breached a room with frag grenades, viewed from the side (so a "cross section" with the squad on one side and the demons on the other) as the grenades are thrown.

Nematocyst wrote:Something is always better than nothing. Which is what we have...

Actually, a long time ago for the first book I doodled these:






I've been meaning to draw better versions of all of these however.

Those are all quite good, actually.

May I suggest someone open up a new thread in AMP for this?

Nice, also i second the idea to open up a Salvation War art section.

I like the silhouette style of the first two there's something quite evocative and simple about them

That Abigor one looks specially awesome.

Night_stalker wrote:Save me one too.

And me. I bring the marshmallows.

I found a Camo Generator here and I used it to make the following patterns

This is my interpretation of the Hell ACU pattern


This is what I think a Marine MARPAT Hell pattern would look like


Unfortunately I can't find a generator that does tiger stripe, so I can't do an Air Force "Hell-BU"
Just imagine a digital tiger stripe with the same pallet as the Hell ACU, but with 'Blue Slate' (naturally, it's the Air Farce after all) incorporated into the pattern

Finally, I'm not too happy with it but this is the basic set up of the "Urban Heaven" MARPAT (UHPAT)

Gold and White, the red and green are the closest in the generators color pallet to 'Gems'

I did draw that DIMON logo I said I was going to do, but I can't remember where the hell I put the damn thing. Time to start plugging in my hard drives until I find it.

ruinus those drawings are good.

Yeah, nice job.

Nematocyst wrote:That Abigor one looks specially awesome.

Night_stalker wrote:Save me one too.

And me. I bring the marshmallows.

Sounds like a hell of a party!

Bayonet wrote:

Nematocyst wrote:That Abigor one looks specially awesome.

Night_stalker wrote:Save me one too.

And me. I bring the marshmallows.

Sounds like a hell of a party!

Yeah, we should have... a devil of a time? Oh wait, the baldricks don't like those guys.

yeah, whats with that anyway? I'm left wondering what Devils are as distinct from Demons....hoping we find out soonish.

Bayonet wrote:

Spekio wrote: How come you are not offended?
Every single christian I talked about this series of books either told me I was going to hell(or to go to hell).

This one isn't. I figure He can take a good bit of humor.

I'll save you a seat by the Fire.

It takes all kinds. If I know the Catholic priest on my college campus enough, I think that he'd might give this a shot. He's pretty laid back. But I also know the priest of the church I go to may not. I'm guessing those people are just having knee-jerk reactions. This Catholic went (b")b when the Church excommunicated Yahweh.