Help! Have reached the limits of my capabilities.

[RecruitMonty]

Dear all,

As you may know I have been working on many different icons as of late for my mod - "WinSPMBT: das Reich".

Part of the project has included developing support vehicles for the Marder 1 APC. One such vehicle the "Begleitpanzer 57mm" has been causing me a lot of trouble. No matter what I do I cannot seem to get the turret on that damn thing right. It either ends up becoming too big or it gets to be the wrong shape etc.

I would therefore really appreciate it if one of the other more experienced icon designers on the forum could take a look at my reference materials, which will be provided here on the forum as links and also as an upload of the existing chasis, and produce a turret for it.

I have worked together with some of you before in a limited capacity and have always been most grateful for assistance. A list of those who helped me out with the mod has been compiled and when it is finished - icons finished, loaded into the game files and German OOBs updated - I will be sure to give credit where it is due.

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can spare some time and give it a shot.

N.B.: I have provided several turrets from additional vehicles so that whoever has a go at it can get an idea as to what sort of colour scheme I am working with. I have also added my attempt in a second file. These files may be of some use to anyone who wants to have a go. I am not especially pleased with my icon.

The Links:

1) http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?topic=25495.0
2) http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/Begl...eckansicht.jpg
3) http://f3.webmart.de/f.cfm?id=207818...t=3446094&pg=1

[RecruitMonty]

Dear All,

110 views, or so, and not one single good idea as to how to solve this icon problem?

Oh well... better luck next time. As always I kept at it and made something that I may not be proud of but, well, what the hey... . Enjoy!

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Contents:
Begleitpanzer Marder 1 & 1A1 (camo., winter and desert schemes).

[RightDeve]

Hi there!

Not that I decided to leave you at will; I have read this post sometime ago and checked the links. But unfortunately I don't have the slightest proficiency in icon-editing things (had only opened the program once in a lifetime of playing SP). So I guessed it would have been more help to you if I don't comment anything, or else I would confuse the more privileged users here... LOL

Cheers,
RightDeve!

PS: those .bmp icons, they're damn smooth! They look perfectly 3 dimensional. Very nice job you did there

[oragus]

Here ya go Monty. Some tweaks for your turret.

[RecruitMonty]

Thanks Oragus for the turret. Will see what I can do with my existing variants.

Thanks for the encouragement RightDeve . I learnt from the best of them - Oragus among others - and just kept at it until I managed to polish off my style. You would not believe how many times I've redone my icons.

[oragus]

You are very welcome Monty.

Keep up the good work. Its great seeing you come so far with your work. Makes me proud. lol