Slowly but surely getting used to the new blender. Just taking some time for my brain to remap the shortcuts. I keep stuffing up here and there trying to use old shortcuts that do something either completely different or nothing at all 😱

I do miss the ctrl + alt + shift + c shortcut to set origin/cursor as I used it a lot. Now it's shift + s then comes up with a radial menu blablablabla I'll get used to it. 😉

Anyway While looking through my reference images I noticed the police version of the Casspir has speakers on them. I thought I'd model them in as an option. Might not make it into the final model though.

But hell would it be funny if you could play any music of your choice over those speakers while driving over the enemy players. The song that came to my head upon imagining that moment was Ride of the Valkyries.

I also spent some time renaming parts as I had a shit ton of parts named cube, torus, cylinder and so on. Difficult to know what is what without names.

Interesting trivia about the Casspir

https://youtu.be/2ID2jIdoKOM

https://youtu.be/qQ7P-9hRN2Y

Casspir Mk II parts added.

Changed the rear wheels as per reference

Will do some more modeling after dinner. And try to get the Discord streaming to work properly so you all can watch.

@everyone I'm live

Can watch the stream but only up to 10 people I believe.

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Mk I Casspir

Mk II Casspir

Looking real good

Just going to do one last thing and replace the tires of the Ratel and Buffel with the Casspir's tires as they all use the same ones

I actually used the Buffel tire models I already made on the Casspir. Just rounded them off as they were a bit "square" before

I drove past a mk2 today

Lucky bugger

Lol but it wasnt layed out like that

Depends on the variant. There are different Mk II's

There isn't much consistency though with Casspirs I noticed.

Well it had a storage container where the spare wheel is and the spare wheel was where it is on the mk1

Yup exactly what I've been seeing in my reference images as well

It was also a bit shorter but it was definitely a casspir

Some have steel storage compartments mounted on the exterior and others not

There was a shorter Casspir called the Casspir Dumpy

But never entered service afaik.

Hmm could be

My moms boyfriend was a mech troopie and he told me a funny story the other day of a guy who fractured his skull when he tried to rambo kick the doors open, unfortunately the doors are spring mounted so if you kick only one door open itll swing back and as he was jumping out the door basically b*tch slapped him back inside

Haha damn he must have had a pretty bad day!

Indeed

Rendering out the Buffel now with the new tires

Looks so much better now