My own Custom Icons (List Currently)

[MarkSheppard]

FRENCH VEHICLES
AMX-50-100 in Normal, Desert, and Whitewashed Winter Camo (French prototype post-war tank, was canceled due to US exporting large amounts of Pattons to Europe)
AMX-50-120 in Normal, Desert, and Whitewashed Winter Camo(French prototype post-war tank, was canceled due to US exporting large amounts of Pattons to Europe)
ARL-39 in Normal Camo (French prototype in development in 1940)
FCM-F1 in Normal Camo (French prototype in development in 1940)
Renault G1R (French prototype in development in 1940)

USA
B-36 Peacemaker
B-42 Mixmaster
CG-10 Trojan Horse (heavy glider)
LVT(A)-4 with M-24 Chaffee Turret (Prototype halted by end of WWII, merely rearranging existing icons by SPCAMO)
LVT-2
LVT-3
LVT-4
Boarhound Armored Car (Prototype for Brits)
M-38 Wolfhound Armored Car (Cancelled due to end of war in 1945)
LSM(R)
XP-72 (edit of P-47 to have the contra-rotating prop of the XP-72)
XB-15 (Boeing superheavy bomber; a edited B-17 to have wider wing span, etc)

Soviet
IS-7 Tank

[PlasmaKrab]

Could you post these here?

I for one would pretty much like to see your works, and I am probably not the only one.

The AMX-50 and LVTs seem particularly interesting!

Regards,

Plasma

[MarkSheppard]

here they are:

American Icons


French Icons


Soviet Icons

[MarkSheppard]

ARL V 39

Designed as a self-propelled gun for the DCRs, the Infantry's armoured divisions, 72 ARL V 39 (including 24 unarmed command variants) were ordered on 15 October 1939 to arm 8 battalions each with two batteries of 3 vehicles (two battalions per DCR). On 9 May 1940, the order was increased to 108. The ARL V 39 was to have 50mm armour and be armed, like the SAu 40, with a new "high power" APX 75mm gun of which only two prototypes existed, both mounted on the SPG prototypes. None were produced other than the single prototype, evacuated to Morroco and abandoned there.

Derived from the 1929 fortress gun (itself a development of the old 1897 field gun) with a semi-automatic breech and an automatic loader added, the "high power" APX 75mm gun fired a mle 1915 HE round with a reduced charge at 400 m/s and the mle 1915 AP round at 570 m/s (50mm penetration at 1000 m) and its two sights and stereoscopic rangefinder allowed a direct fire range of 2000 m. Horizontal traverse was 7° to the left and 7°6 to the right, -10° to 30° vertically. 200 rounds were carried. One original feature of the gun was the fact that the barrel could be retracted inside the hull to reduce the vehicles length when moving.


FCM F1

Twelve of these 140 tonnes behemoths were ordered on 27 April 1940 to replace the aging FCM 2Cs. This tank, designed to lead assaults on the Siegfried Line in 1941, was to be armed with a high-velocity 90mm gun (mv 710 m/s, penetration 100mm at 1000 m) in the rear turret and a 75mm SA 35 in the front turret (the mock up above shows a 47mm gun mock up instead) with a 25mm AT gun on each side of the hull ! The design wasn't finalised however and armament variants included a 105mm gun in the forward turret of in the front hull. Its front armour was to be 120mm with 100mm side armour and its two 550 hp engines would hopefully allow it to race along at a mighty 24 km/h...


Renault G1R

The 1936 requirement for a D2 replacement in the "battle tank" role called for a 20 tonnes tank, capable of 40 km/h, with the armour of a B1 bis, a 47mm SA 35 turret gun and a hull-mounted 75mm gun. However, Renault's design evolved into a 35 tonne tank with a turret mounted "high power" APX 75mm gun... which was rejected on 14 May 1940 because it was too far from any official requirement !


AMX-50-120


AMX-50-100


XCG-10A Trojan Horse


IS-7


M38 Armored Car

Chevrolet developed an armored car that would have excellent cross country capabilities. It was also intended to replace the M8.

Was standardized in March 1945.

[danstudentvcc]

Wow !!

danstudentvcc

[PlasmaKrab]

Wow all the same!

The heavy tanks and the planes are really good, and the boats are, well, impressive. If you don't mind, I think I won't hold very long before using them!

Now the other side: which ones of these were actually used in the real world?

[MarkSheppard]

PlasmaKrab said:and the boats are, well, impressive. If you don't mind, I think I won't hold very long before using them!

I don't mind. The LVT stuff I drew by hand using SPCAMO's
original LVT icon as a base to draw accurate LVT icons,
and the LST(R) is a simple redrawing using SPCAMO's LST,
while the LSMs and other boat icons are actually resized
and cropped off overhead paintings I found on the internet.

Now the other side: which ones of these were actually used in the real world?

AMX-50 was used for a brief time, usually in Parades by
the French Army, it's already in WinSPBMT, but with a
different icon than what I drew up.

The other french gear would have seen service in my opinion if France had not been overrun by the Germans in June 1940;
I drew them because I'm working on an Alt History in which
France isn't overrun so...

The IS-7 most definitely would have entered service as
a Heavy Tank if it wasn't for a Kremlin decree that limited
the total combat weight of tanks to fifty tons; which led
to the T-10 series.

[Sewter]

These are great! I was curious on where you got your info on the XP-72. Republic did a lot of crazy things during their transition from prop to jet engine aircraft, but I haven't heard of that one before. IS-7 was enormous! Cool stuff!

[MarkSheppard]

The XP-72 was a modification of the basic P-47 airframe redesigned for the Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major radial engine of 3,500 hp.

The aircraft had a close-fitted engine cowling and a supercharger placed behind the cockpit. The supercharger air inlet was moved to the wing root and gave the aircraft its distinctive "large-belly" shape. The XP-72 was capable of accelerating to 490 mph. at 25,000 feet and was to be used to intercept German V-1 "Buzz Bombs".

The maiden flight of the first XP-72 built (S/N 43-36598) was on 2 February 1944. This aircraft had a conventional 4-bladed propeller, but the second aircraft (S/N 43-36599) featured an Aero Products contra-rotating propeller. The excellent performance of the prototype aircraft resulted in a contract for 100 P-72's. These aircraft were to be armed with four 37mm cannon instead of the machine guns on the prototypes. However, the Army Air Force canceled the production contract before any aircraft were built because of the greater need for long-range escort fighters in Europe.