Drop Pod Animation - Mockup Artwork

Hello again dear friends and readers! Sharing a mock-up image of a 3D rendered animation I'm working on for a client... I built the Drop Pod last year for Clear Horizon, and you can read more about it here... Stay tuned to this URL, l mean like constantly, keep refreshing, for the finished animation.

The Bauble of death, packed to the upper bulkhead with troops, guns, grenades and other things that go boom, plunges into its latest 'peacekeeping' mission

Caiman APC

Previously previewed on the blog, now masterfully brought to production by Khurasan Miniatures.

Production mini, Painted by Dwartist 

Pre-production render. 

High-Tech Human Hover Tank

or, HTHHT!

Gesundheit!

Production model, Painted by Dwartist

Original "Quickie" concept painting

3D pre-production rendings.

Parts breakdown rendering

Available from Khurasan Miniatures as XM6 superheavy grav tank.

El Diablo de la Carretera

The following information is classified and has been leaked from a government insider....


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Currently in use with a black budget task force on the late night highways of the US and Mexico; it's existence is denied by the US Government, it's mission, classified beyond top secret. Never normally seen during daylight, the dark hunched form seen speeding around the border areas has become known as "The Devil of the Highway" and is associated with many burned out car wrecks (which appear to have been pummelled by high powered explosive tipped rounds) and mysterious deaths found in areas where the vehicle is sighted. 


Based on the XMT-168 advanced APC prototype this vehicle is modified for use at high speed on paved roads: It features 6 wheel drive and 6 wheel steering, powered by twin turbo-shaft engines outputting a combined 2000 shaft horsepower. Aerodynamically arranged armour and double rear wheels help keep it on the road, along with a vacuum system (inspired by outlawed Chaparral race cars) that create low pressure areas under the hull around the front and side skirts allowing manuvering that belies its mass - which is minimal through use of composites and high tech materials. The turret has a faceted lenticular shape - similar to an AWACS radar that allows the turret to rotate and cause minimal wind deflection at high speeds. 


To tackle rougher terrain, the vehicle can raise up on its double wishbone suspension and / or detach skirt sections for added clearance, it is also able to fit inside a C-130 transport and compact enough to be practical on a modern road network. The side effect of this is reduced carrying capacity for troops or cargo of its own. Effective Crew is a minimum of 2, typically 3 and provision for carrying a small number of passengers. 

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The model itself is built to be 3D printable and while it's also a scifi concept model its also an experimental test bed for very real world technologies that allow the printing of miniaturised working suspension components, or of course any type of working mechanism.

Marine Armoured Personnel Carrier

Another recent Khurasan mini for the 15mm scale, any similarity to any other fictional army battle-bus is purely coincidental.

Soviet Walkers.

A recent commission for Khurasan, I designed and constructed these  miniature armoured suits which in production will be less than 30mm tall - designed for a slightly oversize 15mm figure scale.

You can actually fit a person ergonomically inside the suits limbs so you would "wear it" like a suit, required careful design work, but I think it turned out well.