Leclerc S2, "Arlequin", Place de la Bilange, Saumur, France, 2000
So here is my skin to celebrate 1000 subs! I hope you think it appropriate, it took around 1000 hours to make, or it sure seemed like it!
Do be sure to enter my 1000 subscriber prize draws (https://live.warthunder.com/post/954923/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/954922/en/) for chances to win in-game prizes!
To celebrate the millennium the home of French armour in Saumur, in cooperation with the municipal authorities, wanted to make a special presentation of one of their recently delivered batch 6 Leclercs S2s in the town, in front of Le Dôme, a prominent local cultural centre.
Members of the armour school came up with idea of decorating the vehicle in a special scheme for the occasion. They matched the Leclerc's modular funcitonality and appearance to the art style of Piet Mondrian, famous for his canvasses of intersecting cells of colour and white.
While he was a Dutch artist, his breakthrough period came during his time in Paris before the first war and in the interwar period when Paris was a centre of artistic innovation.
To match the scheme the vehicle was given the name "Arlequin", in reference to it's colours, and it was installed in place for the year 2000 tourist season, where it was judged a great success.
Its time was not without incident however, as on the 17th May, troublemakers found their way into the nearby tank museum's reserve collection and made-off with several T-34 and KV-1 tanks that were inexplicably fully armed and fuelled up and just lying around. Being the nearest vehicle on hand the crew babysitting Arlequin leapt into action, and confronted the pirates in a nearby industrial estate, where the careful use of APFSDS rounds convinced them to give up their games. The incident was captured on camera by onlookers, evidence of which you can see below...
...ooof, what was that, oh, sorry... had a bit of a black-out for a minute there. Seems like my diseased mind got control of the keyboard.
I had the idea for doing this a long time ago when working on my original squared off camouflage skins for the Leclerc S1 (https://live.warthunder.com/post/860744/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/860750/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/861590/en/), and always thought I'd return to it when I was ready. The one issue I had was the way the rear of the turret worked on that one wasn't going to quite gell with my vision. Time went by and the S2 arrived with us and I thought, bingo, I'll do it with that one, and the timing seemed right!
The squared pattern skins that I've already relased (https://live.warthunder.com/post/950568/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/950181/en/) were built on the work I'd already been doing for this vehicle, that had been going on for some time, and since their release I've been doing little else. The download includes a version with applicable decals and one without, as the clean, presentation look I wanted isn't really a goer with the decal settings, and it was easier to work this way as well.
Either way I'm ultimately quite pleased with it, no matter how all-consuming and occasionally maddening it could become! I hope it finds some takers on live, or at least those of you who like Lego or modernist art.
Coming next something a lot less fancy-pants, I promise.
Primary sources: The work of the artist Piet Leclerc, 1872-1944; My own fevered imagination
勒克莱尔s2的虚构乐高涂装，2000年比兰格广场Arlequin作品，希望你喜欢
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So here is my skin to celebrate 1000 subs! I hope you think it appropriate, it took around 1000 hours to make, or it sure seemed like it!
Do be sure to enter my 1000 subscriber prize draws (https://live.warthunder.com/post/954923/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/954922/en/) for chances to win in-game prizes!
To celebrate the millennium the home of French armour in Saumur, in cooperation with the municipal authorities, wanted to make a special presentation of one of their recently delivered batch 6 Leclercs S2s in the town, in front of Le Dôme, a prominent local cultural centre.
Members of the armour school came up with idea of decorating the vehicle in a special scheme for the occasion. They matched the Leclerc's modular funcitonality and appearance to the art style of Piet Mondrian, famous for his canvasses of intersecting cells of colour and white.
While he was a Dutch artist, his breakthrough period came during his time in Paris before the first war and in the interwar period when Paris was a centre of artistic innovation.
To match the scheme the vehicle was given the name "Arlequin", in reference to it's colours, and it was installed in place for the year 2000 tourist season, where it was judged a great success.
Its time was not without incident however, as on the 17th May, troublemakers found their way into the nearby tank museum's reserve collection and made-off with several T-34 and KV-1 tanks that were inexplicably fully armed and fuelled up and just lying around. Being the nearest vehicle on hand the crew babysitting Arlequin leapt into action, and confronted the pirates in a nearby industrial estate, where the careful use of APFSDS rounds convinced them to give up their games. The incident was captured on camera by onlookers, evidence of which you can see below...
...ooof, what was that, oh, sorry... had a bit of a black-out for a minute there. Seems like my diseased mind got control of the keyboard.
I had the idea for doing this a long time ago when working on my original squared off camouflage skins for the Leclerc S1 (https://live.warthunder.com/post/860744/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/860750/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/861590/en/), and always thought I'd return to it when I was ready. The one issue I had was the way the rear of the turret worked on that one wasn't going to quite gell with my vision. Time went by and the S2 arrived with us and I thought, bingo, I'll do it with that one, and the timing seemed right!
The squared pattern skins that I've already relased (https://live.warthunder.com/post/950568/en/, https://live.warthunder.com/post/950181/en/) were built on the work I'd already been doing for this vehicle, that had been going on for some time, and since their release I've been doing little else. The download includes a version with applicable decals and one without, as the clean, presentation look I wanted isn't really a goer with the decal settings, and it was easier to work this way as well.
Either way I'm ultimately quite pleased with it, no matter how all-consuming and occasionally maddening it could become! I hope it finds some takers on live, or at least those of you who like Lego or modernist art.
Coming next something a lot less fancy-pants, I promise.
Primary sources: The work of the artist Piet Leclerc, 1872-1944; My own fevered imagination
勒克莱尔s2的虚构乐高涂装，2000年比兰格广场Arlequin作品，希望你喜欢
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