Vietnam era fortified tower

[drow 0]

looks good, but i think the wood needs to be darker now to match with the darker bags, and the dirt on the roof looks kinda like a piece of toast  

maybe it would look better if it was just sandbag textured too, or maybe make it have a little pile of dirt like this one.

http://www.ofpnam.com/unsungfiles/smallbunker.jpg

[Sgt. Stryker 0]

nah the woods good, I think all it would really need is some spots hit up with the saturation sponge. The bags look a wee bit too green, the sandbags were usually burlap, brown canvas, or tan heavy plastic stuff, OD sandbags werent too regular.

[Harnu 0]

Bags seem a little too green. And IMO is could use some dust/dirt/etc tattered on it. It's just too clean right now

Other than that, it looks beautiful!

[AKK 0]

Yeah but shees a gettin there capn'. I didn't realize it till you pointed it out drow but the top does sorta look like a piece of toast

The green version could be used in 1980 + type missions only the baggs would have to bee really Dark green like the poly pro bags used today.

I do hav to say though that I do like the green. I'd like to see on Ia Drang before I would opt to shit can the green. I think its hard to judge being its on Intro and the sand contrasts so much.

Just a thought

I wish you hadn't said anything about toast now I cant get it outa my head.

[Metalmalte 0]

looks really impressive your work AKK! keep it up mate

maybe add a camonet to it, or something like that

[AKK 0]

Thanks.

Yeah I thought about the netting but how much can you really cammo a thing thats square and sticks 20 feet in the air

[MLF 0]

seeing as its a nam one, you will be mounting a pig on that beast

[bmgarcangel 0]

hey

looks kick ass so far....when will it be done?

[Sgt. Stryker 0]

howd the get dirt on top of that thing? seems like an impossible feat for such a tower. Try putting some bumpy steel on top (i for got what its called something like collidied or somwething)

[MLF 0]

howd the get dirt on top of that thing? seems like an impossible feat for such a tower. Try putting some bumpy steel on top (i for got what its called something like collidied or somwething)

probally kicked up from when a helo lands.

[kevbaz 0]

Quote[/b] ]Try putting some bumpy steel on top (i for got what its called something like collidied or somwething)

Corrugated ;)

[Sgt. Stryker 0]

yeah thats it lol. I think a lot of them just had like a big log going across the top with ply wood and then corrugated metal on top of that to allow water to roll off of the top instead of making yet another breeding place for mostquitos

[AKK 0]

Ok yawl you suggest I listen!

check this bitch out now

I have been workin with Sgt Stryker on these sandbags. I take no credit in the texture its all him. lol there

the roof texture came from him aswell but I got it as a BMP and converted it to gif so it needs redone.

but there you go tell me what you think!!

[MLF 0]

what would be coolio would be an M60 resting on the sandbags, ie like the FLK team did with there static mg poitions

other than that, its looking really cool.

[AKK 0]

Yeah but For my beta release I won't do that plus most of the time i think those towers were ocupied by snipers. Aswell that leaves the mission maker wide open with options.but I like the idea of keeping the m2 in there. but I think ol ma duce needes a face lift. or not?

and boy those sandbags are nice

[Cpt. FrostBite 0]

Looks very nice now. You made a hell of an improvement.

There is only on thing that should be changed IMO;

On the back of the sandbag walls on the inside of the tower there should wood. Normally these towers are normal wooden towers but with sandbags piled up against the side for added (and much needed) protection against bullets and RPG's.

Also;

Perhaps you should lower the roof a little. The distance between the sandbag walls and roof was to be kept at a minimum to give the people inside maximum protection. You should aim for a heigth of the sandbag wall so a soldier standing in the tower can shoot outside and down a bit. When standing up (with the rifle shouldered) his head should be almost touching the roof.

These towers were indeed mostly used by (counter-)snipers/spotters.

[MLF 0]

and boy those sandbags are nice

im sure if you ask them they might be able to help, but you bags look good as is

[AKK 0]

I thought about lowering the top but the picture dosen't do it justice as I have the pos hight of that m2 set in the init field and the feet are in the floor so it looks lower to the sandbags. but I might raise the walls. maybee.

as for the wood interior your right about them doing that but I dont think I will. I have an idea of something for the inside but I'll save that for the compleate model

Quote[/b] ]im sure if you ask them they might be able to help

Nah I was just commenting on the nice moddeling  I want the sand bags grunjy.

[MLF 0]

AKK we need more people like you creating bunkers and such they are sorely missed as single addons or small packs, keep up the great work

[Cpt. FrostBite 0]

They're right, AKK. We need more bunkermaking people. Your twoer looks really awesome on that picture. I can't wait for it to be released!

[AKK 0]

thanks MLF!

I do have a question for any Island makers though. If you can make a highpoint like a mountain. Why cant you make square deprssions around base camps? It would be real simple and look more realistic to do a small short bunker to be fitted over the top of it. that way you could cammo it better and the thing would only stick up about a meter.

Just a thought.

[Sgt. Stryker 0]

nice looking tower, you think theres a way to replace all the BIS sandbags and forts they made anyways looks like a winner, its gonan be one of those thnings that everyone will start using i think.

[Cpt. FrostBite 0]

Good idea AKK, but is it possible?

If it is you can make those large sandbag bunkers in that picture on page one (the square ones completely covered with sandbags and with only one large hole on the front)

Bunkers like those were really THE major part of the bases in veitnam. EVERY base had sandbag bunkers and towers on them.

Perhaps you can contact the maker of A Shau valley to include you tower and to talk about bunkers? Would be nice if he could flatten some mountaintops and texture them red-sand so we can place FSB's there. The real A Shau Valley had a lot of FSB's. (And yes, the "eagles-nest" featured on the map, actually excisted)

[AKK 0]

I dont know about the BIS sand bags. maybe un-pboing the BIS data file and replacing the sandbag texture there with one of these named the same?? but thats kinda a big to do.

I'm gonna do a quick fix to the goem lod and release it in about an hour or so. I'm gonna try and upload it on OFPNAMnews

I don't know how long it will take to hit there DL section though.

[Sgt. Stryker 0]

you making 3 versions as well, or just the one? you alsmo might want to send it to ofp.gamezone.cz they might get it up soon, i believe fighter is in these forums a lot so maybe it'll catch his eye. anyways good work.