Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Lady Max


Here's a piece of personal work that I've been thinking about doing for ages, and the chance to put it in an upcoming as-yet-still-secret art book gave me a reason to get 'er done.

She's a bounty hunter or vehicular assault specialist, and her car is a rolling weapons platform with all terrain capabilities. What's that you say? 'Not with those wheels and that ground scraping front end!?' Well, those wheels are special! Apart from being mounted on highly articulated suspension arms, and independently driven with ultra-high-powered superconducting in-hub electric motors, they have a surface that contains spools of carbon nanotube fibers that unwind with centrifugal force to bond with the ground like a gecko's foot. The strands have a special molecular switch that continually sever the setae fibers as the wheel rotates so they generate huge amounts of grip but very little drag. They also have expandable tread blocks for old fashioned mechanical grip on rough off road surfaces. And the whole front end and body is articulated and able to raise right up for maximum ground clearance, and that's before we even get to the front mounted crane arm!

21 comments:

  1. turned out BAD ASS!! give this man some party liquor!!

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  2. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkk Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnn!! this is amazing :D

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  3. Rad to see it finally finished bro! with all that info, it could go on wikipedia :U

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  4. Interesting design. :)

    Secret art book? Hmmmmmmmm.

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  5. I'm pre-ordering your secret art-book.

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  6. I will be all over that art book like white on rice, I love how clinically well thought out these designs are. Still, with all you explained I still want to know more about the weapons loadout and whether the driver is a cyborg or wearing a powered suit of some kind...

    Reminds me of a highly weaponized version of the Cosa Nostra Pizza car from Snow Crash, amazing stuff.

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  7. Cheers!
    To be honest Oliver, I was just drawing some cool looking bullets and missiles. Although if I was pressed I'd say those are 30mm high explosive armour piercing rounds, and the missiles are self guiding anti-armour types. I imagine there'd be more weapons in the car, like a smaller calibre machine gun, capable of firing a variety of specialised rounds, and there'd be some smoke, grenade, and chaff type launchers as well. etc etc. I didn't add all that stuff as I didn't want the image to be overpowered by too many military dildos. There's more than enough as is... ha ha!

    Oh and she's a lady, wearing a high tech g-suit type get up, with a degree of muscle/armour shit going on. The car can pull some monstrous g's with those carbon mono-spool wheels...

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  8. LOL, I love it. Been thinking about doing the same for a while too. Old school airpower book type illustration of video game style combat cars. Fantastic!

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  9. Man that would be a great movie. LADY MAX... THE RETURN Of THE THUNDER DOME!

    Sign me up for the 3d work on that movie!!

    -peace once again great work!

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  10. Wao! Excellent…. I will keep in mind when my turn will come....




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  11. i cant tell you how happy this makes me. i loooove this!

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  12. Sweeeet. I love the wheel concept too.

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  13. Really awesome! Can't wait to live in the future.

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  14. I'd have called her Mad Maxine but other than that I love the piece and fully support the eventual kickstarter campaign to have this made into a 're-imagined' movie of Mad Max.

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  15. ace stuff, is that a Jitte from neotokyo on the ground there?

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  16. wow, you should be working with the carmageddon guys with death machines like this!

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