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A lovely morning for an aerial patrol in the Congolese Disrecognized Zone.

This was an exercise I was doing that got a little more complicated than I imagined it would. I rarely, if ever, use one-point perspective, and even here it's not a "true" perspective, just an implied one. It's Major Sarah Bronniford and an international flight of SOMUA HS/12a "Howler" lifting-body vectored-thrust interface attack vehicles. In the world of my comic 6-Commando , Howlers serve double duty as fast-attack armored vehicles (they can skim just over the ground like a GEV) and low-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Since originally drawing the Howler on Page 1, which was… good Lord, four years ago, now! Well, as webcomics do, I've reworked my own original design, influenced heavily by a really slick take that Arioch IV had when he did a guest page about a year and a half ago. I had a lot of fun drawing this, but now that it's done I'm all full of self-doubt and second-guessing every decision I've made to assemble it. Oh, well - that's the way the game is played, I guess.

Anyway, I won't itemize the various shortcomings, for the sake of my own sanity, but I WILL say that I'm pleased with the way the Howlers look in this one.

Oh, and in reference to the title, SNOWBIRD is Sarah's UNA callsign, though she's technically an officer of the Québec National Militia.

Description
A lovely morning for an aerial patrol in the Congolese Disrecognized Zone.

This was an exercise I was doing that got a little more complicated than I imagined it would. I rarely, if ever, use one-point perspective, and even here it's not a "true" perspective, just an implied one. It's Major Sarah Bronniford and an international flight of SOMUA HS/12a "Howler" lifting-body vectored-thrust interface attack vehicles. In the world of my comic 6-Commando , Howlers serve double duty as fast-attack armored vehicles (they can skim just over the ground like a GEV) and low-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Since originally drawing the Howler on Page 1, which was… good Lord, four years ago, now! Well, as webcomics do, I've reworked my own original design, influenced heavily by a really slick take that Arioch IV had when he did a guest page about a year and a half ago. I had a lot of fun drawing this, but now that it's done I'm all full of self-doubt and second-guessing every decision I've made to assemble it. Oh, well - that's the way the game is played, I guess.

Anyway, I won't itemize the various shortcomings, for the sake of my own sanity, but I WILL say that I'm pleased with the way the Howlers look in this one.

Oh, and in reference to the title, SNOWBIRD is Sarah's UNA callsign, though she's technically an officer of the Québec National Militia.