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French Citroen UNIC P107 Halftrack in German Service and trapped in Russian Winter of 1941/42. As always, raw drawing in XARA Xtreme, weathered and rendered in AP.

Trifft's, chapeau !

German WW2 Self Propelled 105mm leFH 18/2 Light Field Howitzer "Wespe" Created in XARA Xtreme and heavily weathered in AP with all its awesome tools Happy 2025 from Germany !!

Die Wäller sind überall...

Male worker at rest. The body itself coming from "Magic Poser", IMHO an ideal complement to AP.

Great work ! As everybody's loving steam locos, here's another one from my collection, a British 2-8-0 Stanier 8F confiscated by the War Department ("W.D.") for the Desert War. Cheers !

OMG, awesome work, Marc !

Dipping my toes into the muddy water of cloth shading, with lot of dodging, burning and smudging... Imagine a male in casual clothes and bright sunlight, lifting his arms for some unknown reason.

Australian "digger" wearing the "slouch hat" leans against the wall of a typical Libyan roadhouse, giving his feet a well deserved break. The wall has been decorated with an advertisement for Griffith's tea made by an obviously most talented Autralian sapper. Also leaning on the wall is the superb British .303in. Bren machine gun. Pretty far away from home... The graphics is a wild mixture of coloured photo (digger's head), ArtPose body, Bren gun scale model image and own drawings.

Italian Autoblinda AB41, burned out in the Libyan desert, 1942. Original XARA drawing heavily post-processed with the wonderful AP 1.

Great drawing of the Beaufort ! IMO, it would be even more amazing if you would emphasize the highlights to give the model more depth. Switch to AP and dodge the hell out of it using some texture brushes. Or, move to Tone Mapping and see what you get. Just my 2c...

...one of Rommel's artillery tractors in Egypt. Again original vector drawing made in XARA Xtreme 5.1, heavily post-processed with the wonderful AP Front flag, Frontwheel cover and rear canvas all done in Liquify Persona and "dodge"d and "burn"ed later... Look here for a similar drawing.

MERCEDES-BENZ ! This time a 4.5-ton 4x4 MB L4500 Heavy Truck. Part of Rommel's D.A.K. when chasing the 8th Army east on their "Gazala Gallop" right to El Alamein, but no step further ! Libya, Egypt, exactly (!) 80 years ago... (another needless war !) Original truck drawing with XARA Xtreme 5.1, heavily post-processed with AP Though I love AD, it can't compete (yet) with the Xtreme 5.1 when it comes to fast vector drawing, just my 2c...

Great work, Marc !! I like the reflections on the body, but would recommend to omit or blur the lower background as it distracts too much from the loco itself. And I would emphasize the shadow over the suspension as well.

Amazing work, Adriano, would really love to see a tutorial on the whole process.