Sturmpanzerwagen A7V - 'Frei'
Imagine looking at this and going:
"How could I turn this into a tankmorph?"
Impossible right? Where's the turret? In normal tankmorph art, the head is the turret, but this thing doesn't HAVE a fuckin' turret, it's EVERYWHERE ON THE HULL.
Not unless you think like me.
Look at this BEAUTIFUL and TOTALLY Time-Period Accurate (mostly) design.
Frei sees in greyscale, and at a low frame per seond view. Does it make probable sense for the time period? No. Do I think it's cool? Yeah.
BACKSTORY:
(Read this in a transatlantic accent, it sounds better I swear.)
From Our Special Correspondent, Berlin – Late Autumn, 1918
As the Great War draws toward its weary close, the German High Command finds itself beset by a multitude of grave difficulties. Among the most pressing has been the unsatisfactory performance of their armoured machines. These ponderous steel behemoths, though heavily plated, have proven lamentably slow and conspicuous upon the field—easy marks, indeed, for the increasingly effective anti-tank rifles now employed by the enemy. Priority targets, one might say, and treated as such by Briton and Yankee alike.
In an effort to remedy this deficiency, German engineers have of late experimented with a most extraordinary innovation: the tankmorph, or as they called it, PanzerInfanterie. These novel constructs were conceived to combine the mobility of the ordinary infantryman with the formidable strength and relative invulnerability of the armoured car. Tall of stature and broad of beam, the first of these steel giants proved somewhat unsteady upon their mechanical limbs and were, it must be admitted, prone to toppling. Yet when they advanced, they struck the opposing ranks with no small measure of surprise, bowling over British and American troops who had grown accustomed to the lumbering pace of conventional tanks.
Alas, the experiment came too late and with far too little material support. Resources being at a premium in these final months, no more than three and one-half of the A7V morphs were ever completed—the fractional unit consisting merely of a pair of unfinished mechanical legs, devoid of further mechanism or purpose. Their contribution to the German war effort proved negligible. Nevertheless, these pioneering figures of living armour have not laboured entirely in vain. They have charted a course for future development, pointing the way toward more refined constructs, improved tanks, and advances in the curious new science of the morph itself.
Frei loves to be UNIQUE. To the point where she may make some adjustments.
If Liberty Prime and an A7V had a baby this would be the result.
Created Oct 12
Updated Oct 12
Published Oct 12