I see your point. The highly detailed sample map above is probably where I would prefer to take things with regards to ground textures. 😂

Anyway! So that'd be umpty-nine iterations of the Pz.Kpfw. III - times three for theatres of operation/season paint jobs - with enhanced cammo solutions. And, most importantly: eldritch elements.

And then the same for the I, II, IV, V, VI and also the Sd.Kfz. 11 and 251, oh...almost forgot the Stug. and self-proppelled flak/artillery and also stationary systems and....jerry cans.

Oh, and then destruction dressings of course.

So, British funny tanks some time around 2034?

So, because reasons, I whipped together two symbols - a chassi and turret of a Panzer III.

I presume to have created files where the bits are to scale according to Tome standard (i.e. the 18 ft chassi was drawn at 100 pxl/ft). Did not turn them into a fully operational symbol package, obviously, so I had to scale it to the map manually.

Enjoy!

The game is afoot! Breaking it into Contours and also a Surface (which helps for selecting an area to draw in).

I think I'll be adding some air width to the back: will absolutely want to be able to center symbol on the turret itself since it makes it easer to fit on the chassi, in-map. Also gonna have to add even more air because of course they had the entire alphabet's worth and F has a shorter barrel than L and this was probably a terrible idea. But it's handy to have all turrets in the same workspace.

More height also, for discrete shading around the turret.

And then...painting and decals I guess. Or maybe not decals, after all...I have seen kit hobbyists' blogs on the subject of markings, and I am not yet ready to get that bachelor's degree in tank markings methinks. Good call on layer structures, @Wyvern.

No more hijacking this thread! 😂 Will share in a seperate thread when results.

One would dive straight into tracing off https://drawingdatabase.com/tag/world-war-ii/ but they are preciously anonymous and non-informative about usage.

Suggest checking out the Close Combat series modding community: it's a game catering to platoon-sized infantry combat, and the aspirations of detail and vehicle design accuracy very much reflects that you constantly switch between checking in on individual squads/units and zoom out for an overview picture.

I don't know to what extent there are top-down vehicle sprites available for traces, however, but the stuff that is available without registering for an account over att closecombat.net (which...for some reason don't like the free e-email services) should give you an idea. Again; it's mainly tanks and similar combat vehicles - and not too much by way of fixed-position artillery - but the hobbyists are very keen. I can't speak for the Wehrmacht apologetic frequency but if there are any in their ranks, they certainly don't flaunt it in the same ways as...well..their opposite numbers in the WH40k fandom...

I am currently prepping some game aids for Achtung Cthulhu!/World War Cthulhu myself and I certainly see the benefits of a token library of sorts.

So here's a Königstiger trace job I did which doesn't adhere to any unit scale in particular - but feel equally free to use the lines: I didn't find a neat way to do the cammo pattern so I figure I might as well drop it as a mandala template :D