Challenge 003 - Post your Final Submission here!

[farcry]

Here is my entry. This is an Armoured City Transport that runs shuttlebus services in the post-apocalyptic, war torn cities of the future. Manufacturers of public transport vehicles collaberated with the armed forces of the countries they served to make it feasable to create armoured transports to safely move people around in the cities which still need to run to help rebuild the world. The buses are all slightly different, this type runs the service in London. Its is equipped with 3 heavy machine guns, smoke launchers, flamers to protect the front cab (operated by the side gunners) and the headlights can be supercharged to give a burst of light which can temporarily blind attackers. The bus can carry 28 passengers and has a crew of 5.

Wow, this was close! I had nowhere near ebough time to texture it, i hope i can still enter it untextured (after all, isnt this compo about design?) if not at least i got a finished mesh to paly with


Good Luck everyone

[citizen]

Well I was expecting to have at least an hour when I got in from work to post this, but it seems that British Rail had other ideas, but here I am anyway, 5 minutes to go:

The Hopper is a small legged craft introduced as city cabs when overcrowding and the morning commute lead to Traffic Jams that would litterally last weeks. Workers moving from home to sleep at work started to become a common sight, as were people passing away from old age during the commute.

The Hopper can litterally jump over any jam, and since it spends most of the time in the air many more can fit on to the crowded city roads than any car. They may get you there more shaken than stirred, but at least it's in the same season you started off in.

It has three modes of travel, a walking mode which is slow but easilly controlled allowing the Hopper to pick through side streets and park, a hop mode that is medium speed and gentle, not unlike the hopping of small birds (like a red red robin bob bob bobbin along) and a leap mode, where the Hopper will leap great distances over any obstruction like a mutated drunken Grasshopper.

Powered by a High Pressure Gas Turbine Compressor engine it leaps by using High pressure pneumatic rams concealed in the legs.

[Kadaeux]

In the grim darkness of the future the "Goth" culture of old earth was declared outcast and criminal, they fled in a giant colony ship stolen from earths orbit using shuttles also stolen. Since the colony ship contained mankinds most advanced technologies and manufactories the new homeworld of the Goths, Gothica, was a superpower in a mere 5 centuries, less than 2 centuries later it outstripped all other human nations for size, power and technology.
In an attempt to meet transport demand a basic hull design scheme was put in place for transports. The Scythe contruction methodology.
With a sharp prow sweeping wings and a mostly hollow hull it's engines take 10% of it's mass.




Sorry bout the multiple pics but this was done in a hurry.

And good luck to all entrants, I thouroughly enjoyed watching your entries come together.

[BorgMan]

Well, here goes, on hopes that it will be reviewed...

We write the year 2200. As predicted, the weather had a tremendous impact on our world: the seas have flooded large portions of land, and an increased time of solar flares did some crazy things tothe Earth's magnetic field. Mankind wasn't stopped by this events, however, and despite the water being everywhere, mankind flourished. Our eye has fallen upon Amsterdam, which, as capital of the Netherlands, always knew what to do with water. Now a days it's a modern Venice, with skyscrapers being partially submerged. Amsterdam, as the first of many cities, realised that a good public transportation system was needed to keep operating, even with water being everywhere. Magnetism was chosen to facilitate this need, and soon the Quadrupple Rail System -or QRail as it has become to known- was introduced all over the city, which tracks windle between skyscrapers, under the seafloor and even underground. Fast and reliable, this system ensures that the inhabitants of this worldcity get to their jobs comfortable...

[Coolhand]

Ok guys i hope everyone's posted their final pic, I'm closing the thread now so we can pick the winners.

Thanks to everyone who's entered the challenge, I hope you've all had fun.

If you've missed the closing date then pm me and we'll see if your work can be entered, you'd better be quick though.