Flight of the Caracals

In the previous weeks, I've been making the Buzzards; a unit in the Agents aboard the USS Orca that fly the F-18 Hornet and the EA-18G Growler fighter jets. Now, the next unit in the Agents is the Caracals, who, like the Buzzards, fly a fighter jet corresponding with the unit name: The F-14 Tomcat.

Picture of the Caracals logo.

And so for last week's Figure Tuesday, I worked on a portrait-style picture of the Caracals. Just like the Buzzards picture, it has the same frame and a plane corresponding with the unit's name and logo. Characters from left to right: Agent/Callsign/Role/Plane Agent Boa/Caracal 1/Radar Operator/Lurker, Agent Slick/Caracal 2/Pilot/Lurker, Agent Anat/Caracal 2/Pilot/Thunderroll, Agent Raxe/Caracal 2/Radar Operator/Thunderroll.

In this week's Figure Tuesday, I drew a picture inspired by a fanfic I read that was a crossover between "RWBY" and "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions." In the story, Team RWBY play the video game "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions" and are subsequently sucked into the game right after booting it up and playing the opening tutorial. Now to get back home to Remnant, Ruby Rose and her teammates Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long have to work together with the Amazing Spider-Man, the Ultimate Spider-Man, the Spider-Man of 2099, and Spider-Man Noir respectively to collect the fragments of the now broken Tablet of Order and Chaos and reassemble it. This picture is of Ruby traveling with Spider-Man through the jungle. Or to put it more accurately, the hunting grounds of Kraven the Hunter; as Kraven is in possession of one of the tablet fragments they need and have to get it back from him.

Other than that, I've begun making other models to show to professionals along with my YF-17 Cobra fighter jet model. This includes a longbow and a claymore.

Picture of the bow fully unwrapped and textured.

Picture of the claymore fully unwrapped and textured.

For last week's Monster Monday, the prompt was to make something relating to Rockstar Games. What came to mind for me was GTA V and I drew these 3 of Dr. Inferno's Henchmen with guns from the game. From left to right is the Mossberg 590 known in the game as the "Pump Shotgun," the Taurus PT92AF known in the game as the "Pistol," and the Norinco Type 56-2 known in the game as the "Assault Rifle."

In this week's Monster Monday, the prompt was to make a cyborg of some sort. A majority of the villains in my Agents comic series are cyborgs, so this was easy for me. At first, I worked on a character I made a while back named Dr. Jacob Calloway.

But then I pivoted a bit and made a new character. This is Darrel Gertrude, a guy who started out in the Inferno Corporation as just an ordinary henchman. During Agent Hotman (me)'s mission at Dr. D Zaster's chemical lab built by Mount Sangay volcano in Ecuador, however, Darrel was blown up when Hotman blew up the entire chemical facility. Darrel survived, but he lost an arm and an eye from the explosion. Enraged by what Hotman had done to him, Darrel took on the name Nuadha, which is an Irish god who lost an arm. Nuadha now has studied archaeology to try and be on par with Agent Hotman, as well as a mechanical arm and a cybernetic eye, but one thing still holds him back: Besides losing an eye and arm in the lab explosion, the chemicals also caused Nuadha to become diagnosed with Progeria, resulting in him aging more quickly than normal.

Nuadha's sidearm of choice is the Stechkin APS.

Place of origin: Soviet Union

Magazine: 20 rounds

Range: 219 yards

Caliber: 9x18mm Makarov

Fire Rate: 750rpm

Extra Features: Blowback Action, Full-Auto and Semi-Auto Options, Vented Magazine, Buttstock Holster.

Type: Machine Pistol

The main inspiration for this character was Lord Sam Sinister, also known as Baron Von Barron, or Mr. Hates; one of the villains in the LEGO Adventurers theme.

Picture of a fan-made minifigure of Sam Sinister more more modernized I took inspiration from as well in addition to the original.

The inspiration for Nuadha being a pilot came from the character Mihaly A. Shilage from "Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown."

Ever since the Stechkin APS pistol was invented in the 1950's, the Soviet Union's pilots have been armed with the Stechkin as an emergency weapon. Russian pilots today use the Stechkin as well; storing the pistol in a holster on their vest like any pilot would. This was what inspired the idea of giving a Stechkin APS to Nuadha.

The plane Nuadha flies has already been thought out, I just haven't finished drawing it yet. In fact, Mihaly flew this same plane in Ace Combat 7. This is the SU-30; a Russian fighter jet made by Sukhoi that was built out of the SU-27's airframe. The key differences between the SU-27 and the SU-30 is that the SU-30 has a 2-seat cockpit and canards. The SU-27, on the other hand, has a single-seat cockpit and doesn't have canards.

The name of Nuadha's plane is the Aye-Aye, named after the nocturnal lemur in Madagascar; easily distinguishable by the weizened finger it has on each of its front paws.

Picture of Mihaly's SU-30 as seen in Ace Combat 7 to show what inspired me in terms of aircraft and not just its pilot.

As for what else I did this week, I began making other models. One of which is the Black Pearl; the ship commanded by Captain Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie series.

Besides the Black Pearl, I've also modeled a car: The 1970 Dodge Charger R/T; the same car driven by Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) in the "Fast and Furious" movies.

That's all I got to show for these past 2 weeks!