Meshes 10: Beans & Bullets

[jhscpa]

Interesting pictures of WWII era of the cckw & wood cargo bodies:

http://www.baument.com/CDPreviews/meshes10/Index.html

[Matt]

Interesting. what they refer to as CCKW semi's are in fact Chevrolets.

Matt.

[joel gopan]

Did I miss something as there were no actual photos, just digital art with little detail.
Joel

[jhscpa]

Surprise, I thought somebody would raise the question why the the M35A2 was in the group of pictures. The series M35's were not built until the early 1950s.

[joel gopan]

Sort of entry level intruduction to military trucks.

[jhscpa]

Never-the-less they link: For historical information on the CCKW visit www.cckw.org.

[armydriver]

well said Jim. Question. Are didgital picutures any less informative than drawings of CCKW's? After all a lot of the illustrations in the original TM's are hand drawings. Would they have used didgital technology had it existed then?

[joel gopan]

The Army has had "PS Magazine" and its predecessor "Army Motors" for 65 years, and the Trucks, Aircraft,and field equipment as depicted in the drawings in those publications are outstanding in detail. Remember will eisner? He did the sketches for years.Give a three year old a choice and they would pick PS and fling the digitals. Once you read a tip in PS you will never forget it. I haven't.

[armydriver]

I like drawings and paintings for that matter. The work of the WWII combat artists was fantastic. A lot of it was published in Life magazine and the graphic nature of it was nothing less than spectactular.
But times have changed and today some of the digital artist are doing unbelievable work with the modern technology. Some of it is so good it is more photographic in nature.
The problem is that a lot of us old geezers, like myself, don't really appreciate the modern technological advances because our appreciation of works of art comes from a different time and place. Maybe we can find a medium ground for the appreciation of it all.

[joel gopan]