Ideas & Conceptual art

Rocketman

This is a rough idea of Rocketman's armoured suit. The main garment is a modified, padded flight suit with an asbestos lining. Over this he wears a 'chemico' flak jacket with an attached groin shield. On his head Rocketman wears a modified paratroopers helmet with a fin. The idea is this assists in steering the rocket, though the rocket pack has its own steering system with smaller retro-jets behind each shoulder. Rocketman wears standard pilots goggles and his face and neck are covered with a silk scarf.

His lower arms are protected by steel vambraces with the left arm terminating in the rocket control mechanism (don't ask me how this works because I don't have a clue, its classified top secret). The controls for the pumps, and the master control switch for the rocket pack are located on the belt. Rocketman wears steel capped boots and steel greaves (with asbestos lining) to protect his legs.

The pistol is a .455 Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver, though this is not Rocketmans usual fire arm (that being a ZK383 heavy submachine gun).

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'Mad Dog' Mitchell

Mitchell didn't require much thought. He started off as a subsidiary character in RM1 and quickly became a staple of the game. He's inspired by every war hero actor of the 1945-1969 era, but especially George Kennedy, Humphrey Bogart and Wayne Morris. He is from Texas because thats where the meanest, toughest Americans are supposed to live, and he is a gun running, whiskey drinking, ex doughboy, safari hand and sometimes mercenary who owns a house in Egypt. He has a wide range of dubious contacts in the shady world of mercenaries and gun smugglers, and can soon find some well armed friends from Turkey to Madagascar. Quite why he is running around the world with Rocketman is not explained.

Apart from his Texan drawl the only constant detail about Mitchell is his .30 Browning Automatic Rifle and his tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.

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Helga

Helga is a mysterious character. A tall, athletic blonde woman who is second in command to Baron Von Schöenburg. She may possibly be the most dangerous woman alive in 1936. Helga is based on numerous femme fatale stereotypes from a range of sources dealing with Germanic women, such as Disney's Helga Sinclair, Helga from Allo' Allo', and Doctor Elsa Schneider from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Helga wears a practical, dull brown mountaineer's anorak, usually carries a back pack and wears old style officer's boots. She carries two fully automatic weapons , a Bergman MP28 (Helga usually employs snail drum magazines with a fifty round capacity as opposed to the regular twenty round box magazine shown in the drawing) and a Mauser M712 (holstered in the drawing) and usually has a few grenades to hand. Those in the drawing are the standard German Model 24.


More to come...