Hi, I hope this post/question is okay - I’m doing some art that includes various radio antennas and I’d really like to run them past someone who knows more than I do to make sure they look okay.
I’m working on location art for a solarpunk TTRPG campaign and am doing a scene for a somewhat old fashioned (in this setting), heavily automated farm. The guy who lives here does a lot of the work maintaining a meshnet in the mostly-abandoned town where the campaign takes place. I figure he’s also sort of generally a tinkerer and has probably amassed a decent assortment of old tech.
The last time I was working on a scene with antennas I asked the folks over on r/hamradio for advice and they were super helpful so I reused a lot of the antennas from before, and tried to scale them to match that scene and to photographs I’ve seen, but I’m definitely not knowledgeable on this stuff and am happy to make changes to get it right.
As before, I really just want to make sure it doesn’t look offensively dumb to folks in the ham radio scene, and if you have any recommendations for antennas you’d like to see or that would say something interesting, I’d be happy to include them. Thanks for any advice you feel like giving!
Missing a few high power repurposed military antennas like old ASIP ones from the 1960s. Those would be cheap af and easy to mod IRL. What i see are renditions of commercial VHF/UHF ones and they don’t look too bad.
Your art looks phenomenal!
Thanks so much! That sounds great (and pretty cyberpunk) so I’d love to add them but ‘ASIP military antenna 1960s’ isn’t finding me much at first glance - could you link an image so I can reference it while looking for examples?
Apologies, I tried to Google SINCGARS radio (ASIP was actuallythe battery acronym) antennas to find something for you that I remember, but all I can find are the whip antennas the dismounted units used, not the tubular thick ones.
But honestly, they are nothing too fancy, because it required even the most Simple Jack of single brain-celled Privates to setup and weren’t aesthetically notable because they were designed to be simple and easily camouflaged.
Your can disregard adding them. But I’ll keep looking around and will edit this post with a link if I find an image Im referring to.
Thanks! I’d appreciate it! And I’ll read up on them anyways because I find military history and the way kit gets adapted and upgraded very interesting