Maverick01, on 25 July 2013 - 08:46 PM, said:
http://www.cbc.ca/pl.../ID/2398278247/
Awesome. I am sold. I would die to see all the drawings in that office, probably for a lot of other mechs too (Griffin, Zeus, etc,.) I would love to be in the managerial position to say, "I think you need to change this, I think you need to adjust that, yes, that looks okay."
This is clearly the Wolverine and based on one of the Dougram mechs. The Dougram design style is to have a gun or missile pack on the shoulders, which by the way, are absent from Gundam and Macross designs. The shoulder packs went to being part to a number of original Battletech designs like the Hellbringer and Summoner. Dougram also had weapons attached to the forearms, as opposed to hands holding guns, like in Gundam and Macross.
Early Battletech did suffer artistically from having so many design themes being mismashed in the same universe. In anime, a mech series often displays a strong unified design theme, and you are not going to mistake a mech from Gundam to a mech in Macross. Battletech would have certainly benefited from design rules that would have given artistic consistency, such as one laid by Gene Rodenberry for Star Trek, stating that ships must have two engine nacelles, and the front of the nacelles must have a clear line of sight to the front (similar to ramjet propulsion).