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[jjm1]

This is a reinterpretation I did of the Stone Rhino.
http://www.sarna.net...hino_(Behemoth)

A personal favourite ever since I saw artwork in the MW2: Ghost Bears Legacy Manual.

"It has the biggest guns, so its the bestest mech: jjm1, 1997"

Its only a rough sketch, I might model it in 3D, but probably wont have the time. The arm pods are traced from an original Battletech artwork since they are cooler than anything I came up with after about five tries.

I also wanted to design how a Stone Rhino could fit into MWO, without destroying its iconic triple gun barrel look. Rather than stick to whats available I invented a dorsal turret component. The turret moves freely the same way a mechs arms move and has its own armor pool that could be quirked right onto the component itself.

According to Battletech cannon the Stone Rhino fires its two Gauss Rifles through the same barrel. That never sat right with me for MWO, so I converted the turret to a third LPL and made two torso mounted ballistic hard-points instead.

I made up the designation SRH. Not sure if PGI also makes these up for clan mechs, I'm guessing they do.

Finally I used stats for two later variants. They don't have a turret, but they do have more hard-points, and I added some more. The SRH-3s x2 ATMs were converted to x4 LRM-10s.

I didn't do the math, so they are probably not even viable, let alone efficient, but the idea is there.






Mockup of the SRH-1. Not cannon with endo-steel, but I really wanted that third large pulse

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All feedback appreciated.

Edited by jjm1, 01 July 2016 - 10:15 AM.

[xVLFBERHxT]

Nice

[Juodas Varnas]

That's Awesome!

Wait... No. That's a Stone Rhino.
My mistake.

Cruddy target recognizing software.

But yeah, great bloody work. If that's "only a rough sketch", i can't imagine how good it'd look finished.

[Chiasson Brinker]

Re we sure you're not an alt account for Flying Debris?

[Juodas Varnas]

Aidan Kell, on 03 July 2016 - 12:50 PM, said:

Re we sure you're not an alt account for Flying Debris?

I don't know. OP's art style reminds me of Shimmering Sword's work more than Alex's.

[Bluttrunken]

Do want. :x

(PGI gimme Stone Rhino plxthx.)

Edited by Bluttrunken, 03 July 2016 - 01:09 PM.

[Appogee]

Nice job!

[Steel Raven]

Looks great! Kept true to the original while following the MWO esthetics. Love to see this become official!

Doubt we will see a dorsal turret considering we don't see one on the Marauder but Gauss Rifles on ether shoulder should be intimidating enough. Or maybe a Hero Mech build with quad Pulse Lasers, the grad daddy of the Hell Star!

If we don't get a Marauder IIC, I want to see a Stone Rhino

[Odanan]

I'm afraid the gauss rifles are in the arms, not the torsos.

Anyway, those are amazing drawings.

EDIT: nope, I'm wrong. The Gauss Rifles are in the torsos.

Dang! Now that's some crazy juggling to give the "center torso" a large gun.

Edited by Odanan, 03 July 2016 - 04:53 PM.

[Scout Derek]

As Odanan said, in the arms... heh


But yeah, holy mother of Kerensky, that's some solid artwork right there.

[Odanan]

If added to MWO, the two Gauss rifles could be something like that:

[admiralbenbow123]

I wish Piranha Games added this mech to MWO. I loved playing this mech in Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries.

[Ch_R0me]

jjm1, on 01 July 2016 - 10:09 AM, said:

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All feedback appreciated.

Ever throught to work with PGI? Because dorsal turret is essential part of the Marauder MK2, so you could encourage them to implement it...
Nice job

Edited by ManganMan, 29 March 2017 - 08:10 AM.

[Metus regem]

Odanan, on 03 July 2016 - 04:19 PM, said:

I'm afraid the gauss rifles are in the arms, not the torsos.

Anyway, those are amazing drawings.

EDIT: nope, I'm wrong. The Gauss Rifles are in the torsos.

Dang! Now that's some crazy juggling to give the "center torso" a large gun.

Depending on where and when you get the information for it, it is either two Gauss Rifles that fire out of there or one heavy rail gun (a 30t Rail Gun I might add)....

[Memnon Valerius Thrax]

i want dat.
its my fav. mech.
giv me pls.

[Ery]

Nice work !

[Stargazzer811]

Nice work JJM, love the stone Rhino. It's such an oddly endearing mech and I think you've done it justice. Also, when, if ever, can we expect custom Timber Wolf Mk 2 Heros here on the forums? I'm dying to see what you can do with the new Clan weapons we're getting on that thing

[CancersCincar]

I'm no expert on the Stone Rhino, but regardless, have a Stone Rhino army lance!

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From left to right: The regular Stone Rhino (with twin gauss rifles in the turret), the Stone Rhino you built (with the third Large Pulse laser), the Stone Rhino 2, and the Stone Rhino 3 (with LRMs instead of ATMs). Double size version beneath the spoiler.

The Cockpit/Center torso may be a bit wide.

Edit: Had posted this here believing the OP had requested a pixel mech version in another thread. It was actually Odanan! My mistake.

Edited by CancersCincar, 25 September 2017 - 06:07 PM.

[jjm1]

CancersCincar, on 25 September 2017 - 05:00 PM, said:

I'm no expert on the Stone Rhino, but regardless, have a Stone Rhino army lance!

Spoiler

From left to right: The regular Stone Rhino (with twin gauss rifles in the turret), the Stone Rhino you built (with the third Large Pulse laser), the Stone Rhino 2, and the Stone Rhino 3 (with LRMs instead of ATMs). Double size version beneath the spoiler.

The Cockpit/Center torso may be a bit wide.

Edit: Had posted this here believing the OP had requested a pixel mech version in another thread. It was actually Odanan! My mistake.

cool.

I only put LRMs on the 3 because I never thought ATMs would be added to MWO.

And now they we have ATMs, ...but there is a still a Stone Rhino shaped hole in the game. I feel like its coming though.

[Mark Nicholson]

nice work.