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[Hayden]

Kharrn, on 10 December 2011 - 11:18 AM, said:

Hey there so...my first post in this Forum. It's feels quite comfortable around here!
Looking forward for a new MW game...hope it will be more simulation rather than arcade but...that's another topic

Thx Hayden for your great work and inspiration! And thx to all others who contributed somehow

Credits go to Hayden again for the "Federated Suns Armored Cavalry Hunchback".
Took this nice baby to play a little bit.
Had an idea and so here i present a rather "quick and dirty" work. Im no pro in Photoshop (students edition;)) and i dont really have time for this atm, but....here it is:

A mech from an old Northwind Highlander vet, who now is fighting alongside some unknown mercenarie unit (just to fit this mech in)



Sadly i don't know anything more deeply from MW history, the Highlanders or if the Mechs Colors fit or Unit Insignia or whatever xD just wantet to share an idea for a Highlander look

Keep up the good work ppl!

Seems like your link is broken, but regardless!

Welcome aboard! Hopefully you'll contribute many wonderful things as others have, and I am excited to have another person join our repainting ranks.

[Kharrn]

Hayden, on 10 December 2011 - 11:21 AM, said:

Seems like your link is broken, but regardless!

Welcome aboard! Hopefully you'll contribute many wonderful things as others have, and I am excited to have another person join our repainting ranks.

Thank you Hayden!
Picture should work for now...I hope Will upload it later somewhere else cause imagesh**k (not what YOU thought ) turns down quality. So pinup girl and the "pipes n drums" are not showing as well as in the original.
But it's a start

I hope i can spend some time to take a deeper look into Photoshop and the MW stuff
Looking forward for the next concept art Mechs

[Hayden]

Templates! They've been requested a couple of times, so at long last, I pass the mantle on you all. I skipped the poor man's "Great Wyrm" because I don't think anyone really was all that attached to it

Atlas:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4ipk98.psd

Jenner:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4ipiby.psd

Hunchback:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4ipkpe.psd

Hunchback IIC:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4iplus.psd

Dragon:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4ipl5y.psd

Catapult:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4nr27t.psd

Centurion:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4orr12.psd

Commando:
http://www.deviantar...eth-d4tvko5.psd

Each has the following note in the file:


"Hey Guys,
This is my template for the Hunchback. It's a little gift from me to you all. Here's how it works. See the layer that says "COLOR HERE!"? any color you put there will appear beautifully on the 'mech.

Now, say you want to use things like insignias? Well, you need to create a new layer over "COLOR HERE!" Then right click, and select "create clipping mask" it will now cover that portion of "COLOR HERE!", but still have all the lines and other beautiful details from Alex's work. I hope you guys enjoy this.

Happy coloring!
-Hayden"

Once again, thanks to the forum, Piranha, Alex, for everything . Hopefully this makes it much easier for you all to get into this stuff! Looking forward to what follows.

Edited by Hayden, 24 March 2012 - 08:29 AM.

[Kharrn]

Woot! Thx for the templates

btw. i just looked on page 1 and saw......a Northwind Highlander mech !!!!!!
How the F could i miss that?!?!?!

That is some niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice work you did Hayden! Thx and looking forwrad for more

[BduSlammer]

thanks Hayden for the paint job yep this will do

[Demi-Precentor Konev]

After asking for Hayden's permission to use his insignias, I decided to try my hand at this. Here is the first of.... many? 5th Donegal Guards, the Bulldogs (insignia drawn up by Hayden, of course). 5th uses a variant of the Guards scheme by adding some black and white to break up the monotone. I'd like to do the 6th next but I can't find any insignia for that regiment. Anyone have any ideas?

Edited by lahyenne, 11 December 2011 - 08:01 PM.

[Hayden]

lahyenne, on 11 December 2011 - 07:57 PM, said:

After asking for Hayden's permission to use his insignias, I decided to try my hand at this. Here is the first of.... many? 5th Donegal Guards, the Bulldogs (insignia drawn up by Hayden, of course). 5th uses a variant of the Guards scheme by adding some black and white to break up the monotone. I'd like to do the 6th next but I can't find any insignia for that regiment. Anyone have any ideas?

Nice! I'm actually working up the gumption to do the 6th, lots of radial Symmetry, which Photoshop doesn't do well (by that, I mean the whole process is manual). Tell you what, I'll get cracking on it, and get it set up for you today (Or tommorrow, relatively, since my day just started 10 minutes ago).

[Vincent Vascaul]

Fantastic stuff! Thanks Hayden this is a awesome contribution to the community, I would love to see you or someone elses take on a Sea Fox or Diamond Shark paint scheme.

[Hayden]

Vincent Vascaul, on 11 December 2011 - 10:16 PM, said:

Fantastic stuff! Thanks Hayden this is a awesome contribution to the community, I would love to see you or someone elses take on a Sea Fox or Diamond Shark paint scheme.

Yeah, I really like the idea of doing a Seafox 'mech, I think it's sigma Galaxy that uses a seafox as its mascot, and that appeals to me to no end. As I said earlier, though, I'm taking a break from recoloring for now, so maybe someone else can pick up the line? If no one has gotten to it by the time they release their next shred of concept art (I.E. when my "break" ends) I'll do it then. You may have to remind me, though.

EDIT: Also, thanks!

Edited by Hayden, 11 December 2011 - 10:30 PM.

[Kevin Kirov]

Hayden, on 11 December 2011 - 09:44 PM, said:

Nice! I'm actually working up the gumption to do the 6th, lots of radial Symmetry, which Photoshop doesn't do well (by that, I mean the whole process is manual). Tell you what, I'll get cracking on it, and get it set up for you today (Or tommorrow, relatively, since my day just started 10 minutes ago).

Awesome because after I saw the 5th I wanted to ask to see someone do a 6th Donegal Guards Mech.

Also great stuff guys, I might try my hand at one after finals get done with here.

Edited by Kevin Kirov, 11 December 2011 - 10:49 PM.

[Vincent Vascaul]

Hayden no worries, if I had the time I would try my hand at it but we are relaunching our company and just getting on the forums is a luxury right now. If you get a chance at it with the next piece of art awesome I would love to see your take!

[Demi-Precentor Konev]

This will be the 'conservative' version of the 6th Donegal as getting the celtic patterns on there in a more fluid way will be super difficult. Insignia courtesy Hayden. "Nothing Without Effort" on the waist of the 'Mech. I'll try a fancier version tonight.



Oh and there is the link from Camospecs.

Edited by lahyenne, 12 December 2011 - 09:03 AM.

[Hayden]

lahyenne, on 12 December 2011 - 09:01 AM, said:

This will be the 'conservative' version of the 6th Donegal as getting the celtic patterns on there in a more fluid way will be super difficult. Insignia courtesy Hayden. "Nothing Without Effort" on the waist of the 'Mech. I'll try a fancier version tonight.



Oh and there is the link from Camospecs.

Excellent job, but to be fair I only did the insignia for the Fightin' 6th

And I mean really good! Out of curiosity, are you utilizing those templates I put up? (No, looking at it I clearly see you're not! Which excites me!)

I was actually leery of doing anything with the 6th, to be honest. Those Celtic knots are really intricate some times.

Edited by Hayden, 12 December 2011 - 09:18 AM.

[theginganinja]

lahyenne, on 12 December 2011 - 09:01 AM, said:

This will be the 'conservative' version of the 6th Donegal as getting the celtic patterns on there in a more fluid way will be super difficult. Insignia courtesy Hayden. "Nothing Without Effort" on the waist of the 'Mech. I'll try a fancier version tonight.



Oh and there is the link from Camospecs.

Very nice

[Demi-Precentor Konev]

Next up: Blackwind Lancers. Of course, the insignia is Hayden's. Just tried to emulate the original found on camospecs. Tried it the first time with blue 'kneecaps' but it just seemed really off.



And the original...



Edit: Hmm... I should probably put all this in one post per page - sorry all. Will do so in the future.

Update: 20th Avalon Hussars. Think I'm gonna stop here tonight.

Edited by lahyenne, 12 December 2011 - 04:45 PM.

[Hayden]

lahyenne, on 12 December 2011 - 03:34 PM, said:

Next up: Blackwind Lancers. Of course, the insignia is Hayden's. Just tried to emulate the original found on camospecs. Tried it the first time with blue 'kneecaps' but it just seemed really off.



And the original...



Edit: Hmm... I should probably put all this in one post per page - sorry all. Will do so in the future.

Really looking good!

[Cassius Brown]

First time poster, and I can't think of a better post to do it in.

Fantastic work on these mechs, folks. Really inspiring, and shows a love of the source material.

I look forward to seeing more as time goes on.

[Hayden]

Cassius Brown, on 12 December 2011 - 09:28 PM, said:

First time poster, and I can't think of a better post to do it in.

Fantastic work on these mechs, folks. Really inspiring, and shows a love of the source material.

I look forward to seeing more as time goes on.

Well thanks for the kind words and welcome to the forums and the thread! Things will be a little slower than they have been on my end (I've gone from nearly 3 postings a day to a slow trickle of legacy requests) but this isn't permanent and some time next month I'll probably be a bit more active. But, I think others will start to contribute a lot more as time goes on, and even though I'm not as active, other folks on the thread are stepping up and giving things a try, which makes me happy. So, I'm excited for the future, too. Especially once we get more concept art!

[Kharrn]

Wow!
As always there are some nice Paint jobs in here!
Can't wait to get some more mech concept arts...

So here i just got my hands on Haydens Templates (Thx again! )
and thought about how todays camo would appear on a mech.
Tried around with digital camo but the outcome looked kinda wierd...so for now only some multicam on a Hunchback IIc
No Insignia or anything. Think cockpit and decals should be wokred out differently, but it was just a quick "see how it looks". So just to put some ideas up for more "camo"-like paintjobs Here we go:








aaaand sry for any bad english spelling or grammar or whatever

Edited by Kharrn, 13 December 2011 - 05:41 AM.

[Hayden]

Kharrn, on 13 December 2011 - 05:38 AM, said:

Wow!
As always there are some nice Paint jobs in here!
Can't wait to get some more mech concept arts...

So here i just got my hands on Haydens Templates (Thx again! )
and thought about how todays camo would appear on a mech.
Tried around with digital camo but the outcome looked kinda wierd...so for now only some multicam on a Hunchback IIc
No Insignia or anything. Just to put some ideas up for more "camo"-like paintjobs
aaaand sry for any bad english spelling or grammar or whatever

Haha, multicam for the win... seriously, that's the good stuff there. Looking forward to future contributions!

EDIT: And enjoy those templates!

Edited by Hayden, 13 December 2011 - 05:41 AM.