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[Bishop Steiner]

Amateur WIP


I am sorta stuck, as a GIMP noob. THe Right shoulder ball should have a hammer and sickle, and the left, an unadorned Red Star. Also about midway up the head shield it needs to be divided by a red stripe. (The CCCP on the butt is not really important, lol) And a second SRM6 on the right torso, but I think I cna brute force that.

Anyhow, I can figure out how to shade, and such, but whenever I try to recolor an area, I lose the shadowing and texture. Anyone able to help a fellow out?

It's an attempt to recreate the Victor (Boris) I used in one of my Merc Units, a group of Tikonovains, whose leader, Yuri Krivoshein, who traces his roots back to a famous tank commander from the Soviet Union in WWII on Terra (who apparently made a name for himself at the Battle of Kursk).
The Unit members are something of students and collectors of Soviet History, like a Communist version of Snord's Irregulars.

Originally the Unit was called simply the Red Hammers, but they were dubbed "Disposable Heroes" during the War of 3039 for their suicidal charges and insane maneuvers against the DCMS.

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 06 June 2013 - 09:16 AM.

[Rabid Dutchman]

Bishop Steiner, on 06 June 2013 - 09:15 AM, said:

Amateur WIP


I am sorta stuck, as a GIMP noob.

Don't sell yourself short. For "amateur" work that's pretty damn good

[Senior Knight Steele]

Bishop Steiner, on 06 June 2013 - 09:15 AM, said:

Cool repaint, however. XD

[AceTimberwolf]

Mark Hayden, on 06 June 2013 - 04:42 AM, said:

Yeah, Alex does all the released concept art, though I still do "repaints" as part of my concepting process for skins.

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Edited by AceTimberwolf, 06 June 2013 - 06:39 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

WIP phase 2

[Mark Hayden]

AceTimberwolf, on 06 June 2013 - 06:38 PM, said:

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Two words:

Spoiler

Nondisclosure Agreement.

[Bishop Steiner]

Mark Hayden, on 06 June 2013 - 08:36 PM, said:

Two words:

Spoiler

Nondisclosure Agreement.

lolz. harshly hilarious

[Daetrin Voltari]

I just wanted to throw out a quick thanks. I made this for the "For Sarah" thread (http://mwomercs.com/...93#entry2430193)and I couldn't have done it without the work of Hayden, Ironhawk, and others.

Thanks.

[Max OConnor]

Has anyone done a template for the Quickdraw yet?

[AceTimberwolf]

Mark Hayden, on 06 June 2013 - 08:36 PM, said:

Two words:

Spoiler

Nondisclosure Agreement.

ahaha....I like it, Feels you are still one of us!

[Ironhawk]

Apostal, on 06 June 2013 - 02:37 AM, said:

Well out of boredom I got to playing with the Victor Template from Ironhawk... playing with brushes and just messing around till I hit a gem. It's a take on a desert camo, so hope you enjoy!

Solid first performance. Please continue!

maxoconnor, on 07 June 2013 - 11:21 AM, said:

Has anyone done a template for the Quickdraw yet?

Two words:

Spoiler

On it.

[The Silent Protagonist]

Ironhawk, on 07 June 2013 - 12:48 PM, said:

Two words:

Spoiler

On it.

Good to hear. Once it's ready I have a great idea for a paintjob. It's gonna have "dodge this" on the left arm, maybe a nice and cheesy "feelin' lucky?" somewhere else as well. Black with steiner-blue trim lines (imagine the white of the concept's pattern as the black, and those pale green stripes are the blue bit, that's what I'm thinking of...). Steiner insignias on the centre torso and that circular plate on the right leg. Probably take me ages to do though, It'll be my first go. Oh, and the writing is blue as well.

Spoiler

Or someone else could do it; feel free to steal my idea and do it better than I will *hint*

[BlueSanta]

Mark Hayden, on 06 June 2013 - 08:36 PM, said:

Two words:

Spoiler

Nondisclosure Agreement.

One word: yes.

[Bishop Steiner]

or one of the Pros could slap some nice classic 3025 Steiner Grey and Blue on my "special" Victor, and such. It would look sooooooooo sexy!

[Devil Fox]

Ironhawk, on 07 June 2013 - 12:48 PM, said:

Solid first performance. Please continue!

Was my third, did an Orion and Treb repaint back in this thread a little while ago... lost to the ages. Got another Victor in the works that should be done shortly.

[Deadborder]

This Mad Cat Mk IV is piloted by the leader of Magyari's Ireregulars, a (fanon) mercenary unit. The pilot goes by the nickname if "Invisible Space Fairy." It's best if you don't ask why.

Edited by deadborder, 07 June 2013 - 05:06 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Apostal, on 07 June 2013 - 04:23 PM, said:

Was my third, did an Orion and Treb repaint back in this thread a little while ago... lost to the ages. Got another Victor in the works that should be done shortly.

1st...3rd...... regardless, looks GREAT!

I still have to take the time to hook up my Bamboo and get to learning. I am still brute forcing everything via GIMP and keyboard!

[Devil Fox]

Ok still not happy with the Right foreleg flames on this but after 5 times repeating it... that was the best result. I might add more lightning to the left Leg at some point as it's a kill count for the unit. This entire thing was more experimenting with creating flames and lightning in gimp

And the unit represented is the 1st Kestrel Grenadiers, inspiration from www.camospec.com. Thanks to Ironhawk for the template again, even found a Grenadier Treb he'd done before for some inspiration. And a shout out to Hayden for the unit insignia!




EDIT: Brought to my attention the shading through the flames... simply a layer issue, might devote some time to it when I get a chance.

Edited by Apostal, 08 June 2013 - 01:42 AM.

[SmokinDave73]

Does anyone have enough free time / be willing to edit the stalkers concept art to make it look like my Misery? Would love to see the Misery adapted into the 2D artwork. Or if someone has already done a Misery stalker can they point it out to me thanks. BTW IronHawk, Hayden and countless other's your repaints are amazing I am in constant awe

Edited by SmokinDave73, 08 June 2013 - 04:50 AM.

[Ironhawk]

Apostal, on 07 June 2013 - 09:00 PM, said:

Ok still not happy with the Right foreleg flames on this but after 5 times repeating it... that was the best result. I might add more lightning to the left Leg at some point as it's a kill count for the unit. This entire thing was more experimenting with creating flames and lightning in gimp

And the unit represented is the 1st Kestrel Grenadiers, inspiration from www.camospec.com. Thanks to Ironhawk for the template again, even found a Grenadier Treb he'd done before for some inspiration. And a shout out to Hayden for the unit insignia!




EDIT: Brought to my attention the shading through the flames... simply a layer issue, might devote some time to it when I get a chance.

Good stuff yet again! You seem to create your extra layers without putting them as clipping masks and I suspect this is part of the problem. Otherwise, you'd need but to tweak your number decal distortion to fit the perspective, increase the size of that Davion insignia horizontally and skew your flame art just a bit and you are there.

SmokinDave73, on 08 June 2013 - 04:27 AM, said:

Does anyone have enough free time / be willing to edit the stalkers concept art to make it look like my Misery? Would love to see the Misery adapted into the 2D artwork. Or if someone has already done a Misery stalker can they point it out to me thanks. BTW IronHawk, Hayden and countless other's your repaints are amazing I am in constant awe

Thanks for the feedback. I didn't have in my plans to reverse engineer hero 'Mechs from the game back into the 2D concept art at this point. Though it is not a bad idea at all, PGI has reopened it's battlemech factory at last so we have plenty of new concept repaints to do!

...

Oh and one last thing. Since some of you have waited long enough, I am releasing the template for the Quickdraw before my first repaints for that 'mech.

Quickdraw template

Love.

IH.