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[Odanan]

N F X, on 05 November 2017 - 07:04 AM, said:

Daaaaaaaammnnnn, you are absoloutly crazy, i wish i could get on your level

We all wish, buddy. I even offered one leg to the Gods of Arts, but they didn't want to close the deal so far.

[Odanan]

Black Lanner template is ready!

[Koniving]

Justin Kase, on 06 November 2016 - 06:05 AM, said:

Let me know if this doesn't work :

https://www.dropbox....late_A.psd?dl=0

..and THANK YOU

Edit : JV suggested making the Stinger a bit taller - here it is next to the Commando.

Just saw this while looking for a screen of my Supernova and it slightly irked me, becausewhile I like the attempted scales...

...I gotta wonder if that's a Shadowhawk 2 or a Shadowhawk 5.

Because the 2s effectively have the same amount of armor as the Locust and Commando there, sometimes a tiny bit more... and as such the 2s were...small.




The 5th gen SHKs, made nearly 400 years later... are quite larger and closer in size to their 55 ton brothers, as opposed to being Hunchback sized. This was largely necessary for significantly greater armor and room to be able to internally contain the double heatsinks, XL engine and any structure/armor type improvements. (The artist is also the same guy that wrote the first Battletech novel, in which several mechs are given scales).

Side note because I thought of it: The Hunchback's drum is its ammunition compartment (for the 4SP its on the rear CT instead), since the Komiyaba Type VII chassis was too small to fit it inside or double heatsinks or anything of the like. Granted the DHS was ever rare, but the mech existed well in the time when DHS was popular and no variant ever got them in the 4th gen. The Kali-yama newly licensed and produced "Classic" Hunchback 4th gens are brand new, using the same taller and new Crucis Type V skeleton that they used for the 5th gen. Technically from then on the drum has been lost with only a counterweight in its place, unless fitted with double heatsinks then the drum comes back. (Kali-Yama did this **** move primarily to make sure that all 'new' HBK 4th gens are bought from them, as they would be incompatible with the 4G refit kits that had previously created all 4# variants, that parts would have to come from them, etc., etc., etc. As a result, the eventual 5H refit kit from the Marian Hegemony -- also responsible for many 4G refit kits of the Komiyaba Type VII chassis -- was made as a big "Screw you" to Kali-Yama Weapons Industries...and a new market of refit kits soon began again.

(Kinda want to see a HBK without the drum.)

Okay rant and lore dump done, checking out now.

[Odanan]

I hope you guys enjoy this, because I'm exhausted.
Sun Spider template.

[Featherwood]

Cheers Odanan, thank you for keeping this great thread alive! This micro-community is the best what happened to the MWO.

As for mutated Locust - it's fugly as hell. Alex 'Flying Debris' Iglesias must be exhausted by MWO, I'm afraid. I just read that pretension of a 'lore' for the Sun Spider and found it equally fugly in literary sense. Thus both concept art and it's lore complement each other, in a way.

P.S. Sorry for negativity in the thread but I'm loyal to my Oath of the Hatred of the Knight of N.O.P.E.

[Funkin Disher]

Indeed, many thanks to yourself, Alex and all the other contributors for keeping the art of Battletech live and kicking!

[Hayden]

Featherwood, on 10 December 2017 - 10:12 AM, said:

Cheers Odanan, thank you for keeping this great thread alive! This micro-community is the best what happened to the MWO.

As for mutated Locust - it's fugly as hell. Alex 'Flying Debris' Iglesias must be exhausted by MWO, I'm afraid. I just read that pretension of a 'lore' for the Sun Spider and found it equally fugly in literary sense. Thus both concept art and it's lore complement each other, in a way.

P.S. Sorry for negativity in the thread but I'm loyal to my Oath of the Hatred of the Knight of N.O.P.E.

I haven't been keen on either of PGI's in-house 'mechs, but I do want to say that I'm appreciative of them only doing it once a year, instead of going all out and making a bunch of these. I'm sure Alex (or possibly someone directing Alex) needs some variety in their lives, and the possibility to make a mark (in whatever form it may take) on the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe is doubtlessly desirable. That PGI has tempered the in-house designs with a yearly release is at least reflective of a moderation that I am grateful for.
That said, I've been fairly consistent in throwing down money for 3025 era 'mechs, and this has been less true for the others.

Have a Vindicator.

[Odanan]

Hayden, on 16 December 2017 - 06:10 PM, said:

I haven't been keen on either of PGI's in-house 'mechs, but I do want to say that I'm appreciative of them only doing it once a year, instead of going all out and making a bunch of these. I'm sure Alex (or possibly someone directing Alex) needs some variety in their lives, and the possibility to make a mark (in whatever form it may take) on the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe is doubtlessly desirable. That PGI has tempered the in-house designs with a yearly release is at least reflective of a moderation that I am grateful for.
That said, I've been fairly consistent in throwing down money for 3025 era 'mechs, and this has been less true for the others.

Have a Vindicator.

He is alive! (and kicking)

Don't be a stranger, Hayden. Feel yourself at home.
Nice repaint, BTW.

[DSkou7]

So I stumbled across the TRO 3028 over on the HBS battletech forums and went looking for mech repaints with transparent backgrounds, and wow this thread has a bunch of awesome stuff. Thanks everyone for making battletech awesome!

Also, it looks like we've lost a bunch of stuff over the years due to photobucket and other image hosting sites closing down. I'm still looking for a bunch of good repaints of older mechs (in order of PGI release), anyone know where else to look?

[Hayden]

DSkou7, on 18 December 2017 - 02:28 PM, said:

So I stumbled across the TRO 3028 over on the HBS battletech forums and went looking for mech repaints with transparent backgrounds, and wow this thread has a bunch of awesome stuff. Thanks everyone for making battletech awesome!

Also, it looks like we've lost a bunch of stuff over the years due to photobucket and other image hosting sites closing down. I'm still looking for a bunch of good repaints of older mechs (in order of PGI release), anyone know where else to look?

Not really, no

Edited by Hayden, 28 December 2017 - 05:47 PM.

[Odanan]

DSkou7, on 18 December 2017 - 02:28 PM, said:

So I stumbled across the TRO 3028 over on the HBS battletech forums and went looking for mech repaints with transparent backgrounds, and wow this thread has a bunch of awesome stuff. Thanks everyone for making battletech awesome!

Also, it looks like we've lost a bunch of stuff over the years due to photobucket and other image hosting sites closing down. I'm still looking for a bunch of good repaints of older mechs (in order of PGI release), anyone know where else to look?

Off the top of my head:

• Iron Hawk's repaints here (but not his latest repaints).
  
• Hayden's repaints here (I'm not sure if all, however).
  
• jjm1's repaints here.
  
• LegendKiller's repaints here. [NEW!]
  
• Jack Gallows' repaints here.
  
• My repaints are all here.

Edited by Odanan, 29 December 2017 - 12:57 AM.

[Mighty Spike]

Odanan, on 17 December 2017 - 02:03 AM, said:

He is alive! (and kicking)

Lol, thought exactly the same WB hayden

[Jack Gallows]

My repaints for the most part and short stories I released with them https://onuris22.deviantart.com/ , wonder if I can find the pages in the thread where I posted them.

https://mwomercs.com.../page__st__3540

https://mwomercs.com.../page__st__3720

https://mwomercs.com.../page__st__4560

I think that's all of 'em!

Can't believe it's been so long. So much nostalgia reading back through every page of this thread. It's the best around!

Edited by Jack Gallows, 24 December 2017 - 03:48 PM.

[Hayden]

Odanan, on 17 December 2017 - 02:03 AM, said:

He is alive! (and kicking)

Don't be a stranger, Hayden. Feel yourself at home.
Nice repaint, BTW.

Mighty Spike, on 19 December 2017 - 05:39 AM, said:

Lol, thought exactly the same WB hayden

Thanks to both of you. It's not that I don't want to swing by (and I do try to keep an eye open to see what's happening here), but life is generally too busy for me to spend time doing the repaint bit.

That said, have a Devon's Armored Infantry vindicator:

("COME AND TAKE IT!")

[Odanan]

Hayden, on 28 December 2017 - 09:46 PM, said:

Thanks to both of you. It's not that I don't want to swing by (and I do try to keep an eye open to see what's happening here), but life is generally too busy for me to spend time doing the repaint bit.

That said, have a Devon's Armored Infantry vindicator:

("COME AND TAKE IT!")

"Rat Poison"!

Lovely repaint. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Odanan]

Fafnir template!

Edited by Odanan, 09 January 2018 - 12:59 PM.

[N F X]

Random Solaris Mech #1
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AS7-De "Devestator"

Edited by N F X, 24 January 2018 - 08:36 AM.

[LordLosh]

Blood asp plz or I riot worse then Philly
also anyway to just get a black and white version? I want to engrave or cut it out with my machine's

[Odanan]

LordLosh, on 05 February 2018 - 10:56 PM, said:

Blood asp plz or I riot worse then Philly
also anyway to just get a black and white version? I want to engrave or cut it out with my machine's

Give me a couple of days and I will do the template.

[Odanan]

Blood Asp template!

Edited by Odanan, 08 February 2018 - 03:26 AM.