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[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.

[LordLosh]

Thank you I will post up the pics of what i do here

[LordLosh]

is there no way to add attachments. i got pics for you guys but cant get them on here
https://imgur.com/7tr9UuO

Edited by LordLosh, 08 February 2018 - 03:24 PM.

[LordLosh]

[jjm1]

Odanan, on 08 February 2018 - 03:26 AM, said:

Blood Asp template!

...hmmm. tempting.

[Metus regem]

jjm1, on 09 February 2018 - 07:03 AM, said:

...hmmm. tempting.

I look forward to your custom heros and paint....

[N F X]

Random Solaris Mech #2
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HBR-L "Loki"

[N F X]

Bushwacker BSW-S2, 1. Crucis-Lanciers ca. 3060

[Koniving]

Juodas Varnas, on 06 December 2016 - 07:23 AM, said:

I'm not sure having the laser even fits the purpose of the mech.
I mean it was a Loader mech so having the "Lift Hoist" (i think they're called that way) makes sense, but laser seems kind of out of place.
It does make me realize just the crazy amount of rules Battletech can have. They weren't kidding at mechcon when they were talking about how crazy complex the game can be.

Lift Hoists
'Mechs (Industrial or BattleMech) may mount up to two Lift Hoists in either arms or their Torsos.

Each Lift Hoist allows a unit to lift cargo equal to half its tonnage (or 200 whichever is lower) and suffer no movement penalty for carrying cargo up to half their tonnage.

I actually recently discovered that Battletech has rules for beast-mounted infantry...
with the following examples:
Horse.
Megasaur.
Orca.

....Orca... as in the killer whale.
With an elaborate example, too, torpedo infantry mounted on orcas... in which they bombard undersea facilities.

Killer......freaking...whales...
O_O

Side note: The "Buster" Hauler Mech that the Powerman was built to compete with out of spite was made by then 34 year old Richard Sitwell in the Vehicle Annex, but... 4 years later Catalyst retconned this with Historical Operation Klondike to say it was made in 2764, when the creator was 3 years old, and 31 years before he even made the company that built it... and that the specific one mentioned in the Vehicle Annex publication 4 years earlier was made in 2895 according to the Master Unit List. The original Powerman in the Vehicle Annex, states that the mech was produced in the same year as the Sitwell company, which is 2795.

Go figure.
(Also strange: The Buster XV is the main mech that the Powerman was based on, but the same page in the Vehicle annex lists a Buster XXI with Triple Strength Myomer, which has led to wikis listing that as the Buster 2795 mech with Industrial TSM... though TSM was a 3040+ creation).

But anyway, yeah..
Imagine battling mechs in the water... as orca-mounted torpedo infantry!
(Who the hell comes up with this stuff?!)