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[Antasius]

I'm an old-school artist with a love of Mechs since day-one of the original Battletech board game.

I've worked freelance for Chaosium Inc, Pagan Publishing, Green Ronin and the like back in the day. And dabbled in concept work for Universal Studios and Fox. Blah, blah, blah, you get the picture.

Here's a Crockette I did the other day for a hoot on the boards.

http://i1294.photobu...zps50cbfea7.jpg

I've decided to challenge myself and would like to sketch some more 'potential' mechs for the fun of it.

So what do you all suggest?

A link/post to an old-pic of the mech you like, and a witty run-down as to why this mech should be in-game is all I require.

I will do my best to stay on top of this post... And if you Piranha Games people are looking for more concept artists, please keep me in mind eh.

[Antasius]

A note on the Crockette. I added a false cockpit, with the heat stinks mimicking the actual cockpit below them. And I tried to make the hip actuators have a lot of give, as this is a rare jumping assault mech.

[Patrick Wolf]

You had to just know a unseen or all of them would show up, try redoing the unseen version of the marauder, reseen version looks like a joke.

Source: http://www.sarna.net...25_marauder.jpg

You also probably saw clan mech coming a mile away as well, itd be interesting to see your take on a Warhawk, whether it becomes a walking apartment building or not

Source:http://www.sarna.net...0U_Masakari.jpg


Good luck, you might need it to get a viable marauder that they could use

[Adridos]

Patrick Wolf, on 08 October 2012 - 08:39 AM, said:

You had to just know a unseen or all of them would show up, try redoing the unseen version of the marauder, reseen version looks like a joke.

Source: http://www.sarna.net...25_marauder.jpg

You also probably saw clan mech coming a mile away as well, itd be interesting to see your take on a Warhawk, whether it becomes a walking apartment building or not

Source:http://www.sarna.net...0U_Masakari.jpg


Good luck, you might need it to get a viable marauder that they could use

Witty run-down missing. The main reason I didn't ask for a Vindicator remake, since I have never written any wit.

[Antasius]

Patrick Wolf, on 08 October 2012 - 08:39 AM, said:

You had to just know a unseen or all of them would show up, try redoing the unseen version of the marauder, reseen version looks like a joke.

Source: http://www.sarna.net...25_marauder.jpg

You also probably saw clan mech coming a mile away as well, itd be interesting to see your take on a Warhawk, whether it becomes a walking apartment building or not

Source:http://www.sarna.net...0U_Masakari.jpg


Good luck, you might need it to get a viable marauder that they could use

Ok, ok, ok. The Marauder will go on the back burner (along with the 'as-yet-to-be-mentioned' Riflemen and the Wamhammer, as they are originally Manga concepts and to re-re-see them is a big challenge. Not that I won't... I'm looking at you re-seen Riflemen with the air-craft style radar dish.

That Warhawk/Masakari tho... Wooo! Now that's got my attention. That buildings gotta move. I will start here and have something by tomorrow.

PS Adridos, The Vindicator will come second if you gotta pic that works for you, and the things you think need to be changed (with inserted wit of course).

Edited by Antasius, 08 October 2012 - 09:34 AM.

[Adridos]

it may look like a perfect fit for Dr.Robotnik's suit, but it is still a solid machine that deserves way more attention than it gets. Do as you please, just fix the missile bay by adding doors like in it's first art.

[Antasius]

So why does the Warhawk have a that flat ugly top? My take is they are hard points of reactive armour. It makes the thing even uglier, but now the surface-area has a purpose. Arm mounts removed for repair, of course.

http://i1294.photobu...hawkconcept.jpg

I will try to vindicate the Vindicator by Thurday. We shall see.

Edited by Antasius, 09 October 2012 - 08:52 AM.

[Adridos]

Really nice work on that Masakari.

P.S. Why don't you just post pictures instead of links?

[evillittlestew]

look up the Mad Cat Mark2 Such a Best Try the Liveing Legends one ^^

[Monsoon]

Patrick Wolf, on 08 October 2012 - 08:39 AM, said:

You had to just know a unseen or all of them would show up, try redoing the unseen version of the marauder, reseen version looks like a joke.

You speak madness!

Just check this thread http://mwomercs.com/...s/page__st__200 for a couple of pics of the Reseen in all it's glory!

[Foksuh]

Adridos, on 08 October 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

it may look like a perfect fit for Dr.Robotnik's suit, but it is still a solid machine that deserves way more attention than it gets. Do as you please, just fix the missile bay by adding doors like in it's first art.

Haters gonna hate walk?

[ChainBlade]

Can you draw up some mech weapon designs with a top,bottom,left,right,front,back sides and a reference.

[DoRkZiLLaa]

Is there any possible way in the entire inner sphere that I could entice you to draw an Archangel for me? In all of battletech, few mechs tickle my taste in asthetics like it does.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Archangel

[Adridos]

DoRkZiLLaa, on 09 October 2012 - 11:12 PM, said:

Is there any possible way in the entire inner sphere that I could entice you to draw an Archangel for me? In all of battletech, few mechs tickle my taste in asthetics like it does.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Archangel

Archangel is nice as it is... just about the only thing done right from the ***** era.

[Antasius]

Adridos, on 09 October 2012 - 10:00 AM, said:

Really nice work on that Masakari.

P.S. Why don't you just post pictures instead of links?

Cheers and thanks!

So how do I post a pic directly to this forum? I can't seem to figure it out on my Vista based system here... I'll fiddle with this tho and try to post more directly.

stuartputt, on 09 October 2012 - 10:11 AM, said:

look up the Mad Cat Mark2 Such a Best Try the Liveing Legends one ^^

Post a pic of the Madcat2 yer talking about here. I'll try to tackle these in order if my brain doesn't explode first.

Monsoon, on 09 October 2012 - 10:28 AM, said:

You speak madness!

Just check this thread http://mwomercs.com/...s/page__st__200 for a couple of pics of the Reseen in all it's glory!

I like these, plus I'm gonna try to avoid re-re-re-takes... I'm looking for mechs that NEED love, underdogs that never got a chance, or just plain challenging designs. kk

ChainBlade, on 09 October 2012 - 11:20 AM, said:

Can you draw up some mech weapon designs with a top,bottom,left,right,front,back sides and a reference.

I can! But I want a specific weapon system with lot of wit and a pic please! Then I'll go to town on internals to show you just how that weapon system fits in that torso housing, arm actuator hard-point, etc, etc.

DoRkZiLLaa, on 09 October 2012 - 11:12 PM, said:

Is there any possible way in the entire inner sphere that I could entice you to draw an Archangel for me? In all of battletech, few mechs tickle my taste in asthetics like it does.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Archangel

I agree this isn't a bad looking Mech. But it does look fun to draw so...

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[Adridos]

Antasius, on 10 October 2012 - 05:31 AM, said:

So how do I post a pic directly to this forum? I can't seem to figure it out on my Vista based system here... I'll fiddle with this tho and try to post more directly.

When you're posting you have two toolbars above the text. Look at the bottom one (the one starting with B for bold). Go right through different tweaks to the letters until you get to the link and unlink button (chain with green plus and a broken chain). Right next to them, you have some sort of image. Click on it. Then you just copy-paste the URL of your picture (taken by right clicking the picture and selecting "Copy the URL adress of the image" or something along those lines) into the bracket that appears and once you click OK, the picture will appear where your cursor was located.

A bit into the detail, but better make sure...


Also, if you notice censored word next to the era, it is J.ihad. We still don't know why is that Btech era censored out, but I wanted to prevent any misconceptions.

[Antasius]

Test!



Testing, testing.. ther we go. This is an old Gammaworld concept piece.Thanks for the tip!

Edited by Antasius, 10 October 2012 - 06:08 AM.

[Antasius]

Here's another..

[Antasius]

And here's the Crockette and the Warhawk so they are in this thread and you don't gotta click on um.






Weee! Image posting goodness.

Edited by Antasius, 10 October 2012 - 06:18 AM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Antasius, on 10 October 2012 - 06:06 AM, said:

Test!



Testing, testing.. ther we go. This is an old Gammaworld concept piece.Thanks for the tip!

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?!?!?!?!?!?!


(And yes, that is Adridos, no longer hiding in a cake, running like a jack rabbit in a green city called New A.... something.... )

That one is actually my favorite of your pieces you have posted. And heck, it could probably be shoehorned into a MEchwarrior Darkage campaign........

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 10 October 2012 - 04:22 PM.