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Black Knight Concept Sketch

Time for another Star League mech, the Black Knight. (King Crab might be soon).

Those who have read Shattered Fortress saw a glimpse of this design. I wanted to pull off the extreme humanoid look for the grogs at least once :)
I rarely find full humanoid looks appropriate for modern Battletech, but the BK is one that has a good reason, selling the knights armor look. It also goes well with some of the Star League mechs looking a little more high tech in one way or another.

Now ...

Marauders

The trio of Marauders is complete! PPCs coming your way.
Marauder IIC just finished final fixes and posing so I wanted to display them all together. I really like how it came out. Sculpted by Alex Immerzeel with some final editing by me.

Anyone planning on chopping some of these up to mix and match parts?
This image is public.

Victor Concept Sketch

Here's one I'm sure plenty will enjoy, at least you Fedrats will :P

This is one of the smoother coming together designs I've worked on for a bit, as I included Alex Iglesias' great looking Lu Wei Bing in the reference pile. I worked backwards from that piece, decimating down the details a bit and working in more classic Victor details.
Wasn't much else to it.

Enjoy.

Marauder IIC

Coming soon™

IS Direct Fire Lance

Here's the whole lance together as usual.
The hurting starts at a distance and only gets worse as they close.

Nuff said.

IS Direct Fire Renders

With the Orion locked in today, it's time to push out these full Lance renders.
I think this is a must-buy lance for a lot of people, but at this point is seems every single mech here has some sort of drama surrounding it haha.
I hope you like it overall.

Designs and Marauder II sculpt by me.
Atlas and Crusader sculpts by Alan Blackwell.
Orion sculpt by Dale Eadeh.

Enjoy!

Let It Rain

Anyone call for fire support?
Here's a collection of sculpts from various packs that got finished up recently. After putting them all side by side I noticed a certain presence of long range missiles. Though that Orion and Bushwacker can lay down some serious medium and close range lead too.

You've had a taste of how these sculpts also assist as art assets, with the box set art pieces, promotional posters, and novel covers of late. Those are with our art team strained to the limit. Im...

Behemoth

Still a few minor tweaks to do on this model, but here, have another Behemoth shot.
This one is public to share around too. Enjoy!

Clan Support Star Group

Here's the whole Support Star in one shot. Quite a bit of punch for their tonnage.

Who else is glad we've finally got a canon miniature for the CCG Black Lanner?

Clan Support Star Renders

Some of this crew have been waiting on the sidelines for a while, but the last few just came across the finish line today, all ready to head off for production.
I'd call these a good second string group. Not the main popular mechs, but definitely mechs you're likely to want when filling out your forces. Several of them used to be quite ugly, but look pretty nice now.
Harri Kallio designed most of the group with my direction, while I did the Linebacker.

Night Gyr and Arctic Cheetah...

Raven Concept Sketch

Birb time!
Raven mech ready to send off for the bosses approvals.
I like the MWO Raven but I know not everyone is a fan of the very angular departure it made, so I committed to pulling off the curved torso. Luckily I'd explored this many years ago in a fan commission so I had a starting point. Mixed in some MW4 themes too.
Also nice is that the Raven has such a unique shape overall that it's easy to change smaller details around without ever risking loss of recognition.

What do...

Thank You Patron Army

Making this post to remind everyone on here what a great support you've been to me. The feedback is great, but of course we can be real here, the money immensely helps me in day to day life. Not having to worry about where roughly half of my bill money comes from is huge.

Thanks for sticking around so far. Patron retention has been pretty good for how many of you there are.

Enjoy a little moody Behemoth render :)

Hatchetman 3D Sculpt

Here's some more 3D mech goodness, all images public so go ahead and share them around.
Another sculpt by Alan Blackwell. (See a trend? He's fast!)

Ready to cave some cockpits in. And when the mech is too tall? Relieve some knee actuators.

Grasshopper 3D Sculpt

Was a little hard to count up who was requesting what for additional renders, but I saw a mention or two for the Grasshopper so I'll start here :)
Sculpt by Alan Blackwell.

You have permission to publicly re-post the up close torso shot elsewhere, the rest keep to patreon for now.

Panther Concept Sketch

The Panther, designed by Dale Eadeh, with oversight and draw-over by my as usual. 

This one hasn't completed approvals from above yet, but Dale wanted me to show this one off ASAP. I think it looks cool so hopefully wont change much if at all in final.

The head went through about 4 evolutions, basically between Dale making it more actual panther, and me toning it back into the very rudimentary mech panther shape. I think we hit a nice balance.
Rest was pretty straight forw...

Mercury Concept Sketch

Here's a redesign by Bishop Steiner, the Mercury. Maybe he can come into the comment section and give his thoughts on the design process for this one.

From my end as the design director I can say from the get go the plan was to go heavy on visual improvement at the cost of retaining the old looks. It's such a horribly ugly mech, I was fine with any potential sour opinions here to end up with a design people will want to see on the table.

Could you recognize this mech without being...

The Second Assortment

This force has grown quite a bit since I last posted such a render, time for another!

Things move so fast, I've already added a very good looking Black Lanner to the set since making this shot 2 days ago.

This image is public, so feel free to share it. Enjoy!

IS Heavy Lance Mechs

Here's another Lance complete, including the Centurion which I don't think has been shown off at all yet.

I think this is a pretty cool lance for not being made up of the typical superstars of the setting, but all important workhorse mechs that you're going to want filling out your armies.

I know I haven't kept up on them as good lately, so which of these do you want to see turnaround renders on the most?
Or in general what would you like to see more on my patreon?

Flashman Concept Sketch

Has anyone dreamed of a good looking Flashman before? Well, now you don't have to.
Giorgio Espinos and I worked together on this one, taking his old design and updating it to fit into our official aesthetic.

I think we've managed to skip "ironically cool" and go straight to truly good looking with this one. What do you think?
Bonus effect here, now you don't have to buy any sub-par knockoff mechs either :P

Image is public, so feel free to share it around.

Ebon Jaguar

Time for a good one. The Ebon Jaguar / Cauldron Born.
I tend to go back and forth on which side of Clan mech names I use because I often pick the shorter or catchier of the two.
So why does this mech have to have two long names that are half cool half weird? D:

Mech sure looks cool though, and I got more gains out of this redesign than I thought I would. When I last tackled it on the Forever Faithful book cover it was still kinda derpy looking.
I think it's a mech that absolute...

Orion New Head

Here's the final Orion model, pending any final tweaks.
Hopefully final cockpit included too, which came about from a few more rounds of internal discussion.
(Insert salty youtuber memes about patron feedback cycles here)

I still prefer my original sketch design, but I'm ok with this look.
Like it?

Nightstar Concept Sketch

Time for another big girl. The Nightstar.

I asked Giorgio Espinos permission to reference several of his designs and this is one that stuck out to me a lot, so if you've seen his you'll see strong influences here.
One special feature is giving it telescoping claws instead of fixed hands so that it can get some use out of the actuators rather than none.

This mech may join the King Crab and Turkina in the wide bois club.

Longbow Concept Sketch

It's missile massacre time!
Taking on this lance of Longbow, Stalker, Zeus, and Trebuchet would be brutal. Add a few jumpy battle armor guiding indirect fire and you're definitely toast.

I'm sure many of you can guess the process already, I pick what I consider all the good bits of various design versions and jam them all together with a nice spin.

Can you spot all the sources yourself?
I'll give you the meta one. To honor old inter-mech lineages within our new set, I refere...

Clan Fire Star Mechs

Here are the single renders of each mech in the Clan Fire Star.
Cougar, Kit Fox, Fire Moth, Nova Cat, and Warhawk.

Which is your favorite of the set?
I really wanted these in Wave One but things piled up fast.

Clan Fire Star

With the Cougar in, look what's come together!
Still not much a fan of the Fire Moth, but the other 4 are pretty nice mechs.

Making this public considering the pledge manager is still up. Feel free to share if you want :)

Cougar Translation

How's she look?

Other than the original miniature falling a little short, Battletech is full of good Cougar art, so I never wanted to change it much. More wanting to collect all the best parts and put them together.
Most of that boiled down to combining Matt Plog's great lineart with the large rear reactor housing from Mech Commander. I like a lot of the MC design, but it's also just a tiny sprite.

I unintentionally gave the new miniature a similar pose to the tro art, so here'...

Stalker Legs

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you had a good time. For the rest I hope this Stalker improves your week.

Which way do you like the legs on your Stalkers?

Big Gun Energy

Posting this here to show off my lady friends bit of fanart that she'll bring along to the MW5 launch party with me.

Check out her Instagram if you like cute art, though don't expect to find mechs haha.
https://www.instagram.com/dokibunbun/

Stalker Nose

What do you think of this heavy referencing of the Japanese Stalker torso?

The Stalker is a very ugly/joked mech so I think this is an interesting route to make it look more aggressive, instead of a blimp, dildo, or going the mwo octagon route.

Atlas Edits

Is this any level of notable improvement to the people who were on the fence about the Atlas sculpt? I know it wont make the more planted against crowd much happier, but wanted to try easing things over a bit.

There is quite a laundry list of edits here, not just on the head either, maybe you can spot them.