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Shimmering-Sword — Battletech - Raiding Jaegers
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First off (here we go again) check out my Rangers Project kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/1… It's getting close to funded but needs that last push to make it.
Now back to the art. This was commissioned by someone over on the Battletech General threads in 4chan's traditional games board. A rather quick piece, so it's not as clean and detailed as my typical work.
A Mad Cat III and a Thunder Fox (both 55 ton medium mechs) of the Lyrian Commonwealth Jaegers are returning to base after a raid against enemy forces (likely Jade Falcon). They're fairly beat up, but their targets fared worse. A departure from the typical Jaegers half checkerboard pattern, this pair are marked with dazzle stripes.
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Don't remember a four legged mech in battletech, though been some time since been interested in the universe.
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Yep there are plenty, they're just much less common than bipeds.
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It's a shame battletech and mechwarrior series aren't as popular as halo and Star Wars. I do love the universe even though I can't remember of much of it after stop reading the books. I don't think lawsuit from robotics helped as they we're copying designs which I think really hurt the series. Would love if they did a other game/book series that took place centuries after the dark ages with bit more advances since then and even new territories after rediscover of terraforming technology and perhaps few other technology. I think they inverse does have chancebe on par with Star Wars and halo.
Think other than battletech, mechwarrior, and mechassault I would welcome a game involving infantry and aerospace pilot since we do t see them too much.
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There was the combined arms game MechWarrior Living Legends with tanks, aero, and infantry. But it's getting old now and definitely looking aged compared to MWO and the upcoming MW5.
Battletech, by the nature of its rules, will always be a niche game, but a niche game that will be unlikely to die.
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Thunder Fox really doesn't get enough love.
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It's a nice looking mech when updates a bit.
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Whoa I LOVED the Battletech books! This is amazing work!
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your art is so perfect im jealous of your talent and imagination wow !!!!!!!!!
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You gotta wonder what that Thunder Fox is packing though. It's a truly beautiful machine, but doesn't look to be utilizing any of the basic variants. Maybe a pair of ER Mediums and a Autocannon of some kind for the loadout?
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Check out the Lyran L8
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what is the biggest and most powerful mech. what kings of weapons does battletech use
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Ahhh, paired Snub-nose peeps and an LB-X/10. Very nice, if not a little reliant on getting close to do maximum damage with those PPCs. Shame that PGI probably won't add the Thunder Fox to MWO though. That'd be a bucket of fun!
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Really cool You should try making something like that in SumoPaint
sumopaint link: www.sumoadmin.com/aff.php?aff=…
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So, the mechs in BattleMech are also called "jaegers"?
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Nah, that's just the name of their military unit, the Lyran Alliance Jaegers.
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No, the are called BattleMechs. This title is just about something else. All a coincidence with PR.
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This was my wallpaper for quite a while. I'm still waiting to be able to paint my Timberwolf like this in MWO.
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Not long until you can slap some dazzle on it.
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MechAssault is a spinoff of Battletech.
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I thought madcats (timberwolf) were 75 tons Heavy mechs...did they lowered the tonnage for the mad cat III?
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There are 3 different mad cat sizes. The 1 and 4 are heavy, 2 is assault, 3 is medium.
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And I went and made a Light Version 
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thank you for the feedback!!
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Super nice use of values and the rendering work is stellar! Fine work
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Loving the cockpit detail on the Mad Cat. I've seen a few Mech renders which have the pilot's head & shoulders right up in the bow of the cockpit... forgetting the little problem of where the poor guy's legs are meant to go!
The other aspect I really like here is the different types of battle damage the two Mechs are showing. The cannon-shell craters contrast with the smashed forearm pod on the Mad Cat...
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Awesome mechs, Shimmy, like how they have been beat up and show some battle damage. 
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Love your work but I'm always a bit sad you don't make larger versions we could use as wallpapers
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I like to let everyone view my work without big watermarks on it, but if I upload a high res that's clean they're more likely to be misused.
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other excelent mech art: I really like the use of geometrical paint, as it made me remember the "cammouflage" of ships used back in time!
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