Concept Art

[Chaoswolf]

The Avatar was a reversed engineered IS version of the vulture right?  Or was it the mad cat?

The avatar was reversed from a supplied Vulture from the W-I-E (wolves in exile)

[TheANIMAL]

I'm going to have a crack at this golem-elemental-thing , see if i can get him to make sense.


i wonder what the back end looks like...

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[Askis]

I just noticed...
Is that a tire between the legs? o_O



! CROTCH-RAAAAAAACER!

[TheANIMAL]

Lol, its for extra support if he ever falls on his knees.

[TheANIMAL]

A little more

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[PanzerBoxb]

Looking sweet there, Animal.

[TheANIMAL]

I've had to make some changes, i still havent figured out what the back is going to look like.

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[Cujo]

the back is probably vents for the Missile packs, if it has any extra ammo that would be the logical place for it, the ball like things on the lower back could be, and probably is the ammo feeds for the arm mounted weapons.  I cannot seem to find the TRO so I dunno what it's loadout looks like and if it has jj's, they'd probably be in the back to with the weight of the missile racks it makes the most sense. 


a touch of CC: the arms look a touch bare, maybe they're a little long(the underarmor covers up to the elbow so once you have that done take a look at length), but looks really good so far.  If you can make the linkages for the claws a little beefier it would look a little better.  keep doing what you're doing to make it look bear-ish, looks sweet.

Just from the look of it, would be a good clan counter-part to the kanazuchi, more so than the gnome.

[TheANIMAL]

Hmm, well i did originally think there would be an SRM setup on the back, but i cant figure out where exactly they'd fire from. The arm turrets look set for laser and machine gun setups, the cylinders at the top are setup up for, god knows what, more lasers probably.

Unless the missiles fire backwards or sideways, i don't think there is a missile setup. I was think more along the lines of having the jumpjets, the jumpjet fuel and the main generators, in a sort of backpack configuration. Looking like the guy is going camping.

The claws i see littel use for, unless the main guns can be dropped they'd never be able to grab onto anything.

[Cujo]

I think the claws are more utility.  I just finished reading the Jade Falcon Trilogy, again, the elementals used their claws to do a wide range of things like holding cables for a bridge the engineers were building and they could zip-line across with them and grab onto mechs with them for transport or combat.  The way it's situated on this BA I think it would be more for utility, I would think all the weapons are able to be dropped. 

I'll show you here I think these are for the ammo for the autocannons, I can visualize the ammo belts twisting just beyond eyesight on the pic, would probably double the ammo.  On the other hand if you say this thing has JJ, then it would probably need some good sized JJ's.  Unfortunately I don't have many mini's and the only clan BA I have is the Gnome.  I can't find any pics, if you could post the TRO if you have it, or if someone could so we can see how much space the JJs and autocannon ammo takes up as well as if the SRM packs are single shot or not.  Without a pic of the mini most of this is speculation.

[Askis]

Well, there are definitely some vents pointing upwards behind the missile pods and I agree with Cujo, that the round things could be where the ammo for the arm-mounted cannons is stored.
If this BA has JJs they are probably on the pack between those round thingies, but it's impossible to tell...
Might do a little sketch later, what it could look like.

[UBCS]

Hey guys. I would like to suggest all these looks:

Atlas new look.
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=WS107
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=WS105
Daishi new look.
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=SOL028
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=SOL022
Mad Cat Mark IV.
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=WS084
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=BF018
Vulture Mark IV.
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=VG083
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=VGOC2
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=WS075
Jackalope.
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=DOM133
http://www.warrenborn.com/Unit.php?ID=DOM082

PS: All looks are the same... only different perspectives and colors.

               UBCS

[Cujo]

To be honest, not a fan of especially the atlas mini there, the mk4's don't look too bad, but from a tactical standpoint those huge weapon housings are too big for the weapons they would have (difference between mk1, what they're putting in, and mk4, those mini's, is larger arm weapons apparently), they'd be alot easier to hit that way.

as far as mini's go, what I've noticed is that they made some good changes in some of the mini's, like the spider light mech, it looks alot better than the old TRO, the two mk4's look pretty nice, but the differences are in loadout and there really isn't a reason to have any larger weapon housings than they have.

[UBCS]

Well in the Mad Cat Mk 4 those huge guns are PPC's... in the Vulture MK4 the right one is a PPC and the left one is a Gauss Rifle... =D
But I take your point! Although man, I like that Atlas... hahaha

What you think of the Jackalope??

[Spyro]

it's a interesting mech, cool that it's in the air, I hadn't heard of it before, looks kinda cool though.