James_R_Millar

Mech from June last year, recoloured.

I can probably just stop saying "recoloured" whenever I post something for a second time (or more) because, whenever I do, it's always got a new livery.

I just enjoy doing multiple colourschemes to see the same design in a variety of different ways. I'd quite like to do alternate loadouts too, but I just don't have the time to get into that at the moment.

Rally-bot Repost. From an illustration POV, I'm still loving the ball-feet, from a mechanical POV I am eternally tormented by them; there's simply no way for them to work -and- retain their ballsy profile.

As a pure sphere shape, the hubs catch on the ground after a very little amount of lean and if the legs tilt but the wheels stay upright, they wouldn't grip well whilst cornering (I presume). With a narrower wheel the problem is overcome, but the aesthetic is lost completely.

With a dumpy wheel the shape -almost- looks OK, but the hub clearance problem returns to a lesser degree and the aesthetic is still somewhat compromised. I think I always go on about ball feet whenever I post one of these. Here's some slightly plausible wheels hastily blocked out in blender.

More hover-flares.

Throwback, this time in the colours of a tennis ball.

Planet Express Fist.

… is the the only pun I could come up with that wasn't wildly inappropriate :D

And yes; it is a gigantic, rocket-powered fist on the rotor-disc torso from a little while back.

:D ahaha, the head's totally too large but it amuses me, so it will continue to exist until I come back and fix this later with a new illustration.

(based on my usual follow-up, that will be somewhere between five years and never).

It's based on [the one at the bottom of the post], a sketch I did a little while back (this year). I prefer this one, especially the tanky body juxtaposed with the pointy feet.

I've not done a finished version of this one as I've been working on it (unsuccessfully) for a different idea.

Removing your head and neck, and then replacing them with a gigantic armoured radome, will free you of those pesky critical hits.

Not sure why I put a clavicle mounted sensor array in there given that my mechs, by-and-large, never seem to have eyes.