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Published: 2011-07-12 20:02:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 55279; Favourites: 1396; Downloads: 1843
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Cover for the Battletech Technical Readout prototypes done for Catalyst Game Labs featuring a ultra ac10 sporting hunchback in a hangar.Funny story
Cover links all the way back to that fan drawing i did many years back of the Hunchback in the snow in a round about way.
-Make hunchback fanart for shits and giggles.
-Years later starting doing official BT stuff, asked to repurpose fanart, make updated version.
-Art director, Brent Evans canonizes that specific appearance of the Hunchback with a new variant.
-End up making a cover featuring that variant.
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Comments: 110
Wow! Your work is incredible! I am awestruck!! So inspirational!
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I have this big motherf***er mecha as wallpaper on my laptop!!
INSANE DUDE!!
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Astonishing master piece of work. Did you take some inspiration from Gears of Wars...? Doesn't matter, this is wonderful.
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The road to success is paved with Hunchbacks!
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I'm gonna guess 4 AC/2 as opposed to one AC/20.....if MW4 values are to be trusted then AC/2s are no less than 8 tons each....how is there room for anything else in this thing?
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It is either an Ultra/AC or a Rotary Autocannon.
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A:holy hell that is a username I did not expect to see
B:rotary makes sense to me, I hadn't considered it
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A: A username you did not expect to see? Do you know (of) me from somewhere?
B: In his concept art for the Cicada in MechWarrior Online, he did a similar weapon pod on the torso which is an Ultra AC/5. I wouldn't be surprised if this piece is an Ultra AC/10 or a Rotary AC/5.
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A:waaaay old webcomic I found on TWC, was fairly good
B:also true, I generally wouldn't expect the barrels of a rotary to be arranged in a square though
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Heh. Still surprised to be recognised.
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I LOVE the Hunchback (and especially its design) in MWO but this...THIS I WANT! 
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This is great! My favorite out of them all. Any chance this will be available for print, I would really love to adorn my wall with this beautiful artwork!?
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Awesome story, It's nice to see a fanwork (even if modified) make it first and front of a cover.
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BATTLETECH! Nice. It is always good to find another fan, even if it is randomly discovered.
Looks to me like that poor Hunchback is really needing those repairs. Even if they are just touch ups. And bite it, I'm curious. What weapon is that on the left arm. It looks like some sort of laser, maybe even a PPC. Care to tell OwO
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I'm teaching a friend in Romania to play Battletech TCG over skype, so I decided to modernize all of the cards. I used your art for Accelerated Turnaround here. 
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This is the first and only Hunchback I find beautiful !!!
Great work.
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This is the first and only Hunchback I find beautiful.
Great work.
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Holy. Crap. The Hunchback design is truly glorious - bravo!
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A gantry crane on treads? You know the way to my heart! To say nothing of the awesome mech...
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Awesome work!
All those details... so many...
That's real eyecandy.
Love it!
And faved it.
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So your little fan version of it got made canon? Awesome!
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Finally someone actually attempts to portray myomer fiber bundles! Every book in battletech talks about how the 'Mechs were all powered by this radical new technology that mimicked how human muscles worked yet no one ever actually worked them into their designs! Nice!
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Im glad to see you actually doing Battletech art. I know you've done it in the past for pleasure, but seeing your stuff on TRO's definately gives me a nerdboner! Nothing wrong with mixing pleasure with business.
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I believe my buddy coined it all to well 'debris is my fav artsist' which is O so true. Beauty my friend!!
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Christ this is detail overload, fantastic piece work, love the line work as well, did you sketch this out in inks first before digital painting into it?
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I know it spins, but that Ultra AC 10 kinda reminds me of the blaster turrets from the Millenium Falcon :\
And if it spins, doesn't that make it a rotary autocannon instead?
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Excellent variant, awesome illustration; my son will love it!!
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Thats a cool story and I love this picture for this angle we never get to see of the mechs
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Dude its awesome to see you doing work, for catalyst been watching you for a couple years. anyways excellent work as always
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How could i possibly not love and fav this ? gorgeous work .
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