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Published: 2017-11-17 17:45:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 28268; Favourites: 735; Downloads: 0
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Time for a big ol dump of official Battletech lineart!This "classic" (or "newseen" as the fans call it) set of mechs is intended to refresh the art for some early era mechs.
My goal was to be as faithful as possible to the originals to deliver something recognizable and iconic, yet still come up with something original.
The locust was a fun one, and one of the first few I tackled. Some may remember this old speedpaint that I used as a starting point.
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The most common battlemech in the entire Inner Sphere.
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How setup for guns it have? I asked because looks like some cannons on it rather than machine gun. But as I know it have only 20 ton and just can't have cannons because wight limits... Just asked.
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Large calibers, but not as big or as long barreled as you'd want for an AC2. Also large armored sleeves on the guns.
Battletech rules are abstractions of reality, so you could have large caliber but slower firing machineguns or similar to a modern autocannon to meet the "rules" for a battletech mg.
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So glad you got this project, buddy.Β Looks amazing.Β I'm just seeing them now.
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You must be fairly out of the loop then
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I should say quality and quantity balance instead of sheer quantity.Β Just one piece or a few is the problem on a teacher's budget.
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Yeah I can totally understand, I've grown way too expensive for pretty much all of my old clients.
As for where to buy books, CGL seems to be running a store on Amazon these days, though I haven't kept track of where and what exactly is in each book of my designs.
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I'm extremely out of the loop.Β My last site update was like Monday, but before that it was 4 years ago.Β The good news is being distracted with fatherhood is not too bad. 
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Way better than the original concept - least there is a place of the pilot to sit!
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I really love this sort of configuration for a mech!
Great wok on it, I love all the little details you add to it!
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Official, do you mean these appearances are gonna become canon?
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I love the Locust so much... This is such a gorgeous drawing of it!!
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You actually make it seem very bad ass.
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Love all your work for Btech, but this s the perfect Locust!
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I'm biased but I agree
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Nice, you dont see enough light mechs get drawn. Its always the assaults and the heavies.
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Really cool mech !
Now I want to take the command !
Can't I ?
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Hop into a game and you can
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This bastard is a pain in MWO. So fast you can't shoot the legs, gotta aim right at the torso. Have to use lasers or streaks too, makes misses less costly. Also, great work
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A pain in the ass in the new Battletech game, too... too many Evasion stacks and too fast for its own good. But always only one solid AC/10 salvo away from doom.
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Yeah, always is, unlike in MWO when it takes 3-4 AC10 shells
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Yep, and I'm glad PGI has found ways to make most mechs usable, instead of massive gunboats ruling the day at all times.
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Yeah no kidding. 6 Small pulse locast is a good hit and run build, hot runnimg though. I prefer my Urbie with UAC5 and ERMLs
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One of my favourite lights. Low profile, stupidly fast, good crowd control and decent mid-range firepower
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Haha, "decent firepower". Maybe on some later models.
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That's the problem with escalation! You always have to compare it to contemporary models. I like the pre-Helm stuff and due to my Gray Death bias I like the Locust over the the Wasp and the Stinger. Later Locust models would have to compete with models that escalated as well.
I don't know the later meta, when a mech type had a model available that was better than the competition. In gerenal I like melee capable mechs with proper hands (otherwise the humanoid shape is a waste) or squat mech like the Marauder, so the Locust is a mech I'd pick as a newbie warrior 
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this is the 1V variant yah? 1x medium laser, 2x machine gun
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my favorite variant honestly, very little chance you will over heat
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Nice take on the Locust.
This mech is a classic, it deserves some love.
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A good workhorse... fodder mech
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I wouldnΒ΄t want to ride one into combat, but it rules as a scout!
ThatΒ΄s what it was created for, after all.
And when an enemy Atlas has his back turned towards you, why not dare some shots?
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Nothing slated as such that I know of. Though there is the MWO version.
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So bloody gorgeous.
Easily the best Locust design of all time.
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Glad you like it so much.
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I personally think the OG Locust not having hips was a weird, bad idea. It might be the only 'Mech to lack something so essential and ubiquitous.
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There were quite a lot of early designs lacking hips. New ones rarely do, if at all, as we're pretty into logical design these days
I can easily think of the Nova, Falconner, and Linebacker as other examples, but there are more.
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You know... when I see lightly armed mechs, tanks and AS fighters in Battletech, I just want to figure out how to mount a RAC/5 onto them so they've got a massive increase in potential damage to mess with people.
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