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Published: 2013-01-07 02:45:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 7181; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 188
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Description From the "Battletech Compendium", FASA, 1994.
Another DuoShade drawing that has decayed and faded over the years, so this is a scan of the printed version, as opposed to my now-blotchy original.
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Valaska [2023-08-12 10:46:50 +0000 UTC]

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SPEARHARD [2022-01-22 17:31:11 +0000 UTC]

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jailgurdnegative [2014-12-19 23:59:32 +0000 UTC]

I am a huge fan of your battletech art!

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to jailgurdnegative [2014-12-22 07:40:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy it!

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jailgurdnegative In reply to SteamPoweredMikeJ [2015-07-18 01:37:08 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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CanRay [2014-12-09 07:06:10 +0000 UTC]

Hopefully the water will cool it down.

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to CanRay [2014-12-22 07:40:22 +0000 UTC]

One can only hope ; )

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DarkghostX [2013-01-08 22:38:01 +0000 UTC]

I always loved that image, you still do battle-tech?

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to DarkghostX [2013-01-11 04:26:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I haven't done any illustration for any games in a lot of years. Today I work in film, and most of my art is limited to storyboards and concepts for my own (or friends') films...

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DrOfDemonology [2013-01-08 12:20:20 +0000 UTC]

This was always one of my favourite images from the Compendium. Glad I still have my well-used hardcover copy

Well done!

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to DrOfDemonology [2013-01-11 04:31:41 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'm actually very proud to have a monogrammed limited edition of the hardcover, with my name in silver right on the front! It was such a nice thing for the guys at FASA to do for their writers and artists. They were a great company to work for, and always gave me maximum creative freedom.

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SIERRA-116 [2013-01-08 09:07:17 +0000 UTC]

Big ass machine guns rule.

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Steel-Raven [2013-01-08 05:31:05 +0000 UTC]

Never liked the Cataphract until I saw this in the BT Compendium, then I sudenly became a fan of the machine. You did a great job giving the mech a sharper look closer to it's Marauder forefather and gave it a great dynamic pose. Honestly one of my all time favorite pieces of BT art.

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to Steel-Raven [2013-01-08 08:08:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! I think a lot of the old mech designs just needed a bit of love to make them shine.

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timberfox15 [2013-01-07 18:25:14 +0000 UTC]

cool i have this book and always loved this one it gives me that "last stand" feeling.

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to timberfox15 [2013-01-08 08:09:32 +0000 UTC]

I'm so glad I sucessfully captured that. Thanks!

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timberfox15 In reply to SteamPoweredMikeJ [2013-01-08 19:07:29 +0000 UTC]

well you did darn well here

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RobCaswell [2013-01-07 04:21:37 +0000 UTC]

Great work. Clean, cool, and action packed. It really begs the viewer's mind to pick up the animation from this frame.

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to RobCaswell [2013-01-07 06:13:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! That was really about the time in my work when I was *finally* starting to get a good sense of motion, and my figures were looking a lot less stiff...

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EricJ562 [2013-01-07 02:49:27 +0000 UTC]

Great drawing but I've never thought the Cataphract as a good looking 'Mech...

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SteamPoweredMikeJ In reply to EricJ562 [2013-01-07 06:12:11 +0000 UTC]

That's why I blew off the canopy

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EricJ562 In reply to SteamPoweredMikeJ [2013-01-07 20:06:02 +0000 UTC]

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RocketSpy In reply to EricJ562 [2013-01-07 03:55:34 +0000 UTC]

You're not the only one. Personally, I both like and dislike it, but above all, I respect the firepower.

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EricJ562 In reply to RocketSpy [2013-01-07 04:14:22 +0000 UTC]

True.

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