The more I see of these the more I like them.

If you don't mind me asking, what program do you use to create these?

I believe he uses autodesk maya (from a prevoius post) although I prefer Inventor

Some rough blocking out of the legs, patterned a bit after the mechs from front mission






how about these for a mod without the gas tanks?

If these are 54mm in size, they could make the basis for a decent Broadside alternate. They look heavy and powerful and don't have the spindly lower legs of the current ones.

I preferred the design without the extra cylinders visually, especially with the extra two weapons slots.

I sent the heads in for printing should have them in about two weeks. Here's the final versions.

Heads came in from printing and came out great


Soldier Head




Commander Head

More incentive to finish my suits. Great work.

I love those heads, I draw mecha and those heads aren't to far from my baseline builds!

Very nice and I love your aesthetic sense as well, very appealing to my taste.

Hmm.. and now that I look at it longer, any appleseed inspiration on those heads?

-tis

The heads are mostly a mix of Appleseed and elements of Mobile Suit Gundam.

There's probably some heavy gear influence that can be seen in there as well, although I didn't have that in mind at the time I was building them. The chin is a very deliberate nod to the older gundam series.

Great stuff mate!!! loving those look on the suits. Been too long since i done any hobby let alone tau, but some of your designs makes me wanna just do a squad base on either armored core or front mission Keep up the good work.

That has come out really well; certainly finding a more samurai/anime zone for these battle suits. Amazing work from your beginnings

Very rough mock up of over the shoulder beam cannons for mecha.

thoughts?

After some clean up.





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Looks really good - and puts my fledgling 3d modeling skills to shame lol

Modified the design to also include a long version comperable to my long rail gun.

To be honest, the rectangular muzzle says railgun more to me than the round barreled ones you've been producing. I like it.

After I've been staring at the pics for a few hours I'm wondering if the shorter beam gun needs to be a bit more slender?

The long version is the same height as the short but because of the length it feels more slender, is the current short version good or think I should reduce the height slightly?

I rather like the short version (better than the long one, if I'm honest). I vote to keep it as it is now.

Perhaps stretching it slightly so that isntead of tip to tail being the same length as your existing make the length from the muzzle to the 'butt' of the weapon the same as the existing ones and have the cooling cylinders (or whatever they are) extending out from there.


Let me see if I can do a visual here

Current Railgun.... |=======|
Current Beam Gun. |======|<
Stretched Beam ... |=======|<