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Published: 2019-11-24 17:38:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 4223; Favourites: 168; Downloads: 0
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Given the size of the manufacture involved in the BT universe I've always waffled back and forth as to how the assembly would go. Either keeping the units at a single station and feeding them appropriately staged materials as they begin to come together. Or a more assembly line style. This obviously being the later. In a facility the bare boned mech skeleton held securely in an assembly rack is moved from station to station for appropriate work. They even lay the mech down, so that they don't have workers falling to their deaths every day
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Woah, this is neat! I like ur comic art style. Keep on keepin on!
Ps. What is the story, just wonderin
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thanks.
A number of these commissions have been done by the same client and are to fill out his personal project detailing the rise of a production corporation from their start, to the point where they're a military force unto themselves and a major seller in the IS markets.
So, aside from drawing a lot of their mechs, he's had me doing up some staging scenes. Or scenes to head up book chapters, of a sort.
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Yeah, as a couple of others have stated, one of the basic super technologies in the battletech universe making mechs viable is super efficient artificial muscle materials. It is almost never referenced or preferred in canon designs i've had my hands on. As any design that came off as 'too organic" was usually canned.
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Battletech is kinda weird, sometimes the mechs are depicted more "muscle-ly" and other times more mechanically, but the tech is called Myomer and is kinda the "missing link" technology needed to make mechs a reality instead of fantasy in-setting.
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Myomer is the base material. there's also triple strength myomer for when you need to hulk up your 'mech
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It's one of my Tyrant 50ton Medium Mechs.
Also drawn by Matt last year;
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Personally I can see that both methods are used though out the Human Sphere. Its a big place with a lot of different people using different methods to get the same results.
Thank you for sharing.
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