This is freggin neat dude, makes me want to play Armored Core.

PS1-PS2 AC is legend

I like old-school, but that looks exceedingly uncomfortable to pilot XD

Directly inspired by MBT driver positions haha https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u.....-%20Driver.jpg

Hate to be the party pooper but old school mechs weren't all they're cracked up to be :P
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/5/.....3025ostsol.jpg

good ones

Like this one?
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/f/.....2_Marauder.png
Wait no that's a redesign, lemme find the original design.
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/4/48/MAD-5D.png
oh.

In all seriousness I get what you mean, there were some pretty cool mechs from way back in the day, like the Timber Wolf(AKA Mad Cat).
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/2/...../MadCat_2.jpeg

How about NOT BATTLETECH MECHS?

Battletech's best mechs of the original era were all from Macross rather than original designs, and even for the late eighties/early nineties didn't comprise of all the mechs out there, not even western ones.

This mech looks far more Heavy Gear inspired, and Heavy Gear is almost as old as Battletech, and draws more heavily from VOTOMS.
http://jestertrek.com/temp/heavy-ge.....rn/cheetah.gif

referencing non-battletech mechs would require a familiarity with other western mech franchises that go back that far, and frankly researching one for the sake of a joke would have been far too much effort.

In all fairness you did include a Robotech design.

Oh wait...

TRO 3025 was a fun time for FASA.
Glad they got some new artists.

Well if not Heavy Gear, how about something any mecha fan should know about like Robot Jox? Warhammer 40k? Arguably Transformers?

Even then why limit it to the west when GITS, Gundam, Appleseed, VOTOMS, Macross, Patlabor, and so many others have existed for ages, some of which battletech licensed the designs of and others they probably traced?

I don't think I'd qualify transformers, mainly because it's quite debatable whether or not they can be considered "mechs" at all as opposed to robots, 40k really has never been about the various "mechs" in universe either imo, kinda weakens it as a contender on the list of mech franchises when the focus is on infantry and tanks/crude walkers. As for the arbitrary limitation to western franchises that's just personal discretion.

"Haters gonna hate"

If that's your outlook on mechs you should skip the Ostsol and get an Urbanmech instead!
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/5/.....rbanmech_2.jpg

Was more commenting on the pose of that thing. Just seemed to be strutting along all "bitch I'm fabulous"

and I was commenting with the quintessential "haters gonna hate" mech.
the walking trash can.

30mph of pure sass

That thing is so fun in mechwarrior online

the STD60 urbie with an AC/20 has become on of my favorite builds because nobody expects it or takes it seriously until they're half dead.

I load up an ultra ac5 and some jumpjets, ii can get up to 60mph and really fuck shit up in the maps with buildings

I tried running an AC/5 in my "less slow" collector's urbie but I just found I had too little ammo for the damage it put out, so I've actually got a "joke" build with a PPC pending some field tests.

Usually i only use my urbie for fun, to tryhard i go ham with my locust, i love the small mechs

Aye, though the MG urbie is a surprisingly valid "tryhard" mech with the max rating XL since the 360* torso twist and high mounted weapons make it surprisingly versatile.
Honestly the only mechs I currently have fitted that aren't "for funsies" are some of my assaults, and even then only because the effective build those mechs are running is pretty fun in and of itself.

I really like the feet, not sure what exactly the vertical spike is for though

Half artistic flair, half maybe a silly-huge version of a wire cutter like this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe.....70205-01cr.jpg

I took them to be preassurized spikes, a design which i'm fond of

Basically it just shoots spikes into the ground to anchor the mech for whatever the reason

Maybe they're dual-purpose, there's enough room in that thing for a spike I'd say!

Also, what happened to the left leg in the middle one, looks a bit cut :v

really though, love your stuff, great designs

Thanks! I'm always trying to shoot for "older" designs that relied more on just an interesting silhouette, or readable shapes / repeating shapes without giving into cramming things full of detail and shapes to the point of unreadable or just lost in a sea of generic homogeneous designs.

The foot is indeed cut - pretty much I sketched out the mech that's on the left, figured out about how horribly I could cram a person in there, decided it was too tall for my tastes and then quickly messed with the proportions on the one in the middle (hence the cut foot, I just grabbed it and made it larger haha).

I also like drawing mechs, usually i flop on perspective though, and they turn out looking lopsided, but hey, at least i got your sick ass designs to look at in the meantime

Hey bingo haha. Wanzers were kind of the feel I was going for, but both FM and AC have probably my favorite mech designs - somewhere between totally practical and rule of cool.

Very nice. Makes me think of Scopedogs.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u.....qnxxo1_500.gif Scopedogs for life, man

real men play brigador with the mongoose mech

I still can't get over the details. Spot-on