Mechwarrior interest

  There are kits available for Vulture, Madcat(Timberwolf), and the Atlas from different sources, but they are super expensive.  I built a Gunslinger using the chassis of an ATST as a base, and it turned out fairly well, but it was a lot of work.

  They (the holding companies) are making a huge mistake by not allowing Revell/Monogram to make models of these battlemechs...I am not sure where FASA/Mattel is coming from with their decision to not market the mechs...seems silly to me!

Well I'm pretty avid in 3D Studio MAX 6, so I'm going to start importing Mechwarrior game models from Mech 4 and Mech 2 if I can extract them, and I'll start printing up scale & reference sheets so that I and anyone else who wants to can begin scratchbuilding some nice mechs, since it seems the Dunces of the Coast don't want to utilize perhaps the most lucrative brand they own.

I'm thinking 1/35th scale would be the best to reference the models in, what do you guys think?

I've played all thye Mechwarrior games up to 4 and was p-laying it to but life got in the way and i can't find my cd's now but that's another story. I hunted and pecked and scrounged all over looking for some drawings to make mechwarriors from and found a couple of  free paper kits from a guy in South Korea. The files are on my other computer right now but I've wanted to do some scratch built Mechs for a long time. I want to do a 1/35/32 scale Fafnir, Shadowhawk, Avatar and some of the others but alas no info out there good enough to start with. I'd personally love to get some of your plans. 1/35 scale could be a touch big but that or 1/32 would be the scale where you could get the most as far as accessories to go with them and kitbashing parts too. I'd sure like to see what you come up with, they'd be great. Also following the lead of some of the resin manufactures you could like umm rename them and possibly sell a few sets to pay yourself back for your time and effort, I've seen I don't know how many wolverine, batman and other assorted somic book characters renamed and sold to avoid licencing fees it looks like.

Tracy

Spaghetti peep dis out

http://ppc.warhawkenterprises.com/intshots/uziel3smoke.jpg

http://ppc.warhawkenterprises.com/intshots/davionuzielwoods.jpg

http://ppc.warhawkenterprises.com/intshots/uziekillmaddog.jpg

and my personal fave;

http://ppc.warhawkenterprises.com/intshots/fafnirmove.jpg

Cthulhu77 could a beg a copy of that file? Pretty please?????

Tracy

Fantastic, Greatly appreciated!

Tracy

I'd love a set of Madcat specs too!

I'm having a helluva time extracting the 3D models from Mech 4, I'm going to give Mech 3 a try later...

I figure if anything is gonna be hard to build, the Uziel will be, it's torso is all ovoids and the arms and legs are coke-bottle cylinders. Fun fun fun....

Quartermaster wrote:

I'm having a helluva time extracting the 3D models from Mech 4, I'm going to give Mech 3 a try later...

Wow, spaghetti, you're frightening the children.

About the Mech 4 models, yeah um... I found that out the hard way. On to Mech 3....

ZzZGuy wrote:

I really wish i had time to scratch build battletech/mechwarrior mechs, but alas there is only so much time. (to bad MW5 is cancled, and i want a mmorpg version of battletech) Perhaps those of you who are going to be going ahead tell the rest of us how you are going to go about scratch building these modles? A little more trial, a little less error.

My eventual goal is to kitbash a Gundam for the major joints etc. I have this 1/100 kit I got off ebay for 9 bucks. I got two of them, I built one of them by the directions, and the other will become my favorite mech: The Highlander HGN-732 model. I am simply going to baffle the exsisting armore and rebuild the head, torso and replace the right arm with a gauss rifle. Great topic by the way!

Good luck with this. If you have any digital pics of a Highlander laying around please post it.

-Todd