Alex Iglesias (a.k.a. Flyingdebris) is a good friend of mine and DIE HARD MECHSPERT. (And I do not say that lightly). All this guy does is eat, breath and shit mechs. I am consistently amazed at his solid understanding of design, form and function and often curse myself for not being as ingenious. You can view his online gallery here: http://flyingdebris.deviantart.com/gallery/
Anyway, occasionally we will send each other a mech sketch for comments/ crits and approval. He is currently working on this badass mech:
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VRm3edgusok/TP3ldBv5f5I/AAAAAAAAAX0/gPcQVFOQWRM/s320/Fear%2Bthe%2BFiddler%255BOrig%255D.jpg)
I love every part about it... except for its color scheme. I told him it was too much brown, and wanting to see what it would look like in black, spent a few minutes doing a quick paintover. I suggested to him some more material breakup, texture changes and an alternate color scheme. (He doesn't have to stick to this, mind you, its just a suggestion of what could be) Here's what I pitched to him:
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VRm3edgusok/TP3lzuIf1xI/AAAAAAAAAX8/X5mSbO9geZk/s320/Fear%2Bthe%2BFiddler%255B1%255D.jpg)
I think the result is a step in the right direction, but I can't wait to see what/ if any changes he makes to the final.
Going a bit further and having some fun with it, I shamelessly added my H.ARM suit in there and for cheap thrills, unified their color schemes to suggest they worked as a unit. Its a hack job admittedly, but my curiosity was satisfied. And voila... I now have my new desktop image.
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VRm3edgusok/TP3mAbtnouI/AAAAAAAAAYE/woUdGHNNhVs/s320/Fear%2Bthe%2BFiddler%255B2%255D.jpg)
Very cool stuff, especially big one in dark grey color scheme. Very unigue design. Just one concern about the gun (not gatling one), ammo mag could be bigger :) In overall I BELIEVE!
ReplyDeleteFound this blog while searching for exo suit reference on google images. So glad I did- awesome work!!! I friggin love mechs!
ReplyDeleteGlad you guys like the work.
ReplyDeleteRymlyanin- I'll pass the message along to Flying debris (since its his mech).
Tom- I didn't know I was on google. What did u type in? If u like robots and mechs, and haven't already, check out http://nuthinbutmech.blogspot.com/
or http://conceptrobots.blogspot.com/
Brace yourself.
...one concern about paint. I think stealth planes color scheme would be great, especialy for lines and inscriptions. Should be suitable for mechs.
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Great admirer of both you and FlyingDebris, congratulations.
ReplyDeleteWhat did he say about this? I think it's awesome :D