ART DUMP: Big Stuff

Before I get into the weekly or bi-weekly updates on the works of the Great Shalun, I'm going to fill in some related work in themes until I feel I have enough complete work for the Trese games to start doing weekly submissions or taking requests for illustrations by the writers. If by some miracle we hit it off and become really popular or  find the time, I may try my luck at single panel comics. What humor I have I'm probably not articulate enough to mesh with artwork so it will most likely be serious drama or focused on marketing. like the Atari Force back in the early 80s. (By Grabthar's Hammer did I just date myself)

That out of the way, This week I'm being an attention whore gathering interest to the site so I'm dropping big splash page type work for different things:

Here is a sub-orbital shot of a pair of gryhon strike fighters in full burn. Gryphons are a multi-role heavy fighter that can pound surface targets, haul anti-ship missiles (space or otherwise), perform combat aerospace patrols, and other roles.

 

 
Here is a shot of a Gryphon and a Ghost flying in a tight deuce formation. These two are my space carrier fleet combat craft. The Ghost is a pure fighter optimized for short to long range fighting in space or atmo. The mist you see coming from their wing tips is gas vapor from the maneuvering jets. There are a cluster in the Gryphon's nose just forward of the pilot's station.

Alien Sehkmet powered armor inspired partly on the Knightsaber armor from Bubblegum Crisis and a a bit of the Queadluun-Rau Meltrandi armor from Macross. Somehow ended up looking like something you'd see the Zoras from Legend of Zelda using. The armor wearer can separate from and remotely control the fighter from nearby space via a brain direct interface system (data jack) and maneuvers via a form of anti-grav technology(inertial flux). The species is pretty far ahead of humanity, and one of these suits is quite capable of taking down a human starfighter on its own.

This is an earlier image, from which parts of other images were derived. It depicts the scout class powered armor (coincidentally called the Templar) fighting off alien Sehkmet armor while Ghost fighters tussle it up with alien Orcas.

A joint venture between humans and the elf-like alien race seen before, Horus is an advanced Power Armored suit with three function modes like you see with some of the full sized mecha like Macross.The suit is about 3 meters tall and maybe 2 tons- a bit more fully loaded. Standing or in the air, the suit can convert itself around the wearer into either a ground effect (GERWALK) mode for high speed hovering, or into the full fighter mode where the pilot flies prone-as if they were Superman. It features an inertial flux generator reverse engineered from alien technology that allows its main engine array in the legs and jettisonable booster rockets on the back to perform maneuvers that could crush the pilot otherwise.

It comes with four wing hardpoints, a main weapon stowage firmpoint that appears under the centerline fuselage in fighter mode and the lower chest in suit mode. A pair of double mini-missile launchers come standard in pivoting weapons pods on the pauldrons, and hip and vambrace points can house small arms and additional ammunition.

The Horus comes in two models. The standard A, and the B model featured here. The B has a head mounted antenna and one vambrace point dedicated to high performance electronic warfare gear. This one is armed with a miniaturized particle cannon and cyclotron occupying the outboard wing hardpoints. Four Incubus missile tubes occupy the inboard pylons. A quad-barrelled machine gun and micro missile pods complete the loadout. The one in fighter mode is an A model with Incubus AAMs and Hydra II rocket pods.

 

Horus A model armed with recoilless gyrojet rifle, a pair of Air to Air missiles, a heavy support laser and its accompanying charger/heat dissipator, a vambrace mounted autoshotgun, and the twin dual tube micromissile launchers. That plus the armor's inherent mobility and adaptability makes for a hell of a combat suit I think.