george.vas - Dominance WAR II

[george.vas]

Mantodea

This is supposed to be a quick strike sneak attack assassin unit that can also double as a reconnaissance. It can leap great distances do to powerful hind legs and wings that help it glide. It’s main attack is a lighting fast impaling strike. It’s lower fuselage is interchangeable to suit what ever type of mission it is going on. For instance if it was equipped with a reconnaissance attachment it would have larger wings and extra fuel cells and a stronger hydraulics chip for the back legs so that it could travel further distances. The assassin attachment version has a built in self destruct nuclear bomb for suicide runs. The weakness of this unit is it’s a terrible melee unit do to light armor. To make up for this it is equipped with a cloaking antenna that makes them virtually invisible when not moving. Besides reconnaissance missions they usually travel in packs of ten and are known for being masters of ambushing.

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[george.vas]

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[george.vas]

Here is the low res version of the main torso ( 1000 tris ). I am shooting for 5k total and then I will go back with the final 1K to add additional detailed final touches. I will make the high res version of each piece once all the low res versions are complete.

[mim]

Hey well come george to the battle!
nice concept n progress sofar, goodluck for "RA" team too!
Cya, mim,

[0202742]

Great looking concept, love mantids, keep up the good work.

[nacire]

Nice to see you in here Vas! Good luck man.

[george.vas]

Thanks all..

Updated: Added low res version of the arms ( 500 tris each ). I will be using an alfa for the saw teeth, have plains in their place till then.

[0202742]

From the concepts i do not believe this has any ranged weapons, which lets it down i think, i suggest using the extra 1k we have for weapons to change this so it has more than two forms of attack. Think how dangerous it would be in an ambush situation with guns, people would not see it and would walk straight into it's line of view. Looks great so far keep it up.

[dhin]

Maybe a gun at the end to the blade, so when the arms are back it can shoot with them. . . or make the blade swords and add hands so a gun could be used. . . Either way, I still really like where you are going with this one George, even without a ranged attack.

[Buzzy]

I can't really say I'm much of a fan of the whole big bug thing...especially since it so closely resembles a real bug. I think you should change the head to dull-down the close resemlence... plus the mantis head looks a little silly to me (I find mantises in general to be rather silly-looking creatures)

But, I do really dig where you're going with the model so far. Its shaping up rather nicely

[george.vas]

Thanks for the encouragement. As for the gun thing I wanted to steer away from anything BFG style as I have plans for a possible rocket launcher on its back for long range. I am also figuring on adding some sort of spore on the redesign of the head that sprays acid and for short range attack to compound the scythes. For medium range I will probably do laser eyes or a laser shoulder mount. If you look at the knees you will see an opening that I shaded in yellow. This is another mid range attack dual flame throwers! Hehe…

Updated: Added low res version of the front legs ( 500 tris each ).

[george.vas]

Updated: Added low res version of attachment fuselage ( 500 tris total ).

[george.vas]

Updated: Added low res version of back legs ( 500 tris each ).

[george.vas]

Updated: Added latest concept. Still tweaking the head but I like it much better than my first one.

[george.vas]

Updated: Added low res version of head ( 500 tris total ).