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Found an abandoned doodle in the harddrive from late last year while clearing up space and was inspired to spruce it up a little, i miss painting them old specce muhreens. i guess i really adore the Aquila pattern helmet so much... :< 

Does anyone else find the new Primaris pattern a step backward? I get some of the timeline reference and so that it evokes the Maximus pattern almost to a T except for the inclusion of the awkward 'headphone armour covers' and the gorget that appears in some of the Errant pattern (my fav pattern btw) technical illustrations in the past. I just don't see why they need to remove the iconic Mk/7 'chapel'/voxcaster mouth as I like to refer to it as, and no, I wont have the whole "but the voxcaster is a weak spot" argument. The Mk6 Corvus pattern visually suggested "solving" that but at the same time didn't apparently, hence the succeeding patterns went back to 'mouths'. So the principal of ballistic shaping seems to hardly be a central issue or concept in helmet design in the Imperium of the 41st millennium anyway. Also Primaris marines were vat grown over 10000 years to replace the old guard? Wat. WAT *SOLDIER kurt russell/jason scott lee "YOUR MEN ARE OBSOLETE" movie trigger warning*

Around mid 2017, I finally got the honour of working with an ol' favourite DA artist of mine, who is currently the Art Director on SEMC's Vainglory! 

Just got cleared to post this up, so I'll preface this by saying this is obviously not the Cherry-red paint scheme that was eventually decided upon, but I am super happy that practically all the other ideas leading up to this point made it into the final product I won't get too much into the details of the brief but we had settled on him being a younger, hotshot pilot Baron, with a nod to what I thought was an established John Lennon reference. That inspired me to go for cheeky hybrid Vietnam-era colours, along with a familiar Ion Cannon ingame strike decal that I tweaked ever so slightly...and repurposed into the peace symbol you see plastered against his side.

I'm quite proud of his transformation sequence that I had submitted to the team as I went through sufficient pains to technically not have him -completely- shatter his spine and still 'fly' in relative comfort... while hopefully maintaining a utilitarian and robust construction style to the armour, with hints of brutal weight savings where needed (the swing-out feet/shins double as vert stabilisers). (He initially was proposed with more humanoid 'high heel feet' but Carlo wanted the skids) Also note the thigh-mounted Rocket Launcher that fold out into stub wings during flight and hanging Porcupine Mortars mounted under the engine/tail boom assembly.

Both flight and ground profiles were worked to hint at feline features -which I had inquired about after looking at Baron's armour and lore. The weapon was probably worked over more than the overall suit lol, had to stick to familiar proportions while trying to make sense of it in when presented in the context of an aerial weapon during Heli mode.

Happy bush-jumping! That's all I really wanted to do in his Heli mode. Hope the fans out there enjoy this Baron variant!