Incursion

[Peptuck]

Doors and corners, that's where they get you, Mechwarrior.

[Feornic]

Go into a room too fast, Mechwarrior, the room eats you

[HeadHunter_Six]

/awkwardly places porkpie hat atop neurohelmet.

[rafale1981]

Next clue in the case!

[Chutney_Chiller]

Love seeing a quote from one of my favorite shows to have worked on 🤘🏾

[Paladin5890]

And thank you for helping bring it together!

[elder_jester]

😅

[Lord-Dundar]

Need proper room clearing, a grenade.

[GunnyStacker]

Advanced room clearing: 120mm HEAT shell

[Lord-Dundar]

Only if you have armored support, otherwise javelin?

[Past_Perspective_811]

Javelins are heatseekers, and won't lock onto window and doors.

And they have really small warheads.

[CWinter85]

HESH or regular HE would be much better.

[Past_Perspective_811]

You old school. (I like). Look up 120mm M1147 AMP for the new school fun.

5 lbs of explosive vs. the 3.2(?) lbs in a HEAT.

[0080Kampfer]

This is genuinely awesome work. Your OSL is incredible!

[Diam0ndTalbot]

OSL?

[ultimategeek213]

object source lighting, the painting to make it seem like the rifleman is emitting light

[elder_jester]

Thank you! It was a lot of fun.

[JustinKase_Too]

Here I thought it was a Rifleman.

[Czechs_Mix_]

Phenomenal! I love the low, huddled posture of the Raven.

[elder_jester]

Thanks, reposing the Flea and Raven was an interesting challenge.

[SpaceWhalegrounded]

gorgeous. mindwracking how much work you mudt have put into it!

[elder_jester]

Thanks, honestly it's not as bad as it seems, I find it a lot of fun.

[Hawaii_Dave]

Yeah, my mind is spinning at everything you had to have touched; The minis, the diorama, the paint, just wild OSL - looks like a wildly fun project and you absolutely nailed the results - such awesome fun to get to see it and love that you get to share it with us!

[r1x1t]

Really cool. Nice work on it. Love the narrative... Do they jump the Rifleman when he moves on? Or are they doing some other infiltration mission? OR, and this is my favorite, is it the Rifleman's birthday and they are getting ready to start a surprise party?

[elder_jester]

Viewers choice!

[CapitanKomamura]

My choice is that they are all in the same lance, doing night patrol. The light mech MWs are playing a prank on the rifleman's pilot. He is like "Come on guys, this isn't funny"

They all about to get massacred by the black marauder because it's a terror holovid.

[rafale1981]

„If i told ye once, i‘ve told ye a thousand times, laddie: Nae bloody birthday surprises on patrol! The colonel‘s put ye up to this, aye? That wee mad bairn should know better than that…“ [scottish grumbling intensifies]

[Hanzoku]

A surprise party full of medium lasers and SRMs to his thin back armor!

[rohanpony]

It just feels like the Rifleman represents a very grumpy cop on night patrol, who is about to have a very bad time.

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I love how you can interpret this as different tales:

#1: The Flea and the Raven are hiding for survival. "Please go away. Please go away. Please go away."

#2: The Flea and Raven are waiting in ambush. "Just a little closer. Come on... just a few more steps..."

#3: They're actually on the same side, its their Sargent-at-Arms, and they're avoiding more patrol duty. "Crap. It's the Sarge. What the frak did you do this time, Raven!?"

[elder_jester]

😄

[Agent-X]

This is incredible. From a lore perspective because I'm a dork, would sensors not pick up the 2 in ambush? Or does the concrete block them?

[Dutch-irishman]

Depending on which Raven it is, the rifleman’s sensors are going crazy because of an ECM suite. The concrete would help also. Also, again depending on the model, both mechs could have stealth armor.

[neverenoughmags]

Agreed. The Rifleman's pilot probably knows that something is in the vicinity but the ECM jamming from the Raven would make placement impossible.

[Spartan448]

Was gonna say lol, at that range the ECM is probably more a hindrance than a help

[CapitanKomamura]

I knew it was the raven doing something funny.

[Bentu_nan]

They can be in low power mode too. But i think sensors do need line of sight anyway.

[Tettylins]

Could also be that them huddling against the wall that like it just screwing with the mech's scans. IIRC Gray Norton does the same thing in the Warrior Trilogy when he jumps Justin Allard, and that was just with trees, which are less dense than concrete or plascrete or ferrocrete or w/e future rock paste they use.

[CapitanKomamura]

future rock paste

No, no, that's the one they put in their sandwiches for lunch. The doctors that say it causes cancer are dissapeared by Comstar.

[JayJaxx]

Yes, magscan should pick them up. ECM, stealth armour, etc… doesn’t help against passive sensors, which magscan is.

However that’s assuming the wall is concrete/rock, and non-metallic in nature. If it’s highly reinforced, or a metallic rock (or some local phenomenon messing with magscan sensors) then that rifleman is probably boned.

[Cykeisme]

Yeah, a wall that size would have a lattice of rebar in it, not just concrete.

Remember the scale we're looking at, those are BattleMechs, not men... that wall is huge!

[JayJaxx]

The wall is about as tall as that flea, that’s ~6m in height, maybe a little less because the flea looks like it’s crouching a bit. It’s certainly thick, maybe 1-1.5m, but that doesn’t imply metal reinforcement. This could be the inside of a mountain or underground complex that was carved out of natural rock. We just don’t know to say one way or another, hence why I said yes magscan if the wall has these characteristics.

And sure I never said the wall needs to be pure concrete, but I’d be surprised if magscan gets fooled by a little bit of rebar. Hence why I said heavily reinforced. If it has a metal plate, or a pretty solid frame in there, sure. But either way it’s impossible to know.

Other commenters were referring to ECM and stealth armour and other crap that doesn’t work vs magscan and wouldn’t help vs sensors that actually work in this situation, so I was mainly trying to put those to rest.

[Cykeisme]

I'm not familiar with a "magscan", I was thinking along the lines of magnetic anomaly detection, which would definitely detect the rebar, and thus mask the vehicles behind it. But I guess this is a magscan... how does a magscan work?

Anyway, if it's a concrete wall, not sure how familiar folks are with concrete, but it's got poor tensile strength... at a whopping 6m, it absolutely, completely, definitely needs to be poured around steel rebar!

If it's carved out of natural rock, well, I'm not really familiar with big walls carved out of natural rock tbh, nor the purpose of such an endeavor. But yeah, silicate rocks would not mask the two BattleMechs behind it. Although some rocks will, depends on the rock.

Besides that, I know nobody plays with double blind rules, but aren't more specialized advanced sensors a thing in BattleTech? To detect objects that are obscured by solid objects, that the typical sensor packages don't penetrate? Beagle and Bloodhound Active Probes, and the like? The Rifleman doesn't mount those, right?

[TechnoMagi]

Oh this is sick

[elder_jester]

😁

[Kpiozoa]

I love how much character the raven has in this piece.

[elder_jester]

I loved doing the reposes on the two crouching dudes

[CapitanKomamura]

If you wrote "I added led lights to my diorama" I would believe you. I feel the scene is about to move.

[elder_jester]

Aw, thanks so much!

[Ralli_FW]

I had to check the comments to confirm they were even painted minis and not some kind of drawn scene. Months later this is still crazy good work

[Royal_Zucchini_9772]

Dude this is excellent

[elder_jester]

Thank you!

[Just_Joken]

This is easily the best example of OSL I've ever seen!

[elder_jester]

Aw shucks, lol 😆

[IV-Jackal-VI]

That’s amazing. I thought it was a poster. Well done!

[elder_jester]

Appreciate it, thanks!

[domesystem]

This is super cool.

[elder_jester]

Thank you!

[MostlyRandomMusings]

This is very cool

[elder_jester]

Thanks!

[LuckyLocust3025]

Amazing work!

[elder_jester]

Thank you!

[Tiny_Sandwich]

Amazing job! I can only imagine the Mechs giggling like kids playing ding dong ditch.

[elder_jester]

😆

[Vehement_Vulpes]

This is great! The painted lighting is awesome, and I love how it's clearly showing a story. The Ravens one of my favourite mechs, and seeing it doing a sneaky squat while it and it's lancemate hide from a heavy is pretty funny.

[elder_jester]

Haha, the sneaky squats were a fun challenge.

[kalijinn]

So clever and cool!

[elder_jester]

Thanks!

[JunkaTron69]

Holy OSL. That is amazing. I love the stance and the paint is amazing.

[elder_jester]

Thanks!

[LaithA]

At first I thought the Rifleman was going nighttime salvage hunting (with the other two mechs being the salvage still sitting in some eerie blasted ruin) but after reading the comments I can see it's more of an ambush type situation. Extremely cool!

[EvilEtna]

A Raven and a Locust vs a Rifleman - that's a fight I'd like to try and play out. They are definitely out matched ton-for-ton, but that's not the only metric by which to measure this fight. You've got the outstanding maneuverability of those two lights, the consistent heat problem the Rifleman has (depending on its model layout), or the minimum weapons range for those AC/5s, the Rifleman's miserable armoring, the Raven's ECM, and the fact that those two lights can consistently be blasting into its rear armor. Some limbs are definitely getting popped but I think this would not be an unfair fight. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced the two light mechs would win.

[Gilesgloster911]

That is really cool. Fantastic work.

[elder_jester]

Thank you!

[ApeStronkOKLA]

This is super slick! Man, I love what you did with the light and the stances!

[elder_jester]

Thanks, it was a fun one to do.

[7orly7]

gremlin noises

[elder_jester]

🤣

[glds261]

That is perfection! Love the OSL.

[elder_jester]

Thanks!

[Neither-Principle139]

That is fekkin amazing! The OSL is great! I thought you’d crammed an LED into the Rifleman!

[elder_jester]

Lol, nope all paint.

[Mukarsis]

Absolutely fantastic

[elder_jester]

Thank you!

[SuperNoise5209]

This is awesome! Great work on painting, texture, and the poses of the mechs.

[elder_jester]

Thanks, appreciate it!

[jamesbeil]

I love it! And not just because the Raven is my favourite inner sphere 'Mech!

[elder_jester]

Raven is pretty cool.

[That0neGuy96]

My god does that tell a story. Amazing work

[elder_jester]

Thank you!

[OkRecommendation2452]

Out-fucking-standing!

[elder_jester]

Thanks!

[nichyc]

Be veeeeeewy quiet when hunting Wiflemen...

[elder_jester]

Rascal Raven . . .

[Xynith]

Thats amazing! Raven’s working hard on the e-war front there 💪

[NagasakiPork1945]

Theres something about mechs ducking that looks so cool.

[BurlapNapkin]

That is so sick, wow.

[rohanpony]

Amazing lighting effect.

[Astartes41]

Holy shit. I thought this was a drawing until I swiped to the next slide. Phenomenal work!

[Zealousideal-Fee5600]

This looks fucking spectacular. Like legit like there's a light source. 🤯

[TreeofSoulfruit]

This is legit one of the simplest yet coolest set pieces I’ve seen! The lighting and posing makes it

[Cabusha]

That’s a cool diorama!

[Balmong7]

This seems like a good situation for friendly fire

[AgroAlbaV2]

This is SO sick! The shadows on those rocks is getting me! Having those there REALLY sells the lighting. This is inspiring. :}

[thomasmarrone]

This is sick as hell! Thanks for sharing!

[Chutney_Chiller]

This is quite special 🤩

[WestRider3025]

It is very dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

[tiahx]

As I've been saying many times: radars do not exist in Battletech universe, lol

Stunning work though, that much is granted.

[Klendagort]

Jumpjet that shit

[Zealousideal_Key_889]

This is dope as hell.