Penetrator Concept Sketch (Patreon)

Here's another design that was jumped on me, and fairly welcome.
While me and my crew sometimes get a bit of input on the designs we're assigned, often it's a bit too far into the selection process to push around too many picks. So something I've been meaning to put together is a big ranked list of mechs our guys want to work on and feel the community would want to see. I final got that made and everyone's choices in so that the CGL brass can reference it each time they're brainstorming products to make sure they're not forgetting any obvious popular picks.
We all have our favorite mechs, and a lot of us (and you) can generally agree on what's popular, but in the moment it can be hard to remember all of them when it's important.

And so, not long after, the Penetrator was requested from the list, and it was nice to know it helped.
Who else has this mech high up on their "want it" list for a fresh look?

I'm not personally a huge fan of it, but I've seen it on the table before and many people speak fondly of it, so I know there's demand. There's no doubt its weapons load is nice. There's also no doubt it looks super funky haha.

I started with Bishop's Penetrator fanart design as a basis along with a few other sources and went from there.
I wanted to maintain the simple torso silhouette while making the involved shapes more interesting than they've been before. Fixing the legs was also a no brainer, and while Matt Plog's Penetrator art generally improved upon the original I found reincorporating the originals shin curves helped immensely.

Wub wub wub.