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The Monolith class as it was drawn for me by request by :iconnukeloader: way back in the early-mid 2000's on the Classic Battletech forums. Nukeloader had a request thread and after talking to him he did two versions of the Monolith type Assault mech. The original model was powered by an internal combustion engine, and had a movement rate of 1/2 or 2/3. it had decent armor for a 100 ton assault mech and it's primary armament was a pair of AC/10's and four LRM-5 missile racks. I don't recall what the tertiary weapons are as the Heavy Metal Pro sheet for this mech has long since been lost but small lasers, machine guns and medium lasers are not out of the question.The above image however is artistic revision of the original as sent by NukeLoader, the original art had two exhaust pipes jutting out of the mech's shoulders and it's feet by accident were drawn too small for a mech of this one's stature so he re-drew it since he didn't like the original and the above is what resulted.

The upgraded 3062 model had a fusion engine, maximized armor CASE and all the goodies you would expect of the 3060 era. The AC/10's were upgraded to LBX models, there was enough tonnage to slap artemis targeting systems on the missile launchers, and pulse lasers replaced the machinates and small lasers. the cloven hoof style feet were the major artistic change.


Why is it posted here now? Well I found it in my archives from the Old Nexus RP and thought, 'hell maybe I can draw this with my current skills!' and so the redo-of the original is nearly complete and I wanted to post this first then tomorrow at some point post the re-do. The new Monolith will be 're-seen' as a Commonwealth mechanized walker  operating with the CDF mainly.

UPDATE:

The update is found below.

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madcomm's avatar
Fairly good job on emulating the original battletech art style!