I'm John Bear Ross (‘JBR’ if you’re into the whole brevity thing), and I'm a digital sculptor and science fiction writer who has been in the tabletop industry for over 20 years.
Rebel, Reaper, Wizkids, Critical Mass Games, and MERCS are among my past clients, along with many other excellent companies.
A born bot-head from the days of Transformers, Tranzor Z (Mazinger), and Robotech (Macross), my unhinged desire to make mechs, mecha, and armor pervades everything I do creatively.
I have a Patreon at Patreon.com/johnbearross and offer a number of free and paid mech and knight parts on Cults3D.
Project Gigante
The citizens of Renner's World were the frequent targets of heavy interdimensional kaiju and megafauna attacks. These sudden assaults through the worldgates would leave thousands dead and entire city habitat blocks flattened. Something more than conventional means was needed to fight these predatory menaces.
Putting their advanced technology to work, they developed large mobile platforms to counter the hulking biological menaces. Project Gigante formed to become a heavy fire support unit, able to bring the fight to the invaders while staying out of reach of their horrific claws, tentacles, and teeth. Its hulking chassis packs not one or two, but four devastating Dual Phase Particle Laser (DPPL) cannons, weapons usually reserved for Goliath Mobile Fortresses or fixed worldgate defense turrets. Supplemental weaponry is provided in the form of twin conventional laser cannons and a choice of direct or indirect fire missiles. These help screen against smaller threats, such as juvenile kaiju in hunting packs or hordes of parasites than can overwhelm the Gigante in close quarters.
Some Gigante pilots have taken to mounting racks of claymore explosives on their mechs' lower legs to deal with this threat, but the Renner Defense League is contemplating adapting the Project Raptor data core designs to make a local variant, one which is tailor-made to deal with lesser threats while the Gigante concentrates on burning quadruple holes into and through charred kaiju flesh.


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Kalebb Chayeski
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