Heavy Gear Hunter Prop

A couple more new pictures of the full sized Hunter prop appeared on Facebook. Low res, but, myself, Susan, and Jason Frazier we managed to clean and upscale the images with Photoshop and upscalers.

The first new picture.

And the second new picture, taken from a different angle, was burnt out and this is the best I could do to punch it up.

Then, as an experiment, I took the old triple montage shot from before, and split it into three separate pictures. 

Tweaking each shot to bring out the details.

Then Jason Frazier sent me one of the pictures that he had improved using AI, seen below, which extended the dynamic range of the shot.

 

And finally, I ran this last one through an upscaler, which made it much better than it looked before. 

So, I hope all the Heavy Gear fans enjoy these.

Super Small Heavy Gear Pics

Here are the photos I've found of the Heavy Gear Hunter.

 

If anyone has larger pictures, let me know.

Heavy Gear Japan

 

Heavy Gear is big in Japan, which is like selling coal to Newcastle, given that Dream Pod 9s game was inspired by the VOTOMS show. Though modern Japanese mecha were  arguably inspired by Heinlein's Starship Troopers. And you know what, it's all good.

People who get uptight over cultural appropriation forget that cultural appropriation has led to such wonderful things like mecha, and of course the great British Indian curry tradition of Chicken Tikka Masala.

Anyway, I found this poster in Japanese for the game and just had to share. It's good to see that there's a growing community of modellers and players over there too.