Slave chassis from Steel Sentinels.



Aquila chassis from Steel Sentinels.

Resemblence, I think so.

It's quite possible that they were for a different game. However It might not be Stellar Dawn. If you look in the gallery at MSW you will see concept art confirmed as 'not for mechscape'.

Ye I did say that these were old unofficial concept art that are not gonna be used in the game. But the pictures may have been thrown into Steel Sentinels for ideas.

He wasn't talking about these for Mechscape. He was pointing out that this is concept art from Steel Sentinels.

And I'm pretty sure he's right, these look exactly like the slave and aquilla.

The Slave is a generic Walker Styled Mecha... I wouldn't call that picture a concept for S.S. I think rather, the image was just a freehand Mech Drawing.
And the second one, I don't think it is for the Aquila... I also think it could be a freehand.

Here are some concepts that were given to Orbmore. All credit goes to them
http://orbmore.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1027

The first image is most likely a rendition of the 'Mad Cat' or 'Timber Wolf' (depending on which source book/pc game you are reading/playing) from the BattleTech game system.


http://miotd.com/images/20070527.jpg

Considering the date when many of these drawings were made and the fact that most of his other artwork was from Warhammer etc I doubt they were for Steel Sentinels. Thomas W doesn't mention FunOrb in his CV and hasn't worked for Jagex since 2007. There might be a resemblance but saying that most robots look robotic.

It appears there has been a misunderstanding, I never meant that the concept art were meant for Steel Sentinels, what I meant was that these concept art were for MechScape in the beginning as you know, but were rejected and unofficial, but what I'm saying is, 3 years later, Jagex climbed into the MechScape concept art archives to search for designs for their upcoming FunOrb game Steel Sentinels, so the Slave and Aquila sentinels may have received their design from these old MechScape concept arts.

And...

I still go with those were free hand.