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Originally Posted by FireHorse
I would agree that many of them look a bit stupid — and more to the point, implausible — but some of them aren't so bad. For example, I've always been somewhat fond of the type with the "backwards" legs, such as the Vulture, Marauder, and Mad Cat. (If you're only putting two legs on something that heavy, then at least "backwards" legs seem marginally more believable than "forwards.")
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A lot of them are just hideous designs. FASA had a lot of 'barely even a concept sketch' level art going on in those tech manuals. I gather a lot of it came from a self taught draughtsman under a time constraint doing the best he could. By the time FASA had money for an expanded art budget that was more than just telling some poor guy "we need three paintings and the rest is pen and ink stuff that you do, sorry" their fans had already accepted the scrawly "plans" look with often visible traces of erased lines as a house style.