Continuing to rework Drifter. As i've been working on the outline i've been making changes to the visual look.
Lot's of character details added here. The armor has suffered some hefty damage in places. His wrist blades are tying into a small power pack on his upper arm. Some kind of damage damaged the power supply to the mechanism.
The wrist launcher on the left hand now fires P2 style darts instead of the net. (I excised the net, no need for it.)
Finalized the Frag gun. I think it's going to look bad ass. If you look closely you can see it has it's own set of triple laser sighting on the top of the barrel.
The thing mid right is the tracking device. In it's deploy state it fires four harpoons into the hull of it's target and ratchet's itself tight to the hull. It is then programmed to emit a very powerful pulse beacon that Predators can easily track.
Those ornamental looking guys in the lower right are the new shrappers. The "bottom' blinks when they're armed. Designed to be huffed like a grenade. To an unsuspecting eye they don't look like anything more than ornamentation, but what they unleash is pretty brutal.
On the mask. I really wanted to keep the Jungle Hunter mask look intact, but I decided to infuse a bit of the "Narin" style mask and the ridge detailing of the original "Gort" mask.
I replaced the claw marks on his right arm with a far nastier looking acid burn. Small detail there is that a lot of his quills in that area are permanently gone.
The shin and chest pieces are actually taken from the "Rastafarian" concept art that ultimately inspired the final look of the Predator. My original idea for Drifter, before I started this thread, was that he was very much a cut down, back to basics, Predator. This, along with him having the cross draw frag gun, is why I took off the hip armor on the left leg.
Some people might question the logic of having less armor against an opponent that bleeds acid, but the prevailing wisdom, in my take, at least for some of the Predator's hunting the alien, is that you are better off being light weight and quick to react, then you are to try and bulk up in armor.
Rough color test on ol' Drifter.