So, having followed  Ratbat for a couple of months and being inspired by some of her living machine art, I decided that I'd give one of my favorite tanks ever a living machine makeover. Granted, this tank doesn't actually exist, but you can purchase really cool resin models of it if you want.

Meet Hamada (at least that's what I'm calling him for now). He's a Ke-Ho ironclad/light tank from the world of Dystopian Wars, which is a tabletop wargame me and some friends have gotten into recently. Now, when I say "light tank", I mean that despite being one of the smallest tanks in the entire game, he's still as large as a small house, and probably weighs well over 100 tons. He's a cranky, older-model Ke-Ho that serves within the armed forces of the Empire of the Blazing Sun (Dystopian War's version of 1870's Japan), and tends to get upset with all of these fancy-smanchy walkers that all the cool vehicle crews are driving these days. Still, it's hard to actually get him enraged, so he's usually just steamed at the rest of the world (Ha! Get it? Steamed? Be-because he's steam-powered? Eh? Eh?), and if you keep shoveling Sturginium-laced coal into his boiler he'll do what he's told.

Sadly, since Dystopian Wars is a fairly recent addition to the world of wargaming (about 5 years old, I think), the lore for the series is pretty poor, even though the array of models and factions for the game are massive, so I don't have much official data on how he operates. I do know that his main gun is some kind of rocket howitzer rather than a conventional cannon, and the spherical machinegun turrets on his sides can be swapped out for flamethrower turrets if the need arises, but I would LOVE more technical details about all the machines of Dystopian Wars. In game terms, he's one of the smallest units in Dystopian Wars (which, considering the massive scale of the other units in the game, essentially makes him cannon fodder), but he is statted at having more firepower than other, comparable tanks of other nations; guess those rockets pack a punch.

I doubt Hamada is going to be my only entry in this subject, as there are plenty of other high-quality, small vehicles from other nations that could easily be re-interpreted to have adorable, little, cyclopean eyes on them. Plus, I'm not sure if this is going to be Hamada's final color scheme; I might post alternate schemes for him at a later date, along with any buddies I decide to give him. This was just a fun little project I worked on while working as a clerk at school this week; hopefully I can use future shifts to add more content to my gallery.

Maybe someday I'll get around to drawing an actual furry. Maybe.