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Early Concept: "The Outlanders".



This is one of the earliest pictures I drew, over a year and a half ago, of the WasteLanders. During it's early development, is went through three names, "The Outsiders", "The Outlanders", and "The Wastelands".

The is a drawing of the "Outlanders", the first in carnation of the WasteLanders, crudely drawn by me. Overtime, my art skill grew and they changed. After hearning that the name "The Outlanders" had been taken already, I changed it to "The WasteLanders" after a 5 month haitus.

-Tansho S.E.

I will be posting my sketches for Wastelanders in a few weeks - once I get enough time to actually draw

This is concept of what the cover of the WasteLanders manga will (or hopefully will) look like. I based some ideas off the Tokyopop manga design, but I'm really looking to any publisher at the moment.



-Tansho S.E.

WasteLander Character Art: Asterisk (Later Version)


After months of revising storyline elements and character development, I went back to my orignal drawing of Asterisk and I wondered how to revise it.

Looking at some other concept images, I re-drew him, lengthening his hair, squaring off his jaw a bit to show his age, adding his cybe armor (though at this point it's still a concept image), and changing the look of the BRX-78G Repeater Beam Rifle. I still omitted his hat, but i also omitted colloring anything in.

It's still an early version, but I enjoy how this one came out.

-Tansho S.E.

Weaponry Art: BRX-178G Repeating Beam Rifle



This is the model BRX-178G Repeating Beam Rifle. The lever-action design is reminiscent of the old western Winchester rifles. It's mechanism is simple: after being loaded with a 10 shot, high-energy battery shell, the lever is cocked and the rifle is ready to fire once. c**k the lever again, and you can fire another round, and so on. While the technique may be a bit crude for such a high-tech design, portable beam weapons were still in their prototype phase.

This design was made in limited production, then discarded for the more efficient "XBR-180A" long-range rifle. However, the few BRX type models still in existence were assigned to special forces and sniper squadrons, as the mounted scope that was standard for the design was very versatile. It included 8x, 16x, 32x, and 64x zoom, along with night vision, FLIR, and thermal imaging.

One of these weapons made it into the hands of the Ka'atori bounty hunter, Asterisk, and remains his weapon of choice.

-Tansho S.E.

WasteLanders Weapons Art: Colt 2332 .50 Caliber AP Revolver



Colt, a long surviving Pistol and Revolver maker for over 2 centuries, started to run down on business during the mid 2300's. Determined to prevent bankruptcy and loss of buisness, Colt revolutionized it's "old-style" pistols and developed more sophisticated and technologically advanced. The new colt line of pistols, called the 2330 series, was mildly successful and allowed to keep the company in buisness.

In 2332, Colt made a special, limited production Revolver for die hard handgun users and Collectors. It chambered a .50 cal. armor piercing round, and can be fitted with incendiary, explosive, or standard round. Called a "magnum" by old time revolver fans, the nickname stuck despite it's classification as a military-class Revolver. It comes standard with full-metal rounds (unless refitted) and an electronic firing mechanism. Pioneered in the early 21st Century, and made popular in the 22nd by the introduction of portable "rail guns", an electronic firing mechanism allowed a bullet to be fired a nearly 2 and 1 fourth times faster than stardard gunpowder packed bullets. Also, the "slug" round can be made into pure metal called "full-metal" rounds, coined from the old copper "full-metal jacket" rounds.

One of these rare, hard to find, and very powerful Revolvers landed in the hands of the Ka'atori bounty hunter Jemini, and remains his sidearm of choice.


-Tansho S.E.