...of my PC:RS mechs & thought I'd post them. This was my first WWG purchase & while I didn't have space, time, or fellow gamers to do a scenery build, I had a lot of fun making mechs! I did Mechwarrior style stuff, and I had to hack & bash some body pieces, and invent at least one (the bird foot on the Vulture). They're all multicolored because I printed one copy of the whole PC:RS set & just used what I had. Anyway:

Tank (not modeled on any specific MW tank, just had fun with it)



Strider (hunkered down as if behind a building)



Thor



Marauder



Vulture - the whole torso of this is a bash, and the feet are scratch built.

Why do I suddenly want to buy PC: Red Sector Anyway, good work uncre8d1!!

Great pics! Nice background books too.

Does my heart good to see the old mechs being used in the free-form, DIY, anything goes format they were intended for!

Talae: The binders are printouts of some of the Baen free CD books (I really liked the Posleen War, Empire of Man, & Council War series).

CapnG: Glad you like it! Working with your stuff really got me excited about the possibilities of this strange world of 'kit-bashing,' and that got me involved in the forum here!

Sounds interesting...

This is an independent repository of all the free Baen CD ISOs. Free to download, OK'd by Baen.
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

Some advice, though: bookmark it & space out your downloads - I think this site is run by a volunteer & we don't want to bomb his bandwidth.

Thanks for the link. (and will do on the spacing it out. I am currently backlogged on my reading anyway).

How exactly does one read one of those books? I downloaded one, extracted it, and all that came up was piles of different folders with piles of different file types So yeah, how do I read / print the thing - is there a pdf somewhere?

ISO files: unzip the ISO file and either mount the image with Daemon Tools or burn it to a CD with ISO Recorder (free)

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm


'CD.zip' files: Unzip the files to their own folder, then go into the folder & open 'index.html.' You can use that to navigate through the different books - though some of the discs have extra books that got thrown in at the last minute and you can find those just by browsing thru the unzipped files.


To find your best format, use this handy chart!

If you have / you can read the ____ files
---------------------------------------------
MS Word or equivalent / doc OR rtf
Blackberry OR Kindle OR Palm / mobi
Sony Reader / lrf
Microsoft reader / lit
Just a PC / html

I should point out that the newer discs all have reader software right on the disc so you can read any of the formats. Try a couple of them, and find your favorite. I like the Kindle reader myself.

Cool. Thanks man. You rawk.

I should start reading on my Blackberry.

Yeah I have a few dozen books from them on my phone. Html version works great.


You don't need the reader. When you open the folder and see a list of files look at the file name endings.


*****__toc.html = table of contents
*****__1.html = chapter 1
*****__2.html = chapter 2
etc.

Additionally open any chapter and the top right corner has links, back, next, and contents (toc).

I believe that's what he was saying ^
So what are the books about? Science fiction?

Most are scifi, or military scifi.

A few fantasy too.

Cool, I've been looking for some sci fi reads