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More mechs!

The Quickdraw! Often maligned, but evidently a fair sight better than most people give it credit for. I still think rear-mounted weapons are... not the best, especially on a 5/8 heavy that should be up in your face, but this guy gets decently better down the line, and comes in C3 flavors too.

The Wolverine WVR-7K. It's a Wolverine 6K, but BETTER. Double the missiles, and all the lasers are pulses for that sweet sweet accuracy, AND keeps the standard jump jets. Did this guy in Arkab Legion getup, and if you're interested in that, Camo Specs Online has a wonderful tutorial that I follow. Also, the base was my first attempt at using Crackle paint, and I love the way it turned out.

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Ope, here we go again.

The Battlemaster! Poster child of the A Game of Armored Combat box set, this guy has been in my to-do pile for at least a year, but that Davion Guards scheme is just so satisfying to do.

The keen-eyed may notice that it's not quite 1-to-1 with the original plastic. Despite the longstanding aesthetic tradition of giving mechs huge pistol-like armatures for their weapons, I remain a fan of the integrated approach. So... I very carefully carved the gun off of the fist, chopped off most of the pistol structure, and kitbashed it with some Strato Minis bits I had laying around to give it the vibe of the MWO Battlemaster. That was the easy part. The real flex, however, was carving away the remnants of the gun on the fist -- which is one solid plastic piece -- and etching out the panels and finger lines to match the opposite fist. Also I gave it better looking machine guns and and IWM launcher plate.

Also, Army Painter Highlord Blue speedpaint is top-tier for Davion Guards basecoat. Fuck that canopy, though. Canopy jeweling is a skill that as of yet escapes me, but the crystal acrylic technique came through on this one, especially since gravity helped pool it at the lower edges and give it a soft blending effect.

Ope, what's that? A non-canon mech? The Roughneck is a personal favorite of mine. Technically apocryphal due to being an invention by PGI for Mechwarrior Online, much like the Corsair and Sun Spider, I'm a dead sucker for the aesthetic of industrial machines refurbished into military equipment. Ellen Ripley, eat your heart out.

Check that base, too. Zip ties, window screen, toothpicks, and cardstock.

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You will bring glory and honor to House Kurita, samurai.

alright, I feel motivated

Here's a lance(ish) of Ryuken-Hachi, from the Draconis Combine

i've mostly just been filling this force out with the few drac-specific minis I have

(Catapult K2, Gladiator, Hitotsume Kozo, No-Dachi, and the Wolverine 8K bcuz it's ugly)

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Oh hey it's MECH MONDAY

Have a scaled up Locust (LCT-1M) with Catgirl pilot

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I saw these tweets somewhere a while ago and, I think about them whenever landing a charged rail rifle shot on a moving target or skimming under enemy fire to land a kick to their mech makes my heart-rate go up a little more than it should.

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he sure seems polite and nice. i'll fulfill any requests he has ^_^

i don't know anything about lancer but it sounds like if battletech and destiny made sweet sweet love and then totally forgot about each other, from what i've heard

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i have a friend who's running it and there's apparently an AI that can turn back time or something? might've been custom lore though

i don't know anything about lancer but it sounds like if battletech and destiny made sweet sweet love and then totally forgot about each other, from what i've heard

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Another mech for my Capellans, this time a Raven! Slightly regretting the scheme I went with for these guys- it's a bit of a chore to paint- but it'll look sick once the whole company is finished.

No worries about the Pride Raven, it still rides, I just got a duplicate from a salvage box

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More mechs!

The Quickdraw! Often maligned, but evidently a fair sight better than most people give it credit for. I still think rear-mounted weapons are... not the best, especially on a 5/8 heavy that should be up in your face, but this guy gets decently better down the line, and comes in C3 flavors too.

The Wolverine WVR-7K. It's a Wolverine 6K, but BETTER. Double the missiles, and all the lasers are pulses for that sweet sweet accuracy, AND keeps the standard jump jets. Did this guy in Arkab Legion getup, and if you're interested in that, Camo Specs Online has a wonderful tutorial that I follow. Also, the base was my first attempt at using Crackle paint, and I love the way it turned out.

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they're not that bad. sacrifice crit space and torso twisting for stability and hull down, basically

OK, yesterday we chose a weight class, today we're choosing how many legs the Tumblr-designed mech has

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Painted up a Victor for Battletech as a Com Guard from Comstar. Your favorite encouragement to pay your space phone bill! Painting white was slightly terrifying but I love how it shows off the weathering when it's done.

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Mech Monday should be a thing

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MECH MONDAY: the CATAPULT K2

Mech Monday should be a thing

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Shamelessly stealing an idea from Reddit but we've got a little more than a month left in the year, which is the perfect ammount of time to get Tumblr to design a mech. We'll start things off easy:

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Ah, the Cataphract, what happens when you throw a big pile of scraps and production spares at a bunch of engineers with no resources and too many problems and tell them to make it work. In fairness to the Capellans, they did somehow manage to make a pretty decent design by stuffing a Marauder, Shadow Hawk, and Phoenix Hawk in a blender with whatever else was on hand on Tikanov at the time. Shame the Davions stole the production facility when they came a-knocking

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So, I've started painting minis...

First to most recent, left to right. The Blackjack on the right is where I finally heard about thinning my paints.

Still want to spruce up the bases. I feel like I'm making progress, little by little. Any tips would be welcome!