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A fun project I took on after I realized I didn't have the shelf space for all the gunpla I would like. I'll just make em battletech scale instead. Here's my 6 standard Zaku ii I printed n painted

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Helldivers 2 is pretty great. I'm a really big fan of (Verhoevan) Starship Troopers, and I feel like I could write a whole essay about how "seen" I feel with this game. I do love that this game has resurrected the old discourse about the film, some things never change

My friend got me the game after he found out I hadn't been on it yet, declaring it "made for me" and "wtf are you doing", and yeah he's right. Thanks Gman

Yada Yada for Democracy, feet first into hell, c'mon you apes, all that jazz

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Kitbashed this Everest together for Lancer a while ago, and having recently played through Titanfall 2 again, decided on the basic BT look after I couldn't decide how to paint him

Tried to mimic the official Everest design I've seen floating around, but I'm partial to the blocky style head so I stole that from a Battletech Highlander

Actually a lot is from Battletech, the legs are an Assassin and the Torso is a Black Knight. I love the Vladof guns from Borderlands so I found one of those for my assault rifle, and the arms are from the free mech set Filamentio released. I think that's most of it...

Oh shoutout to Death Ray Designs for their shark mouth nose art and industrial decals, they're great

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Brain Bugs?? Frankly, I find the idea of a Bug that thinks, Offensive!

My first 3 Zoanthropes, hopefully I get to finish a whole army before the edition changes again on me

I know the bases aren't super done up, but I wanted them dulled down to make the bugs pop more

I'm thinking Neurolictor next, but tall women make me nervous so maybe the Maleceptors

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I've been sick and really out of it, and felt possessed to print out some classic statues. I asked my partner for one to start with, and they chose Winged Victory of Samothrace

I love that museums and independent organizations just go around using high quality scanners to help make history more accessible, even in small ways like this. I'll likely never visit the Louvre, or Greece if they ever get it back, but I can print my own

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Felt the itch to contribute to the Great Devourer and finally get my paint scheme down. Color shifted the classic coconut crab carapace catgutt popularized, and did up the underside to my approximation of a blue crab

Not sure if the effect evokes the crustacean vibe I wanted, but I think it turned out pretty nice either way

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"Don't talk to me or my son ever again"

I ran into a creative wall painting my player character for Lancer, so I decided to take a break and revisit gunpla. I love the Zaku, and I'm glad I did research on all the different available kits before buying a couple. This is the High Grade kit for Chars Zaku ii from the Origin movies, which has a much more detailed chassis than previous High Grades.

Oh, I also 3D printed a new eye ring, since the one you get is just flat and you slap a sticker on it, lame.

I have the Real Grade Chars Zaku ii as well, which I'll be painting in his colors, so for this one I went with the classic green. This was fun and relaxing, and much easier than my first attempt at gunpla

I went ahead and did up the heat hawk as well for some posing fun. The kit also comes with the bazooka and the huge anti ship rifle, but I intended this to be a pretty bog standard grunt so I'm saving the extra kit for Chars

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T-34 was promised, T-34 is delivered

I'm not sure I love the snow effect on the armor, but uh, it's not gonna come off soo

I keep throwing out lists I'll never play, but I'm fond of a 2 formation list for the double bubble of rerolls v4 flames of war gives you, so this will probably be a member of a standard T-34 battalion accompanying my hero rifle battalion

I've got some KV-1's too, but I think the sheer point efficacy of field guns in formation with the hero rifles is gonna have to work, since the KVs were just trundling along with the infantry anyways so the T-34s can get their zoomies out

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Ork Warboss completed!

I think I've only got 2 Christmas projects left, let's see if I finish in time

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My partner's little brothers are also into Warhammer, so I decided to make them each a leader for their favorite factions for Christmas

The base is one of the fancy hero bases GW made a while back, glad to finally have found a use for this one

I do love Tau, but I'd want to do so many weird auxiliaries I'd forget all about the battlesuits

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Alright I implied Maleceptors next but the Neurolictor called to me. What do we think of Hive Fleet Callinectes for the name?

This one's the actual GW model, since I'm not a fan of what I was able to find for free online, and my FLGS had one at a good price. Base is still a print tho

I do like these new tyranid sculpts, I should probably get the codex eventually... maybe once I hit 1k painted

Okay now actually on to the Maleceptors. Maybe. Unless I get distracted and do something else instead

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Finished up my Ronin NPC for Lancer. These things are fun; shoot at it? It bounces back at you jedi style. Melee? It's built for that. It doesn't even have bad base stats, and the optional systems aren't hugely complicated, which is important for people like myself who can't remember things

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So I've spent the last month or so getting a little too into Lancer, I could rant about how amazing it is but just go check it out if you're not familiar. Anyways I'm making some of the NPC mechs, mainly out of free 3d print files I found online. Here's my first Assault mech, the generic shooty one

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Ah, finally done. A satisfying project, I'll definitely be doing more in the future. Given the watch list I'm using, it's gonna be a while before I even watch Iron Blooded Orphans, I'm still on the One Year War side stories. Gundam Flauros or Ryusei-Go

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It's been a week so I figured I'd have a Work in Progress post for my own player character for Lancer. Here's my take on a Chomolumga, the tech savvy variant of the Everest. We're kitted out with two assault rifles for that lovely Reliable, and finishing it with a light Nexus for the matching range. I've also given it manipulator arms to type away on keyboards and other nerdy things without compromising pilot safety.

Basically I took a ton of 3d assets and mashed and posed them in a terrible 3d modeler program. Some of the pieces I remember are Battletech Black Knight torso and Assassin legs, Armored core heads someone made for Tau suits, parts from the free mech package Filamentio made (great stuff), and bits from the Modular Mech campaign on myminifactory. Since not all the parts are free, I wouldn't be able to distribute this one if people wanted it, sadly.

This guys role will mainly be to play support, speccing into Swallowtail to support my partners rip and tear Blackbeard build. I've essentially just laid down the basecoat to get an idea of color placement

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Finally wrapping up encounter 1 mechs for our Lancer intro: the Pyro. I love the Firestarter from Battletech, so flamethrowers on mechs is a big win for me. I wanted to emphasize the dangerousness and explosiveitude of carrying around enough flamethrower fuel to run a mech sized one so I went with industrial warning decals. This one ain't a free model, it's from Papsikels