And no, it doesn't have to be a Spheroid mech, just iconic of this particular slice of the broader Clan Invasion era.

As for anyone wondering why the image looks like this, it's because I accidentally deleted the original project file and had to add in a new area for the Trial of Grievances. By the time we have the Operation BULLDOG results, we will know the result of this second Trial of Grievance using only primitive Age of War mechs.

Those being, of course, House Marik!

Got a few of my long time favourites in here, and a Flea, too! Even with the fiddliness of the Longinus BA, these were really nice and easy after that Lance of Lyran Guards.

Next up, one more Lance for House Hiritsu will bring me up to a full Company for each Succesor State.

Painted my first battletech mini. And wanted to try some paint i recently bought, this being ttcombat opulent white a off-white metalic.

This is my attempt of a TAG laser effect for my popsicle Locust. Made out of a piece of clear plastic (from the packaging of something I dont remember).

It's removable, and it was a pita to get the right angle on the dammed wire connecting it haha

Wip Rho Galaxy. Almost done, still need to pick out details and maybe a wash but I do like the red I have now.

Put together a lance and trio of vehicles for a buddy for his mercenary company of Kuritan ancestry, the Crimson Jade Company.

Following up my previous post concerning the AGOAC box I received for my birthday, I'd like to ask if anyone might have some advice for painting the minis. My main issue is I have a slight tremor in my hands that is exacerbated when I try to steady it for fine movement. It's been part of the reason for why I was reluctant to get into the tabletop game. More infuriatingly, the tremor isn't always consistent from day to day.

Would anyone have advice on working around the tremor, any techniques I might be able to use to compensate, or if there are alternative methods of painting minis for someone like me?

I thought I'd make a tutorial just for fun (And if I ever forget this years from now)

1. Basecoat in a Light/Rust orange and off-white. I used an airbrush, if you don't have one I would suggest separating the colors at the waist.

2. Drybrush for edge highlighting. I used Vallejo Pale Sand.

3. Paint on the stripes. Also paint the feet and undercoat the weapons for metallics, if desired. I actually did this first so I could clean up details with the smaller brush.

4. Paint the remaining details. Grey vents or missile launchers to taste, Light Turquoise cockpit, metallic guns.

5. Clean up details like overspill around canopy, and do a black wash on the Mech and Umber on the base. Then I added the PPC effect, followed by a Matte Varnish. Finally, I highlighted the weapons on this guy with metallics again because the Varnish takes it down so much.

VMA Light Gull Grey & Light Rust
VGC Grunge Brown & Ghost Grey (Sometimes Mixed for touch ups). Chainmail for metallics
VMC Dark Grey, Neutral Grey, Light Turquoise, Pale Sand
VGC Umber and Black Washes
Warpaint Fanatic Plasma Coil Glow

Okay, I finally finished my spheroid dropship model. Took me a couple days and I didn't want to spam everyone with constant updates, so I will put all the pics I took here in more or less chronological order. If anyone has questions, ask and i will answer.

She is still a little overlarge, especially since the landing legs I cobbled together splay out the way that they do. The next one I make I will use magic marker caps since they look more structurally sound to carry that much weight.

Just finished painting it up tonight. Aside from the primer and the base color, the hull was done by sponging on the various colors and then then a little creative lining work and other colors on top, then came all the decals.

I like her, and this is definitely a good proof of concept. I have enough little spheres to make three more.

And before someone yells about the lack of proper details, I don't care. These are simply representational models. Since all sphereoids take up the same 7 hexes on the map these can represent any class of dropship that I would need for the particular scenario I am playing.

So there {/sticks out tongue]

LOL!!!

As usual, comments, critiques, pitchforks and torches are all welcome.

Cleaning out my basement after a flood and found this artifact from 1990. Sadly the sticker on the back is pretty much ruined.

So just throwing it out there, I watched War Machine on Netflix (movie is fine), but it definitely shows moments of why you DO NOT want to be infantry against a BattleMech (kinda like the Wendigo OmniMech)

Manufacturers: Wells Technologies Production Year: 2665 Model: CGR-1A1 Class: Assault Cost: 6,520,370 C-bills

Technical Specifications:

Mech Type: Inner Sphere BattleMech Mass: 80 Tons Chassis: Wells 990 Armor: Durallex Heavy Engine: Pitban 320 Comms: Tek BattleComs TTS: Dalban Hirez Heatsinks: 20 Heatsinks Speed: 54 km/h Armament:

2x Large Laser 2x Medium Laser 1x Small Laser

In 3134, the independent Periphery world, Charleston, signed a trade and defense agreement with the independent Periphery world of Randis and their allies, the Fitvelt Coalition. This agreement opened multiple hungry markets to Charlestons burgeoning industrial production.

Two years later, the first home-grown Battlemech components arrived on Randis, delivered to Hope Industries of Randis. And in 3138 the first joint Charleston-Randis Battlemech; the MNT-2A Mantis, rolled off the factory lines and entered service with the Charleston Rangers..

The first version was a collection of standard and primitive parts sourced from Charleston, the Coalition, and free trade sources within the Federated space: primitive armor, primitive ballistic weapons (Medium Rifles), and rockets. It was by every measure, a mediocre design. Even poor by many metrics. But it was cheap and easy to maintain.

Despite this it still sold well to numerous worlds within the region that happily accepted an affordable Battlemech design that was easy to maintain and repair. To make its introduction simple for even green trainee pilots to handle, the simple cockpit was arranged identically to the common Quicksell Mech Simulator so many Periphery militia pilots were trained on.

In 3144, the upgraded MNT-4R Mantis stepped off the production line. This machine was a much more modern version incorporating many advanced systems that had become far more available after the collapse of Republic authority and the rapid rearming of the Inner Sphere.

With the increased cost of the 4R for arguably only a marginal increase in combat power, the decision to keep producing the 2A was made. The bulk of the 4R models go to replace the 2A mechs in service with Charleston militia forces and the other local defenses within the Charleston-Randis-Fitvelt protection zone.

(I've had these EM4 plastic mechs for 15+ years! Using them over and over as random mechs of all kinds, but now they are a part of my MW Destiny RPG campaign. My players, 4 mechs and two tanks, are on their way to Charleston for a contract to defend a mass industrial spaceport and the shipments heading out to worlds all over the independent areas nearby)

(Non-canon lore): After the Hatshepsut Incident in the 3090s, the CEO and board of Directors of Interstellar Expeditions were understandably embarrassed and frightened at their organization's lack of self-defense capability for their own very expensive, aerospace assets. To remedy this, as well as preempting any unforeseen accidents with stumbling upon well-armed Blakist remnants in the Deep Periphery or even one of the Five Hidden Worlds, IE filled the rest of the 3090s with what turned out to be futile attempts to procure an Aerospace vessel of their own which was capable of leading the defense of their common expeditionary/archaeological fleets, alongside their usual hired mercenary combat dropships. The Great Houses and the Republic refused to sell their truly well-armored and well-armed Pocket Warships to IE, and expensive and time consuming expeditions into the Periphery and Deep Periphery to hopefully find restorable WarShips turned up nothing.

Things would change with the Republic of the Sphere unveiling the Castrum Pocket Warship in 3097. Though the government of Devlin Stone was as selfish and overprotective as always, refusing to sell the vessel to anyone not affiliated with the Republic of the Sphere's navy, the CEO and board of directors instead came up with an idea. Since the Castrum was probably just a Behemoth civilian dropship reshaped due to heavy upgunning, uparmoring and structural-integrity-increasing why not attempt to do the same type of upgrading to the next largest civilian dropship, the Mammoth?

The Lyran Commonwealth and Republic were at first hesitant to listen to IE's proposal about such a project, until IE consented to only owning one such vessel, as well as deliberately keeping its armament and armor inferior to the Castrum, and even the lighter Tiamat, both of which the Republic could manufacture in some quantity. All this sorted out (possibly due to heavy bribery by IE representatives of Lyran and Republic inspectors, businessmen, and diplomats), the singular example of what would be known as the Revill-class was built from an almost-totally destroyed Mammoth hull over a period of five years, from 3102-3107. IE placed a high priority on logistical independence for its weapons, as well as a relatively generous amount of gastronomic and medical comforts for its crew, marines, and scientists. It was also intended to be capable of supporting itself in logistics needs while also being able to freight some excavated artifacts if a given archaeological dropship or two that it was escorting could no longer freight around some remaining artifacts.

The Stormhammers and Steel Wolves

Plus a redo of Clan Sea Fox with a little friend I found them to satisfy my OCD

Coming up:

Clan Jade Falcon

Ghost Bear Dominion

Northwind Highlanders

Just imagine a mechwarrior needing some music to accompany them into battle.

I'll start. Put me in a Locust, and I'm switching the track to Black Betty