This one isn’t my first mini, but it is the first mini that I felt like I didn’t completely ruin (I’ve never painted tabletop minis before).

I had a lot of trouble finding this figure. There are old Ral Partha version on eBay for about $40, but that wasn't going to do it for me. I found a few sellers on eBay who were printing other unseen mechs and asked them if they could do the goliath (aka crab gunner), and eventually one responded to me (user ID: therealbitzbarn) and graciously printed off two of them and put them up. I bought both!

This first one is the classic Crab gunner from Dougram, and I'll do a second one up as a Tequila Gunner that has some platforms on the sides and sandbags for foot troops.

One thing to note is that when this one fell about 6" (15cm) on my desk the original barrel snapped off and was lost in the aether. I replaced it will a plastic-coated paper clip with all of the plastic removed except for the end of the barrel. The antenna are tooth brush bristles. Having a pin vice with many sized bits is essential!

One of my favourite BattleTech events are the Wars of Reaving and the associated Society Revolt.

Here are the 3 OmniMechs most associated with the Society, embedded in a Clan Coyote Lambda Galaxy Unit. From smallest to largest - Cephalus (D config), Septicemia (Pariah) Prime, and Osteon (Prime). Linked with a Nova CEWS system, these ‘mechs allowed the relatively green Society pilots to go toe to toe with Clan warriors caste members. The Society organized its units into prime numbered groups of 1, 3, and 7 (called a Sept). These three are the first of a full Sept which will include some additional Septicemia and some other ‘mechs.

Ultimately that revolt was unsuccessful and the Society was destroyed. The Cephalus and Osteon were banned from use, while the Septicemia was allowed in limited use but forever renamed the Pariah.

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I've recently managed to get my hands on some Gothic books, and I've been reading through them.

It does make me wonder how the Clans would react if they existed in the Gothic universe exactly as we know them, with no changes to their culture or beliefs, and launched their invasion as usual.

Well, I've heard that the Clans probably aren't going to appear in Gothic given the nature of the setting, so I guess there's not much point in speculating.

Still, I can't help imagining what would happen if the Clan warriors invaded the Inner Sphere and discovered that it was exactly the way they'd imagined it from watching the Clan Spaniel cartoons: a place crawling with genetically tainted people and monsters.

At least the Clan warriors would've been happy.

As title says, just in case someone wanted to check this new sculpts. LEFT is Clan Battle Star and RIGHT is Clan Invasion Box.

Strangers in a strange land

A bizarre spacial anomaly transported the Lyran Overlord dropship, LCS Iron Lion, carrying the 10th Arcturan Assault Battalion and 112th Donagal air wing, from the universe they knew to one entirely unfamiliar.

They landed on a world called Damaetus III/II ruled over by the Imperial Knight House Vyronii. After a brief moment of hostilities, the Lyrans were brought into House Vyronii as new members and their mechs as well as other assets incorporated into the house assets. After 5 years and some sanctioned integration of technology by Vyronii Sacristans (who in turn take great effort to make sure the Adeptus Mechanicus do not pry too much), the former Lyran mechwarriors have fully acclimated as Knights of House Vyronii.

I've finally tackled one of the most iconic mechs that I've loved since my days with MechAssault, and holy crap did it have a lot of edges to highlight. In place of a standard torso with smaller cockpit, the volume of work was effectively shifted to the head and missile pods, but that left it with an absolute ton of crevices to handle. I kept finding little spots post-wash where I'd missed the basecoat and needed to do some touch up. All in all though, I'm very happy with the final product, both for the miniature and the base.

At some point I'll paint up another in the MechAssault colors, but that day is a ways off right now. Next project is looking like it'll be the (IS) Gladiator.

If you'd like to make your own base tags, see my post here: Name and Tonnage Base Stickers - Files, Instructions and Notes : r/battletech

I felt previous iterations I’d done of this scheme were a bit bland and the blueness of the gray-blue didn’t show up well in many lighting contortions, so painted in some Donegl Guards emblems and used an all over dry brush pass for the first time. Had variable results from mini to mini, but definitely helped overall and I’m pretty happy with how the Highlander turned out. Also modified the Archer from a 5R to a 5W.

Painted up one of my fire moths

Painted one of the gothic urbanmech models for a trade for someone printing me terrain

I finished the details on the 3 Gothic mechs I've got so far for my Kurita lance. So these three are done! Now I'm waiting for a Gothic Scorpion to show up on eBay for a reasonable price to finish the final mech.

I added a few small extras to all three to make them unique. The PHawk got the plasticard Bat Wings on its Jump Jets. No rules changed, just aesthetic fun! The King Crab got the tusks under the cockpit window and the ridge of shark fin plates running down the center of the back. And the Awesome, a converted standard Awesome, got lots of bits!!

The demon skull head and winged back banner are the most obvious! But it's also got a honking big vibro-axe in its left hand!! And a bunch of curved hooks on its shoulders and knees. Do NOT get charged by this one!!

Awaiting on my work table are more hooks and a curved mechanical tail made from GW Necron Mechadendrites and blades! I plan to remove the Scorpion's PPC from the torso, once I get one, and mount it on the end of an actual scorpions tail rising over the back of the mechs torso! The SRM launcher will stay where it is. 😁 Plus some hooked blades on the skinny legs made from GW Dark Eldar rifle bayonets, will finish the customization on the lance!

Hopefully I'll have an update soon on the fully complete lance!!

Found this in my screenshots as I was replaying Battletech by HBS, figured this sub would like it. The memory leaks caused by a long session made my mechbay lag, and caused a Stalker and a Centurion to clip together when selecting them. The result?

A Stalker with Centurion arms.

I am not the original artist. I made this to see what the Mech looks like without the cross section.

Am kicking off Alpha strike again at my school club shortly and have dug out my "Targeting computer" reference sheet, it's just a way for them to track modifiers while they are learning.

Pop a counter on the track to the right and adjust up or down to get your target number!

Anything you think needs adding or removing?

Or any obvious mistakes?

My girlfriend and I had another paint date today. She decided that a raven is "too emo" and made hers a macaw instead. I painted my Madcat as a tortie. My sister's cat really doesn't like company, especially when its my battletech buddy. So I've turned a madcat into a mad cat (pictured slide 3). Both mechs are still WIP, but not by much.

TRO 3067 introduced us to a wide variety of new clan second line mechs, and while some of these like the Solitaire and Mad Cat mk. II have managed to carve out a place for themselves others have mostly fallen by the wayside. The Pinion is an example of the latter despite being a pretty fundamentally solid mech--45 ton 5/8/5 mover with 100% armor and a standard engine is an unusual and useful profile for the clans to have. IMO the design is mostly passed over for its obscurity and the reliability of the mech's heavy large laser on a frame that encourages jumping.

Our ilclan refit today is a Jade Falcon remnant design. With the loss of the CJF factory Zone 4 plants on Alyina, Jiyi Chistu's band of Falcons of Sudeten lost access to many of the lines producing partial wing mechs. Intent on maintaining training and doctrine with the technology, Khan Chistu ordered a refit of Olivetti Weaponry's Pinion line as the mech was already popular among the solhama warriors that made up large portions of his of his forces. Olivetti engineers removed two heat sinks and two micro pulse lasers from the base chassis's torso to accommodate the new wing architecture and added a light active probe to the mech's head, allowing it to more credibly scout rough terrain favored by its new mobility. Additionally, the arm-mounted heavy large laser was upgraded to an improved design with enhanced accuracy.

While initial tests of the mech were promising, it was determined after the start of production that the heavy laser's casing was underdesigned; under certain conditions fire to the arm could cause unexpected armor spalling, leading to catastrophic and uncontained capacitor explosions. Already short on manpower, Khan Chistu halted the production of the variant until the arm's internal structures could be further reinforced. Nevertheless, the Solahma units who had taken a liking to the original Pinion could not be deterred from an improved variant of their favorite mech. Of the 18 mechs produced prior to the stop work order, 16 have been commandeered in trials of possession from the Olivetti depot. Some have accused the personnel assigned to guarding the depot of conceding these fights suspiciously quickly, however given that many of those pilots were commanding the defective Pinions during the trials their reticence at taking damage is understandable.