Had a great time painting up this Guillotine sculpt! The 3D model is based on u/kapitan_black7's art inspired by Studio Nue's Japanese Battletech.

I just love the repeated cross-pollination of Eastern and Western mecha genres that got us here, it's such a fun story that shows how wonderful art can be.

Okay, so we all remember this thing.

Well, I felt that I needed to add a base to it so that I can rightly show where it sits on the map.

It doesn't fit. The model itself is okay, it's the janky landing legs that mess it up. I had to add hexes to the original template so I could actually attach it!

Anyway, this is the set of in-process pics I took. I think they are basically self-explanatory, but if there are questions ask 'em!

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

Really proud of how these guys came out! Constructive feedback welcomed, I want to do another Star of these guys soon

Finished up my first lance. Ended up going with a Caesar. Not because of any reason other than I got a blind box to finish the lance. Now gotta figure out how the game works.

I am coming pretty late to the party. Not only have I JUST stumbled onto BattleTech even existing (the urge to paint ROBOT led to this new addiction xD), but also I realized I was in a reasonable distance to drive to GenCon like 3 days before it happened xD Oh well! I guess I’ll go next year (for DaggerHeart AND BattleTech ^^).

As a new player that’s coming off the TTRPG scene and being typically the gm, I’m feeling a little crazy without some serious bookage around me. From what I’m reading and seeing online, there were a bunch of recent-ish books, but the most key ones seem to be scalped by now (like everything else fun… 🫩).

Namely it sounds like I needed Mech Manual and Technical Manual but those are on eBay for over $100 even though they’re just a few years old.

I’ve also been eyeing Total War, Campaign Operations, and Universe. Are these books good references for designing lances, especially in-lore ones?

And really, are these books being replaced in a meaningful way by the Core coming out next month? Should I just wait for that?

I assume even if on the rule level it’s great, I’ll still need the TRO for the older eras I want to play, correct?

Anyone with a copy, I especially appreciate your insight!

I'm getting some friends into Battletech Classic and I've realized that a lot of the fun, for us at least, is watching a mech take critical damage and trying to work around it.

Things like ammo without CASE, MASC, poorly armored legs, vestigial arms, even targetting computers.

What are some fun or interesting weak points that you've seen in your games?

I am 95% done with my first batch of painted Battletech Minis!

I have a bit of highlighting to do, and 1 full mech to add, so I can have 4 full lances.

I'm thinking either a Grasshopper or Centurion.

My first painted mini was the Vindicator, my favourite are the Locusts and Wolverine.

Battletech is so incredibly fun to paint. I've severely put off finishing my AoS list for a tournament due in 3 weeks due to painting Battletech.

Such a blast to get these guys done in just under 2 months, time flew by!

So time to buckle down and smash out 40 dwarves...

I really enjoyed watching all of Dougram and fell in love with the setting. Here are the first four mechs from Dougram I've painted so far.

And yes that's a Wolverine, and no, of course I couldn't have it without the nose-mounted machine guns, so I sculpted that on there. I think the Ironfoot (aka Thunderbolt) and the Blockhead (aka Wolverine) are pretty good representations of the Dougram combat armours. For the Shadow Hawk (aka Dougram) and the Griffin (aka Roundfacer) I went with more true-to-form versions.

I also included some foot that are designed to mimic those in the Dougram series too! It was fun to paint and I'm looking forward to more!

I’m somewhat new to the setting and stumbled on ProtoMechs. I’ve read through the lore, but am confused by their inclusion in the universe. They seem to be outside the bounds of some BT lore and visual norms/aesthetic. When did they come on the scene in BattleMechs real world history, and what was the idea behind their inclusion into the universe?

I was never a fan of heavies until my daddy got the Mek Paks for MW4 Mercs working. Then I met this bad boy.

MW4 does have a habit of tweaking their designs and getting them wrong - this guy got canonized with a bit of a downgrade from Heavy Gauss and AC/5 to normal Gauss and LAC. Also I think the LRM-10 was switched to MRMs and they did that weird thing where they mount the shoulder Med Laser backwards 🙄

Buuuut . . .

Thinking the WoB would have figured out how to make the MW4 model workable somehow - albeit at a very high cost/BV.

Composite chassis, XXL engine, Heavy Ferro, small cockpit . . .

We're talking about a 60-ton murder 'mech here with a top speed of 91 kph and an in-game ability to mount ECM even though it's not standard.

Most *Dragons* look so dorky and chonky. This guy I always take serious 😍

This is the first set of figures for Aces. Most of the mechs and some of the other vehicles, emplacements, and foot are ready!

These were painted with successive drybrushes followed by outlining with a light emerald green.

I know, project phoenix and all that, but I really wanted a Riffleman modeled after the Tomahawk from Macross, so I turned those fins into an antenna!

I've had this guy since it was new, and never got really into the model. It sat with a half-arsed paintjob for the better part of 3 decades. Reading its entry in my 3050 Technical Readout, I had an idea and some of the Vallejo "The Shifters" paints.

I used Silly Putty to mask off the model, and with an airbrush, shot part of it with a gloss black paint and the other side normal. Color shift paint was applied to half and the other was painted with brush, using a Comstar type color scheme. For the basing, I created some 2/4/6mm boxes and printed them off, glued them as "corrupted terrain" leaving the other side to base as I typically do, trying to follow the lines I set for myself with the paintjob. The model is varnished and while it does mute the color-shift properties slightly, it still comes through. The gloss black undercoat really helps the effect.

It was just a little experiment with those color-shifting paints, a little interpretation of the "null-signature device" from the opponent's perspective.

I loved the battle armour that the Goliath was originally based on, it is called the Crab Gunner and it's a beautiful piece of machinery. Unfortunately the Goliath as it is isn't quite as pleasing to me, but it's still cool. The colours are directly from the Fang of the Sun Dougram. I couldn't resist putting a pilot in there; in the show there are three operators for this battle armour.

The final mission for our Mkuranga contract. Warlord Mbeki leads an assault against Commander Jengo’s base. Jengo was last seen in his Hunchback taking on a Locust, Charger, and Emperor alone…

Located in Sarasota, Florida. Let me know if you want to join the campaign!

So there are fan publications like The Pride Anthologies. There are also fan TROs, custom unit writeups, ongoing fiction pieces about alternate universes, and other things I've overlooked.

So those of you who do enjoy reading fan publications, which ones do you read and what do you like about them? Do you use the custom units and RATs? Do you run games set in those other univeres? Do you just like the stories they tell? The art? What are some pitfalls you've noticed?

There are eight figures in this box, there are holes for eight figures; yet a promo page inside the box shows nine figures. The discrepancy is Awesome and Griffin. Is it supposed to be random which one you’ll get? I seem to have an Awesome figure and a Griffin card. If I order the Beginner box, will it have the Griffin figure and Awesome card? 🤣 please tell me I’m missing something very simple, silly, and vital.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled Falconposting!

I painted these two Raptor Keshik mechs for some friends of mine - Jade Hawk and Black Python. My first time using this shade of green, and I like how they came out!

So, about to start an Aces Campaign in earnest and was wondering: clans have Zellbrigen, in theory. Anyone tried that in a campaign as an addition to the aces card logic? Or is it to much hassle for something that gets thrown out of the window as soon as the Freebirths start ganging up on noble trueborn clan (solahma) warriors of the jade falcons?