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Finished up a complete Star with a couple of points BA for support:

 Finished up the Adder and Nova. I'm real happy with how the grey and red came out on these, but less happy with the canopies and bases 🤷‍♀️ Three steps forward, two steps back I suppose.

Just to clarify, I'm only interested in the new plastic Catalyst sculpts, as I have a specific project in mind. That being said, I'm looking for the Warhammer, the Rifleman, and either a Daishi or Warhawk.

For trade materials I have a significant number of IWM mechs and also a pretty large bottle of Vallejo airbrush primer.

I decided my Executioner didn't look finished without some detail on the head, so I added some "face paint" and tried to give the tiny cockpit windows a bit of an amber glow.

And then next up on the work bench are an Adder and Nova. I thinned the primer a bit more for these minis and I think the results show in a more even and consistent primer coat, so I'm pretty happy with that. Next will be applying a thinned black wash over the entire mini to add contrast.

On 6/30/2023 at 10:10 AM, Brother Glacius said:

That is an interesting take on basing the model. I can honestly say I've never seen someone paint the cardboard playmat art style on the base as opposed to doing realistic terrain basing.

I was actually going for sand dunes, but I can see that too!

I feel like I should have spent a lot more time cleaning up mold lines on this one, but a lot of them feel pretty inaccessible for easy clean-up with an exacto knife. Anyone have any tips on how to deal with the mold lines on these sculpts?

I finished this paint job today. I feel like I need to start working with thinner paints. Also I spend a *lot* of time on each mini layering different shades of each color, and IMO the results that are not worth the time investment. I feel like I should look up some tutorials on how to do legit glazing techniques, or just give up and wash and drybrush everything. I also didn't do the cockpit jeweling on this one because it felt too recessed and too small. While I like the new art for these mechs quite a bit, I kinda miss the old huge cockpits that were easy to paint.

Next up on the paining bench: a Clan Invasion box set Executioner converted to the A configuration with 4 ERML and 3 LPL.

I like to post pics of minis online at least partially as an incentive to paint regularly, so I figured I'd start a single thread rather than making new topics every time I have some new content. My current project is painting a Battletech Clan Hell's Horses Alpha Galaxy force. I think I'm going for a full binary of mechs, vees, and BA, with a focus on fast units. I might do an Executioner as Star Captain, but I think I'm going to be focusing on fast mediums and heavies. To start off, I'm posting a side-by-side of a Grendel and Epona both WIP and their final form. I'm fairly happy with my results, though I didn't do the jeweling on the lasers and canopy as nice as I'd like, and I need to do something with the base on the Epona. Ideally I'd get a proper hex base for it, but I don't have any spares lying around.

I picked up this stuff today to get back into painting minis. Shout out to Eben and Pete at Mindtaker Miniatures in Vancouver for having an awesome selection of Battletech stuff, these pre-made hobby kits that saved me a lot of time and money gathering individual tools, for providing kind ears and buoyant voices, and for keeping my secret identity 😛

59 minutes ago, Ish said:

I look forward to, one day, blowing them to itty-bitty bitz and salvaging whatever doesn’t get atomized.

I suppose that means actually painting my damn ‘mechs…

Hah, maybe I'll be coaxed into playing again. Honestly I'm wanting to dip my toes back in the mini gaming hobby with getting back into painting first. 

Here's My painted BT collection so far. The camo are an unspecified IS C3i urban combat lance. The red are my non-canon mercs Lefty Lucy's Combat Cooperative. The blue clan mechs are a canon unit: Clan Ghost Bear Tau Galaxy. I want to start painting a Hell's Horses Alpha Galaxy force next.

I'm wanting to get back into mini painting, but currently will be starting from zero. I'm partial to Vallejo Game Colors if there's a place that sells those.