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Photos from Rd 2

Hey y'all! Figured I'd share my Ghost Bears now that I finally bit the bullet and got decals for them. Had a heck of a time getting my phone to focus for the second pic 😅 . If anyone's on the fence about decals because it seems intimidating, I highly recommend giving it a shot! As long as you get the recommended supplies, it's time consuming but not too difficult.

Big Red 40Tech's newest video checks out the newest upcoming releases like the B&N exclusive Camacho's Caballeros force pack, Aces Snowblind box set, Aerospace Force pack, Hot Spots: Draconis Reach Sourcebook, Pleiades Cluster, Taurian Concordat and Periphery Sourcebook.

In the fiction front Star-Crossed Warriors and a Plague on Rasalhague by Bryan Young, Ghost of Tinkovichi by Bryan Young with the Ghost Dogs and New Kell Hounds, new book by Tom Leveen, new book by Jason Hardy (Death Head Mercenary Corps), Shrapnel 25 will be a double sized issue

https://youtu.be/E0DiWE2Q-Wc?si=dLeUoSkVnv71GpBv

Plugging away on my Chrome Clanners with some "helicopter with legs" classics.
Apologies for my potato camera.

God, the Griffin is just so cool!

The 3rd addition to my first lance, which will (as is tradition) be a ragtag group of mercs. Got the inspiration for this color scheme from mediaeval knights and stuff. The mini is a resin 3d print I made a long time back and has quite some aliasing, but in the end I'm happy with how it turned out.

Thanks for looking!

Mechwarrior Kacy, reporting for duty after a year MIA.

Welcome back Soldier O7.

My beautiful wife got me the box this guy came in after hearing about the first tragic tale. Now they're back in action after being lost for almost a year :D I think I spent double the time painting this one compared to my first model and I'm happy with the result.

https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/1kk751z/a_tale_most_tragic/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Pictures from before and during Rd1

I'm hosting a large Alpha Strike game next weekend, and one of my players painted these 6th Donegal Guards mechs to use in the game.
I asked him to share photos of his mechs with me, so I could create some custom Alpha Strike cards, complete with pilots' names.
The process is a bit tedious, but after the card is done and inserted into a baseball card holder, he can use dry erase markers to denote damage, and never have to print the cards again.

Rather satisfied with how the cockpit turned out on this one - I was inspired by the comparisons online to visor sunglasses for the color gradient. I considered wrapping the orange further around the edges, but I wanted to maintain some of the underlying brown to show the whole range.

I'm also fairly happy with how the grass tufts worked out here, as I was concerned they'd look too out of scale at first. I'll be doing more of them in the future for sure.

I'm finally ready to play a game of Aces 🥳

mine was whatever the heck this leg design was in the MW4 titles. Really industrial/robotic joints along with the way they moved. Am I normal for occupying my thoughts with such elegant designs?

Wife's first paint job. I think her work is far superior to mine and its only her first. I watched tons of videos and tutorials, she watched and read zero.

Current rookie painting project: Davion Aragon Borderers (half the Mechs from the GOAC box). Shot with an old smartphone.

The new Charger reminded me too much of Unit-02'β to not 🤗

Any suggestions for basing the hexes? What ecosystem comes to mind when you think Taurian Concordat?

Also, the Ymir is towering and gives vibes of Lurch from The Addams Family. I'm sad there's no canon factions with access to them in ilClan era. The Taurian Concordat only has them to through the Dark Ages. And it's a primitive one, which is kinda delightful. Like, the ninety tonner is the least threatening of the three mechs here.