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Kitbashed this Everest together for Lancer a while ago, and having recently played through Titanfall 2 again, decided on the basic BT look after I couldn't decide how to paint him
Tried to mimic the official Everest design I've seen floating around, but I'm partial to the blocky style head so I stole that from a Battletech Highlander
Actually a lot is from Battletech, the legs are an Assassin and the Torso is a Black Knight. I love the Vladof guns from Borderlands so I found one of those for my assault rifle, and the arms are from the free mech set Filamentio released. I think that's most of it...
Oh shoutout to Death Ray Designs for their shark mouth nose art and industrial decals, they're great
Battletech is fucking hype. I just punched a mech from the air and made it fall over, it got up so I jumped on it again, and the jump managed to disable its engine so I won. 10/10 real hot girl shit. Confirming my theory that jump pack melee charge is a viable strategy in every game.
Battlemech-style light combat mech
Figured I'd start out with some for funsies mechs I made a while back while learning how to use a resin 3D printer. Printed them in clear resin and gave them a simple blue wash to make them look like holograms. Went with unseen sculpts for them for the nostalgia, I wanted the Holographic game table look, a la the old Wolf's Dragoons sourcebook cover or the Millenium Falcons Holotable
Atlas for my generic pirate force of plain boring grey mechs, with some industrial decals to spice things up
A pirate Stalker, in plain grey. Cutey little guys, Stalkers are adorable mechs that cannot pick things up, but that's okay since they have a lot of guns
Continuing with the boring grey mechs, a pirate Rifleman. Iconic, but not one I'd typically pick for the tabletop. I'd take a Jagermech over a Rifleman any day for its dedicated anti-aircraft role, and neither excel at anything else
The last of my pirate command lance, a Black Knight. Not really appropriate for an under equipped pirate force to have, but iconic and I printed one before I thought about it
I wanted to experiment with non metallic metal style reflective chrome cockpits so I printed up a Griffin and painted in some fast n dirty Grey Death Legion colors
My Mercenary company of mechs all have personalized paintjobs, this here is my King Crab, one of the new plastic sculpts. I was a little worried about the quality of some of their plastics, but they took paint and decals really well, and you can't beat the price in terms of wargaming miniatures
Another of my Mercs, a Battlemaster. I like medium laser, and rear mounted weapons are nice for when you're terrible at positioning like me
One of my Mercenary Marauders. Probably one of the coolest looking mechs but sadly I'm not a big fan on the tabletop. Stock they run way too hot, ditching some of the firepower for more heat sinks would fix a lot, not to mention how likely you are to die from an ammunition explosion. The Marik refit makes it more reasonable, but it's still not enough to make it an auto include for me
A Mercenary Catapult. I love the Catapult, jump jets on a missile boat that actually has decent close range weapons makes for a solid mech that can easily get where you need it, park, then rain missile fire until things get close, then easily reposition and switch to the lasers
My Mercenary Hammerhead. I normally play 3025, but the design on this thing is so cool I had to paint one up. Clan Sea Fox makes good mechs
The first of my Capellans, a Vindicator of the 1st Liao Dragoons. Easily one of my top 5 mechs for 3025, it's a solid trooper for ranged fire support. With no redundancy in weapons, I'd recommend fielding them in at least pairs
1st Liao Dragoons Vindicator number two
Did a little photo tutorial for the chrome effect cockpits. It's easier than it looks, but harder than it should be. I wouldn't recommend it for small ones, but large bubble cockpits like this looks pretty nice with it. You could probably do other sky colors for alien worlds too
1st Liao Dragoons Catapult C4. Did I intend to make a C4? Nope, took me about way too long to realize I only had 2 lasers on there. That's okay, more missiles for me
The last (for now) of my 1st Liao Dragoons Vindicators. These mechs really hit so many sweet spots for me, I wish there were more 3025 variants. I like them as cheap hole punchers for other mechs to SRM crit fish
