Battletech: Mercenaries Box and Sommerset Strikers

 The last bits of gaming minis from the Mercenaries KS are now completed:

I will get that 100mm tall Madcat painted soon!

Battletech: Lyran Heavy Company

 

I decided to paint up three of my Lance boxes in one go as a whole company; made from the Snords Irregulars, Northwind Highlanders and Inner Sphere Heavy Recon Lances!

Battletech: Visigoth Fighters and Inner Sphere Battle Armour

 Next up are a few Visigoth Fighters that came free through stretch goals and some Inner Sphere Battle Armour troops from one of my Lance box options:

Battletech: Tiny tanks!

 I finished these before the weekend but with being away at a tourney and kiddies hogging the computer i can only now post them!

Two boxes of various tanks and hovercraft from light to heavy from the Support/Fire/Cavalry/Assault Lance packs.

Battletech: Clan Cavalry Star

 Next up is the Clan Cavalry Star box, along with a couple of Clan salvage boxes i also received:

There's plenty left to paint and its all Inner Sphere stuff from here on out haha

Battletech: Mercenaries KS Salvage Boxes

Whilst waiting for the last Cephalyx model to arrive i decided to get on with the BattleTech minis that have been sat above my desk for 5 months! Here's the first Inner Sphere mechs from salvage boxes:

A nice battle lance with some Savannah Master hovercrafts ftw

Battletech: Clan Elemental Star

 Rounding out this project for now is my Elemental Star:

Able to climb abort friendlies and hitch a ride across the battlefield before striking out at enemy mechs with in close combat or with their lasers and short ranged missiles hehe.

Battletech: Clan and Inner Sphere packs

 Waiting on my last box of Clan stuff to arrive, here's the last of what i have sat in the pile of grey hehe:

Clan Heavy Battle Star

Inner Sphere Urban Lance

Clan Diamond Shark and the 1st CaesarMagnus Regulars ready to duke it out!

Battletech: Clan Battle Star

 Next up for my Clan Diamond Shark forces is a Battle Star:

I have another Star, an Elemental Star and an addition Inner Sphere Lance i picked up on the cheap to do over the coming few days!

Battletech: Getting through the Clan Invasion Kickstarter!

 Waiting for some bits to arrive for my first large project of the year ive decided to get all my Battletech stuff painted!

Inner Sphere Shilone Fighter and Urban Mech

Inner Sphere Battle Lance

Clan Battle Star and extra Gladiator

Clan Invasion Starter Box Battle Star and Elementals

Inner Sphere Heavy Battle Lance

Thats all my Inner Sphere stuff painted, extras for my 1st CaesarMagnus Regulars, a House Steiner Regiment... My Clan minis are painted as Clan Diamond Shark Sigma Galaxy with a striking blue and green scheme.

I have another couple of Clan Stars to paint up this week!

Battletech: Completing my first company

I recently picked up a couple of 3d prints of mechs off ebay to take me to twelve and a fieldable company to use in Alpha Strike:

Zeus and Atlas

The Zeus is an iconic House Steiner mech which seemed appropriate as my force is from the Lyran half of the Federated Commonwealth, and everyone loves a big old Atlas assault mech hehe

Battletech: Getting the Band back together

Whats this you say? Battletech? Yep Battletech, i played the hell out of this game back in the mid/late 90s and now its back and so am I!

Shadow Hawk, Awesome, Thunderbolt and Commando

Locust, Battlemaster, Catapult and Wolverine

Griffin and Wolverine

I backed the recent kickstarter... did rather well you might have noticed with around $2.5 million pledged hehe, but i wanted to get back in playing before that so i tracked down copies of the most recent armoured combat box and the beginner boxes.

I also noted that a more streamlined version of the classic had been produced in my absence, Alpha Strike, which made playing large Mech engagements possible and able to be finished in a sensible amount of time haha.

I bought that book and have had a quick go at it with a mate, a few mistakes but we got a 3v3 finished in about 30mins so i think im going to solely play this version of the game as its much better for club nights and evening warfare.

Im also going to ignore all of the older metals/plastics/resins, and most of the more recent metals too as quite frankly they look poor and out of scale with the above modern plastics and the upcoming range from the kickstarter.