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 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.
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!
This is me escaping the corner and pushing hard on my outside edge. I didn't fall here, but it's clear that my boot is making contact with the ice so it didn't make me lose an edge. My hollow here is 5/8" and I moved here from 1/2" previously, which had become too sharp for me.
I've been skating forever and I'm half decent at hockey, but not great. I never imagined my boot was hitting the ice. What do you all think of this?
I saw this steam tank and knew that I would have to use this one if I was going to use a steamtank... so when I got it, naturally I had to drop all of my other projects and start work immediately. It was a pleasure to paint and I look forward to fielding it against some Chaos in the near future!
I saw this Highlands Miniatures figure I knew it was going to be my steamtank. It's got so much character... I had to paint it up as soon as I received it too. It was so much fun to paint and also the material is pretty good too. It's a little brittle, but a pleasure to paint.
For these ones I mostly just drybrushed, then added a few layers of thin shading to the low areas, followed by a bright edge highlight. They were so much caster because of the drybrushing than my trans-flag-themed figures that I probably won't do blended gradients on battltech figs EVER AGAIN haha.