r/BattletechPainting

I think I have enough Mechs to paint.

I lost my dad to cancer last month. He was 62 years old.

I don't care about upvotes. I want to share his work, and some of his life, with others that I know will appreciate it.

My dad was always a nerd at heart. When big names in gaming started finding their footing in the 80s, he was amongst the first generation to appreciate Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, Magic: The Gathering, and many video games to come - yet, funnily enough, Battletech was something that he never got into. When he wasn't playing the Dungeon Master for his friends or skirmishing in Rogue Trader WH40K games, he was stealing road signs and hammering them into plate mail for his LARP group so that they could clobber each other senseless in the woods while playing at being knights. He loved animals and the outdoors, and spent most of his younger years exploring the woods or engaging in archery, paintball, and driving like a wild child without fear of physical injury or the cops.

My dad originally tried getting me into both Magic and painting minis as a kid, but it wasn't until I was a teenager (and well after he sold his old card collection) that I found an interest in trading card games. It wasn't until I'd graduated college and found my own footing with Fallout: Wasteland Warfare that I felt inspired enough to begin learning how to paint miniatures from my dad. And later on, that interest in painting evolved into an obsession with Battletech after MechWarrior 5 reminded me of a setting I hadn't seen since I was a child, playing MechAssault 1 and 2 on my old Xbox.

My dad loved to experiment with his miniatures. His confidence and ability to apply skills from a lifetime of handywork gave him the drive and fearlessness to do whatever came to mind in order to test a new method of kitbashing or painting. Whether it was making his own terrain tiles for Warhammer or practicing wet blending on D&D miniatures, he always pushed himself - and me - to furiously hypothesize and then put to practice whatever we could conceive of. It's that style of learning and painting that led to me boldly doing a cockpit gradient on my very first mech, in spite of how small the Blackjack's glass was.

Pictured above is the Inner Sphere Direct Fire Lance that I got him for Christmas in 2025. He painted them in his own style, inspired by the Howling Griffons Space Marine chapter from Warhammer 40K.

At the end of the pictures is a snapshot of the miniatures he was unable to finish. Someday, when I feel ready, I plan to finish the company that he started. I'll give them the same waterslide decal treatment I do my own projects. Sometime after that, my friends and I will expand them beyond the basic company they were only ever meant to be.

And one day, Bill's Howling Griffons will hit our tabletop as a mercenary company, whether it be as allies or OpFor.

Some of you may have noticed that of the incomplete minis pictured, only one of them comes from after the Succession Wars: the Wraith. I'd like to think that if he were still here, my dad would appreciate the idea of a tough as nails group of mercs surviving the Clan Invasion and thriving for years to come.

Hello all, I just joined the subreddit. I have been painting for a good five years now, and I wanted to show off a recent auction that I put up!

These are the Kell hounds painted four ways
Jaeger Mech was done with the makeup sponge method.

The vixen was painted in a “hero” paint scheme, a little brighter, a little more of a manga style.

The awesome, which was painted in more of a standard tabletop-ready paint scheme. You can say the Savannah masters were painted in the same way as the awesome!

And then my personal favorite, the rifleman, which I painted in a grim dark fashion.

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The bases were also some of my favorites I’ve ever done.

I’d love to see your guys’s Kell Hounds!

Working down that backlog. I always swear im about to do a huge basing assembly line and do everything all at once. I think ive accepted that doing batches of 5 or so at a time is a better way to actually get through them.

Go easy on me. I did my best. But it’s an LRM Carrier C. Feedback appreciated!

Ugh, colors washed out by the lighting. Oh well.

These guys aren’t going to win any awards, but I’m calling them done, at least for now.
I tried the makeup sponge technique, and I like my mechs to look like military machines- heavily used, a little worn, and dirty.
Something just isn’t popping for me though, but I’m getting to the point where I’m going to make it worse by fiddling with them.

A CCAF deep strike raiding team, Special Directives Detachment 108 operates independently on detached missions at the direction of the Strategios.

Regent L (homebrew design)
Vindicator 4L
Thunderbolt 10-SE
Men Shen L (homebrew design)

The paint scheme is meant to evoke beast faces on traditional Chinese bronze armour.

荣耀归于卡佩拉邦联! Glory to the Capellan Confederation!

its not the greatest quality pics. but these are the ones that have been painted some are missing washes, metallics,cockpits or just clean up but that will soon be fixed.

His name is Finn, and I’m currently working on a Steel Wolves MuckRacker, Pegasus and Savannah Master.