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Hey, I'm posting this with mod's (phoenixgsu) permission:

I wanted to let you fine guys know that I am one of the painters that painted two Mechs for the new Core Box.
Those minis will be displayed at Essen SPIEL'26 trade fair later this month and will be for sale together with a signed box, six base painted minis, a certificate of authenticity, paint recipes, decals...
You can grab it in Essen or later online.
Here are some pics (the minis aren't base painted yet)

abominari pirates to be exact

I've been looking to try and break into BattleTech for awhile now, and I was able to find the Legendary MechWarrior Pack III for a good price. Some real nice Mechs in here, but the real draw for me is the Loki Mk.II, which is the whole reason I wanted this particular set. Ever since I first laid eyes on the art for that beast of an OmniMech it's been my #1 Must Have. I'd prefer the Mark B with the Long Tom cannon, but I'll just pretend it is for now.

So now that I have the Mechs, I just need some kinda rulebook to teach me how to actually play... XD

I'm playing my first game on Tuesday, four or five of these guys pro. Any advice for someone who has no idea what they're doing?

Second mech ever, this guy was a lot of fun to paint. Tried to do a Capellan scheme but im not knowledgeable enough to know if they even had marauders.

If it moved 5/8, she'd be perfect. As it is, pretty close to perfect.

Ghost Bears Beta Galaxy

Fifth model for my play group's escalation league. Definitely the best plaid I've done so far, but the mon I tried to freehand did not come out. It is what it is.

Our play group has been taking a bit of a break this month, so I'm working on a Stinger, two LRM Carriers, a Maxim, a Galleon and two stands of Inner Sphere Battle Armor. Probably will be a while before I get those up: in a week, our league resumes, and I'll be turning my attention to the Grand Dragon and Hunchback for the final month.

Our first game went pretty well, but took longer than we expected, and we found the paper datasheets kind of annoying. So this time we're using laminated datasheets, and are going to us erasable markers. My dad's using the Robotech RPG Tactics miniatures, while I'm using the modern Battletech ones.

He's got a Wasp, a Warhammer, and 2 Archers, and I've got a Battlemaster, a Catapult, a Locust, and the latest mech I've panted, a Wolverine. I'm not too happy with how the Wolverine turned out, but the game starts tomorrow so it's good enough.

I'm excited to play with a full lance for the first time, but those Archers are a bit intimidating. My mechs will have to literally punch above their weight to win, but our Battle Values are pretty closely matched, so I expect a fairly close match in actual combat power.

I think I have enough Mechs to paint.

I didn't have one so I made a quick, relatively, model for this Mad Puppy Type 4. A little color in Paint 3D and a 360 spin. Fun little build, a nice little break from other projects.

Even made the variants.

If I was actually good at modeling it might actually look better. Lol. Still happy with it though. Play on and have fun, MechWarriors.

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.

Second attempt with this design. I think it came out quite nicely!

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!

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

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!