AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
edited April 2020
This may well be old news for many, but Sarna has the Unit Color Compendium in pdf format. It is so fucking gloriously well made and goddamn useful. The mind runs wild with possibilities! I'm gonna have to print this baby off and stick it in a binder for reference.
edit- Oh, to spice up this top post here is a page from the UCC pdf.
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Currently learning how to use Fusion 360. My first major goal after this tutorial is to make a printable Prairie Schooner land train, something which recently appeared in our campaign and I'm pretty sure doesn't have a model yet.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
Currently learning how to use Fusion 360. My first major goal after this tutorial is to make a printable Prairie Schooner land train, something which recently appeared in our campaign and I'm pretty sure doesn't have a model yet.
If it helps save you some time there is this scifi monorail. It'd need to be scaled down and have wheels slapped on it, but it potentially could give you a head start.
I'm currently building a robust Capellan OpFor. In keeping with the flavor it'd mostly be Armor with a smattering of light to medium Mechs. My printer certainly isn't up to the task to make Mechs so I ordered a 3d printed Lance from ebay. They looked to be of pretty good quality in the pics, I guess I'll find out for sure in two weeks.
In the meantime I did, for lack of a better term, kitbash a Liao Vedette. Liao drops the AC turret for twin MLs. So I used the twin ML turret from the Scoprion, cut the main guns off, scaled it up, made it longer and slapped it on to the Vedette's turret. All in all I am satisfied with the result.
Currently painting the "prototype".
For reference this is what the model would normally look like.
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Now that I have plenty of more time (still working, but nowhere to go on weekends) I had a chance to sit down and take the photos people asked for previously. Apologies the mechs aren't painted, but I'm still considering what unit(s) to paint them as.
Battlemechs on a Z Scale train board:
Also, somebody asked about comparisons for DZC scale miniatures and Battlemechs:
First one is against a wide range of the minis:
This one is with the ones that looked closest to matching the scale of the mechs, as well as some of the infantry:
I just realized I never included the pictures of the Longbow artillery pieces from DZC (which might work for Long Toms in Battletech). Let me know if anybody wants a specific model comparison and I'll see what i can do.
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IanatorGaze upon my works, ye mightyand facepalm.Registered Userregular
Posted in the Painting Thread, but I finally put some color on my Hawks.
I need to do a cleaner job on them but the actual livery came out pretty nice.
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NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
Painting some redshirts? 🤣
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H3KnucklesBut we decide which is rightand which is an illusion.Registered Userregular
Sort of, that's the Earth Federation Forces standard space color scheme for the GMs (mass-production general purpose mobile suits in the original Gundam universe). All white except for a red upper torso. I was actually planning on doing that for a lance of minis from my older starting box (don't know which ones, yet). It's a sharp color scheme:
It is very reasonably priced, very nice quality, looks amazing and super easy to print. I'll post pics once I get one painted, but I am quite excited.
I must give kudos to @McGibs for introducing me to these fine folks. Pretty much everything they have on their store is quality. Though the times being what they are only .stl files are available.
Their city buildings in particular are worthy of praise. Sure you can find and print off buildings for free from elsewhere, in fact I am doing that right now, but not only do their buildings look good they are also cleverly designed to be hex friendly. Not just the bases, but the roofs too without being super obvious about it.
If you've a 3d printer I wholeheartedly recommend buying at least one of their hex terrain .stl bundles. At $15 it is an easy recommendation.
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NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
I want their Arisaka model to use as a Japanese Rifleman so badly, but it's been out of stock for like, ever.
Their models are top-notch, but it makes me itch a little at how blatant (but distinct through artistic interpretation) most of their 'Mech designs are. Like, I want to buy their models, but I'd rather spend that money supporting CGL.
*First World Problems*
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
edited April 2020
Well if it helps there's no way to currently give money to CGL anyway for Mechs.
But soon, soon. Imma buy every fucking set. Probably twice.
I want their Arisaka model to use as a Japanese Rifleman so badly, but it's been out of stock for like, ever.
Their models are top-notch, but it makes me itch a little at how blatant (but distinct through artistic interpretation) most of their 'Mech designs are. Like, I want to buy their models, but I'd rather spend that money supporting CGL.
*First World Problems*
Most of their designs really. They have a Battlestar Galactica section, which is kind of hilarious. Didn't think that had a wargamming fandom?
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
Finished painting (most) of the Mechs I'd gotten. Still need to be based, but my basing source is closed for the time being.
Lights
Mediums
Heavies
Assaults
I've a lance coming in (Monday) that'll be part of my Capellan OpFor unit. Still mulling over the paint scheme for them, certainly nothing elaborate. Probably mostly green and black with a splash of some other Lance identifying color.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I feel like the Zeus was always a little pot-bellied though. I've never been a big fan of it, but the Zeus is one of those mechs that always manages to look pretty decent. Trebuchet falls into that group as well, though I'll always be partial to the cardboard standee art from the Battletech Fourth Edition starter box:
That Stalker looks pretty good though, whereas I usually dislike it.
Apparently even these artists couldn't redeem the Longbow however.
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I'll say it then:
I like the new Longbow. It's got that "Fuck You MISSSSSSSSSSSIIIIILLLLLLEEEEES" look that I can appreciate.
Like a toned-down, more reasonable Bane 3.
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H3KnucklesBut we decide which is rightand which is an illusion.Registered Userregular
edited April 2020
I will say this for the new Longbow model: I like that they replaced the Phalanx' searchlight head with what looks like one of those rotating LIDAR scanners? Seems like it would be a lot more useful for a walking missile launcher.
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Friend's 3D printer is finally back up and running. He asked me to make a couple changes to the models I posted above (remove the tapered lip, make the Twist token bigger) and just sent me this pic a few minutes ago.
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Friend's 3D printer is finally back up and running. He asked me to make a couple changes to the models I posted above (remove the tapered lip, make the Twist token bigger) and just sent me this pic a few minutes ago.
Nice. You might want markers for Skidding and Immobile too.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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AxenMy avatar is Excalibur.Yes, the sword.Registered Userregular
edited April 2020
So about 8 days ago I ordered a 3d printed Lance from ebay for my Capellan OpFor. Today they've come in! They are of fine quality and are all appropriately sized, near as far as I can tell. So far I've only glued them to the bases.
The Lao Hu model was created by this fellow who kitbashed it in to existence. A very Capellan thing to do, I must say. Technically it shouldn't have chicken legs, but it did in MechCommander 2 soooo. Plus I love chicken legs.
I had actually wanted the Sha Yu, but it seems I accidentally requested the Lao Hu instead. Ah well, all good.
B-b-b-bonus!
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Gonna build a lance with a Crusader, Long Bow, and Archer. Thinking maybe a Valkyrie, since it's a classic/unseen, has LRMs (both of which are basically the goal here), and since it's a light it can scout/cover for the LRM team.
Of course I could just kitbash a Rifleman and a Catapult. They'll be MRM-bots anyway.
fakeedit - now that I look at, by the time you up-armor a Rifleman, you're looking at enough tonnage from the ACs for, like, a quad of MRM-10s, if you drop the MLs. Or drop the LLs, but I like those because they have the exact same range as the MRMs.
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edited April 2020
Buddy: “How do you reconcile the fact that models of the same Mech can look so wildly different. It’d bug me.”
Me: “Easy, a 2000 Chevy Silverado looks very different from a 2020 Silverado.”
Edit- to expand.
My head canon for why models of the same Mech look different (whether official or 3rd party) is because visual tastes change over the decades or that different manufacturers take their own spin on things to make it “theirs”.
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Buddy: “How do you reconcile the fact that models of the same Mech can look so wildly different. It’d bug me.”
Me: “Easy, a 2000 Chevy Silverado looks very different from a 2020 Silverado.”
Edit- to expand.
My head canon for why models of the same Mech look different (whether official or 3rd party) is because visual tastes change over the decades or that different manufacturers take their own spin on things to make it “theirs”.
I generally go with "Most of these mechs are decades, maybe centuries, old, handed down through the generations, repaired and re-equipped as well as possible as needed, and over the years the repairs between two mechs on different planets probably diverges significantly enough to account for any difference in appearance."
Buddy: “How do you reconcile the fact that models of the same Mech can look so wildly different. It’d bug me.”
Me: “Easy, a 2000 Chevy Silverado looks very different from a 2020 Silverado.”
Edit- to expand.
My head canon for why models of the same Mech look different (whether official or 3rd party) is because visual tastes change over the decades or that different manufacturers take their own spin on things to make it “theirs”.
I generally go with "Most of these mechs are decades, maybe centuries, old, handed down through the generations, repaired and re-equipped as well as possible as needed, and over the years the repairs between two mechs on different planets probably diverges significantly enough to account for any difference in appearance."
Yeah that too.
In other tabletop games models being so visibly different would bug the hell out of me. In Battletech though I can think up a whole host of reasons why’d they’d be different.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
Buddy: “How do you reconcile the fact that models of the same Mech can look so wildly different. It’d bug me.”
Me: “Easy, a 2000 Chevy Silverado looks very different from a 2020 Silverado.”
Edit- to expand.
My head canon for why models of the same Mech look different (whether official or 3rd party) is because visual tastes change over the decades or that different manufacturers take their own spin on things to make it “theirs”.
I generally go with "Most of these mechs are decades, maybe centuries, old, handed down through the generations, repaired and re-equipped as well as possible as needed, and over the years the repairs between two mechs on different planets probably diverges significantly enough to account for any difference in appearance."
Yeah that too.
In other tabletop games models being so visibly different would bug the hell out of me. In Battletech though I can think up a whole host of reasons why’d they’d be different.
That is one of the cool things about the whole "worn universe" aesthetic of Battletech, that you just don't tend to see in a lot of other settings.
Even in 40k, where, lore wise, you've got tanks that are centuries old, titans that have literally millennia of service walking through the most extreme war zones that can be imagined, and battle armor that's been handed down through the Space Marine chapters since the Emperor walked the fields of battle, and they all look the same. The landraiders that are rolling off production lines "today" look the same as the ones that have been in service for centuries.
Edit: To clarify, I realize there are in universe reasons for human tech never changing. But it still bugs me.
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Why do the IWM models look fugly?
Easy.
Many of those Mechs were built shortly after the First Succession War. The industrial base of the Inner Sphere was basically non-existent. Manufacturers didn’t have the resources, tooling or know-how to get fancy with production and the Great Houses didn’t care. The House Lords wanted as many Mechs as they could get as fast as they could get them before the next war started. As a result manufacturers put out Mechs with a more utilitarian and basic design.
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edit- Oh, to spice up this top post here is a page from the UCC pdf.
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If it helps save you some time there is this scifi monorail. It'd need to be scaled down and have wheels slapped on it, but it potentially could give you a head start.
I'm currently building a robust Capellan OpFor. In keeping with the flavor it'd mostly be Armor with a smattering of light to medium Mechs. My printer certainly isn't up to the task to make Mechs so I ordered a 3d printed Lance from ebay. They looked to be of pretty good quality in the pics, I guess I'll find out for sure in two weeks.
In the meantime I did, for lack of a better term, kitbash a Liao Vedette. Liao drops the AC turret for twin MLs. So I used the twin ML turret from the Scoprion, cut the main guns off, scaled it up, made it longer and slapped it on to the Vedette's turret. All in all I am satisfied with the result.
Currently painting the "prototype".
For reference this is what the model would normally look like.
Now that I have plenty of more time (still working, but nowhere to go on weekends) I had a chance to sit down and take the photos people asked for previously. Apologies the mechs aren't painted, but I'm still considering what unit(s) to paint them as.
Battlemechs on a Z Scale train board:
Also, somebody asked about comparisons for DZC scale miniatures and Battlemechs:
First one is against a wide range of the minis:
This one is with the ones that looked closest to matching the scale of the mechs, as well as some of the infantry:
I need to do a cleaner job on them but the actual livery came out pretty nice.
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Sort of, that's the Earth Federation Forces standard space color scheme for the GMs (mass-production general purpose mobile suits in the original Gundam universe). All white except for a red upper torso. I was actually planning on doing that for a lance of minis from my older starting box (don't know which ones, yet). It's a sharp color scheme:
It is very reasonably priced, very nice quality, looks amazing and super easy to print. I'll post pics once I get one painted, but I am quite excited.
I must give kudos to @McGibs for introducing me to these fine folks. Pretty much everything they have on their store is quality. Though the times being what they are only .stl files are available.
Their city buildings in particular are worthy of praise. Sure you can find and print off buildings for free from elsewhere, in fact I am doing that right now, but not only do their buildings look good they are also cleverly designed to be hex friendly. Not just the bases, but the roofs too without being super obvious about it.
If you've a 3d printer I wholeheartedly recommend buying at least one of their hex terrain .stl bundles. At $15 it is an easy recommendation.
Their models are top-notch, but it makes me itch a little at how blatant (but distinct through artistic interpretation) most of their 'Mech designs are. Like, I want to buy their models, but I'd rather spend that money supporting CGL.
*First World Problems*
But soon, soon. Imma buy every fucking set. Probably twice.
edit- @Nips *cough*ahem*cough*
*clicks button*
*buys robot*
*throws shame in trash can*
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Most of their designs really. They have a Battlestar Galactica section, which is kind of hilarious. Didn't think that had a wargamming fandom?
Zeus got a bit of a beer gut there.
But I like what they've done with the Stalker.
Lights
Mediums
Heavies
Assaults
I've a lance coming in (Monday) that'll be part of my Capellan OpFor unit. Still mulling over the paint scheme for them, certainly nothing elaborate. Probably mostly green and black with a splash of some other Lance identifying color.
Hawkeye? and Iron Man
?, ?, Gundam (not sure which, but the chest looks more navy/black than blue, so I'm guessing Nu Gundam?)
No idea on either of these
Master Chief SPARTAN-117, your Oosik Irregular?
A Gundam, just done from memory so I didn't have any specific one in mind.
The Heavies are nothing specific.
Yes and Yes.
Also, the Wolverine is Wolverine.
I feel like the Zeus was always a little pot-bellied though. I've never been a big fan of it, but the Zeus is one of those mechs that always manages to look pretty decent. Trebuchet falls into that group as well, though I'll always be partial to the cardboard standee art from the Battletech Fourth Edition starter box:
That Stalker looks pretty good though, whereas I usually dislike it.
Apparently even these artists couldn't redeem the Longbow however.
I will say the color scheme on that Catapult is really cool.
I like the new Longbow. It's got that "Fuck You MISSSSSSSSSSSIIIIILLLLLLEEEEES" look that I can appreciate.
Like a toned-down, more reasonable Bane 3.
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Nice. You might want markers for Skidding and Immobile too.
Flea
Cicada
Cataphract
Lao Hu
The Lao Hu model was created by this fellow who kitbashed it in to existence. A very Capellan thing to do, I must say. Technically it shouldn't have chicken legs, but it did in MechCommander 2 soooo. Plus I love chicken legs.
I had actually wanted the Sha Yu, but it seems I accidentally requested the Lao Hu instead. Ah well, all good.
B-b-b-bonus!
Gonna build a lance with a Crusader, Long Bow, and Archer. Thinking maybe a Valkyrie, since it's a classic/unseen, has LRMs (both of which are basically the goal here), and since it's a light it can scout/cover for the LRM team.
Of course I could just kitbash a Rifleman and a Catapult. They'll be MRM-bots anyway.
fakeedit - now that I look at, by the time you up-armor a Rifleman, you're looking at enough tonnage from the ACs for, like, a quad of MRM-10s, if you drop the MLs. Or drop the LLs, but I like those because they have the exact same range as the MRMs.
Me: “Easy, a 2000 Chevy Silverado looks very different from a 2020 Silverado.”
Edit- to expand.
My head canon for why models of the same Mech look different (whether official or 3rd party) is because visual tastes change over the decades or that different manufacturers take their own spin on things to make it “theirs”.
I generally go with "Most of these mechs are decades, maybe centuries, old, handed down through the generations, repaired and re-equipped as well as possible as needed, and over the years the repairs between two mechs on different planets probably diverges significantly enough to account for any difference in appearance."
Although I guess BattleTechwise that nomenclature makes it sound like a Clan OmniMech. Hmm.
Yeah that too.
In other tabletop games models being so visibly different would bug the hell out of me. In Battletech though I can think up a whole host of reasons why’d they’d be different.
That is one of the cool things about the whole "worn universe" aesthetic of Battletech, that you just don't tend to see in a lot of other settings.
Even in 40k, where, lore wise, you've got tanks that are centuries old, titans that have literally millennia of service walking through the most extreme war zones that can be imagined, and battle armor that's been handed down through the Space Marine chapters since the Emperor walked the fields of battle, and they all look the same. The landraiders that are rolling off production lines "today" look the same as the ones that have been in service for centuries.
Edit: To clarify, I realize there are in universe reasons for human tech never changing. But it still bugs me.
Easy.
Many of those Mechs were built shortly after the First Succession War. The industrial base of the Inner Sphere was basically non-existent. Manufacturers didn’t have the resources, tooling or know-how to get fancy with production and the Great Houses didn’t care. The House Lords wanted as many Mechs as they could get as fast as they could get them before the next war started. As a result manufacturers put out Mechs with a more utilitarian and basic design.