You can't. At least, not yet. I've been following the guy(?) on Facebook, and the crispness of those prints at the smaller scale is boggling.
And to be fair, Battleforce scale models have existed for forever now, and literally no one gives a shit about those!
Might just be me but the poses look identical to the .stls that were ripped from MWO and put out by Syllogy a while back? Pretty certain I have a 3d printed Atlas that looks exactly the same. Edit- looks like it's pretty much just the Atlas and Bushwhacker. Black Knight is similar but slightly different.
But now I want to print plates full of 25mm minis.
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You can't. At least, not yet. I've been following the guy(?) on Facebook, and the crispness of those prints at the smaller scale is boggling.
And to be fair, Battleforce scale models have existed for forever now, and literally no one gives a shit about those!
Might just be me but the poses look identical to the .stls that were ripped from MWO and put out by Syllogy a while back? Pretty certain I have a 3d printed Atlas that looks exactly the same. Edit- looks like it's pretty much just the Atlas and Bushwhacker. Black Knight is similar but slightly different.
But now I want to print plates full of 25mm minis.
You're probably not wrong. The Syllogy MWO models have gotten a ton of use out in the community, and have been used as the basis for kitbashes and alt sculpts and the like. That, and the base MWO models are ubiquitous at this point, so it's definitely one or the other.
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edited September 2021
Random trivia update.
Battletech, the tabletop miniatures wargame, exists within the Battletech universe.
So the question is- Are you simply playing through the battles of the Fourth Succession War leading a Davion force to victory or are you a Capellan nerd roleplaying as a FedSuns General because the bad guys are always cool?
edit- it also means that this is within the possibility of canon.
edit 2- Oh if you enjoy the Battletech Audiobooks you may hear a familiar voice soon. It seems student vouchers are not enough to cover booze expenses.
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Stills from a recently discovered training simulation carried out by Comstar forces on the eve of Operation Bulldog, circa 3059:
A ComStar Level II is baited into an ambush by a lone Hunchback IIC
The Highlander and Black Knight engaging the Hunchback IIC
The rest of the Smoke Jaguar Garrison star preparing to spring the trap
The trap is sprung, but the ComStar King Crab had turned a corner and and forces the Smoke Jaguars to contemplate splitting their fire
The ComStar Exterminator and Sentinel attempt to open another flank on the Smoke Jaguar lines
Additional stills during the ambush:
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edited September 2021
With the arrival of Wave 2, and nearing the tail end (spoiler: it's a remarkably long tail) of the task, Project Build All The Things takes a....kitbashed turn.
On the left, a pristine SLDF King Crab.
On the right, slightly unfinished and cobbled from all sorts of parts, a King Crab.
While most may choose to pilot the former, I believe in the build of the latter for the simple fact it could torso twist more than five degrees off center.
Truly, a build of Periphery inspiration.
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God bless you Periphery.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
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For no particular reason, except maybe to spark imagination, here is random BT art from around the Net.
The second one with the Marauder? Take a second hard look at it, I love it.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
That urbanmech in #9 is being loaded with fin-stabilized discarding sabot rounds, but it's AC barrel is clearly rifled. What sort of two-bit fictional-realism is this??
These are all awesome. #1 and #3 with the hatchetmen my favorites of this bunch. Such good storytelling going on.
And because of that last pic, I'd totally play a mechwarrior game based around running a salvage company, dragging mech carcasses out of swamps ala Spintires.
whats interesting, and i never really realized before, canonically the Jenner cant torso twist. Was reading the Battlemech Manual looking at quirks last night and noticed it.
probably why he didnt see that car. HEYOOOOOO. ill be here all night
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edited September 2021
Man, the MAD II (c?) getting brutalized by the Hatchemans is *chef's kiss*
That'll instantly be one of my IRL buddies' new top fave, he's got a deep and abiding passion for hatchet-bearing stompybots.
And I literally have a unit scheduled for a Raven Alliance R-Team, a "combat salvage" star the Ravens use, and I can tell you a Locust does NOT have good towing capacity!
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edited September 2021
Blurry pic from my friend's phone since I'd forgotten mine at home, but the Desert map pack's airfield is so good
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And I literally have a unit scheduled for a Raven Alliance R-Team, a "combat salvage" star the Ravens use, and I can tell you a Locust does NOT have good towing capacity!
My immediate reaction when I got to that pic was to laugh out loud and go "are they really going to make that poor Locust try to winch out a Hunchback?"
Look at its spindly legs, they aren't built for industrialmech work, they're meant to run wild and free! It's practically bug 'mech cruelty.
And I literally have a unit scheduled for a Raven Alliance R-Team, a "combat salvage" star the Ravens use, and I can tell you a Locust does NOT have good towing capacity!
My immediate reaction when I got to that pic was to laugh out loud and go "are they really going to make that poor Locust try to winch out a Hunchback?"
Look at its spindly legs, they aren't built for industrialmech work, they're meant to run wild and free! It's practically bug 'mech cruelty.
It's just trying to get the cable over to the ground vehicles.
I'm sure they've got winches much better suited to the task.
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edited September 2021
God dammit.
Now I want a "Mech Salvage Simulator 3021" ala the Farm/Construction/Whatever sim games.
edit- with a splash of Hardspace: Shipbreaker
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Reminds me of a scenario in the old battleforce book. Basically it's you vs your opponent with salvage markers scattered on the map. You gotta fight to collect the most.
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edited September 2021
Turns out a couple centuries ago the SLDF fought a battle in a valley on some backwater Periphery world. A stray shot destroyed a large dam and flooded the entire place under a couple hundred meters of water and mud. Everything was lost. Fast forward to present and that lake has dried up considerably and some random farmer rediscovered the battle site. Star League era mechs ripe for the taking! Sure they're a bit water logged and still buried in mud, but easy pickings otherwise!
Get in, secure the area and defend our salvage team.
Though we're not going to be the only crew out there. That damn farmer told everyone from here to Terra about it.
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Finally consolidated my Wave 1 and Wave 2 boxes together so I can store them easier.
Somehow I wound up getting two Mercenaries II pilot decks.
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During Wave One (or those with Single-Wave shipping) we produced and delivered three MechWarrior Pilot Decks:
Champions of the Inner Sphere I
Mercenaries of the Inner Sphere II
Warriors of Kerensky I
As part of Wave Two we were supposed to produce the following decks:
Battle of Tukayyid
Mercenaries of the Inner Sphere I
Warriors of Kerensky II
What no one foresaw was how insanely complicated these decks would be to produce. Custom art, based on backer photos or description. Rendering of the art for the units with appropriate colors. Collation. Coordination. We stressed out our pool of authors, artists and fact checkers; just about killed out Art Director who still rolls into a fetal position any time we bring up doing new custom-art card decks.
In the end, with the clock bearing down on us and no leeway from our factory (at that time) for error, we chose to focus our efforts on the miniatures, maps, plushies, and so on. So, instead of three decks, we took the best of what we had ready and produced one new deck: Heroes of the Clan Invasion.
Everyone who purchased any of those decks will receive a credit in the coming weeks. ALSO, you should receive a free copy of Heroes as our way of making up for any inconvenience.
As with the faction dice, above, we hope to revisit these decks in the future.
I think everyone just got a 2nd copy of Mercs II instead. Which I'm extremely annoyed by. They made three decks for wave one yet somehow "no one foresaw was how insanely complicated these decks would be to produce" when it came time for wave two, so instead of warning us they just changed it on the fly.
and the best part is that thers a Mercs 2 deck, but there will never be a Mercs 1 deck. collector OCD on fire.
Going into the same pile as Card #65 of the Alpha Strike Lance Pack cards. There were 8 Lance Packs with 8 cards apiece totaling 64, but they're all labelled as "n/65".
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and aint no one giving them up
Not true. A handful have sold on eBay in the last couple weeks, ranging from $60 to $90 a pop.
Those valuations are making it really hard to justify holding onto mine.
I'm either going to sell mine then, or I'm willing to trade it for some stompybois.
Edit: Added a category for trading the Shilone to the sheet.
That's a lot of painting to do, I used a whole can of spray primer.
Awwww. :bro:
Double sided tape on a paint stirrer, let's you get all the sides and underneath and keep a pretty good distance from the can.
i spray at a distance like its a dick measuring contest. it says 6-8 inches, but its 4 at best
Mini Mini Mechs! Its like Polly Pocket for mechs! 'Mechkins!
This is the future!
Arclight Miniatures. Turns Alpha Strike into almost a board game.
And to be fair, Battleforce scale models have existed for forever now, and literally no one gives a shit about those!
probably because they look like garbage compared to those mini works of art
- 2x Mist Lynx
- Ice Ferret
- Viper
- Adder
- Executioner
- Grendel
- Nova
- Piranha
- Horned Owl
And I think at this point my want list (for Clan mechs at least) is probably in order of priority/want here:
- Mad Dog
- Linebacker
- Warhawk
- Crossbow
- Kingfisher
On the Inner Sphere/Comstar side my list is just a Griffin and maybe a Mongoose?
Might just be me but the poses look identical to the .stls that were ripped from MWO and put out by Syllogy a while back? Pretty certain I have a 3d printed Atlas that looks exactly the same. Edit- looks like it's pretty much just the Atlas and Bushwhacker. Black Knight is similar but slightly different.
But now I want to print plates full of 25mm minis.
You're probably not wrong. The Syllogy MWO models have gotten a ton of use out in the community, and have been used as the basis for kitbashes and alt sculpts and the like. That, and the base MWO models are ubiquitous at this point, so it's definitely one or the other.
Battletech, the tabletop miniatures wargame, exists within the Battletech universe.
So the question is- Are you simply playing through the battles of the Fourth Succession War leading a Davion force to victory or are you a Capellan nerd roleplaying as a FedSuns General because the bad guys are always cool?
edit- it also means that this is within the possibility of canon.
edit 2- Oh if you enjoy the Battletech Audiobooks you may hear a familiar voice soon. It seems student vouchers are not enough to cover booze expenses.
Stills from a recently discovered training simulation carried out by Comstar forces on the eve of Operation Bulldog, circa 3059:
A ComStar Level II is baited into an ambush by a lone Hunchback IIC
The Highlander and Black Knight engaging the Hunchback IIC
The rest of the Smoke Jaguar Garrison star preparing to spring the trap
The trap is sprung, but the ComStar King Crab had turned a corner and and forces the Smoke Jaguars to contemplate splitting their fire
The ComStar Exterminator and Sentinel attempt to open another flank on the Smoke Jaguar lines
Additional stills during the ambush:
On the left, a pristine SLDF King Crab.
On the right, slightly unfinished and cobbled from all sorts of parts, a King Crab.
While most may choose to pilot the former, I believe in the build of the latter for the simple fact it could torso twist more than five degrees off center.
Truly, a build of Periphery inspiration.
The second one with the Marauder? Take a second hard look at it, I love it.
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It's a FrakenMech too, the legs are from something else. I love it so much.
Goddamn I love that art.
Trying to find non-meme UrbanMech art is exceptionally difficult.
And because of that last pic, I'd totally play a mechwarrior game based around running a salvage company, dragging mech carcasses out of swamps ala Spintires.
That'll instantly be one of my IRL buddies' new top fave, he's got a deep and abiding passion for hatchet-bearing stompybots.
And I literally have a unit scheduled for a Raven Alliance R-Team, a "combat salvage" star the Ravens use, and I can tell you a Locust does NOT have good towing capacity!
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My immediate reaction when I got to that pic was to laugh out loud and go "are they really going to make that poor Locust try to winch out a Hunchback?"
Look at its spindly legs, they aren't built for industrialmech work, they're meant to run wild and free! It's practically bug 'mech cruelty.
It's just trying to get the cable over to the ground vehicles.
I'm sure they've got winches much better suited to the task.
Now I want a "Mech Salvage Simulator 3021" ala the Farm/Construction/Whatever sim games.
edit- with a splash of Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Get in, secure the area and defend our salvage team.
Though we're not going to be the only crew out there. That damn farmer told everyone from here to Terra about it.
Somehow I wound up getting two Mercenaries II pilot decks.
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I think everyone just got a 2nd copy of Mercs II instead. Which I'm extremely annoyed by. They made three decks for wave one yet somehow "no one foresaw was how insanely complicated these decks would be to produce" when it came time for wave two, so instead of warning us they just changed it on the fly.
Going into the same pile as Card #65 of the Alpha Strike Lance Pack cards. There were 8 Lance Packs with 8 cards apiece totaling 64, but they're all labelled as "n/65".
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