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Quick doodles of things I saw while out walking today
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Magnetized Joints / Torso Twist
For sick action-figure movement.
Hacked up some minis and affixed magnets in the joints for some movement. Now you can track torso twists physically on the board. And swing the axe arm for shits n' giggles.
Honestly starting was a little nerve-wracking since it's the first time I'd set out to willingly damage a model. Normally I baby them and cringe if I drop them.
Pictured: Hand drill, magnets, wharncliffe knife I'm using cause I didn't bother getting a hobby knife, and a serrated kitchen knife I was using as a saw until I cracked and got the lil Tamiya craft saws on the right.
Here's the poor Axman, after a few rounds of sawing at it and soaking the joint in superglue un-cure, either the glue dissolved enough or the plastic softened enough to where I could twist the joint apart.
Left: Bushwacker with magnets top and bottom, also Axman axe arm taken off. Then Nightstar with the same. On the right: how I kept the magnets + greenstuff to make sure I didn't put them in backwards. Needed dabs of superglue under the magnets to keep them from pulling each other out of the greenstuff.
Hacked off the Bushwacker's triangular shoulder missiles and sculpted on a PROPER X-shaped LRM-5 launcher from MechWarrior 3, *Ahem*. (I'm sure they made the change for ease of plastic casting or something.)
Axman got a bit taller cause I misjudged the magnet depth too shallow, filled in some greenstuff to hide the magnet again.
Joints before+after priming Platemail Silver.
On the right: the Exterminator's legs are drying held in the assembly stand because his leg/hip joint twisted off before his waist joint did...
KGC-010 mod. Cut off the Large Laser, modeled some flush-mounted particle cannons surrounded with SRM-6 launchers, and spiky cooling vanes poking out the back.
Left: Extra articulation on the Black Knight to make him Monty-Python compatible. "I'll bite yer legs off!" Note the head's Small Laser.
Right: BL-6-KNT further modded into a BL-9 "Clanbuster" variant: Cut SL from head and glued to CT, modeled an axe out of greenstuff. Held upside down while the glue was drying and greenstuff was curing, because otherwise it started to droop from the weight of the axe head.
Side note: Apparently the BL-9 has a "Sword-shaped Hatchet". Hatchet according to record sheet, Sword according to lore. This must be some easter egg from the early days of melee weapons before Swords got their own rules or something. I got got. Reminds me of how the King Crab just has bog-standard hand actuators instead of Claws that were only added to the rules way after its time.
KGC's LL reused to create an infantry mortar emplacement, in a ring of sandbags.
One last glamour shot showing all the converted minis twisting.
Didn't forget about that triangular LRM-5 from the Bushwacker, did you? Created a stationary defense turret with it to the left of the mortar, modeled some other missiles and gun barrels using greenstuff and a 3d Pen. The one on the right is entirely scratch-built.
Now I have to decide how I want to paint them.
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Cafe drawing time
Yes, it WAS the biggest puffer jacket I'd ever seen. It was white, like looking at some kind of giant polarbear-larva crossbreed. Or one of those mechanoid centipedes from Rimworld. Bet it was warm as heck though.
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RGB Metallic Dragons
Red: Hunchback IIC
Green: Warhammer IIC
Blue: Supernova (King Crab IIC, in spirit.)
Scales, because I didn't hate myself enough after the Jaguar spots.
Teeth and eyes were fun after the Black Marauder.
And a closer look at the bases (Lighting was really hard for some reason):
Single solitary WIP shot. Whoops. Forgot to take more.
-Black Primer
-Turbo Dork color shift paints (Wavelength, Electrum, GroundIsLava)
5 coats of the stuff! Pain in the ass, but looks nice. Works best applied thin, it seems to like being brushed with water afterwards, improves the glitter. Gloss varnish helps too.
-Shadowing undersides with R/G/B inks respectively
-Gunmetal metallic paint on interior bits
-watered down White paint in heatsink grilles
-Orange/Red ink ontop for overheating effect
-Tried some OSL around the grilles with partly dry brush
-Scale colors:
Platemail Silver + blue ink overtop
Glitter Green
Rough Iron + red ink ontop
-White drybrush scratchy weathering
-Lasers/Cockpits, white first, then ink
-Teeth and eyes!
Basing:
Green was pretty straightforward flock+twig, I went around the edge with green ink and matte varnish.
Blue was snow flock + Soft Tone wash for the sand, then water medium + a tiny bit of blue paint. Brushed lightly with teal ink around the edges for deeper seawater. Then hit the surface carefully with white for foamy water crests.
Red base:
-Painted white first.
-Glued gravel flock.
-Black paint + Water medium, formed some jagged shapes ontop, leaving cracks of white visible beneath.
-Orange ink in the cracks, watered down so it would cling to the gravel sides more and leave the bottoms of the cracks light.
-Touched up some black peaks with Night Scales metallic
-Matte varnish on magma, gloss varnish on rock
Phew!
#battletech#mechwarrior#scifi#military#mecha#miniature painting#tabletop wargaming#hobbies#how to#breakdown#scalie
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My take on an interesting BT weapon, the Bombast Laser.
Breakdown above, quick and dirty sketch of some experimental Hunchback 7X action at a Solaris 7 arena below.
HBK-7X's probably weren't there at S7 canonically given there were only four prototypes made, and especially not with Bombasts on them, but the intro dates line up and I like Hunchbacks.
And there's a stunning lack of large laser Hunchbacks.
Oh hey, big capacitor on the back... You all know what caps are supposed to do in BT. Haha... Bomb-Assed Laser.
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It’s almost Urbie pack time! They should be going on sale Saturday, January 20th.
To celebrate, here is the last print of the pack!
Look for an announcement soon when the packs go on sale.
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Individual turnarounds from the last Smoke Jaguar Omega post.
Timber Wolf (Inner Sphere name: Madcat)
Iconic Clan mech.
Pouncer
Unsurprisingly, lots of jump jets.
Fire Moth (IS: Dasher)
Very fast, go figure. Taxicab for BattleArmor. Thin armor.
Nova (Black Hawk)
Also a taxi for BA, but packing more heat. TOO much heat, imo.
Warhawk (Masakari)
Dire Wolf (Daishi)'s little brother.
Why YES, those ARE tiny blue Omega letters on everyone's right shin and left shoulder! And no, they weren't easy! Freehanded, just like the checkers. But both of those were still less of a pain than all the gray circles everywhere though.
Gotta say it was a surreal feeling to paint disruptive camouflage, something intended to break up contours, then follow it by washing and dry brushing... Things expressly meant to highlight contours.
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Smoke Jaguar Omega Galaxy
Deployed above on the planet Backyardton
Star turnaround
Alpha Strike box complete!
This is what a fair IS vs Clan fight looks like. Two Lances vs one Star. 8v5. Don't forget Clan trueborns have skills one point better than IS.
(There's several reasons why you wouldn't see these 3 factions on the same battlefield together lorewise but whatever.)
WIPs at the end as always
-Primed black
-Gray leopard spots (These took forEVER and almost broke me)
-White on flag spots to help the:
-Yellow and Orange-Red show up boldly (would've sucked over black)
-Night Scales inside the spots (It barely shows.)
-Cockpits/Glass (ink on white)
-Glowing red overheating effect in the radiator grills (watered down white undercoat, red ink on outer, "cooler" edges, orange ink on inner, hotter edges closer to the mech's reactor)
-Wash/Drybrush
-Basing (gravel flock and tiny sticks from the backyard)
-Painted burn marks/embers/ash on the basing
-I did the white undercoat trick on the front hex face hoping it'd help the Night Scales I was putting over it (it didn't.)
Seriously I don't know what's up with this metallic black. Sometimes it shows nice and glittery, sometimes it looks like a really dark gray.
Also, the two-tone cockpits were a Happy Little Accident, as Bob Ross would say. I had put beige ink on my palette in a dried spot of teal ink, not knowing it would rehydrate. It's not like acrylic paint where once it's hardened it ain't coming back, this stuff will reactivate with water. So I found the color slowly bleeding more and more into teal. After that I did it on purpose.
I took some closeups, those will follow (not enough space in this post)
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Arano Royal Guard
Good old House Arano from the Battletech videogame by HBS.
Go play it right now if you haven't yet, it's a masterpiece turn-based strategy game even if you're not specifically a BT fan.
These minis came from the Alpha Strike box. I'd already done up the IS assault mechs in blue for the "Kestrel's Lament" post so I wanted to do the remaining scout lance in red for contrast.
Extra focus on the bases here. Blue team had rivers/marsh beneath so red gets lava rocks and magma.
It's some rubble flocking painted over with Night Scales metallic black. THIS is how it's supposed to look! Glitters of blues/greens/whites in with the black. Fittingly makes it look like magnetite here. The glitters barely showed at all on the Black Marauder. Maybe because that was painted over a black basecoat? Here it went on raw over un-primed brown gravel and turned out great.
Next I painted white in the gaps, then filled that in with water medium mixed with orange ink.
One more lineup from down low, like they're coming over a ridge. It's easy to forget what mechs might look like coming head-on when we're always looking down on the minis from above.
Also screw whoever made the Wraith's short designation "TR#". I guess "WTH" wouldn't go over well haha. But TR? For what, Troll?
WIPs here. Steps taken:
-Platemail silver primer
-Blood Red speedpaint
-Gold/Night Scales highlights
-Dark Tone wash (Only necessary over the non-speedpaints)
-Blue, then watered-down white in jumpjets
-Matte white, then inks on cockpits and lasers
-Glued base flocking then prepared as mentioned above
-Gloss varnish (extra heavy on cockpits/lasers)
Next for the remaining clan star, they're primed in black, I figure the classic bad guys of Smoke Jaguar should be a good opponent.
Mechwarrior 3 was my introduction to the franchise. "Die, Clanner!"
#battletech#mechwarrior#hbs bt#video games#tabletop wargaming#miniature painting#modeling#lava#volcanic#sci fi#military#mecha#board games
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The Black Marauder IIC
Turnaround:
WIPs:
The "Black Marauder" is a horror story of a cursed mech. Over the years urban legend has built it up into some kind of extradimensional beast, a living machine that moves of its own volition, consumes the souls of its victims and strikes fear in all that come close to it. It emerges from mist and shadows to kill efficiently and mercilessly before disappearing once more.
So I know the story says it looks like an inner sphere MAD-3R, but the way it's described as looking "Off-proportioned" and "Too smooth, almost organic-looking" makes me think it's a IIC. That and it having "Teeth", which the IIC's array of chin-lasers could be mistaken for. It also has a tendency to oneshot mechs with PPCs to the cockpit, which only Clan PPCs have the damage to do reliably. It performs unusually well in smoke/fog (advanced clan sensors perhaps?). Maybe the pirates didn't recognize what they were looking at given they lived on the opposite side of IS space from the Clan invasion front. It's also black with bits of red, the paint scheme of a certain Wolf's Dragoons "mercenary company" (read: Clan spies roaming IS space) which would explain the lack of factory markings/serial numbers. The stories mention weird behavior and unidentifiable mechanical issues so it could've been left behind since it was a liability, stripped of insignia and left on a forsaken airless asteroid in some random uninhabited system to conceal the trail.
That's just my pet theory, anyway.
Pictured: Teefies (and bloody claws)
This one was difficult for a different reason, not painting this time but being my first time working with greenstuff and sculpting/modifying a miniature.
The paint job itself was fairly quick because of the almost uniform coloration despite the number of steps:
-Primed with matte black
-basecoated with Night Scales metallic black (It barely shows up, there is a faint glitter in some spots but mostly it looks like a slightly lighter black.)
-Heavily drybrushed with Rough Iron, a dark rust color metallic
-Lighter drybrush with Gunmetal, grayish/silver metallic.
at this point I thought it was too light/shiny so I went over some panels with matte black paint, keeping away from the edges I'd drybrushed.
-Mars Red in the eyeholes. White on the lasers/cockpit later covered with Red/Green/Blue speedpaint.
-Blood Red speedpaint over the "monstrous" bits. It disappeared into the black, until:
-Gloss varnish over the speedpaint brought the red back out again. I wanted everything to be black but still have the monster bits to stand out texturally, the gloss makes them glisten nicely.
-Anti-shine matte varnish on the rest. That still looks pretty shiny to me but what can you do (Vantablack miniature paint, anyone??)
-The label says MAD-BLK in the Standard Galactic Alphabet. At some point I knew how to read/write it after it featured in Minecraft enchantments, though by now I lost that and had to look it up.
The sculpting was interesting.
-Green stuff is tacky and sticks to my fingers when fresh, hard to apply to the model in a careful manner, but is pretty easily workable on the model, once it's on.
At some points I used metal sculpting tools almost like chopsticks to avoid touching it with my hands.
I twisted a pointed tool like a little drill bit to get the eyeholes in.
-Getting closer to the 1hr mark it stiffens up and becomes the opposite. Easier to apply and get off my fingers but harder to work into the shapes I want and fit in the crevices for a good hold.
-The claws are superglued given they're sticking out a fair bit. Roughed up the plastic surface before applying glue for a better bond. The other greenstuff I trusted to stay on since they were molded into the surfaces pretty closely.
-The blood was red ink Speedpaint mixed with good old AK water medium.
I'll have to do more modding in future, truly customize my mechs.
Last Lance of Cardinal Sins featured a Zeus, only too late did I have the idea of modding a ZEU-X with the wing-like cooling vanes. Fortunately I have a King Crab waiting for me (my favorite mech!) to make a prototype KGC-010 with. It has flush-mounted dual PPCs with spiky cooling vanes sticking out the back. Should be fun.
#battletech#mechwarrior#miniature painting#green stuff#modeling#sculpting#art#sci fi#monster#ghost stories#urban legends#eldritch#horror
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Merry Mechmas!
Christmas-colored mercenary faction, "Cardinal Sins":
https://unitcolorcompendium.com/2019/03/12/cardinal-sins/
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Cardinal_Sins
Stalker, Zeus, Trebuchet, Longbow.
I wanted to do a SLDF scheme since I had a spray can of Olive Drab laying around and the base coat would be super easy.
Eridani Light Horse? Fun but kinda the vanilla of paint schemes.
Black Watch? Better, but still a bit basic. Who else is there?
Hey, who are these christmas-tree looking guys? Fitting.
They flipped sides during the New Vandenberg Uprising, fighting for the rebels as mercenaries. Slapped red and gray marks on their olive-drab SLDF paintjob to stand apart.
They'd been put there to extort "protection money" (high taxes) out of a periphery state and pretty much had a moment like this:
#battletech#mechwarrior#christmas#holidays#star league#scifi#military#mecha#miniature painting#board games#tabletop wargaming#are we the baddies
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31: Fire
"We're gonna take control of this dumpster and we're gonna 9/11 it."
This is a follow up page after this other one back during mid-inktober:
Did I forget there was an Oct 31st during Inktober? No, I got busy, put the drawing idea off for one day, then all of a sudden it was 2 months later. Here you go.
I think the last panel is unintentionally hilarious. The tungsten dumpster and shitty building codes only exist to set up the massive dropping gut punch on the poor guy.
#inktober#drawing#comic#art#sun#moon#fire#collateral damage#destruction of property#reckless endangerment#negligent homicide#aggravated assault#brawler
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Hey! I'm Max. I was working on a beat em up game back in 2020 in Unity, that I've decided to return to in Godot.
It's going to be about a Gator, his friends, and their very stupid adventures. Here's his hauling ass run cycle.
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Inktober 30: Rush
Even when nothing much is going on I still feel rushed.
Is it physically impossible for me to relax?
Thematically appropriate soundtrack for drawing/working
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Inktober 29: Massive(ly Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)
My chars from Mabinogi hanging out in the Soul Stream:
Sharla-something...? (Forgot the Elf mage's name :P And she's from a separate lost account that I can't check)
Kalirae (Dark Knight, dual guns. Was battlemage before gun update.)
Kelrak (DK, either activating Final Hit or going Supersaiyan)
Suriga (Paladin, 1st char from before the Elf+Giant update, wish humans could shoot bows from horseback >:C )
Surigan (mule and farm bitch. And shooting bow from horseback.)
Surikong (Giant alchemist. Repetitive names were from not thinking I'd be playing the side chars much. Boy was I wrong.)
Shoutout if you recognize any of these names, it's a longshot, I ain't played for real in a long-ass time. I was on Alexina before they merged into one server. Darkstar guild back in the day, leader was Aaralynn. I popped back in 1-2yrs ago to look aound, pretty much all the names on my friends list were offline for years and the Guildstone was gone. I briefly joined a guild (whose name escapes me, sorry) led by Chagataibor before I dropped out again.
The world of Erinn feels like a mystical realm I can't truly go back to, because it has changed and so have I.
n o s t a l g i a
But, holy shit, did you hear they're porting Mabi to Unreal Engine?? I could hardly believe it. I'll check that out when it's ready, gonna be a while though, they just started in March this year I think.
I basically lived and breathed this game for a while like ~15yrs ago. I'm pleasantly surprised to see it's still going. And that my chars weren't deleted in that time. Apparently the game is huge in Korea, which is awkward when the content they create involves giant maps that then get brought over to NA where there isn't quite the same playerbase to populate it. Some areas are ghost towns.
#mmorpgs#mabinogi#gaming#anime#fantasy#magic#elf#giant#fire#ice#nostalgia#inktober#Lots of reference used to get the looks right otherwise the Fashionogis will kill me
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28: Sparkle
"Sparkly vampire" vs "a real fucking vampire"
continuing the black and white trend for a moment
apologies to Alucard fans for the hasty depiction
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