Sunday 6 September 2015

Battletech House Davion Mechs Part 2

Yesterday I finished another eight mechs for my Davion forces.  These are painted of course in the same scheme as my previous ones.  Nothing much else to say about them.  I have another 32 mechs in the mail and will be adding to this force to bring it up to around 30 or so.  The rest will go to House Kurita. 

I am having a heck of a time with my Kurita force; not one mech is painted yet.  I cannot decide on a scheme.  Perhaps I have been airbrushing so long that I have forgotten on how to brush paint effectively. 



Catapult

Hunchback

Atlas

Cicada

Quickdraw

Panther and Zeus

Wednesday 2 September 2015

Battletech House Davion Mechs


It has been awhile since I have posted anything on here.  However, I have been quite busy.  About a month ago I was bitten by the Battletech bug.  Over that period I have been furiously painting, stripping and repainting mechs for my forces.  I have about 60 mechs to paint up and a slew of vehicles.  I also scored about 600 pieces of the Heroscape terrain, along with a purchase of the felt hex mat (6x4).  The Heroscape tiles are perfect for Battletech.  However, I plan on painting them the same color as the hex max (going to color match the green at Home Depot).  The tiles look very toy-like (well they are toys) and a new paint job should solve this problem.

Funny enough, it was never my intention to start down the Battletech road.  I had initially bought several (well too many) mechs from Iron Wind Metals for my 15mm sci-fi forces to use as robots/drones.  However, once I started to look at the game system I fell in love (and received a large bill as a reward).

Although I have painted a lot in my time, I really struggled with these models.  I am used to airbrushing with a modulated finish.  These models although are vehicles paint differently (or I thought so).  I really struggled, stripping them all at least twice before I settled on a scheme.

In the end, I went with the Vallejo Model Air British Color Modulation kit.  It is a bronze green which eventually highlights up to a lighter green.  Being bipedal machines you really don't see the modulation much.  However, using that process helped me mentally to finish these.

The models are finished except for the unit decals (Robinsons Rangers) and some hazard stripes.  I don't have those from the mail yet.  My second force is from House Kurita.  I am finishing them this week and will post shortly.  They were quite an experience as well.



House Davion Forces

Awesome


Cyclops

Marauder 4X

 
Banshee

Grasshopper

Davion Infantry & APC

Dervish

Commando & Assassin

Awesome...I love this guy


Enforcer

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