From SanderS: More stompy robots (50 points)

 Hoi,

Last week left me with little enough hobbytime so I decided to take a different approach to some of my Battletech mechs; contrast paint! I am on the whole not a big fan of "slapchopping" miniatures or, for that matter, contrast paint. To me, contrast paint and all other brands' equivalents are in the main a sort of wash/ ink to be used when and if required,. This has led to some of the guys at the club calling me a traditional painter, I take that as a compliment. 

Anyway, a long story short; for battletech I don't mind if the miniatures are only painted to tabletop standard and so I tried out the army painter range of Speed Paint  paints. Don't tell anyone but I am rather happy with the results and might even do this with other mechs, not sure about using it like this on "real" miniatures though. So for now, let the conga-lines commence:

As I mentioned last mech post, a unit of 5 Clan mechs is called a star, now a unit of 2 stars is called a binary. Therefore here you see a binary of Clan Jade Falcon mechs belonging to Delta Galaxy (galaxy being the name for regiment) together with the other star they make a trinary.

So pointswise 10 roughly 28mm figures is another 50 points for the scoreboard for me!

Cheers Sander.

Sylvain: I will join your club and call myself a "traditional painter". I have not experimented with contrast paint yet, but seeing the great result you obtained, I feel encouraged to give it a try. I like how bright and colorful your mechs are, no risk of friendly fire in this case. Great submission! 

 

From SanderS: Overdues and Returns, Clan Jade Falcon! (50 points)

 Hoi,

Let's travel from the Fantasy Department in the Library to the Overdues and Returns section with some Battletech figures that have been cluttering my pile of shame for at least 5 years. 

These are 6 Clan Jade Falcon mechs that I have painted up in the colours of Delta Galaxy, i.e. jade green with yellow accents. Usually Clan mechs operate in units of 5 called stars (each star has 5 points after all) but I had these 6 basecoated since the Kickstarter for the Clan Invasion by Catalyst Games was released. 

There's 3 older white metal figures, shown below, and I do like the hefty feel of them as opposed to the new plastic ones.

The plastic mechs however are far easier to paint with better details and sizes. 

I only applied transfers for the Clan itself (the green bird with katana on a blue white square backing) and for Delta Galaxy (the white bird with a blue wave in the background) on their legs, there's too little flat space to add other decals like numerals etc. 

Now again these miniatures are roughly the size of a good 28mm figure and together with the Library bonus that should net me 50 points. Oh and of course they will net me 30 points in the Stompy Robots Side Duel ;-)

Cheers Sander.

Sylvain: Camouflages is for sissis, that's what these lovely painted mechs are yelling at me. The vivid contrast between the green and the yellow works very well and the details on the panel lines emphasizes their mechanical nature. 50 points well deserved!