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With the advent of reinforced armor the battle field scourge of the autocannons shall finally come to an end.

Buff those autocannons!

Gang gang, kids! Let's get it!

Welcome back?

Agreed do what you want becomes mercenary commander 😊

I just recently bought some clan salvage boxes from catalyst and i like the idea of painting thw mechs i got based on the pilot cards in the boxes, spo i have two options each for the mechs

I have mixed thoughts also. I want to play it a few times before I decide. I like the concept... Wait, the manticore is just a PPC now? ... ... ...

Never knew people were fretting about painting Battletech. Learn something everyday.

Get yo the point

I appreciate the Hell out'a this video.

Basically i am a part of a secret ComStar force, pretending to be someone else for the sake of some bloke named blake. Im in

You may be able to help me with this, I have been trying to find a place to get metal miniatures. Do you know the website where they can be ordered on?

Unsung because anyone piloting the Assassin wont survive to tell about it?

Animated backgrounds were really good too

I love dives into Battletech like this. pointing out the cockpit on the new catalyst sculpt of the Crab to people never gets old watching brains shatter when it doesn't match the online games, and how much it changes the stance of the mech.

I was hoping putting together IWM models would be just getting some super glue, a hobby knife, and just putting it together....... with no assembly instructions for the models themselves and then realizing I've had to buy a hundred dollars worth of tools, and then realizing I'm still missing some tools or other things, I feel incredibly over my head and super afraid of braking the model or doing it wrong. Now my model kits sit on my table still in the plastic and I have no idea when I'll even try it.

I love flawed and "bad" 'mechs, and its awesome to see such love for the Assassin! I love all the 40 tonners, tho my favourites would be the Clint and the Vulcan

I always say what faction you want to play is basically what color you like.

Played some Megamek against these. 2 heavies and 2 pimped out discobacks (Hardened armor, doubles, and ER lasers) versus a blackjack and 2 Assassins... They ran up to me and started throwing hands that knocked over my hunchbacks and killed my custom heavy sniper with an AC2 critical. They then proceeded to kick the shit out of my last mech's legs until it didn't even have any left while my hunchbacks were spending turns getting up, getting kicked again, falling over and getting knocked out. a pair of brawler mediums and heavy support snipers got got by undergunned heavy scouts and baby's first sniper mech.

I see an Ostscout, I click on the video.

Exactly what I was looking for

Where do I find that print?

I DON'T FRET over how I paint my mechs! I paint them the way I want and thier not everyone's liking ,they can kiss my ASS! I paint for my enjoyment NOT THERE'S! I got 281 CGL MECH'S and I have had a ball painting them!

as an unorthodox method, I use Elmer's glue (white glue). while you should give it 4-6 hours to cure, it's strong and fills gaps. I have original lead and white metal Warhammer, rifleman and marauder. held together with only white glue. 35 years later, I knocked them from table height onto linoleum. while guns bent, none of the glued parts broke. to speed up the curing process, you can add a tiny amount of super glue. however, as you stated, fit is very important. pinning helps as well.

I'm twice as stressed now

This is absolutely beautiful. Well done man on a great paint job

I came up with something similar while working on a miscast Orion. I didn't have greenstuff at the time and used some kind of plumbing epoxy. Now that I see how little you used it makes sense why mine completely destroyed the mini. Thanks for sharing!

Ah, the flamingo marauder. I've had plenty of personal problems with assembling that model. Use jb weld and never have to worry about it again

To echo some of the others here, I’ve been looking for this kind of format of show on Battletech, your format of painting with audio podcast on lore and advice is so cool. Thank you and please make more

Black prime, zenithal gray followed by downstroke drybrush white. Contrasts in greys, browns, tans, and greens other than canopies and weapons. Done.

The Assassin, in all variants, has been a good mech to me and my pilots. Its the user, never the vehicle, that is the problem.

The assassin is weird.. but we love it for it.

ASN-21 is my commander mech all the way through MW5. Four SRM2 and two med lasers is a lot when you are screaming thru the sky at 200kph.

Could you guysmake a checklist video of the battle tech mechs? That would be awesome to see

A complete copy of Rolling Thunder as I’m painting the 1st Regulan, respect for the history of the miniatures, rescue cats…jeez the algorithm really is spying on me. Just found you guys, subscribed.

i run an asn dd in mwo. binary laser with an xpulse in the head. thing runs at about 160kph and can fly before the latest update i usually ran ermls and an lbx

Love the fade

That paintjob is amazing. People always tell me I should commission paint, but your painting is beyond amazing - so scratch what I said in that first sentence - it's on a whole new level of awesome. Will u do a tutorial on how to paint htis pls?

I love the assassin. Played 3 weeks in a row before my mates banned me. First CT crit ammo on a Cyclops, It was the Big Bad in the campaign. First battle recon, DRT. Next week charged an Atlas. Yeah off the table. Next week DFA on a Devastator head hit or hits I can't remember. Told after that no more assassins. Lucky I prefer SPR-5F Spector.

I'm am all for content like this in a podcast form. While youtube be videos for miniature painting and the like.

One could also paint a piece of paper and fold it over old school. A new take on an old idea!!

It's a terrible insight as to how badly GW has conditioned players, that someone actually asked "Will 40K paints work on Battletech?" Someone had actually been led to believe that Citadel paints were only formulated to work on GW minis or something. It blew my mind to even consider that, but I'm not surprised that GW is trying to indoctrinate people as to the proprietary nature of their product. Glad to see that Battletech has never succumbed to that nonsense. BTW my props to you for using the 8404 - it is, in my opinion, the best brush line for mini painting.

Nice novel collection bro. One of my favorite Mechs is the Exterminator Mech for using LOSTech

I always liked the Assassin. It's the mech i pilot the most in MW5.

One thing I would point out is don't worry about your skill level at painting, and don't let the idea of painting be too daunting. Back in the 90s when I first obtained some miniatures I got to painting them and didn't quite know what to do. We didn't exactly have online guides just yet and if there were, we didn't have google to find them. The minis that I had were the original pewter ones from Ral Partha. Previously in the 80s I had painted model kits as a kid but knew the oil paints used there was probably not going to work well. Instead I had a cheap set of acrylic paints, about 12 simple colors. What I would do is paint an under coat and let it dry. Then I would dry brush the main color on by getting paint on the brush and making sure it wasn't thick at all and mostly dry and then dab at the mini. The result was a very weathered look. Like the machine had been in the field for a few weeks. Then for the detailing I would use a watered down dark color, usually black to let it kind of soak into the nooks and crannies to give it an outline and let the shadows be more pronounced. Then I did the real heresy. I used an oil paint, a silver color to color in some of the barrels and vents to give them the metallic look. Didn't finish there. I would also use a glossy black or blue oil paint for the cockpit glass. More veteran painters like to use a jeweling effect using a few colors and white or similar color for highlights. Being glossy oil, the light in the room naturally reflected giving it more of a dynamic look. I was worried if painting these in such a way would cause some of the paint to degrade over time. Well.. 25 years later, they still look decent. Most mechs I painted were in random forms. Like Shadow Cat with a desert rocky camo (yellow and brown, again very simple colors of a cheap set). A bushwhacker in a fiery red and yellow. And one in some artic camo (I think an Orion) using baby blue and white. When I finally did some unit colors, I did some in the Davion Brigade of Guards parade colors of red, white, and blue. However I didn't know what kind of blue they used, so I ended up using baby blue with a red and white thin (and I mean very thin) stripe (instead of entire panels). Again we didn't have CamoSpecs Online back then or if we did, I didn't know. But when I later saw the actual pattern, I kinda shrugged and thought my way was better then the canon one. Though what is kind of weird is I do see the red and white striping in a lot of paintings and even in MW5 if I'm not mistaken (I might be remembering wrong, hadn't played it in a bit). Maybe I was on to something nearly 3 decades ago? In either case, look around for a few tips, and do the stuff that seems easy. It will help build the confidence. And don't be afraid to skip a few more complex things. The idea is to get something painted and see how bad ass it is. You can do the minute stuff later if you feel you need to. And if you don't, no one should judge you. They're your minis. Most of us have minis that are decades old and unpainted anyway. The best advice everyone ignores is don't buy more before you paint the ones you have. So no one ought to be judging anyone just based on that.

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