What do i do with this grey Battletech stuff?

Last one for a bit….promise……

So going on with my personalising each of the mechs. The company commanders mech, a Black Knight. I decided that the pilot was from the Draconis combine and the big ol’ shield section meant i could add a decal.

The decal itself is a dry rub decal from an old Gundam kit. Once it was down it was time to sponge on some black and metal to give it a worn look and then back in with my base green to break that up and give it a more irregular pattern.

All in all i like it a lot.

Captain Alison Tanaka

Okay it took a week for me to notice the shout out, and it’s really appreciated.

In real life i teach kids with autism, as you can guess i dont have a huge amount of free time and motivation can be a pain in the backside when you’ve worked 10 hours and you still have planning for a lesson to do. In fact i should be writing an assembly right now.

So things like this matter i think. It’s not bragging rights. Its someone taking a moment and going ‘hey thats cool’ and it builds motivation. I think its why community is important. Having folk around you, even if its just a clicking a button to say thumbs up, being positive pushes you to keep going.

So next weekend my plan is to add some more personal details to some of the machines, and do a bit more work kicking my 40k idea around (I wont look at the spreadsheet that lists the mechs i need for the assault trinary for my Ghost bear project…..which is suposed yo be a week and done….stupid hob.)

Anyway community good, recognition gooderer (i mentioned i educate people right?). Thanks!

Well ‘someone’ asked for it. A ELH poster. 🙂

In other news, i discovered today that my childhood art hero likes my paintings which is nice. Some more mini work this weekend.

So added arm tattoos to the Dragon. I imagine the pilot is copying his own tattoos onto their machine as a personal touch.

Call sign ‘Demon’ has painted a demon in their hip. Simple and works i think on the Wolfhound.

I would have probably personalised a lance today, however i had a sudden ‘can you write a proposal for an art book’ message and my entire day got, in a good way, turned upside down. Not going to jinx it by giving details, but serious happy moment today!

I think its important that when we work on projects not to make the assumption that if you have only done a little its not worthwhile.