Start your Battletech engines!
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About the Project
Nostalgia reboot based on the never-ending Mercs KS discussion.
Related Game: Battletech
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
First completed ‘mech!
First mech done – minus some flock and a varnish. Chose to start with a woodland theme for the first group. Pretty happy with the result, the cockpit glass was done with inks, and the rest with AK gen3 paints. Number was a rub-on transfer painted over.
Oooh! Colours!
So the experiment with paint pens was a bit disappointing. The Battletech minis are too small scale, with too many deep recesses, to make the pens really work.
Contrast colours? It’s a first step.
Not knowing how to organize my mechs, I just divided them up by size-ish groups, and then picked a colour to base them in.
They are now drying. On to details and more stuff next time!
First ‘mech started - with AK paint pens!
So here’s my first ‘mech. Forgive me for not looking up which one it is, I only recognize a few right now.
Primed light grey, painted AK black by brush (the pen doesn’t have the reach for some areas!).
Then highlighting with rubber black AK paint pen, and a light grey AK pen. Tedious, it’s a new method for me, but the half result is now on display.
More to come!
It’s a prime time …
So a week that started poorly ended well. My primer has been sitting for too long, apparently. My poor airbrush, which also needed some new O rings, clogged to the point I needed overnight soaking to loosen the primer.
Ordered new primer (and also 14 AK interactive paint pens – photos soon!).
Great result! I primed in two stages – lower half, and when dry enough, upper half. Last photo is of the stripped down and cleaned SATA 4B airbrush. This is my workhorse, and it can do almost anything! I also have two Iwata airbrushes, one for extra fine work; and one that looks like a small auto spray gun, for doing large areas (like final coats on goalie masks…).
Primer will now cure overnight, and paint begins – soon?
Basing pumice gel, cleaned minis, ready for priming!
So I dove into Battletech, after being inspired by the Mercs KS discussion, and a solid nostalgia for the game I played in the 1980s.
I now have cleaned all the miniatures I picked up, added pumice gel by Golden to the bases, and am ready to prime!