149th full reinforcement set.

 These aren't really finished, but they're done. For now. There are still vehicles and mechs I need to purchase and paint as well as 8 heavy tanks left from years ago to paint.

Quick potato pics:

The second Vulture.

Marauder-5M classic now looks classic!

 This is the iconic Battletech Marauder. Now with autocannon! There is still tiny detail work and lining to do, but about 90 percent done.

The Thunderbolt and Warhammer IIC will make up the rest of this lance. 

149th Darkhorse new assets on the move.

 These are all of the units I've been painting for the past 2 months, including the new air units. The classic Marauder and the new Vulture are still unbased and unfinished. 

The MAD-5M 3051 upgrade Marauder

The Vulture and Marauder currently on the table.

That's all for this edition.

***A new waste of time: Bloodborne. Into the Old City of Yarnam - at least for a little while....

 We'll see how this goes. The frustration barrier may be too high to scale, and the beasts that inhabit this Nightmare may be too fell to overcome. 

"All the treasures are blood."

-Me- just now

Here's the game: You take your Diablo character and throw it into a Mordheim map. And then try and fight the most ridiculously overpowered creatures in any game ever. And when you die... you have to start all over again. Pure psychological torture disguised as a 'game.' 

There is hardly any ROI for playing this. May be done with it. 

Only 43 percent of everyone that's played on PS4 have defeated the first boss. That's how hard this game is. FromSoftware has a sado-masochistic bent that makes their games much harder at the beginning of the game then the end. Elden Ring is like that too. I probably fought Magrit 50 times and grinded to level 54 before I realized that I couldn't kill him because I couldn't summon a second fighter due to not paying the subscription fees for PS Plus. I knew I killed that guy!

I got really lucky with Father Gascoigne... 

Until next time, Hunters.

Timewasters Lit 201: The Great and Secret Show

 Re-examining this one in light of the current geopolitical climate and the release of the Epstein Files. Great read. A+ timewaster!

If you don't know who Clive Barker is, he wrote The Books of Blood. The first Hellraiser movie is based on the first book, but the rest of the movies are complete Hollywood garbage. In the books, 'Pinhead' is a Cenobite priest fighting Satan for control of Hell. 

Barker tends to write very visceral and dark stories.

"Obscurum per obscurus, ignotum per ignotius"

Obscure by obscure, unknown by unknown.

Ghost Recon Wildlands Timewasters Grade: Solid B-

 The game is fun and boring all at the same time. You play as part of a team of SpecOps that are in Bolivia to take down a cocaine cartel. So you're effectively 'Pete Hegsething' some narco-terrorists. Cool. 

The boredom comes from the game becoming stale very fast. For having such a large map, the mission variety gets old really quick, so be ready for the fights to become tedious about as fast as one of those drug smuggling cigar boats Pete keeps blowing up in the Caribbean.

Solid fare. B- Timewaster

***MORE UPDATES 02/26: On the table [WIP] The 149th Darkhorse ACR is finally being reinforced!

A classic Marauder and another Vulture Clan Mech has been added to the Order of Battle!

And these are more of the project as they got completed... still working!

The Air Cav wing (which would support the infantry) gets 2 new Kestrels for transport and Medevac and 2 Cavalry Attack Helicopters for fire support.

New Unit Specifications:

Classic Marauder

Cavalry Attack Helicopter

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Updates for the 149th with new VTOLs and armor. I'm a bit underwhelmed by the quality of the paint going on these units. Too much time and effort spent for them to be this ass bad up close. They're okay tabletop, but that's not saying much.

...and then I go look at the Battletech Forums and laugh. 

These are the new additions to the 149th.

The Archer, Atlas and Catapult all got updated colors.

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After three years, I decided to go ahead with completing this 20 year project. I still have a few more mechs and VTOLs to buy and paint, but the 149th is very close to being what I envisioned when I started collecting the miniatures some 20 years ago, picking up different minis here and there over the years and putting them aside until the right time. 

The paint is... okay. Up close, they still look like Picasso paintings, but these old metal minis have a lot of scoring and uneven lines and glue points. They're very hard for me to paint. They are what they are: Pretty good tabletop. The most impressive thing is the whole Regiment in the display. 

This year, I will have some pics of the full ACR along with the OOB with a pic of each lance level and battalion level units. 

The technical specifications are linked down below from the Battletech wiki.

They're a good tabletop addition to the Darkhorse Cav!

The Mad Cat and Vulture are some of the most iconic mechs in Battletech. When I first started playing - everyone had a Mad Cat, and everyone wanted to be Clan so they could run these awesome mechs on the table.

Not the best paint, but they're very good graphic novel level paint!

A big part of the issue is painting with cheap Chinese brushes. Even they are affected by declining quality! I used most of these brushes, and there isn't a good utility or detail brush out of all of them!

The technical specs:

Timberwolf [Mad Cat]

Vulture [Mad Dog]

Marksman Heavy Tank

Kestrel VTOL

J. Edgar Hoover Light Hover Tank

Wolverine

Until next time, Commanders!