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.
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| These are the new additions to the 149th. |
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| 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.
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| They're a good tabletop addition to the Darkhorse Cav! |
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| 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. |
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| Not the best paint, but they're very good graphic novel level paint! |
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| 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:
