Great collection of models there mate. Reminds me of how underrated 15mm can be
Great collection of models there mate. Reminds me of how underrated 15mm can be
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Wow, I agree - its been a while.
Another repainted 3" Exo Squad figure, now acting as House Kurita's "LGB-0W Longbow" Mech.
Compared to House Davion's Longbow I decided to have this one's missile bays closed. That allows me to show off with some really nice, large scale Kurita dragon crests.
The left "arm" sports the Sword of Light emblem. The huge tube-like arms include a Sian/Ceres LRM-20 system.
The back shot reveals various heat sinks and the Sashimono back banner which I add to all of my Sword Of Light Mechs.
The Longbow is a popular missile support platform, bombing the enemy lines from a great distance. Not really made to go into a fight face to face with enemy Mechs, it rather stays behind and fires salvo after salvo of long ranged missiles. With 85 tons the Longbow is one of the heavier Mechs I plan to use with my Kurita force. Bear with me, more units are on the painting table! So many figures - so little time
Fantastic! Have you played many games with these yet and, if so, have you written up any battle reports we can read?
R.
House Kurita still relies on the fast 20 ton "Wasp" for its recon lances. Created back in the days when the SLDF was still around, these venerable designs have received some updates to face the invading Clan forces.
Light-weight, fast and maneuverable - the miniature is based upon a converted 1/200 Macross Valkyrie plastic kit.
An Intek Medium Pulse Laser in combination with an Irian Armorworks SRM-2 launcher doesn't deal a lot of damage, but that's not the job of a scout unit anyways...
The pose of the miniature is based upon the artwork of the unseen "Wasp" as depicted in TRO 3050/52.
The original "Wasp" design was inspired by the Valkyrie suits of the Macross animated series. These had a large number of plastic kits produced in Japan, varying in scale and content. Based upon the 1/200 scale plastic kit, combined with arms of a Gashapon action figure (also from Macross) I created this N-scale "WSP-3M Wasp" and used a pose as it was seen in the first print of TR 3050.
The artwork of these early FASA products did catch my attention back in the day. Its how I see the CBT universe - full of what nowadays is called "unseen" Mechs. I could imagine my whole recon lance is going to contain nothing but those early Mech designs and sub-variants... ^^
Lovely stuff as usual man, as usual the range of kits you have massively impresses me!
You have only seen the tip of the iceberg. I think I have roughly 40+ more Mechs of various designs in N-scale to build. Not to mention some repaints of MWOriginally Posted by floyd pinkerton
A stuff. Thanks for your comments.
@precinctomega: Nope. Sorry, but no game report yet.
And there goes the next one...
Some more Davion love, to be added to my recon lance:
WSP-1A Wasp, based upon another Macross kit in 1/200 which works fine in N-scale. Compared to my previous Wasp for Kurita, this one resembles the early Succession Wars Wasp model with the SRM launcher still mounted to the left leg.
Diverse Optics Type 2 Medium Laser
Not much to say about this Mech apart from having created the pose as seen in TRO 3025 (Kurita's Wasp was based upon the TRO 3050 artwork).
Love the Valkyries! Though a huge fan of the cartoony-ness of Robotech, it's very cool to see them in some toned down, more realistic palettes. I like the modification of the right arm to replace the hand with the rifle barrel, as well. Is that how they are depicted in the Battletech material, or is it a modification of your own devising? Either way, cool idea.
The great thing about the dwarves is that, even though there's this comic element, when they fight - they really fight!
The mods reflect the design as it is set up in Battletech. Thanks for your kind words.
another conversion:
STG-5M Stinger with tech-update to face the invading Clans
Thanks to weight-saving Endo-Steel the updated Stinger has more armour and received some new weapons to replace the Machine Guns of the older 3S model.
Main weapon remains the Omikron 3000 Medium Laser on the right arm.
The left arm now carries a FlameTech Flamer to engage infantry and light Mechs.
The updated configuration now also has a Lindblad "Shotgun" Anti-Missile-System, whose radar dome and multi-barrel gun can be seen mounted underneath the wrist of the right arm.
The back and chassis apart from the head is more or less identical to its cousin, the Wasp.
Excellent man! Great to get a regular dose of this very different log from all the other logs I usually look at.
I love the chunky one with the ridiculously big missile arms.
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STG-3R Stinger - another light 20 ton Mech for my Kurita recon lance.
Sharing most of the design features of its cousin (the Wasp), the Mech had been produced already en masse during the age of the Star League.
While the pilot within the head suffers from a cramped cockpit, the Stinger has the same agility and almost nearly as much firepower as the Wasp.
Main weapon of the 3R variant is the Omicron 3000 Medium Laser that is held in the right hand. Note the light battle damages to the shoulder (or me being unable to notice what the glue had done.... *wall bash*)
Left and right forearm bear Linblad Machine Guns to engage infantry.
The RVN-3L was House Liao's attempt to create a Mech specificly for electronic warfare. With the on-going border clashes between Liao and the Federated Suns, a few have fallen into House Davion's hands.
The miniature is a MW
This front shot reveals the Harpoon SRM-6 rack that I have added to the right torso. The grey areas underneath the cockpit (the "beak" of the Raven) are supposed to resemble Active Probe and ECM domes.
I had to add some rocks to the base to give the Raven a little more height. The MW
Main armament of the Raven, whose function is to shield its accompanying Mechs from enemy sensors, are two Ceres Arms Medium Lasers and a Harpoon SRM-6 rack.
With the Apple Churchill "Guiding Light" NARC beacon, the Raven provides a magnet for LRMs launched by friendly units, while the nose mounted TAG helps targeting Arrow IV artillery accordingly.
Since the introduction of ECM into the PC game Mechwarrior Online, the RVN-3L has become quite popular. Everyone seems to run one now. As I kind of liked the look of the Mech provided in TRO: 3050, I was happy to find the MWDA miniature being not too much off.
I think the Raven will serve my recon lance perfectly.
Cool!
Like the effects and stickers on the windshield.
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MON-66 MONGOOSE scout lance leader (MW: DA repaint with minor conversions)
Designed to replace the old Locust models, the MON-66 is a deep-recon Mech.
Thanks to a Beagle Active Probe, the MON-66 picks up enemy targets fast and can relay that information quickly to its accompanying lance.
With two arm-mounted and one centre-torso mounted Sorenstein Medium Lasers, combined with a head-mounted Starflash Plus Small Laser, the Mongoose packs quite a punch for a light Mech
Sashimono back banner as usual on my Sword Of Light units
Some details of heat sink ports on back and legs
Clearly there is no stopping you. Have these guys taken to the tabletop yet? I'd love to see some pics of them in action.
R.
Nope. I have ordered plenty of gaming mats (for rivers, concrete and lakes) to be used with those miniatures. Once I have them there will be a bat-rep., I promise!
Dang. These things keep multiplying!
Very innovative work!
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My Sword Of Light regiment's upgraded Locust light Mech, the LCT-3M, is my final addition to the light recon lance of House Kurita.
Based upon the original LCT-1V, the 3M variant replaces the Sperry Browning Machine Guns with four Light Lasers from Magna, while it does retain the Medium Martell Laser.
Ferro-Fibrious Armor increases the protection of the 3M upgrade, while Endo-Steel chassis reduces weight. The new light weight inner structure enables to mount a Voelkers Parasol Anti-Missile-System.
The radar dome of the Voelkers Parasol AMS, the Sashimono back banner and Sword Of Light regiment insignia add more detail to my Locust conversion.
Hey ho. Probably the last post in 2012. Some people were asking for group shots and you shall receive.
I've been busy with creating tree stands for my games recently and can annoucne that so far 16 have been accomplished. I try to assemble and paint always in groups of eight bases. That's three stands of Light Woods and one stand of Heavy Woods per four bases created. I am looking for a total of roughly 40 of these bases.
On a tabletop of 1.20m x 1.80m (48" x 72") that will create enough forrest to resemble a single CBT mapsheet in N-scale.
I have also carried my completed lances and the first few of my buildings over to my best mates' house and took some pics of the Scout Lances in actual terrain (note that I still haven't received my ordered hexmats).
a small engagement
House Davion Recon Lance advancing
House Kurita Lance advancing (sorry its a bit blurry)
House Davion Scout Lance complete
House Kurita Scout Lance complete
Mechwarrior Dark Age infantry re-based works perfectly with N-gauge houses
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