Thursday 28 May 2020

Lockdown Day 66

Hi!

Here's the newest additions to my Battletech project:

Pirate Panther and Jenner

I added more bits and bobs to each with small pieces of plasticard, paper and card which I think has helped make the sculpts a bit more successful.

I went to town with giving them a chipped and rusty finish as pirates operating out on the Periphery aren't going to be spending much time painting their machines. I gave them a bit of graffiti with the snapping jaws on the Panther and it's pilot has scrawled His Red Right Hand on his Particle Projection Gun. I'll try and get some better photos when I've got the rest of the lance finished.

I'm also working on a Hunchback to give my Pirates a bit of punch:


Armed with an Autocannon 20, the heaviest weapon mounted on a Mech in the 3020's and capable of blasting a light Mech to scrap in a single shot.

I'm quite pleased with the sculpt thus far and I'm looking to getting it finished so I can get some more heavy machines built and added onto my roster. It's been great fun working on some of the bigger machines and at 50 tons, the Hunchback is going to be getting some assault class machines which are considerably larger!


Last but not least, I've got the next of my Papertech Kryomek gubbins in the form of Warriors:

I still need to get a second sheet of the gribblies done to add more variety to the weapons options and I've got one or two more weapons and the Warmaster is needing done too!

I've still got lots more to add to the papertech Kryomek project including Nexus Marines, SWAT and Colonial Marines as Talos Units, Kryomek Drones and all manner of vehicles. Still it's been fun and I'm heading towards having enough of the little guys to play a game or two.

I'll try and get another sheet put together in the morning and I've also been having a bit of a peruse of Critter Commandos and Fairymeat which may be getting a few test sculpts to see how I get on.

In the meantime, All the best!

7 comments:

  1. Wow. Fellow rusty robots sure reads as 'ork-ish' no matter what.

    Still, rest sure those look different scale with you Chibi robots. I know you were concerned they looking samey and not enough hard sci-fi but they look pretty battletech to me.

    BTW I can't recognize the small Kryomek gun. Wasn't many to choose from but does not look like the nutshack gun, you know, the one resembling a Facehugger.

    I like how it is integrated into the arm but the weaponless look weird. You know, in a Giger's Alien sense.

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    1. Hi!

      Thanks for the comments!

      I've enjoyed working on the Battletech stuff and will be working on a few more!

      The smaller Kryomek gun is a Bio Acid Spray. It's not too similar to the one illustrated in the book as it looked like a bio organic spray can.

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  2. Your panther definitely has a orky vibe to it with the teeth. I quite like how the jenner turned out. What putty do you use for your sculpting?

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    1. Thanks!

      I used super sculpey for the main body with greenstuff elements along with plasticard, tube, rods and cardboard.

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  3. I like your take on the Panther, it looks far more savage than the official sculpts. Your Hunchback is coming together nicely too.

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    1. Thanks!

      I figured that the Periphery is going to be a bit more Mad Max than the somewhat sci-fi feudal Inner Sphere and wanted to give my pirate lance leaders some custom artwork.

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    2. Thanks!

      I figured that the Periphery is going to be a bit more Mad Max than the somewhat sci-fi feudal Inner Sphere and wanted to give my pirate lance leaders some custom artwork.

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