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Printed another Level-II for a friend, so far looking nice:



I actually printed two versions of the Trebbie, one from MWO and another one much more in line with the classic one. And a Raijin:



Scale shot of the classic Trebuchet with two other trebuchets (same sculpt, one coming from the first print run of the anniversary box, the other from a later one):



The Bombardier has turned out really nice, but it's freaking big! xD. This is a comparison shot with an Archer after scaling it down a bit (like 95% IIRC):




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After that, a change of resin (trying out Jayo ABS-like) and I put on the Saturn plate a whole lotta CP2077 Edgerunners sculpts from Papsikels:

Nice! Was that all in one month? I'd love to see a comparison between that and the Unit9 equivalent but you already know that.

I am sort of new to Battletech, but aren't those Whitworths in picture 3? (with two LRM-10 and three mediums)

Really enjoy seeing the 'mechs as you make them.

warboss wrote:Nice! Was that all in one month? I'd love to see a comparison between that and the Unit9 equivalent but you already know that.

Oh, no, the Edgerunners were all printed in a single plate ^^. I haven't printed any of the Unit 9 stuff yet, so no comparisons just yet xD.

lasgunpacker wrote:I am sort of new to Battletech, but aren't those Whitworths in picture 3? (with two LRM-10 and three mediums)

Really enjoy seeing the 'mechs as you make them.

Do'h! You're absolutely right, I was thinking Whitworth and for some reason my fingers wrote Trebuchet xD

The full Edgerunners plate, after basing:



And some details of the actual models. It's a mixture of named characters and some extras with the same style.

Three cybered up mercs based on the cyberpsycho from the intro:





Details look much better after priming, of course:




And they take paint good, IMHO:







Size wise, they're sizable, but not ginormous:

Where did you get the nice Phawks? I swear I've seen that gun somewhere.

M.

Great paintjob on the cybermercs!

Miguelsan wrote:Where did you get the nice Phawks? I swear I've seen that gun somewhere.

M.

Hm... Thingiverse, I think? There's a Ragic database with a whole lot of links to stuff, both free and paid.

The Red Hobbit wrote:Great paintjob on the cybermercs!

Thank you! For the amount of work they took (not really much at all, mostly contrasts + highlights) I'm pretty happy myself

Some more of the "generics" from the Edgrunners set:

A couple of Maelstrom gangoons:






And the second one painted:




A ripper doc:




A netrunner:




And some characters actually labelled as "Blade Runners":

Named characters, in order of appearance

Sasha Yakovleva, the original crew's runner





And action poses

Those characters are asking for synthwave color schemes.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
Those characters are asking for synthwave color schemes.

M.

Not disagreeing here ^^. But I'm not sure I'd be able to do them justice like that xD

Oh boy, am I neglecting this page... let's see

Painted Kiwi, our favorite masked netrunner:




I'm decently happy with her, all told.And she ain't big...






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Seems like I didn't upload here a fair amount of stuff... let's see

Generic mech painted as a test for Moid's Patreon:





Leman Russ proxy on Epic scale, for the same:




Another generic mech, this time more modular, again from Moid:

Some Wargames Atlantic Cultists:





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Printed an Epic 40k Tyranid army, designs from the talented Ankylo Miniatures:




Some closeups:

Genestealers:



Gargoyles:



Warriors and the like:



Bigger bugs:



Dominatrix:



Gun bugs:




Transport bugs:

Lovely stuff, and buttery smooth as always. I'm super jealous

Thak you! I've been slacking off putting some stuff I've been working on here, so I'll try and update it ^^

Some painted bugs; First I tested a scheme using a Carnifex, with contrasts and regular highlights:





After that I did a Zoanthrope:

Couple more tests, this time using Vallejo Xpress paints as a base. It looks really cool, but the "purple" is way too pink, it kinda blends with the flesh:





Third test was with a Hive Tyrant. This I think looks pretty great, and it's actually just a xpress coat and highlights:






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Once I mostly decided on a color scheme, I moved onto one of the big transport bugs, almost everything is xpress paints or drybrush:






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Some more bugs!





Comparison of the trygon and the special "brood mother" with a regular hive tyrant



And gaunts! So cwute!




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After that I bought a Leviathan Psychophage because I thought it would probably look cool as a big biotitan.

And honestly, I think it looks pretty cool side by side with Ankylo's designs



Size wise I think I can use this guy as a hierophant and Ankylo's as hierodules:



I only needed to make a couple of changes to the mini: the skulls being digested under the skin and the marine arm being grabbed by the mouth's tentacle thingies needed to go. The skulls only needed a bit of scraping, and as for the arm, well... a swap was in order:



After that, the only thing needed to do was spruce the base up a bit to sell the scale:





Still only in early painting stages, though.




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Then I got a bit of an ork bug and did a quick paintjob of a dozen Deff Dreads from Red Nebular that I printed a while ago:

Adorable output is adorable. The Nid force is impressive to be sure, nice call on the psychophage, I'm a believer.

The accidental dozen deff dreads are extra adorable <3

YMCA dreadmob! Make it Happen!

Good progress all round.

 Albertorius wrote:


And gaunts! So cwute!

Spoiler:

Hive Fleet Chibi confirmed! Nice work as always and impressive output.

Gah, I way out of date with this.... >_>

Ok, let's see:

I've been working on a kind of special project lately: I kinda wanted to assemble a full 2000 points old school Imperial army, and I decided to use as a template the one from WD 216's battle report, The Scourging of Lammas, changing a couple things around (couple changes in the detachments mainly for aesthetics, removing the space marines and using legio and Imperial Fleet assistance instead) and filling it up to the full two thousands.

This would be the full army footprint before gluing the infantry:



Which, when zooming in, is composed of:

"F" Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain Morcar with escort and Primaris psyker with two additional Command sections and two Ogryn squads for protection, commanding a full company composed of three regular infantry squads and six heavy weapons squads, with a Demolisher Siege Tank providing support and 4 scout Sentinels as recon elements



4th Armored Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain August Bach riding the Command Vanquisher LR commanding two full Leman Russ squadrons, with 2 Griffons providing close fire support and 2 Hellhounds to discourage assaults, and two mechanized infantry squads (standard and HW) to intercept any would be assaulters:



1st Artillery Company. 8th Magdellan Regiment
Bombardier-Major Senlac onboard a Bombard Heavy Siege Gun and a Deathstrike Missile Launcher, plus a full battery of six Basilisks, two Hydras for provide AA defense and a mechanized infantry squad to stop assaulters:



Jegun's Charges
Rough Rider Captain Jegun and an additional RR command section plus 6 Rough Rider Squads to act as flankers, with 6 Sentinels providing much needed heavier firepower:



2nd Armored Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain Hardraade on a Baneblade with a Shadowsword for super heavy hunting (yeah, I only have printed two Baneblades so far, but I'll eventually probably swap it xD)



135th Support Air Wing, Segmentum Ultima Fleet
Just a couple of Marauder bombers to reach out and touch someone:



Legio Gryphonicus Battle Maniple Element
Gladius Rex, Reaver Battle Titan:



The idea here was to not have "ideal" detachments, but rather to have a established army with which one would need to make do and adapt it to the battle's circunstances. Some of the additions are to fill out points or for aesthetics reasons (haven't found yet Epic scale ratlings I like, for example, and I I prefer to field full LR squads instead of pairs) or to have a little bit of everything. The mechanized infantry squads in the armored or artillry detachments are mainly fo aesthetics and in-world sense ^^.

Of all that, so far I've fully painted Gladius Rex, the 2nd Armored Company and Jegun's Charges, while the rest is in various painting stages.











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I also painted up some more artillery for my IWs, that I printed a while ago:





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Printed a full squad of the new Mark IV marines builder done by LoggyK, to update the one he did a long time ago:




IMHO, they look spectacular. Scale-wise, they are scaled to the current HH proportions. Here's some comparisons:

With the old plastic HH sets




With the new Mk VI



With printed Mk IIs and Mk IIIs




And a painted example:







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We got a new player for the Lancer RPG campaign, and he's decided to get the licenses for the Zheng, a close quarters brawler for a penchant for scenery destroying (and creating)






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Some of the IG vehicles painted:




(decided to add a bit of snow here and there to blend them with the stuff with bases)






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Printed some scenery from Grimdark Terrain, and it's lovely! Waaaaay too many pieces, but that same thing makes them incredibly modular.

This is the first test



And based on a strip of MDF





I've printed another half a dozen buildings in different states by now, which I'm painting at the moment.

Also, Btech buildings (based on the ones from the AS box) which are also storage boxes:





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And a lot of roads






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Some very lovely old school orcs and goblins from Warploque Miniatures












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Grom the Paunch! I always loved the character from waaaay back in the day, and this sculpt from Avatars of War is incredible.

I decided to print the "Bane of Dwarfs" version, and all told I'm pretty happy with the paintjob:







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Epic orks!!!

I'm not sure if I posted these here, so... here we go, Ork Speek Freaks:






And the full detachment:



A big ork battlewagon to carry some boyz in style:




After that, I printed a Gargant and a number of stompas

Gargant:




Size-wise, it looks decent (gargants have always been shorter than Imperial Titans):




As to the Stompas, I wanted to scale them so that they'd be a bi shorter than Imperial Knights:





Family photo!



And I painted one xD






Printing Epic Eldar for a friend:




And a pokémon for my nephew xD

The epic armies are fantastic. Great colour schemes and impressive detail for such tiny minis.

Thank you!

Epic scale is great, all in all, it's usually much easier to get good results ^_^.

WOW loads of progress, thanks for catching us up I'll give my shout to the gargant and stompa children, those are some great sculpts cannily scaled. Big fan of Warp's sculpts as well, happy to see you tackle some of those in the ocean of Epic

 Boss Salvage wrote:
WOW loads of progress, thanks for catching us up I'll give my shout to the gargant and stompa children, those are some great sculpts cannily scaled. Big fan of Warp's sculpts as well, happy to see you tackle some of those in the ocean of Epic

Thank you

I guess I kind of have a bit of a theme lately ^^

This week I've been testing a bit the new range of XPress paints, and so far I'm pretty happy with the results:










I also painted the 15mm Swooping Hawks I printed a while ago. Still love them, they're so cwute and nice to paint....

Some Whirlwinds, that I realized I didn't have any painted for the IWs



And also a big blob of jetbikes, because why the hell not ^^

Productive weekend!

Printed a whole lotta Atlas heads to glue on the top of paint bottles:



Like, a lot



Why? Well, so I could prime them white and paint them and be able to tell what the hell color is that inside the bottle xDD




I feel like it will help quite a lot

I also felt like it was the weekend to celebrate the LI release!

So I printed enough parts for 24 dreadnoughts




They look incredibly nice even with the faintest lick of paint (seriously, what in the actual hell were they doing in the paint previews)



And thei I printed a squad of every Sicaran version and thee Kratos squads










A little bit of a size comparison

Talking about Btech, do you have any Dropship/Jumpship/Warship stls around? I'm interested in 3d printing some TRO 2750 stuff, rather than the 3057 versions.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
Talking about Btech, do you have any Dropship/Jumpship/Warship stls around? I'm interested in 3d printing some TRO 2750 stuff, rather than the 3057 versions.

M.

There's some out in the wild, yeah, mostly over Cults and thingie, but also in othere places... let me PM you


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There, the tiny dreads are painted.

Thanks Albertorius, I never got into the TRO 3057 remakes. I'm not sure why FASA changed the looks of the warships between TROs but probably is unseen related.

Another line of ships I'd love to see in STL form are the Renegade Legion ones, I remember seeing someone 3d sculpting some for filament printers years ago, but google is no longer helpful finding that kind of obscure information.

M.

Some tiny marines with Crusade era plates:

Mk II tacticals:



Mk III tacticals:



Mk II heavy support (with one Mk III plasma support):



Mk II assault:




All of it printed at 25 microns per layer with Sunlu ABS-like resin on my Saturn 2.