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Sgt. Scream
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal  Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:42 am |
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Time for an update. Had some time to paint due to being sick at home.  It's not yet finished though.... I always wanted to finish one force before beginning to paint the next one - however, I just couldn't resist painting the mightiest of all Inner Sphere Mechs: The "Atlas". And boy, it is HUGE.  House Kurita elite "Sword Of Light" regiment's AS-7 D ATLAS. (Still work in progress as I am short on decals needed to display the "Sword Of Light" regimental insignia).  This kit is an (all-metal) so-called Museum Scale Mech from Ral Partha Europe. I converted it a little bit though.  A sashimono (back banner) has been added, taken from a 1/72 Zvezda Samurai warrior. The Kurita crest is a decal, the kanji are written using a fineliner. The Sword Of Light regiment's warriors are strictly following the code of the Samurai - as such, I wanted them to look a little like their ancient forefathers. The shoulders looked a little empty so I added a cherry-blossom painting on both sides.  The side reveals another detail bit I added: the Autocannon/20 barrel was extended with a barrel from a Wh40k Meltagun.  A little bit of warning decals here and there to break up the overall red appearance. Back details of the fusion reactor core and heat sinks. 
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:40 pm |
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 Next Mech ready to deploy (apart from Sword Of Light decals not yet added): 80 ton HTM-27T "Hatamoto Chi".  Left arm sporting a Tiegart PPC. Note the back banner that I have added, using a plastic part from Zvezda's 1/72 samurai box.  Detail of the right arm: Katana sword (custom variant, the HTM-27T normally doesn't have one) and a second Tiegart PPC.  Details of the back include the banner (sashimono) and sword+flame emblem of House Kurita's elite regiments.  Front shot reveals the two torso mounted Bical SRM-6 Missile Racks and the cherry blossom theme that I am trying to add to all Kurita Mechs so they don't end up being simply painted red all around. Off to the painting table. The Coordinator needs more war machinery!
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:14 pm |
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Thats is a wonderful Kurita force. The banners are excellent. Very much in theme with classic battletech.
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:21 pm |
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Louie N wrote: Thats is a wonderful Kurita force. The banners are excellent. Very much in theme with classic battletech. Thanks!  Ok, just like I said - the last pics in my other two blog entries were "work in progress". They were, cause I had no access to the necessary decals to finish the two Mechs entirely. Thanks to Ennis A. (Father Ennis, whom I know from another forum) I got a whole decal sheet of "1st Sword Of Light" emblems in the mail today, and the Atlas and Hatamote Chi can now be considered DONE! The Atlas also received a large scale Kurita crest for his giant torso armor. Somehow I figured something was missing for the commanding officer's Mech... the large dragon emblem fills the blanks nicely (decal is normally supposed to go onto an Armorcast 1/60 scale Atlas).  The "1st Sword Of Light" traditionally fields a white dragon emblem on their Kurita crest and bear those on the left shoulder: Hatamoto Chi and Atlas with their "ivory dragon" emblems. Thanks, Ennis!  
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Post subject: Re: House Davion: 3rd Crucis Lancers (Tomorrow's War meets B Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:52 am |
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Sgt. Scream wrote: House Kurita's infantry now has a platoon of Laser weapons to deploy. The standard size of an infantry platoon within the Inner Sphere is 28 men. How they are spread among the platoon you can see below:  Kurita Portable Laser Squad, 7 troopers. There is three such squads in a platoon. They are all equipped the same.  Fire team 1: rifle, light support weapon (blazer), semi-portable laser  Fire team 2: rifle, rifle, light support weapon (blazer). The NCO would attach himself to one of the fire teams.  Kurita Portable Laser Support Squad, 7 troopers. There is one such squad in a platoon. Instead of the NCO its lead by a junior officer that directs the whole platoon in combat.  Fire support team 1: rifle, light support weapon (blazer), heavy semi-portable laser  Fire support team 2: rifle, light support weapon (blazer), heavy semi-portable laser  The heavy semi-portable laser weapon system requires at least two men to carry it. It is quite heavy due to its power cells. While not the fastest weapon to deploy after movement, in a good fire position it poses a great threat to enemy armored units. To save weight, it does not have cooling systems. Instead the weapon fires with alternating barrels to reduce problems of overheating in battle. The gunner aims and fires it remotely by targeting with his binocculars. How do you build up the bases, to give the domed effect? What materials did you use? I've got lots of Mechwarrior stuff, that I would like to rebase.
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:06 am |
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@Tony:
I don't remove the Mechwarrior troopers from their bases. Instead, I cut those bases in pieces, each piece still having a (single) trooper standing on top. I then glue those on top of coins and use filler or green stuff to shape the "dome" all around. Finally I only add some sand using watered down white glue and paint it after it has dried. The flock comes from various sources (those tiny green bits I think were from GW's Hero Basing Kit).
Basicly that means, I am making five single troopers out of a single MW:DA base of infantry.
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:36 am |
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 The DRG-1G Grand Dragon. One of House Kurita's very own designs, produced by Luthien Armor Works, reinforcing my Sword Of Light units.  Offensive capabilities are based upon a center torso mounted LRM-10 launcher.  Back details include unit insignia, heat sink vents and back banner.  Left arm, sporting unit insignia (ivory dragon crest) and a Victoy 23R Medium Laser.  Right arm bearing a Lord's Thunder PPC.  Details of the upper torso: once again with the cherry blossom theme and a sashimono (back banner). Left and right of the cockpit are another pair of Medium Lasers. Off to the painting table for more mechs...
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:34 am |
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Sgt. Scream wrote: @Tony:
I don't remove the Mechwarrior troopers from their bases. Instead, I cut those bases in pieces, each piece still having a (single) trooper standing on top. I then glue those on top of coins and use filler or green stuff to shape the "dome" all around. Finally I only add some sand using watered down white glue and paint it after it has dried. The flock comes from various sources (those tiny green bits I think were from GW's Hero Basing Kit).
Basicly that means, I am making five single troopers out of a single MW:DA base of infantry. Thanks Sarg, good ideas and leaving bits of the original base on, gives the finished models some extra height on the table. 
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:37 am |
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:55 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:33 pm |
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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).
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:22 am |
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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.
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:19 pm |
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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.
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:31 pm |
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 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:DA repaint with some minor modification, like the SRM-6 launcher that I have added to the right torso. 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:DA miniature is nice, but a bit small. 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 MW:DA miniature being not too much off.
I think the Raven will serve my recon lance perfectly.
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Post subject: Re: Tomorrow's War meets BattleTech: various units in N-scal Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:03 pm |
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