It's been a while since I've posted here. (I've been much more active on Instagram.) but I wanted to make a post about something I've been really getting into lately. Battletech miniatures!
About 4 weeks ago I joined a MechWarrior roleplaying group. You do the roleplaying as a character in the battletech universe and when battles happen, you kind of switch over to classic battletech rules. It's been a lot of fun.
The character I made comes from a family of knights in the Taurian Concordat on the periphery of civilized space. Like on the frontier I suppose. In order to maintain his family's status as knights, each generation must prove themselves, so he has gone on his own quest, taking his family's Warhammer out on a treasure hunt of sorts, looking for LosTech (or highly advanced technology created hundreds of years ago by the now crumbled galactic-wide Star League)
His name is Diego Ezquerra and this is his Warhammer:
The other players in the group are a capellan technician, a comstar operative with a phoenix hawk, a kuritan assassin with a valkyrie, a scottish highlander with a commando and a kuritan princess/pop star with a wolfhound.
Just for fun, and because I've been itching to paint some more mechs lately, I painted my phoenix hawk model in a comstar paint scheme.
It was a fun experiment that took me about 4 hours in all to complete. I've never done an all-white model like this. It required SO much drybrushing. But I think it turned out well despite the low quality of the 80s plastic models.
We narrowly won our battle yesterday. My mech took 62 points of damage total during the battle and I was pretty effective in disabling 3 mechs. I scored one kill. A jenner, with legs blown off, jetpacked his way at me, trying to kamikaze me. I managed to blast it out of the sky with my short ranged missiles before it struck me.
For that, I painted a notch on the warhammer's gun. Hopefully there will be many more in the future.
In all, it's been a very fun time. It's great to have an incentive to start painting again and to be able to play with miniatures finally after all these years.
