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These old Battletech miniatures were painted using some fairly recent techniques I’ve generally seen referred to as “Comic Book Style Painting.”

In addition to normal dark lining, I added dark edging to areas that would normally be the highest highlights on the minis. This creates an interesting cell shaded effect.

These particular minis were painted to match the old (and adequagely cheesy) Battletech Cartoons. Sometimes, they would forgo normal animation to employ then-state-of-the-art computer generated animation with everything outlined in green. This is why these minis are all in a transition state between the two styles.

Ha these look just like the colors from the Battletech cartoon! Nice job.

Thanks.

I actually used the old toys for color references.

Looks really great. I like these extreme edge lining styles, whether that is with a lighter shade on a darker shade, a bright color lining black surface, or black lining around colored surfaces.

Very cool! Quite ambitious of you to show them mid-transition to 3d; it really does remind me of the animated series!

 Soul Samurai wrote:
Very cool! Quite ambitious of you to show them mid-transition to 3d; it really does remind me of the animated series!

Thanks. It was my client's idea to do the transition this way, and at first I told him that the two styles wouldn't mesh. But once I got started painting them, I decided that it would work, and both of us ended up very happy with the results.

That's some great stuff!

Thanks.

I've become enamored with this style, so I'm exploring it more now with my Starcadia minis.

Expressing black in this style is even trickier than usual.