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Could'a been the PlasTech minis. Those were far worse than anything in the 3rd Ed box (and the Warhammer from that box is awesome, and one of the first minis I owned!).

It was a sort of silvery grey, if that helps. The details looked like someone had already given them a hefty base coat.

Been sniffing around my usual Plastic Crack Dealers, and can’t find any carrying Battletech :(

It’s a shame, because I do like the designs, and quite fancy getting a couple to paint for pleasure.

3rd edition plastics were ok. Not up to other manufacturers of the time even then, but there was a good range of mechs and the sculpts were servicable. I still have mine, with some citytech and Plastech mechs included. I removed the plastic Battlemaster, even though it was a good sculpt, because I included metal assault mechs for theme. So i had two well painted companies of mechs all plastic except for the assaults. It has served as the core of my Battletech collection for best part of three decades and for a long time were the only mechs I had.

These are BTech 3rd Ed minis:



These are CityTech 2 minis:



And these are the awful PlasTech minis:

First set! That’s the badgers!

Hey, I asked in the Modelling and Painting section as well, but does anyone use any special techniques to prep their 3D printed resin mechs for priming? I just received a great pair of mechs (Atlas, Thanatos) from a seller on Etsy, and they have kind of a "filmy" feel to them, which I immediately noticed while I was going over them to remove any support dots. Should I give them an overall brushing with an Isopropy-soaked toothbrush like how I prep my normal plastic models?

Figured I'd ask in this thread as I see a lot of you guys and gals go the 3D route for some of your mechs, and while I'm a 25+ year painter, I'm brand new to these here new-fangled 3D models.

If there's any sort of film or greasy/soapy feeling to them, I'd give 'em a wash. As long as the cleaning substance doesn't actually dissolve the material they're made of (test on some cut-offs first!), then I think it would be better overall even if it turns out you didn't need to.

I was able to make use of the Plastech mechs, they were ok when painted. Though I had to eschew the Locust, Catapult and Atlas.

Yeah, the Locust is too big. The Atlas is too small. The Catapult is ginormous!

Yeah, isopropyl is frequently used to clean off resin 3D prints, so that should be fine.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Hey, I asked in the Modelling and Painting section as well, but does anyone use any special techniques to prep their 3D printed resin mechs for priming? I just received a great pair of mechs (Atlas, Thanatos) from a seller on Etsy, and they have kind of a "filmy" feel to them, which I immediately noticed while I was going over them to remove any support dots. Should I give them an overall brushing with an Isopropy-soaked toothbrush like how I prep my normal plastic models?

Figured I'd ask in this thread as I see a lot of you guys and gals go the 3D route for some of your mechs, and while I'm a 25+ year painter, I'm brand new to these here new-fangled 3D models.

I use lukewarm water and some dish soap with an old, soft toothbrush. Isopropyl alcohol seems really, really harsh on resin or plastic.

No problems on the cleaning front. IPA and a toothbrush took all the tackiness away and now it feels dry as a bone. Now I need to get the big monster painted in the colors of my "probably some sort of Lyran" unit. Even better, the seller sent a failed print of a Thanatos as a freebie, which only needed a quick greenstuff job to resculpt half of a missing heel to make battle-ready. That'll probably end up in my green Capellan Op Force.

What an awesome color scheme! Also, really excellent execution.

I plan to go the same way with my mechs, “probably some kind of [whatever] unit” style, rather than painting a certain unit color.

I was thinking a desert tan with red for one “team” and olive green with blue for the other.

Thanks! Unfortunately, I am terrible at quick cell-phone pics unless I have access to my wife's great digital camera, so the lighting washed out all the details and make the mechs look really monotone. The pics don't show it, but on top of drybrushing a couple layers of color over a black primer, I went through with black contrast paint and blacklined every panel line, to hearken back to the old days when I knew some guys who would do it with black India Ink.

Here's some (slightly) better pics of my Liao force, actually inspired by wanting to paint the old studio- official BFG Imperial fleet scheme again:

Nice work.

This thread went far too long without pics! Thanks for fixing that oversight Aegis!

So I’m drawing a blank on sourcing models and rules.

Any help?


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So I’m drawing a blank on sourcing models and rules.

Any help?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
So I’m drawing a blank on sourcing models and rules.

Any help?

What are you looking for? You can get electronic versions of the books direct from CGL, and Ral Partha Europe do the 'older' minatures.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
So I’m drawing a blank on sourcing models and rules.

Any help?

This was written a few years ago, but it still holds mostly true.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This was written a few years ago, but it still holds mostly true.

Good call! It does get updated every so often - "« Last Edit: 24 November 2020, 18:32:04 by Sartris »"

Cheers all.

This might be of some interest -



FB Link & Dakka thread.

beast_gts wrote:
This might be of some interest -

Spoiler:

FB Link & Dakka thread.

Hey Beast_gts! Your spoiler link is broken and I'm taking a break from Facebook. What ya got?

 Tamwulf wrote:

beast_gts wrote:
This might be of some interest -

Spoiler:

FB Link & Dakka thread.

Hey Beast_gts! Your spoiler link is broken and I'm taking a break from Facebook. What ya got?

Follow the Dakka link he posted, RoboTech minis game.

Kids Logic are doing a new Robotech / Macross Miniatures Game. Details are still thin on the ground, but I know some people use their other models for Battletech.


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I will wait until it hits retail thanks!

I think many of us have learned hard lessons....

 Easy E wrote:
I will wait until it hits retail thanks!

I think many of us have learned hard lessons....

It should be a safe bet - Kids Logic already sell some of the models (store link) and they're carried by other stores such as Aries Games & Miniatures.

So basically one veritech (in 3 modes) and an officer's pod for boxed game?

It looks like a pretty big box for just four miniatures. Maybe there are some battlepods in there too.