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Green and black should look good, I think.

 Manchu wrote:

 aphyon wrote:
I don't understand your obsession with avoiding parade color schemes,

Likewise, I don’t understand the obsession with parade paint schemes. Most of them are hideous. Even more of them look basically the same as many others. CamoSpecs is real amateur hour stuff quite literally, with zero advantage over me making up something I like better.

Maybe i am a closet imperial fist...



The parade schemes make the mechs "pop" on the table, and some units always use the parade schemes much for the same reason the fists do like the swords of light units.

I do have some units painted in scheme cammo like my 10th lyran guards desert lance. it is just not the majority. like most other game systems we tend to paint our armies in faction recognized colors rather it be warmachine, 40K, flames of war or battletech.

I thought CamoSpecs schemes were based on official artwork and written descriptions? I.E. the paint scheme for the 53rd Capplyran Guard is based on the cover art of the novel they were featured in, whereas the 21st Chumbawumba Revolutionaries is an interpretation of the written description of their mech livery from the same novel.

Translating a written source to a painted miniature requires, as you say, interpretation. Plus, even the authors of BT fiction and sourcebooks are frequently fans.


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 aphyon wrote:
like most other game systems we tend to paint our armies in faction recognized colors

This is def a big part of my goal. I suppose my “Davion” mechs could as easily be “Lyran” but the overarching goal is to have mechs that look militaristic (rather than like Transformers) and to be able to immediately differentiate between the different sides in a given session. This last part is often compromised by my buddies using their Transformers-esque mechs lol.

 Manchu wrote:
Translating a written source to a painted miniature requires, as you say, interpretation. Plus, even the authors of BT fiction and sourcebooks are frequently fans.


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 aphyon wrote:
like most other game systems we tend to paint our armies in faction recognized colors

This is def a big part of my goal. I suppose my “Davion” mechs could as easily be “Lyran” but the overarching goal is to have mechs that look militaristic (rather than like Transformers) and to be able to immediately differentiate between the different sides in a given session. This last part is often compromised by my buddies using their Transformers-esque mechs lol.

Sure - but if the book describes a mechs paint scheme as being royal purple with gold edge trim up top and a pink and babys breath polkadot/peadot type camo scheme on the front leg armor and shoulders, then you can't really say that fans are creating really gakky parade schemes that look hideous. That description on its own is already hideous, I don't think fans could make that any better or worse.

Doesn’t contradict anything I’ve proposed.

 Albertorius wrote:

Korthu wrote:
Just a quick question. What unit does the Battlemaster on the cover of the rulebox belong to? The blue one with the red and white strip. I can't figure it out but I like that color scheme.

Thanks.
-K

Well, I hope you realize, this was entirely your fault:

Spoiler:

absolutely beautiful. I think I've posted some of mine earlier but yours are waaaay better. I'm gonna post a full company (the first of just over 2 battalions of mechs I have) as soon as I finish.

Can't help but note you've missed the battlemaster *throws down the gauntlet*

That's not the new Phawk model...

definitely not, but it still looks good.

Just got myself a 3d printed MWO style dragon. getting some paint work as we speak,

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That's not the new Phawk model...

I assumed it's a robotech tactics Mini, more then a few btechers invested in the Mini's specificly to use as unseens

I almost did, but then they announced the Kickstarter.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That's not the new Phawk model...

Nope, it's an RRT Valkyrie with 3d printed parts (also, feth Palladium >_> )

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I almost did, but then they announced the Kickstarter.

I considered it when I saw the basic box at my local game store, but feth Palladium and most especially feth harmony gold.

 Albertorius wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That's not the new Phawk model...

Nope, it's an RRT Valkyrie with 3d printed parts (also, feth Palladium >_> )

Those are nice parts. Very nice parts.

I've done one myself, but not having got it past primer stage I can't really tell what the end result will be. I definitely didn't get it into as nice a pose as you did.

Oh, yeah. Feth Palladium.

Pfft, my colors are based on what I had and the limits of my hands and brushes (which, I should probably replace soon, they're getting quite raggedy).

Basically I have two color schemes, one for Inner Sphere, and one for Clan.

A little inspiration came from a certain YT Battletech commentator's group...

I intend to get my IS 'Mechs, separate out the obvious faction-specific ones, and then take the rest and spray one half red, the other half blue, and then do details. Ditto for my Clans. One half green, the other half ice blue.

And then do the same for all my tanks. And power armour.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I intend to get my IS 'Mechs, separate out the obvious faction-specific ones, and then take the rest and spray one half red, the other half blue, and then do details. Ditto for my Clans. One half green, the other half ice blue.

And then do the same for all my tanks. And power armour.

so davion, kurita, jade falcon and ghost bear?

Correcto.

There would be some outliers - I have a small pirate force (including a converted Zeus with the axe from a Ti Ts'ang), and some ComStar stuff, plus an smallish Capellan force. They wouldn't be included alongside the others.

And the Davions/Kuritans would get a few of the Clan 'Mechs as salvage.

New shiny bits-3d printed MWO style dragon added to my collection


Because one cannot have enough dragon

As long as it's a Grand Dragon.

Regular Dragons are kinda gak.

Is there any other kind? of course it is a grand dragon ERPPC for life!



I generally run the 7K for the C3 slave and ER mediums.

So I was considering picking up the variant Stormcrow, and thought Id be clever and use a spare Stormcrow from the kickstsrter (presently have 5 due to salvage boxes, planning to buy an extra clan command star which would give me 6), but then I realized that the torsos are different because the variants don't mount a medium laser under the cockpit :( doesn't look like Id be able to rework the spare parts into any of the alt configs.

darn you 1/customer limits!

I have two Succession-wars era factions made from all the 1st Wave IS mechs from the Kickstarter painted. I kept them pretty generic, with no real mind to making a strict link to actual units. I did a blue/red quartered scheme to be some sort of a Steiner military unit, and a grey/green force to be some sort of Mercs, because I wanted to dust off the old Battlefleet Gothic Imperial scheme that I used to like to paint. I might add some splashes of purple to them and say they are on near-permanent retainer to the Free Worlds League, then it explains why the two forces are pitted against each other.





I've been thinking of building a small Clan force, and after a truly nightmarish picture colored by my 5yo daughter, I may have her lay out the color schemes for each mech. Just give her Clan mech pages from the Catalyst activity book and force myself to color the equivalent mechs like her designs to come up with something truly anti-Clan, just to poke fun at the fact that some players consider the Clans to be the "Munchkin" faction with all their high tech, so I might as well add insult to injury and hurt their eyes, too.

Enter the warriors of Clan Rainbow Pegasus.

Believe it or not, brightly colored, one off paint schemes that look like easter eggs are a canon Clan scheme.

https://camospecs.com/unit/xi-provisional-galaxy/

The Nova Cats Xi provisional Galaxy!

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Believe it or not, brightly colored, one off paint schemes that look like easter eggs are a canon Clan scheme.

https://camospecs.com/unit/xi-provisional-galaxy/

The Nova Cats Xi provisional Galaxy!

good ole nova kittens

Ok, how did the guy at Camo-Specs convert this:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
... so I might as well add insult to injury and hurt their eyes, too.

Enter the warriors of Clan Rainbow Pegasus.

I declare a Trial of Grievance against you and your daughter!

BrianDavion wrote:

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Believe it or not, brightly colored, one off paint schemes that look like easter eggs are a canon Clan scheme.

https://camospecs.com/unit/xi-provisional-galaxy/

The Nova Cats Xi provisional Galaxy!

good ole nova kittens

Yeah and the fun thing if you use the field manuals for unit specific special rules. they get an initiative bonus at the start of the game that gradually degrade over turns because of shock value. kind of a "what the heck is that?" mechwarrior reaction.

Ok, how did the guy at Camo-Specs convert this:

Obviously a nova cat body (G variant), the arms are off of....i should know they look really familiar

I wanna say off a longbow for some reason

I checked the models that isn't it. i know i have seen the arms before.

 Chillreaper wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:


Nope, it's an RRT Valkyrie with 3d printed parts (also, feth Palladium )

Oh, yeah. Feth Palladium.

There is a tale or two here methinks.

What is the hate for Palladium beyond their badly formatted and sucky rules.