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IS Support Lance

Enter the Dragon... and friends.

Clan Ad Hoc Star

"Don't ever talk to me or my son or my son or my son or my son again!"

Clan Heavy Battle Star

Here's the family all together.

Look Ma, no hands!

Clan Heavy Battle Star

I'm sure a lot of people went in on this pack looking for an Ebon Jaguar or Huntsman. Personally I'm all about that Turkina. My first sight of the machine was in Mech Commander Desperate Measures, a rendition that was quite appealing. The tabletop mini? Not so much.
I definitely leaned heavy on the MC look for that redesign.
Who came for the Crossbow and Kingfisher though?
Overall a pretty deadly set of mechs.

Turkina, Kingfisher, and Ebon Jag redesigns by me. Crossbow by B...

Comstar Battle Level II Renders

Here's a big pack where every mech really needed a visual update to be worth looking at as a group. I believe a few of you have said you had no interest in this set until you saw how the designs came out :)
And certainly, they're all pretty appealing now, with the visuals to go with their stat lines.

Crockett and Crab designed by me, Flashman by Giorgio Espinos, Guillotine by Alan, with the Lancelot and Mongoose by Bishop.
-Crockett and Lancelott sculpts by Chris Lowrey.
-Flash...

Clan Ad Hoc Star Renders

Ah yes, the pack with the Kodiak, the mech that was accidentally removed and everyone demaded be put back, and then 4 other mechs that people actually voted to remove (and I agreed with removing) but then a few people demanded come back.
At this point in the campaign, near the end, our art team was already going to be utterly demolished, so what was one more to ice the cake of despair? :)

Kodiak, Hellion, and Fire Falcon design by me. Pack hunter by Alex Iglesias, Howler by Marco Maz...

IS Support Lance Renders

Here are the individual shots for the IS Support Lance. A bit of an odd collection of mechs, certainly similar to the Clan Ad Hoc star as a "fit whatever is left" for the kickstarter. But there's something in here for most people. A command Cyclops, the famed Thug, a great need of Kuritan Dragons, and the rare but iconic Spider.

All designs by myself, though plenty of reference towards Bishop and Alan's previous Thug work, and the Dragon heavily references Marco's Succession Wars TRO co...

The Finishers

We did it! (This image is public for sharing)

As a recent Kickstarter update eluded to, we've been crunching hard on a lot of product to attempt meeting a fairly lofty production timing window. When I was first asked if my modeling team could complete all remaining mechs by the 15th I flatly said no haha. But after some persuasion, we gave it a shot, and here we are at the finish line, on time. Pretty crazy stuff.

A lot of people contributed towards this final push, but I have to ...

Star Commander

You too would be happy sitting in your command Cyclops if you were put in charge of this star of terrifying Clan mechs.

Which are your favorites of this lot? Next set I post will either be the final mechs of the campaign, or all the remaining completed star and lance pack shots. We're just days away now.

Star League Relics

When your ride must look funky, be manufactured before you were born, and hand actuators are optional, look no further!

Bishop did a great job on the Lancelot design, and I like my chonky Crockett. Chris Lowrey sculpted them both.

Enjoy!

So Close!

I can almost count the remaining kickstarter sculpts we're working on in both hands. If we ignore the ones idling at 90% done, almost countable in one hand!

Such a long line that they look like tiny ants just fitting them on screen.

Big Boys

Look at these two THICC mechs. So thick in fact that the Turkina is the shortest of all Assault mechs even though it's a 95tonner, and the Flashman is our shortest 75ton heavy.

Turkina design by me, Flashman design by Giorgio Espinos. Both sculpted by Alan Blackwell.

Clan Striker Star

Here's the whole group together.

Not a good time if you see this many optimal Clan laser builds running at you, and a bad day for any infantry too with all those machine guns.

Clan Striker Star Renders

Time for another pack of mechs, though you've seen all of these already in different group shots.

Vapor Eagle sculpted by Chris Lowrey.
Hellhound sculpt by Alan Blackwell.
Horned Owl design by Harri Kallio and sculpted by Chris.
Incubus also by Harri, and sculpted by Alan.
Piranha design by Marco Mazzoni and sculpt by Alan.

How many are picking this one up?

Thug 3D Sculpt

Here's one I know you lot would be demanding I show more renders of, so here they are within a day of the model being finalized and approved. The Thug :)

Alan did a good job modeling this one. Though I put my hands on it some too, as in this run on the final models of the kickstarter I'm taking over all final fixing to free the modelers up, letting them focus on pumping out mechs as fast as possible.

Best Thug?

Fast Trio

Here's the first batch of previously mentioned incoming sculpts.

Did that Mongoose come out right?

(This image is available to share publicly)

Dropships Inbound!

Posts have been a little thin lately, but ready yourself, we've got a huge force of mechs incoming at a pace we've never done before. Hopefully I'll find the time to update regularly here as they come along.

Wish us luck.

Alpha Strike

Here's the first piece of the unseen mood remake done!
Was a lot of work, but certainly helps starting with our nicely detailed 3D models.

At first I was a little worried the swap to a vibrant mech color would break the mood of the piece, but the contrast of moon dust to red worked out nicely.
We'll see how it goes once the op-for mechs in other sections add another color to the mix.

Any miniature painters think they'd have a much bigger struggle doing this more complex depi...

Horned Owl 3D Turntable

Another sculpt by Chris Lowrey, another turntable :)

Enjoy your Zaku.

Closing In

Quite a bit of progress since the last post, though mostly in the realm of effects and rendering out the Marauder II in the background.
Only decals, damage, ground enhancement, and environmental effects left to go.

Decided to throw up the massive Battletech logo where a title would go when/if this lands on a book cover. Looks nice.

Sidewinder

Here's a quickie non-canon model bash of the Sidewinder I did for fun after I saw someone bring it up again on FB.

Just took the raw parts as is and didn't tweak the loadout all the way (forgot to look up the weapons beforehand) beyond somewhat matching the front art.
Would probably look even better thinning the side torsos down with LRM10's and using the Executioners gauss lower arm instead instead of the Summoners gun.

Imagine if all the omni bash mechs got made :D

Wolfhound 3D Turntable

Chris Lowrey rendered out a turntable for Dale Eadeh's Wolfhound model.

Looks pretty sweet I think.

New Kids

A few people wanted to see the new Howler model. Have an Incubus too.

Lots of ankle biters toting clan weaponry coming up.

Dual Assortments

Both of these are in 4K Desktop resolution, so feel free to use them as a backdrop.

Split them into Clan vs IS this time, though that does mean the Clan one gets to be a bit more zoomed in.
Maybe the last collection set until until all of them are finished.

I'm thinking of eventually doing one that has them all organized by lance/star rather than weight. So you can see how it all looks as a campaign.

Overall though, I think this paints a great picture as to how big and/or...

IS Urban Lance Renders

Victor, for when you run out of jumpjets so you use jet engines instead.

IS Urban Lance

Quite a group of misfits this lance. Certainly a few you wouldn't want to find yourself face to face with in a city environment.

Victor sculpt by Alan Blackwell.
Enforcer sculpted by Alan and designed by Ben "Bishop Steiner" Myers.
Raven sculpted by Alex Immerzeel.
Hunchback sculpt by Chris Lowrey.

IS Striker Lance Renders

All of these came out so nice.

IS Striker Lance

Looks at this cute little group of mechs. All very good picks though.

How many Kurita players will be buying multiples of this one just to stock up on Panthers?

Panther and Wolfhound were designed and sculpted by Dale Eadeh.
Blackjack designed and sculpted by Alan Blackwell.
Jenner sculpted by Alan, designed by me.

Progress

A bit over 8 years ago I completed the piece on the right, the final step of a little Marauder redesign project I took on for myself to see how the design could be pushed forward from its unseen roots.
From there I hit the Warhammer, Rifleman, and Archer. Eventually those concepts would grab Catalysts attention... and the rest is recent history.

Now I've got the fun task of painting the same scene over again, which I've wanted to do for a few years now. Wolf's Dragoons instead of Gre...

Hunchback 3D Turntable

Another turntable in from Chris.
The Hunchback came out great!