Bullshark "Flanker"

That b!tch winter is finally here, so I decided to paint something more suitable instead of slacking on hot-like-hell battlefields of Mars. This time my victim was 1/100 scale version of heavy mech: Bullshark from Stratominis' range. It's also the last model painted in the ghastly year 2021. Speaking of which I've just realised it's the second month in a row during which I managed to paint only one miniature. Shame on you Demi, shame, shame, shame...

The model is clearly inspired by classic badass mech Marauder from Battletech game. I've been trying to come back to this game several times but every time lack of time or life issues  cross my intentions. In fact, some time ago I even got and painted some refreshed mechs (also from Stratominis) but they haven't seen battlefield yet. Poor killing machines... 🥺
Which is really shame (again) actually. Those "classic" battlemechs are just so cool, and casting quality of Stratominis'stuff is just superb. 

As for the model itself - there was a short run of display scale battlemechs released and I was lucky enough to put my dirty hands on one of those. The model somehow reminds me neo-soviet / post-apo device, so I decided to give it "modern" paintjob.

Camo pattern was inspired by Ukrainian jet Su-27 (NATO code: Flanker). 

It's pretty eyecatching compared to most of models in my collection, and it's also good reason to use some artificial snow again, before it dries completly.

I was also trying to practice painting object source lighting on barrels and engines exhausts but I'm afraid I'm pretty far away from where I'd like to be in this topic. 

Must say I had some fun working on this piece. Might actually dig out remaining mechs from the pile ov shame and expand Battletech force. Using hex-based board might be fun! 🤖

It turned out model is just about the size of Eradicator Deathdroid so it fits most of future / post-apo systems we play here. In fact it's great addition to small neo-soviets force I've started building unintentionally. Absolutely unintentionally...

And here's comparsion pic - the little one is gaming scale model 😁

Battletech

Hello in the brand new, still shiny year,

Once again decision was made not to plan anything hobby-related for the nearest, predictible future (no idea why but such planning never works for me...) but all I silently hope is I can finish infantry swarm for my Bolt Action US army.

But before that I wanted to give a try to something rather unusual: microscale stuff.

Where did that come from:
Something like 25 years ago my dad brought Battletech board game to home.
It was a blast: these were the very first models I've seen ever, besides in mid 90's miniatures hobby for something extremly exotic here, and quite unavailable. Brain damage was even more severe because those days I was like 13 years old kid?
Anyway the game was something way too big for me, so cannot recall it was ever played...

Bit later, while I was on hobby convention (about 3 years ago) I met some nice guys from Polish Battletech / Alpha Strike community and was really surprised that game is still on.

Moreover, new models are still being released!

So just after coming home I started looking for miniatures and found short run of resin mechs: I managed to get Catapult, Adder/Puma, Jagermech, Wolverine, Cataphract and Battlemaster.
I really had and still have no idea are those good choice for the gaming purposes, I simply picked models I liked from limited offer.

Quality of sculpts (or rather renders) is just great, no match for oldie, classic scupts from the board game.
Painting such stuff was quite a new experience for me but I am glad I can see them now in the glass case. So here's the result, hope you like those:

Adder/Puma:

This one has been painted probably in 2016 but the result wasn't somthing I was looking for so the paint was washed off to give model another shot. I was bit worried how breaking fluid would work on fragile, resin model but everything turned out fine. So here's before:

And here's after. I've finally found use for those silly decals from Chaos Space Marines box.
Looking at pics I can see the model turned out kinda rough, so I think I might give it some more glazing to make it smoother:

And Catapult:

Stay tuned for some deaders!

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