Some of my previously painted models in the unit, organized into a command squad, beastmen, and ogre auxiliary unit with politi al officers overseeing each of those... Got to ensure they redeem themselves for humanity and seek big E's repentance thru fire!

Moving along with my Mad Robot Miniatures Dirty Dogs unit with these squadies, riflemen and a couple special weapons.

On my mediums and lights from the box, I did halvesees in woodland (M81) and tri-color desert. IFF will have to be executed by other means!

My heavy and assault mechs from my "A Game Of Armored Combat" Battletech box. Forgot to paint half of each weight class in tri-color desert!!!

Not all were sculpted with hard vacuum in mind... 3 of the 7 were without helmets.

Some Bob Naismith armored vacc suit troops for my harder SF games (like maybe Traveller/Hostile) or even Stargrave.

*brain

I still don't know how to use a phone keyboard!

Draft is a 1° or so angle you design into plastic injection molded parts to allow the part to demold. In larger scale kits (Gunpla for example) this has led to the use of panel line scribers to create crisp edges along panel lines.

I don't just 3D print... Here are some CGL Battletech models.

The Stinger is a disappointment to me, otherwise these others are okay.

Injection molding these this small, in the poses they have, gives these models a huge relief draft my beain notices too much....

One Pgae Rules Hive Fleet Soul Snatchers!

Geko Troop, kitted for ranged combat.

Gecko "officer" (I should look it up)

A One Page Rules Saurian Starhost Geko Seer miniature.

preview

#battletech #miniaturepainting

3DP of a DFD female scoundel crew member. 28mm scale, so I found the limits of my 2X cheater lenses and my need to jump up to 4-6X for the next face I paint in this scale.

...Stargrave, or any other number of dark semi-hard SF RPG settings. Also pictured is the 28mm original I painted three or so years ago. Artistic progress?

One of my favorite Bob Naismith sculpts I picked up when I was on his Patreon a few years back. Scaled up to 54mm, and finally painted in a manner worthy of the sculpt! Feminine, bad ass professional, everything we loved about Ellen Ripley, she would be at home in Traveller, Alien, Five Parsecs...

It never ceases to amaze me how much less I go for anything other than a size 0 round the longer I paint. Especially a good quality one. I keep the 00, 000 rounds and a #1 flat around as a crutch still... But they tend to sit more these days.

i get asked about what brushes i use. for mechs or anything smaller, i use only this: a da vinci maestro series 35 size 0.

it's small but not tiny. it has long bristles to keep paint out of the ferrule. for flat areas, i use a worn out version of the same brush

#battletech #miniaturepainting

Like for the love of Scopedog VOTOMS, repost because the world needs more painted Scopedogs!

*Chief

Let's go back to 40K 1e, aka "Rogue Trader" era when anything was possible... Like half Eldar kids growing up and becoming the Chisf Libraian Astropath for the Ultra Marines Chapter after a brief stint with the Dark Angels...

54mm 3DP kitbash of couple models.

North Star are taking pre-orders now for the new Stargrave Death Vector Book and the new Automatons.
www.northstarfigures.com/list.php?man...

A weary Chagrian, beaten by misfortune, crouches beside the wreckage of a failed R2 unit, seeking warmth from the fire flickering within its broken frame. The remnants of Black Remnant's design are still visible, a testament to its former purpose, now beautifully captured through the craftsmanship of PhalanxPrintingUK.

A weary Chagrian, beaten by misfortune, crouches beside the wreckage of a failed R2 unit, seeking warmth from the fire flickering within its broken frame. Black Remnant design, skillfully printed by PhalanxPrintingUK.

#nerdlings #wargaming #wargames #miniaturemonday

I loved these kinds of dioramas back in the day. And an early Nova Marines colour scheme, was it?

The world need more Armored scout cars....

Today's warm-up sketch is inspired by Rem and his great video on Commander Farsight!
You should totally go watch it!

#tau #warhammer40k #art

Another Darkfire Designs model, printed into 54mm miniature scale this time. Without 3D printing, I'd have never developed as a painter, being too worried about the cost per model to experiment. Here, it's the first time I attempted eyes, next model, I will attempt to add pupils...

Some Darkfire Designs Imperial and Fleet Trooper models (you can guess which SF franchise) printed at 86% size to fit into 28mm-32mm wargames environments (or the Imperial Assault boardgame...) less jarringly than Legion scale. I<3 3D printing for many reasons.

More Megamek splash art. Straight from the wwwwaaaayyyy too much work department. This is my personal favorite from the set. I really stretched my 3D sculpting muscles on this one.

Play! Live! Love! Megamek here:
megamek.org

#battletech #scifi #illustration