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Ooh those look awesome. I think GW leaked all their STLs back in like the start of October so you might actually be painting official models there, just with slightly worse(?) material. I hope you have fun with them! I always wanted to paint some T'au...



My 8 Battletech starter guys are done! I just finished the final coat of varnish this morning, then glued on some grass tufts and re-glossed the canopies.




The red & green ones are my favourite, though I'm glad I tried 4 different schemes. When I started adding the rust tone to the green ones they instantly looked 8 times more interesting, it was such a fun and easy effect.



The starter set comes with this kinda martian red playmat, which is where I got the colour scheme for my bases. I think they look really good in play!

Awesome job! Already said that but variety of guys and their paint schemes turned out great!
Also are you going to do some terrain tiles and elements/obstacles if you like the game? I've been thinking about that element a lot as well after me and a friend ordered a starting set, just seems like a really fun thing to do

Making terrain seems awesome, but I don't have the kind of storage space you'd want for that right now...

amos wrote: Wed Nov 12, 2025 4:46 pm Making terrain seems awesome, but I don't have the kind of storage space you'd want for that right now...

I understand, maybe...someday, but yeah living in a place and finally thinking I actually kind of want some things around me and not just bare essentials and I quickly started to realize how much space boxes might take (and not only boxes)

Okay, had two sessions of trying to figure how to even paint minis and I think I'm getting the hang of it.
The Blue/Grey guy was primed, painted with main colors and washed. Wash didn't lay ideally in some spots (i just sorta missed gravity doing its thing so got a bit too much in some spots) but will try to fix it with final session of correcting things and putting down highlights.
For the second guy just trying to figure what kind of color scheme I even want so there's not much yet.
I also was trying paints out on some Tau drones so i understand how it works on minis and they def have way too much undiluted paint (or not diluted enough rather)
Also Turns out taking photos of minis is quite tough!

Ooh, really nice colour schemes! I can see the wash pooling a little bit but tbh I kind of like that look on my own minis anyway, plus you can always fix it with layering. Are you going to do drybrushing or edge highlighting of any kind? These look like they have some great geometry for that.

As for undiluted paints, yeah, pretty much every mini paint is too thick out of the bottle. The Duncan Rhodes meme or "two thin coats" is generally very true. My thumb ends up completely covered in paint whenever I'm working as I test paint consistency. It took me a while to get right, but I think I managed by the end of my starter set adventure.

My local games store was having a sale & the BattleTech Clan Invasion box was going for real cheap so I picked that up last week. Now I just gotta wait for it to be dry and warm again...

I've been uploading all my plein air photos for a future thread and between the photos I found of my favorite miniatures that I've painted.



One of my cousins gave me this cheap gachapon Kinnikuman figure (Parthenon) that I had in a drawer for years and then I decided to repurpose as a "Stone Golem". I have to take it from storage and take a better photo, I like how the gradation in the columns came out, the water streaks (that are more evident when you look at the miniature from the top) and I always wanted to get a scale rabbit to put in the base. The base has a rabbit burrow behind.

lmao this is great, the gradation on the stone kicks ass.

amos wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 5:47 am Ooh, really nice colour schemes! I can see the wash pooling a little bit but tbh I kind of like that look on my own minis anyway, plus you can always fix it with layering. Are you going to do drybrushing or edge highlighting of any kind? These look like they have some great geometry for that.

As for undiluted paints, yeah, pretty much every mini paint is too thick out of the bottle. The Duncan Rhodes meme or "two thin coats" is generally very true. My thumb ends up completely covered in paint whenever I'm working as I test paint consistency. It took me a while to get right, but I think I managed by the end of my starter set adventure.

My local games store was having a sale & the BattleTech Clan Invasion box was going for real cheap so I picked that up last week. Now I just gotta wait for it to be dry and warm again...

Thank you! I sadly haven't been able to continue painting them due to getting a flu(probably?) and then a nastier flu later... I have applied some drybrushing to the first guy and it looks surprisingly nice with these hard angles, I'll try to get some brush highlights/weathering on the edges as well! And speaking of that, it turns out taking photos of miniatures is surprisingly hard without losing detail, at least on a phone like mine, so next time definitely going to try a place with more lights.

Yesss, excited to see your work on the new guys, and me and a friend also received the starter BattleTech box as well, so both of us gonna paint 4 each, been going though some color schemes for them and now that everyone is healthy I think we'll start painting them in January.

AtomicRunner wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 10:24 pm I've been uploading all my plein air photos for a future thread and between the photos I found of my favorite miniatures that I've painted.



One of my cousins gave me this cheap gachapon Kinnikuman figure (Parthenon) that I had in a drawer for years and then I decided to repurpose as a "Stone Golem". I have to take it from storage and take a better photo, I like how the gradation in the columns came out, the water streaks (that are more evident when you look at the miniature from the top) and I always wanted to get a scale rabbit to put in the base. The base has a rabbit burrow behind.

Golem turned out awesome! To add to how nice the work on columns turned out I really like the ground cover looks as well! Very cool !

Finally had another session and hope next one can be final with some drybrushing on the orange one and highlights for both and adding up some ground cover for the base, it's still very hard to take photos of minis! My friend took them for me and you can really see that they aren't up to GW plastic but for me it's good enough! if i had some tools for sanding and everything they'd look a bit nicer but i'll try to do that for whatever comes next. And ofc they are are missing their backpacks/thrusters whatever that is they have and weapons but that's in the works too

It's really fun comparing GW minis to most other stuff out there, they really love their hard edges and panel gaps. It makes sense, that stuff makes drybrushing and washes feel like magic.