Battletech in 2023

 After 30 years (yup, Ive got my Battletech starter with plastic miniatures in 1993) I bought me some Mechs again... (ok thats not technically true as Ive got mmetal Sagittaire around 2008 (?) and some Czech made bootleg metal Marauder around 2001 but this was my second Battletech starter after 1993 one).
And Catalyst did wonders with them! I love each new mechs - event Phoenix hawk - my least fav of the old set! I am not a fan of the game, but I love the world and the minis. And I plan to try Alpha strike - Battletech light.

And started to have some fun. Meet my awesome friend: The Awesome. 1st Marik Militia.

Waiting for decals and was testing with random ex GW decals I had at home.

His Family

And early WIP of OPFOR no 1: The Davion Guards

Not sure I will finish these soon as they were test mini when I waited for ordered modern Catalyst minis. Expect Then and now 30 years of plastic casting post soon.

And modern OPFORno2: Jade falcon early wips - Always wanted iconic MadCat since playing Mechwarrior 3 and Vulture is one of my top 3 favorite Mechs ever.

Malifaux in color

I've finished few models apart from my dear Maggot Maggie. My first crew is almost finished and based.. It actually played first 3 games (although in various states of being unfinished).

So here are 3 Zombie samurai.. Those are very strange zombie, punk and samurai combos that i cant find a good justification.. but they are great summons for my master Nicodem :)

And Nicodem himself with Maggie and his trusty zombie dog:

here is family photo of everything painted so far:

And photo of shamfully unfinished things..

And photos from my first game against Nicodem nemesis green and vile and fake-tited  Ophelia the frog gremlin:

And her fake-frog-tities loving henchman..

That culminated in shooting standoff with Nicodem on the old abandoned cemetery :)

(Yesssssssssss I need to finish the base on the plants)

Lastly a photo of my first table to show you unfinished Asian Inn I am slowly building..
(to show some progress on the next report I will post )

Aforementionet WIPs

Here are mostly finished Panther A Late and Ex Zvezda 251B - now C. And frame of 251D/22 (PSC + FOG)

Panther is mostly finished (I will add AA mount to the turret ring and it will go to painting. SOme of the filters are missing, but they tend to in combat.

So is Hanomag C again from Zvezda B. It lost AA gun during photoshots but after giving it a though i like it more without AA gun.

And the last: PSC Sdkfz 251D converted to 251/22 variant with Pak 75 from Battlefront FOG starter.

Need extra crew member and some detail I did not decided on yet.

No to finish my 251/21 (almost done) and 251/23 (probably never seen combat - but if seen it was on Seelw and Kustrin I aim for) that i have only turet done and   my collection of late war 251 strangeness will be ocmplete. And do a Stummel C from Zvezda B :)

Under the hive

Ive finished two more chain gangers and mutants Scavvie gang for Necromunda (that will serve as undercity - dregs Slaneshian cult  r in my Slaneshian Cults of the sector project)

Those guys will make a Scavvy gang that I hope one day to expand to Scavvy and Chain ganger gang - band of psycho prisoners on the run.
Styx Chain ganger with rusty autogun is a real psychopath.is a makeshift sniper

..and Fimm - Cyclopean mutant with blunderbuss manages actualy to hit something :)

After painting they will join

Alkibiades

Tentacle

And

Wyrdish psyker witch Rho that double for a Slaneshian sorceress cult leader- and is still WIP.

Base of the conversion for all 4 male cultist are Mantic ghouls with extra parts and some sculpting.

Sassanian Late Assaviras conversion

Ive decided I want to try a conversion with my spare Sassanian base and try to make them look like Taq Bostan relief thats frankly made me wan to collect Sassanians in the first place. So I started to sculpt, quite happy with the results (although far from perfect i learned a lot sculpting) i decided to finish a base with similar armored knights but of somewhat lesser statue. And i sculpted two more inspired by Osprey paintings by Angus McBride.

So here are mine first take on them:

Ive decided to add standard bearer as relief depicts Sassanian royalty so this base will be some kind of command element

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Base so far

Base models were Lurkio later Sassanian Cavalry.