This month at school it was back to our based-on-the-old-Ultramarines-game game. They had to download data that came in randomly to one of six terminals each turn, and get it back to their DZ. Ended up a draw but much fun was had.😄👍

Today was so busy I only got the bases finished (and not yet the hazard stripes to indicate the fronts)😩 Here’s the lance along with the lance of Hetzers I did some years ago (and finally based them!). Next: lasers & decals #battletech #freeworldsleague #housemarik #sirianlancers #dogstarcorsairs

Canopies done! #battletech #freeworldsleague #housemarik #sirianlancers #dogstarcorsairs

Green panels done, that and main colour weathered. Hazard stripes done. Basing started. Next: finish the bases, do canopies and laser lenses. Then decals! #battletech #freeworldsleague #housemarik #sirianlancers #dogstarcorsairs

And a 4-in-1 of 6mm buildings. I keep small loose terrain inside. #MatryoshkaTerrain #wargamingterrain #battletech

8 corrugated slum houses. Four go inside the other four, and they all stack. I’m going to make a couple of big ones to clamshell around the stack of 8. #MatryoshkaTerrain #wargamingterrain

Panel lining done. That looks much better now. This is going to be a unit of the 2nd Sirian Lancers (The Dogstar Corsairs) to be added to my Free Worlds League forces. Next is some green panels. #battletech #freeworldsleague #housemarik #sirianlancers #dogstarcorsairs

I believe in you, battlecat!

A short lunch break today so I just got the Ymir panel-lined.

Managed to build a huge aircraft carrier and actually land on it (successfully. At last!😅). #junoneworigins

The ugly phase: Basecoat done (Red Ochre) and two lighter colours drybrushed on. Tomorrow’s washes and shading will change things. #battletech

Today’s lunch hobby. A new Lance undercoated. Tomorrow: base coating! #battletech

And vid on the turntable!

A couple more shots:

Named after the first Captain-General of the Free Worlds league, the Juliano (JLN-5A) is a 90t assault mech armed with three ER large lasers, three ER medium lasers and four Clan Streak-6 SRM launchers. #battletech #バトルテック #freeworldsleague #housemarik

And evening hobby time: Canopy done. Lenses done. Metallics done. To do: cargo container on the base. Decals. Weathering. But now: sleep!

Made some better faction-dividers for the #AlphaStrike card holder.👍 #battletech

There’s actually load-out options!😳

Tiiiiny planes! And decals! And I have to glue the missiles on!😆 Most of the planes are in 2 parts…some 4. The KA-52 choppers are 6 parts!😂

Today’s lunch-hobby. This thing is bloody heavy! #battletech #freeworldsleague #housemarik

And they’re done. Two boxes to hold crates, which also function as stacks of tarp-covered crates in game👍 #wargamingterrain

I saw this in the hobby shop earlier. 1:700 scale US and Russian aircraft. Even get a pair of A-10s and Kamovs in there😍 Could do #VoidFighter with jets🤔

Not weathering, but if you modelled pipes on terrain like this, you’d get laughed at. A building in Nakano:

I just remembered that this Dougram miniature game from the 80s has these lovely little periscopes you can use for checking LOS. Not at all necessary but extremely fun to use!

I mean an MP crit. It’s now down to a 3” move. …but the Devastator does exactly what it says on the can, and blows the shite out of the back-pedalling Perseus!

T6: the Starslayer retreats to the canal again for a bath🛀♨️ The Devastator wants skulls. It loves across the river, chasing the retreating Perseus and one Blitzkrieg. The Blitz, Yeoman and Perseus strip the Liao assault mech’s armour & give it a MO crit…

…it’s left with a single point of armour! The Devastator can juuust see one of the Blitz’ and hits it hard enough to force withdrawal. The Pillager too can juuust see the other Blitz and takes a single point of armour off it. The Yeoman was forgotten about!😅 Not looking good for Purple Bird!

T5: the Perseus, running hot, limps as fast as it can behind a building…but cannot outrun the now cooled Liao Starslayer which fires everything again and strips all the P1’s armour. Only 2 structure left, it must now begin to retreat! The Blitzkriegs again ambush the Starslayer and…

T4: the Starslayer retreats into the canal to cool down from Heat Level 2. The Perseus pursues, but that brings the Devastator out from behind the hospital… The Dev hammers the P1 for 3 armour. The Perseus & Yeoman return the favour & strip 6(!) armour. The Perseus is now Heat Level 3!

Starslayer: “FIRE EVERYTHING‼️” The exposed Blitzkrieg takes some armour damage and a crit: Firecontrol. Now hot (from the Firestarter) and damaged. But the shots from both Blitzkriegs take out the Firestarter. UAC20 to the front and back will do that.☝️