Start of a new faction

So as I painted my way through the Battletech collection, I decided that I would need at least 1 other faction. I decided on a mercenary company. Now I have already done a single lance of mercenaries but I wasn't sold on the colour scheme. So a new faction needs a new colour scheme. I went for black with little flashes of silver. I always like the look of black on vehicles, it can look really nice when finished.

So I pulled together 5 mechs that I had left over, another 3 will be used to complete the Dragons Fury collection to bring them up to 2 full companies. So we have a Raven, Enforcer, Guillotine and two Banshee's.

Raven

Guillotine

Enforcer

Pair of Banshee's

The Banshee's and Guillotine will form the basis of an assault lance. I did try to do some of the edging with a light dusting of silver, doesn't show too well in the photos. Another advantage of this colour scheme is I can use some of the 6mm infantry and vehicles that I had already painted, saves a bit of work. Now I just need to come up with an appropriate name for the company

More Mechs and some droids

More work completed for my Battletech collection. This time it was a 5th lance for my Dragons Fury, these are all Urbanmechs or as I like to think of them as dustbins on legs. They aren't that good in the game but have a certain charm about them. I also completed another Rifleman for a 6th Lance, this is a 3d print provided by Mitch.

Urbanmechs

Rifleman

For my mercenary lance I added 2 more mechs, both 3d prints from Mitch. They are a Penetrator and a Hunchback, nicely completing the lance.

Hunchback and Penetrator

Mercenary lance

Now still in keeping with a sci-fi theme I painted up 3 Imperial security droids as I begin to plan the next adventure. These are 3d prints provided by Thom, he even passed on enough parts for another 3 or 4 droids. I did flick through some image for a colour scheme to discover they come in pretty much whatever you like so went for a mid blue to match my security forces.

After these I have a few Quar on the painting table after being inspired after a couple of games to get the last of them painted.

Ground troops

For the planned game next year, Mitch wants the Mechs to be supported by some ground troops, just a couple of mechanised infantry companies and other support vehicles. I had already done the tanks so just the infantry to do. Now to save money I dug into the old lead/plastic pile  for more of the old space marine infantry. 8 bases duly found and painted up. Mitch even provided a few more 3d printed vehicles to act as transports. In keeping with the force colours they are all red with some black to break up the colour.

2 companies of infantry

APC's

Mobile AA missile launcher

Completed company

I'm just waiting for my order of grass tufts to arrive to finish the bases on the infantry. Now I can get back to painting up some more Mechs that have arrived. Looking at finishing a second company and a mercenary lance.