Blogosphere Cross Pollinations

Paperclix!

In case it's not obvious, Deadpool, Captain America, Bucky Barnes, Nick Fury Jr

This oddly staged photo is a shout out to fellow blogger Spacecow Smith who helms the excellent Tales From Farpoint blog and also the recent Tales From the Inner Sphere blog.  I showed my son a picture of some of the recent papercraft efforts at TFIS that had been using in a mech campaign.  Later that day my son had cut up a cereal box and had already made several characters for a Marvel comics studio game which is my son's current favorite narrative source.  He is very excited about being able to incorporate any Marvel character into his games instead of being limited by what Heroclix or Lego minifigures he has.  Thanks to Spacecow for some unknowing inspiration for my son's gaming creativity.  

Dredd’s Revenants

Griffin GRF-1N Completed

Our campaign started a few months ago with our mercenary company, Dredd's Raiders, being ambushed by Liao forces while guarding a planet in the Free Worlds League.  Our commander, Joe Dredd, and the rest of our mercenary colleagues were killed by the Cappellan battlemechs but our lance was rescued by a quick thinking dropship piloting who was fleeing the conquered world.  Regrouping on a nearby Marik planet, we four companions took a a vow to find out who was responsible for betraying our Mercenary company and revenge against house Liao and their armies.  Our unit became Dredd's Revenants as we set out on our mission to avenge our fallen commander and comrades.

Zoomin’ Through The Inner Sphere

Citytech!

Our Battletech campaign continues over Zoom as our mercenary lance played several missions as part of a House Marik invasion of a Capellan Confederation world.

Since trying to see the board is difficult even with two cameras aimed at the mapsheet, I took a fellow blogger's suggestion to try some papercraft buildings from Germy.uk to add a three dimensional aspect for those playing over the interwebs.

Battletech Goes Zoom!

Adaptive Battle Tactics Skill Unlocked!

Sorry these pictures are a little blurry, as you can see both my devices with autofocus were occupied when I took this picture

WIP Battletech

Giant Robots!

Green and Gold is the color scheme you end up with when your gaming group is made up of too many William and Mary graduates...

Battletech is another of my lifelong loves and my gaming group had only gotten two games into a campaign right before lockdown 2020 happened.  We have found an innovative way to keep it going which I will post on next week but until then I'm including a WIP Mech that is the current ride of one of my lance mates.  This Griffin is from the Battletech 2nd Edition box set that I bought off the off the Games/Hobby shelf of a Waldenbooks wayyyy back in 1992.  That was my first introduction to the game but I was immediately hooked and it has remained one of my favorite games and background settings, second only to WH40K.  I stripped his very old and unskilled paint job I had applied long ago and now I'm repainting him and his lance mates in the colors requested by my weekly gaming group.  Using the Dark Angels Green contrast paint, and honestly I know this wasn't GW's intent but contrast paint works great on Battlemechs.  It settles into the many recesses and skips you right to the step of drybrushing which is the heart of most Mech painting.  I used Soulstone Blue from the short-lived gem colors paints from GW for the cockpit and I really like the glossy effect that it gives.  More on the subject of Battletech to follow in the future...