Battle Tech anyone?

[gamer Mac]

My Brother has got him self a new toy, a 3D printer and he has always had a fetish for big metal things, he passed this on to me yesterday, he is busy painting a few more, I am sure he will add pics later
Here is my WIP of my attempt it is rather big Model!


15 mm scale couple of figures to give an idea of the size

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice Tomahawk.

[gamer Mac]

Suppose to be a warhammer!

[gamer Mac]

Some more detail

[Andym]

I bet you don't need your magnifying glass to paint that!

[Andym]

So these are scaled for 15mm. Normal Battletech is 6mm. Its easy enough to do in Chitubox. Just scale everything by 200% The medium mechs are about 100mm. The 100 ton Atlas is 110mm. We are using this scale because Colin already has a great 15mm AK47 project going and I thought it would be cool if we could use that stuff with this. Kind of our own take on Battletech.

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=109181.0

Here's a couple of mine so far. Extremely WIP.....

 

[gamer Mac]

Looking good
Some more of my one



Some 28 mm in the photo

[OSHIROmodels]

Great stuff gents 

But Andy, I'm so disappointed that you haven't scratch built them and have succumbed to this printing malarky 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Suppose to be a warhammer!

http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/search?q=Tomahawk

[gamer Mac]

http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.com/search?q=Tomahawk

OK you can call it what you want
In my game it will be a warhammer
It was the very first battlemech I bought about 30 years ago and the cover of the rules has this mech on it, don't know which was first BUT I think this is one of the unseen, loads of IP issues around this game

[gamer Mac]

That's this one done

[Macrossmartin]

Suppose to be a warhammer!

Let's split the difference: Tomahammer! 

In any case, very nice Mecha! (Or is that 'Mech'?) 

[Inso]

Brilliant stuff .

[Daeothar]

Aahh, Battletech...

It's been too long since I have dabbled in my own snail-paced project (in 15mm).

Those are some really great mechs, gentlemen. I am doing all of mine up from unseen model kits (although I'm scratchbuilding the Locust(s)), after some really, really arduous sourcing efforts. And then a lot of the mechs meeded to be 'biggerized' by adding spacers in 3 dimensions to each bodypart. Let's just say that was arduous too...

And then more and more excellently looking 3D printed mechs show up here, and I'm questioning my sanity (and glacial pace) every time, since I still have very little to show for it, after all of these years.

Maybe I should jump on that band wagon and give in to this 3D mallarky after all...


Oh, and to clarify: FASA obtained the rights to use the imagery of a whole slew of mecha designs in their Battletech game from the original Japanese IP owners. One of these was the Tomahawk, from the anime Macross, which was introduced in Battletech as the Warhammer.

Now, the plot thickened, when Harmony Gold obtained the rights to (amongst others) the Macross series, to be dubbed and released in the US as Robotech. So now there were two universes, with (some of) the same mechs in them, with different names.

Then HG sued FASA, as they claimed to be the sole owner of the IP of those anime (and therefore mecha) outside of Japan. This legal battle took years, had the anime inspired mechs from Battletech removed from any material (after which they were referred to by fans as the 'unseen') and eventually led to the downfall of FASA. HG later went after any other companies using the original mechs (or derivatives thereof).

But it appears that after decades of rabidly pouncing on anything Battletech, they got their own when they were finally found to be in the wrong, and possibly had been from the very start(!). Little good that does to the defunct FASA, but it's a moral victory nevertheless for Battletech.

The whole story is much more convoluted than that, but this, basically, is the gist of it.

So yeah; Warhammer!

[gamer Mac]

Daeothar
thanks for the info
3D printing is the way to go
price is good as well so I am lead to believe