Kierdale Models

Oooooh. I hate having a project interrupted.😆

That’s outstanding. Well done, mate.
I showed it to the missus. She laughed. Then shuddered.

Nice star, nice terrain👍
Good luck, MechWarrior!🫡

This is how I access BlueSky

Romans vs Goths II. Going for a big battle this time. Goths at the top, Romans at the bottom. The Goths have brought some Sarmatian allies whilst the Romans are calling on their elites… #S&H #spreadthelard #wargaming #2mm

Need another five sheets of the darker blue. Then to airbrush on darker-still blue around the edges, and airbrush some waves onto both the shallow and deep water.
Lighter blue will be 1” depth (half move, mechs half submerged), darker blue will be 2” depth (one-third move, mechs fully submerged).

I went back and bought one😅
If it turns out well, I’ll get another. Could use them in #voidfighter too!💡

Planning the next big #BattleTech AlphaStrike game: Stewart/Marik assault on a Kurita artificial island-military base.
Lots to make so it’s not going to be in March.
At last I’ll get to use the Mauna-Kea & Monitor ships, and 2 Kalki cruise missile launchers. The latter will be the aggressor target.

Excellent painting!👏👏👏

😂I’m thinking of getting them to make some BT fortifications. These could be remote turrets. Give that “bristling with guns” look.
And I’m no Steiner fan😜 You’ll find my minis at your borders.

Exactly! I want to make some fortifications for BattleTech and want them to look like they’re bristling with guns. These turrets will be perfect.

6 turrets for ¥990 yen…tempting. A bit small for #battletech but not everything needs to be huge guns.

That looks excellent. And what a great name!👏👏👏😆

Lovely painting, mate!

How were they a PITA? Any advice on making them? (Or what you’d do different next time?)

That terrain looks fantastic. The bath mat makes for excellent forest!

What a good idea!!🤯

Along came a Spider.

#Otomo
#Kurita
#painting
#ForTheDragon
#catalystgamelabs
#battletech
#alphastrike
#miniatures
#tabletop

👏👏👏Wow, man! That looks excellent. As @apo-bs.bsky.social said, the base is great! A 3D printed piece?

With the Donar having taken structural damage (only 1 pip left!) it was forced to withdraw, leaving the Schiltron crew to search the Anhur wreckage for the package at their leisure.
KURITA VICTORY🐉
Here’s the rules we used, and a revision we might use when replaying the scenario. What do you think?

The Drac Cardinal VTOL goes down (only meters from the VTOL crash site which drew everyone here!).
In return the Schiltron demolishes the building containing the remaining two squads of clan infantry.

The Ravens have their Donar VTOL and two squads of heavy jump infantry left in the fight. The jumpers move toward the advancing Schiltron, and we get a chopper battle!

Morning comes and the game continues! All mechs have been destroyed or forced to withdraw. All Drac APCs & infantry gone (again the clan brought a building down on a squad!😆). Why clear a building when you can just turn it to rubble?🤔
Dracs have the Cardinal gunship and the undamaged Schiltron…

It’s a race to search the second crash site (this was *not* planned!😆) for the data.
The Panther and Warhammer fell and a lot of other units are now armour-less so will begin withdrawing.
The clan Donar chopper hovers over the crash site threateningly.
(Or asking for a SAM up its ass…)

No. No they can’t.
“We got an Anhur down. We got an Anhur down at the edge of the city!”😅
The Dracs hit that fleeing bird with all they could. APCs’ cannons, infantry firing SRMs, the Panther…and finally the Hatamoto-chi struck it from the air!
The data objective is still in play…

Remaining forces:
Ravens: clan infantry x5
Donar VTOL x1
Ashur spotter x1
Hachiman x1
Vapour Eagle
Horned Owl
Shadowhawk IIC

Drac:
Cardinal VTOL
Warhammer
Hatamoto-chi
Panther
Shiltron
APC x5
SRM squad x4😬halved in a turn!

…but one clan squad found the data.
Can they get away with it⁉️

End of T3: Jenner down (Warhammered in the back), Dragon down, Incubus down, 1 Hachiman & Asshur spotter down…and six squads of DCMS troops when Clan fire brought down the buildings there were in!😱
Flamer fire did manage to half cook the Vapour Eagle though.

T3 before the shooting: on the left and right flanks we have battles with units trying to outflank each other.
In the middle the Drac APCs move up and flood the battlefield with infantry armed with flamethrowers and short range missiles!!😬

The clan mechs move to block the streets. The Jenner IIC, Incubus, Shadowhawk IIC and Vapour Eagle turn the platoon of DEST into a red smear, and badly damage one APC. The Dragon takes heavy damage. The Horned Owl nearly loses all armour and the Vapour Eagle takes heavy fire from infantry and APCs.