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Marack Drock, on 10 December 2013 - 02:42 PM, said:

If Cryptic hired you to make MW toys I would buy every single one of them. How do you make the models if I may ask because I have been wanting to get into building my own mech toys as well?

Thanks Marack, i really do wish i could mass produce these so i could share them with fellow BT fans.
Heres a build thread that will give you an idea how i do it

http://mwomercs.com/...remaddog-build/

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70 ton Archer, an iconic chassis





http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Archer

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Yeah it was one of my favourites too,
I remember seeing this is the original rules of warfare book



To me this was Battletech in its best form, and of course Morgan Kell made it famous in the Phantom mech incident

http://www.sarna.net...Phantom_%27Mech

What a rich and wonderful genre BT is

Edited by CG Anastasius Focht, 11 December 2013 - 01:35 PM.

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Recent pic of an older model

Stormcrow/Ryoken (MW4 design)

Edited by CG Anastasius Focht, 19 August 2014 - 06:34 PM.

[CoffiNail]

Always impressed by these Focht. Keep building them, we will keep enjoying.

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The iconic Warhammer

[Dirty Old Man]

Lets play Awesome Floor Top Mech Tabletop extreme matches!

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Dirty Old Man, on 18 September 2014 - 09:11 PM, said:

Lets play Awesome Floor Top Mech Tabletop extreme matches!

LOL Back in the late 80's early 90's a bunch of us lads rented a semi detached house.
We all lived on the one side and the other we converted to a massive city scape running the entire length of the floorplan.

We ran massive months long campaigns in this scale there.

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One for the CGB faction

[ExoForce]

Respect, sir!

Some photos really looks so good, like they have been taken from the older Japanese mecha movies!

[rolling thunder]

CG Anastasius Focht, on 18 September 2014 - 08:50 PM, said:

The iconic Warhammer

I would appreciate it if you could do build thread for the Warhammer & Madcat designs? The Vulture thread was great.

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Thanks Ppl. Sadly i didnt take any build pics of those models so i cant oblige.

But i took this one today




Fascinating bit of trivia the Saladin hover tanks are used in the same way as the Aerospace fighters

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With a top speed of 130 kph and sporting a Scarborough Original 20 Autocannon/20 it is by far the fastest land vehicle to mount such a devastating weapon. Unlike other vehicle that have a turret, the tactics for using the Saladin are different. They're best used to make passing runs like AeroSpace Fighters: rush toward the enemy, close in and fire, then continue past and turn back for another run. Therefore the armor layout is different - the majority of the Saladin's armor is located at the front, while the vehicle's sides and rear are left comparatively vulnerable

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To give an idea of how big these are again, heres a lead figure sized Atlas on a Hex board as comparrison

Edited by CG Anastasius Focht, 23 April 2015 - 09:53 PM.

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In CBT i would run the Locust the same way as the Saladins and Aerospace assets.

Charge in, a run of 12 Hex's , shoot and keep going. Once i was out of range i would turn the units and repeat.

There were times it took a roll of 13 on two D6 to hit me.

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I will post an updated thread soon with links that work. (photobucket has killed all the old ones)

But here is a teaser for a project in progress right now.



And on its feet



These things are never pretty in the build phase, but i reckon this one will be great when its done.

The temptation is to paint it up as the Red Corsairs version from the novel Natural Selection

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Final result, Im reasonably happy and it makes a sweet cockpit standing item when i'm playing MWO.








Versatile and powerful, the BattleMaster was one of the best known BattleMechs in existence. Hollis Industries began production in 2633,^[3] originally designing it to be the largest and most powerful 'Mech for the Star League armies at that time.^[8] Indeed the sheer size of the BattleMaster, combined with the costs and resources needed to build one, meant the 'Mech could only be manufactured on a few planets. Still, those lucky enough to pilot a BattleMaster can attest to some of the stories surrounding the 'Mech. With good reliability, firepower and armoring, the BattleMaster is equally adept anchoring an assault lance or serving as a command vehicle.^[3][9]
Although only produced in modest numbers, examples of the BattleMaster could be found in the arsenals of all the Great Houses and technicians have gone to great lengths in order to repair one. During the First Succession War Hollis' BattleMaster factories on Corey were attacked, their production lines destroyed and any finished BattleMasters purloined by the various House forces. While production of new BattleMasters was taken up by Earthwerks Incorporated on Keystone, Trellshire Heavy Industries on Twycross,^[10] and Red Devil Industries on Pandora, they could build only a handful of new 'Mechs every year. This was enough though to make House Steiner and House Marik the largest users of BattleMasters during the Succession Wars. House Liao also fielded a large number of BattleMasters, at least until the devastation of the Fourth Succession War when many fell into the hands of the Federated Suns, themselves lacking any BattleMaster factories.^[3][9] By fortuitous accident the Draconis Combine also came into possession of a large number of BattleMasters when a hapless ComStar Precentor, intending to ship unmodified versions of advanced BattleMasters to Com Guard units, sent them to the Combine instead. These BattleMasters served as excellent command vehicles during the War of 3039.^[11]

Edited by CG Anastasius Focht, 06 December 2017 - 08:24 PM.

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Starting to upload and compile these pics here. Photobucket has dropped so many of the links i decided to host them myself


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