Battlemech models?
#1
Posted 17 March 2012 - 11:47 PM
I have been a model builder for years now, hanging out at hobby stores is how I got into Battletech in the first place. I have been wondering if anyone would know if any scale models exist for the Battletech universe. I have to date only been able to find the old robotech bot models for the ''unseen''. I'm looking for a cool mech model for my desk. Any suggestions?
Cheers
#2
Posted 17 March 2012 - 11:55 PM
as far as model kits not much out there for mecha other then gundams (personally ive been getting my gundam fix off the anime and the ps3 games rather then the cheesy gundam model kits)
ive got a warhammer riflemen and a mech im not sure what it is plastic toys from the 80s i found at a flea market once, but i think they are the macross editions, as the warhammer has naval gun arms, shoulder rocket pack, torso guns and lasers, and closing missile bays from lrm 20s on both sides. and the mech im not sure what is, is because its not a battletech seen, its tall and bulky enough to be a heavy, but its arms are fat circular lrms directly on the shoulders (its body is like a riflemen with missile pod arms rather then a catapult) and the rear of these launcher arms have large thruster cones, the head is a sensor tower with antenna, def a macross looking design!
#3
Posted 18 March 2012 - 12:15 AM
Alexander Fury, on 17 March 2012 - 11:47 PM, said:
I have been a model builder for years now, hanging out at hobby stores is how I got into Battletech in the first place. I have been wondering if anyone would know if any scale models exist for the Battletech universe. I have to date only been able to find the old robotech bot models for the ''unseen''. I'm looking for a cool mech model for my desk. Any suggestions?
Cheers
Check out battle tech art under off topic, and you will see some fine examples here in this community.
#4
Posted 18 March 2012 - 12:15 AM
#6
Posted 18 March 2012 - 04:14 AM
About a decade ago, Armorcast did an Atlas, MadCat and Vulture. Those are long out of production and if you find one on eBay you will pay a fortune.
The chaps at Armorcast created a list of the mech kits available and how they correspond to 1/60 scale Battletech stuff. http://www.timdp.mem.../CoolMechs.html
There are a few of us who make our own. Agent Cooper, SMTKelly, and I have focused on 1/60 scale as that is the established scale. We have been known to sell a kit here or there, but it is something we don't do large scale or for profit as we don't want to step on any toes.
My blog is http://www.Battlemechclub.blogspot.com
We usually post in the Fan Art section. And if plastic is not your thing, look out for BLaaR...he does great paper models!
Cheers!
Edited by TheTeacher, 18 March 2012 - 04:17 AM.
#7
Posted 18 March 2012 - 07:56 AM
#8
Posted 18 March 2012 - 08:23 AM
For example i'm working on a Mauler had build a warhammer 2C and will be working on a Warhammer
just asl Blaaar (i hope i got his name spelled right) he knows where u can get the modells
#9
Posted 18 March 2012 - 08:33 AM
#10
Posted 18 March 2012 - 11:45 AM
http://www.greenpixe...ts.blogspot.ca/
He has printed a Vulcan, Flea, Hatamoto-Chi, Urbanmech, and Scorpion.
Contact him for prices.
#11
Posted 18 March 2012 - 09:14 PM
TheTeacher, on 18 March 2012 - 04:14 AM, said:
We usually post in the Fan Art section. And if plastic is not your thing, look out for BLaaR...he does great paper models!
Thank you for the kind words.
Yes, there are lots of models made by the mechwarrior3 3D craft community. I tried to put everything on where to find the models in the topic below :
http://mwomercs.com/...ch/page__st__20
Also most of the mech download links are posted here :
http://www.mechwarri...opic.php?t=3244
Happy building
#12
Posted 20 March 2012 - 10:25 AM
http://www.hlj.com/s...esID2&Scale2=60
#13
Posted 20 March 2012 - 02:43 PM
maxoconnor, on 20 March 2012 - 10:25 AM, said:
http://www.hlj.com/s...esID2&Scale2=60
Unfortunately, those 1/60 scale Macross mechs are about 1/72 in Battletech Scale.
#14
Posted 20 March 2012 - 02:50 PM
#15
Posted 20 March 2012 - 07:46 PM
TheTeacher, on 20 March 2012 - 02:43 PM, said:
Unfortunately, those 1/60 scale Macross mechs are about 1/72 in Battletech Scale.
Yeah I picked those up and they are a little too small to stand with the Armorcast kits. They look good but Im hopeing one day Macross toy builders like Yamato or Bandai will release a 1/48 version then they'll be fine for Battletech.
#16
Posted 21 March 2012 - 08:34 AM
agent_cooper, on 20 March 2012 - 07:46 PM, said:
Yeah I picked those up and they are a little too small to stand with the Armorcast kits. They look good but Im hopeing one day Macross toy builders like Yamato or Bandai will release a 1/48 version then they'll be fine for Battletech.
Perchance to dream....
#17
Posted 22 March 2012 - 10:24 PM
My on Marauder and Phoenix-Hawk made of 1/100 macross kits are about 16-17cm height while Warhammer - only 10-11
Also there are a lot of papercraft patterns presenting 3d models from MC2, MW3 and MW4 in different colot schemes. I gonna try something not very complex eventually.
#18
Posted 18 February 2013 - 09:40 AM
http://mwomercs.com/...40#entry1864340
#20
Posted 27 July 2014 - 01:10 PM
Edited by SaltBeef, 27 July 2014 - 01:11 PM.
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