3 more 15mm BT Kurita mechs

 Hi guys

Next on my 15mm Battletech project, working on 3 Kurita mechs, Panther, Locus, and a hunchback, I’ve also printed a grand Dragon and a Hatamoto Chi, some battle armour, test Kurit jungle fighter infantry and various bits and pieces. My plan is to start with 8 mechs, 2 of each weight class for each of 5 factions, Free Rasalhague, Kurita, Steiner, Jade falcon and a Kurita based merc company, the 12 Ronin. 

My printers LCD print screen started burning out, had a pretty good run with it, 2-3 years and it must have lasted 4000-5000 hours, I used to have to change them every 400-500 hours on my last printer, anyway, apart from the hole in the leg of the grad Dragon, which I’ll turn into battle damage, it caused some unusual scoring on some of the surfaces, pics below, which I thought will look pretty cool as wear n tare/battle damage. 

15mm Kurita Shadow Hawk mech finished

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Calling this 15mm Kurita shadow hawk done, added a tree and a stump to add height/layers to the jungle terrain, pretty happy with how it turned out, and I have a basis point for all my future basing in the project, I think I will stick with this project for a while, at least finish the half dozen mechs I have base-coated ready to go. 

Alien jungle base opinions

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Working on the alien jungle base for my Kurita Shadow Hawk, and would like some opinions, this theme will tie 5 15mm Battletech forces and some other sci-fi projects together, so I want to get it right now.

The description I’m using for this is “dark alien jungle horror”, I chose a colour palette of green with purple accents.

Dark- I don’t think I have gone dark enough with the base colour, it’s the darkest rattle can I have, I think in future I’ll do a darker mix and apply with my airbrush, and my green tea ground colour is a bit to light, I’ll have to mix in some darker tea leaves. 

Alien - I have seen a few attempts at alien basing, they are usually bright, multicoloured and unconvincing to my eye, I wanted to create something that was recognisable (jungle) yet alien enough that you can easily tell it’s alien. 

Jungle - I don’t think I’ve been successful in creating a jungle theme yet, it’s looking to dry, I could either spray the whole base with a clear gloss coat, or brush pant the plants gloss to replicate moister, there’s not enough height to the foliage, I think I need to add standing trees, but I don’t want to model full trees on the base, I might try and add a knee high trunk, how should I end the top of the trunk, to elude to the fact the tree keeps going up, just cut it flat and paint the top black? Or will that look weird? In future I think I need 2 or 3 trees for a base of this size, I need to add more vines, hanging lichen, and long grass all to give height to the base.

Horror - not sure, does it look like a terrain you would be happy to be in? I may add some alien fauna to a future base to accentuate the horror, a giant alien spider (not disguised as a clown) or some such. 

Colour scheme - I think at the moment there’s to much purple, however if I add more trees, vines and hanging  lichen, all green, it may counter balance the purple, the blue plant is out of the colour palette, but I think it work, I may add 1 item per base that not green or purple. 

Any suggestions on how to improve on the dark alien jungle horror theme?