I saw this beauty on Etsy, one of hte Highlands Miniatures 3D prints, and I realized then that if I got a steam tank, it would have to be this one. It's so characterful and fits the Empire theme so well! It took about four weeks to finish, and it interrupted my Battletech project, but it just had to be painted right away! Check out all of the angles and images of the Empire steam tank in the Empire Image Gallery.

Working my way through the Battletech Alpha Strike box set I decided to finish up the clan all in one group. The highlighting and blending was too much work on the IS mechs, so this time I gave up on blending about 1/3 of the way through and drybrushed the rest. They turned out pretty well. Check out all the images in the Battletech Image Gallery.

In looking at the viable Chaos Warriors lists for Warhammer the Old World I found that some beastmen allies might be awesome. The beastman shaman for some spellcasting power and some ungors with bows, or some kind og gors with bows anyway. This would not only give me some variety, but also let me field archers! I would use the archers from Battle Masters of course. Still, I'd need a shaman, so I picked on up, and then along with the shaman I finished painting Khagra too, who has been on my desk for years... Check out the finished images in the Chaos Image Gallery here.

I've finally finished painting all of the Inner Sphere mechs from the Alpha Strike box set! It's a record in that it only took me six months, haha! Anyway, I'll be painting the Clan mechs too, but in the mean time, check out the latest images in the Battletech Image Gallery.

I finished another three Battletech Battle Mechs in the transgender flag colours to show support! The colours look great on those figures, even though the new plastic Catalyst mechs appear to me to have soft details... back in the day the biggest complaint a miniature could have aside from mould lines and not fitting together was soft details! Despite that they turned out pretty well, check out the images in the Battletech Image Gallery.

Games Workshop had a made-to-order for the old metal Bretonnian Halberdiers, or men at arms with halberdiers. They had spearmen too back then, but I just got the halberdiers since I already had a collection of Black Tree Designs Bretonnian-inspired halberdiers, and these would fill out that unit pretty well! They painted up pretty well and also fit pretty well with the Black Tree figures too, so I'm happy! I painted them up as immigrants from the south who had fought with a Bretonnian border prince who had returned to Bretonnia and brought them with him for their loyalty. Pushing back against all the anti-immigrant nonsense out there these days. Check out the images in the Bretonnian Image Gallery.

It was an inevitability honestly. This iconic miniature game comes from the distant past when people used hex boards and printed maps in chilly, moist basements to play out mercenary role playing and very long and overly detailed ginat robot combats. It was that game that I used to aspire to play as a kid, but never really got into. It was just too much accounting for me... almost as bad as Starfleet Battles. But I digress... with the advent of Alpha Strike the game finally became accessible for me and I dug out those old mechs I purchased twenty years ago and finally painted up my first one! Check it out in the Check out the images in the Battletech Image Gallery.

I had to pick up that previously unreleased Bretonnian Lord on Food with Great Weapon and squire, even though no respectable Bretonnian lord would ever walk around a battlefield. It had too much old-school character to pass up though. Also, I picked up about eighteen metal Men of Avereign from Harelequin Miniatures, aka EOE Orbis, aka Black Tree Designs as a proxy for those old metal halberdiers that GW used to sell... that was before those metal halberdiers were re-released though... In any case, I think the Harlequin figs are amazing, at least as good as the GW ones, and they fit in well too. Check them all out in the Bretonnian Image Gallery.

This has been on the painting table since I painted my last Sisters of Battle back in January 2021, so it's been there for five years... I painted it up though because of the monotony of painting up the Bretonnian Lord on Hippogriff, which was a lot of work and slow progress because it was basically the same colour scheme! Will I paint more Sisters soon? Not likely. She was the only one on the table... but I did strip about 20 old sisters recently, so who knows? Check her out in the Battle Masters Image Gallery.

I didn't think I would paint anymore Battle Masters after the Ogre, but after playing a couple games against two Ogre Champions and another Knight of the Realm unit for the Empire army to balance it out, I realized that the Knights or the Realm are pretty powerful. So, I decided to add another cannon, which can be powerful, but also fail spectacularly in a similar way to the ogre. I played exactly two games after that, and they were better. I am convinced that the game plays better with two ogres and two cannons, and maybe the only reason we didn't see that in the box was because of cost? Anyway, check out the pictures in the Battle Masters Image Gallery and also a few more extensive shots in the Empire Image Gallery.