Finished: Project I/23

An Assault Starful of hardware

Well, it took some time after all despite my idea of doing something quick, and I got to try new things again. Most likely the next one wasn't going to include anything totally new, or at least while I was writing this I had no real idea of what I was going to do or what could I even try.

I noticed that I was thinking of this a year ago, but I really should take a couple of comparison photos of these newest CGL 'mechs with the ones I painted last year. Each of these five I could also pose next to an IWM miniature (or a couple of them) that had been painted over a decade ago, to see how my paintings and the paintables differed.

Dire Wolf Prime #231

The people of Draconis Combine called the 100-ton Dire Wolf the Great Death (大いなる死). It was a mad unit indeed, with an LRM-10 rack on the shoulder, both arms with UAC/5, each with a pair of ER Large Lasers and a pair of Medium Pulse Lasers.

Summoner Prime #235

The freebirth little prince named the 70-ton Summoner based on some hammer-wielder from Norwegian lore, because of its weapons: lightning (ER PPC) and thunder (LB-10X) plus the LRM-15 launcher on its shoulder.

Gargoyle Prime #221

In the Assault class the 80-ton fugly Gargoyle punished the Spheroids (among many others) with a pair of LB-5X Autocannons and their underslung SRM-6 packs. It also had an ER Small Laser installed into the chest, maybe to carve some obscenities into the bunker walls of its foes. The baffled Spheroids named it after the Man-of-war ship class, most probably because of its size and the broadsides. Weird people, those.

Mad Dog Prime #222

The servants of the Dragon had given their own name to the Mad Dog, as well – for some reason they called it a Vulture (ハゲタカ) – because why not? Barely in the Heavy class this OmniMech has always been to my liking, a fantastic machine. The LRM-20 racks on the both sides of the cockpit were just a fun approach to life, the arms then housed Large and Medium Pulse Lasers, symmetrically the same set of death rays in each hand.

Hellbringer Prime #223

A sibling 'Mech of the Summoner, the sixty-five ton Hellbringer worked awesomely as a pair, which was most likely the reason the little prince's henchman Galen Cox decided to call it Loki. The amount of weaponry, especially in the eyes of freebirths, was indeed shocking: ER PPCs in the arms, an AMS above the cockpit, a cluster of three ER Medium Lasers in the Left Torso, a SSRM-6 launcher, four AP pods in the legs against any infantry, and to top it all a pair of Machine Guns in the Right Torso. Still there was armour and cooling fins for actual operations, just like on its sibling.

The end

These five didn't really belong into the same Star, at least in my current list of the Cluster, but based on their unit numbers they were from the Trinary Beta's Stars two and three. Of course that made no actual difference, because I was never going to play anything that serious, I was just doing all this collecting, painting and organizing just for the sheer fun of it. I may have mentioned it a bunch of times already.

Next Wednesday I should have something new going on. At this point I was thinking between two options, at this rate I'd end up tossing a coin.