Project II/25

More Points for Jade Falcons

After a long stint with the diorama, I wanted something simpler to spice up my life, so I checked my Operation:REVIVAL minis. I only had about two Binaries unpainted so I took the most fitting ones for the 9th Falcon Talon Cluster, and the remaining, less prominent Points would become some enemy troops or other.

Every once in a while the enginerd inspiration struck and I improved my BattleTechTracker, which I originally set up just to get rid of my A4 paper with the Point numbers and have something more updateable. As you might imagine, that got out of hand quickly and repeatedly. While writing this post, my setup had 8 sheets of which was dedicated to following the state of the 9th Talon Cluster: there was the overall painting status based on the completed minis; the positions of individual Points in the org with their variants, numbers and weight classes; and a table for the weight distribution through the Cluster. This one made me drop almost a Binaryful of 'Mechs from my original setup, which included a pair of Cougars and Fire Moths each, for example.

 

I wasn't staring at tables when I picked which minis to paint, no worries. From the Clan Heavy Battle Star box I got a Turkina and an Ebon Jaguar, and from the Clan Fire Star box I took only the Warhawk.

Partially primed init();

During some evenings last Autumn I had primed a Binary of miniatures, the other Binary or the last two untouched boxes were still waiting. So this project started with 33,333...% of the initialization already done out of the way.

Like I said, the Warhawk had been primed several months ago, mostly likely while waiting for some other paintjob to dry.