Finished: Project II/25

Three more Points completed

Now it was time to welcome three new Warriors to the Cluster. With these three Points my unit's progress climbed to 60%, after the latest tweaks in assignments.

Turkina #224

Seen for the fist time in the Inner Sphere, in the battle of Tukayyid to boot, the 95-ton Turkina was an Assault 'Mech of Clan Jade Falcon. With the Jump Jets it was a bit more mobile than what you might expect from this beast. The prime variant was geared towards a longer distance, as the shoulder-mounted LRM-15s, as well as the arm-mounted and paired ER PPCs and LB-5Xs showed.

Ebon Jaguar #214

Isorla from the Smoke Jaguars, my Cluster's second Ebon Jaguar was a 65-ton Heavy OmniMech, that was originally designed to improve on the Hellbringer that was a much-used 'Mech in the Falcon Touman. Its armament was incredible but quite munitions-dependent: a Gauss Rifle in one arm, and an LB-5X in the other, with SRM-2 and LRM-10 launchers on the shoulders, and a single ERMLas sitting just by the cockpit.

Warhawk #225

A familiar sight on my worktable, the Warhawk was an 85-ton Assault 'Mech armed with four ER PPCs, with a single LRM-10 launcher keeping the Alpha Strike -happiness at bay. On top of all the other goodness all the Warhawks came with a Targeting Computer.

Comparison shots

I had thought a bunch of times that I ought to take some comparison shots of my different minis, but I hadn't gotten around to it. This time I fetched my collection and took the photos. Luckily I actually had a comparable IWM metal sculpt of each of these new plastic minis, the differences between the decades were interesting.

Turkinas

 

Ebon Jaguars

The Catalyst mini had a mirror-installation compared to the one I assembled from the Iron Wind Metals bits. I remember wondering a bit when setting the bits together if I even recognized what the weapons where, besides the very self-evident LRM launcher. The CGL forms were much clearer.

Warhawks

Three Warhawks in a row was a good, glorious thing. The two on the left, numbers 4 and 225 were Prime configs, while the number 19 was my favourite config C. Its left Large Pulse Laser had snapped off in storage, and was to be found from the bottom of the carrier or something.