Project VIII/25

The merchant-minded Clanners for a new year

The one Operation:REVIVAL Salvage box from my Mercenaries loot gave me a Piranha that half-surprisingly inspired me to paint it as a Diamond Shark. It required four friends to go with, preferably around the same weight class. I started by checking what my BTTracker said and indeed a selection of Light/Medium 'Mechs tagged REPAINT caught my attention. There were more of those available than what I needed this time, so I let the randomizing song play a couple of cycles.

Star's Points

Not counting the fresh Piranha the other four Poitns were isorla from Jade Falcons and also metallic IWM minis from 10-20 years ago. The metal ones had to be reprimed to begin with.

Piranha

Cougar B

Like all these four minis, the B config of the Cougar was older than the Project Mumblings so I had no memory of where I got the laser under the cockpit, but the ER PPCs were donated by a Warhawk C that didn't need the lower pair of the cannons as they were swapped with Large Pulse Lasers. No artesanal crafting and modding was visible in my doings and I didn't think I had improved over the years.

  

Stormcrow C

This Stormcrow config with an LB-10X and lasers was customized by slapping on a Gargoyle's arm, if my vague memory served me correctly. I really had no recollection of how I ended up with this piece when making my IWM order, and there was no documentation of any sort before the verbose days of this silly blog.

Stormcrow

In case you, dear reader or peruser of photos, wondered why and how this Stormcrow was so different from the one above, the reason was simple: this was an earlier sculpt I had mistakenly ordered at some point. The other Stormcrow was the new sculpt. The differences weren't that massive, I was mostly bothered by the tininess of the lasers in those arms and how tedious painting those was.

Ice Ferret E

How did I have an Ice Ferret, and such a "new" config as E if I hadn't even heard of the chassis back in the day? No clue. It was a funky version with an ATM-9 in the Left Arm and the weapons were painted however.

If nothing else, these old minis showed how I had consistently painted all energy weapons with just red dots. These cockpits had been repainted at some point in red, because I distinctly remember doing them in black for the longest of time.