Steiner Scout Squad!

 

Quoting Frankie here: 'Oh, I thought you were painting space marines.' 

Yes, I finally painted up the classic Battletech meme lance: the Steiner Scout Squad. That said, Frankensteins's Monsters is a more apt name for this lance. Let me tell you how much fun these weren't to paint. First, I tried painting them up as the Lyran Royal Guards and...hated it. Let's just say that that color scheme is a royal bitch to paint (yes, pun intended). 

 Altas # 8. I like the numbered triangle on the base, I may have to do more urban bases like that. 

Into the Simple Green they went and after stripping, I primed them dark grey. I then dry brushed them in sucessively lighter shades of grey with the intent to make them look like my Clan Coyote mechs (which I now realize that I have yet to post on here). 

 Atlas # 10. For those wondering, the large triangle decals come from the old GW Space Wolves decal sheet.

Anyways, they were looking pretty good except, Steiner doesn't really have any grey units. So I committed a cardinal sin and then drybrushed on a darker blue (dry brushing darker colors over lighter ones, hide the lighter colors are underneath in a not good way). Still, they didn't look terrible. 

Atlas # 7. Admit it, the song Radioactive by the Imagine Dragons is now stuck in your head, right? You're welcome.

Then I inked them with my usual method of the AK streaking grime as shown on the Shadow Hawk here. Annnnnd when done, they more or less just looked black. I was not happy. So, I drybrushed them again in a lighter shade of blue this time and...they look alright I suppose. 

Atlas # 9. Unless I took a pic from the back, there was no good way to photograph this one's base. Guess I ought to have done that in hindsight (no pun intended). 

They're numbered from numbers 7 thru 10 meaning they would normally be split between two separate lances in a company formation. However, I'm not too keen on painting up anything more in this color scheme. As such, for now these four are likely to be my only contribution to the 5th Donegal Guards.