SPORKMAN!

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Death by Spork!

The SPK-3F ‘Sporkman’, the 'totem' mech of The Buffet Assault Group. It is a spork armed Hatchetman.

Like the Hatchetman, the torso mounted AC10 & arm mounted medium lasers are still the primary damage dealers.

Note the kill marks on said spork, they are not identified so probably just infantrymen. That said, death by spork is an undignified way to go for anyone.

This is close as you can get to spooning with a mech...

I made a record sheet where I swapped the hatchet for a backhoe to represent the spork. This required the removal of a hand (no, the spork will not be shared), 1 heat sink and 1 ton of ammo. It does 6pts of damage which is marginally better than a punch but is +1 to hit because as we all know, sporks suck!

SQUEEEEE!!

I posted pics of this mech on a FB BattleTech group and got a reply from Sir Mortimer Bombito, the guy who actually sculpted this mini!

Apologies about the weird and wildly inconsistent highlighting. I copied the sporkman text from a similar post on the FLGS' Discord. The highlighting doesn't show in the post editing window, and it seems none of the available shades match the blog's grey background because reasons.

Blogger is a free service, and you get what you pay for.

My first completed model of 2026 and other updates

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In an annoying Ai voice: 'We're sorry, your package has been lost in transit...'

I bought this wrecked Triumph Dropship terrain piece back around Thanksgiving, started paint it around Christmas and finished it earlier this evening. I'm rather pleased with it:

The print lines across the nose are a little rough but can be chalked up to damaged incurred on landing.

There is a nose art decal on this, but it is so obscured by dirt and debris that I ought not have even bothered.

The rear cargo bay hatches and engines. 

It was used in a WiP state in my game played last night vs. Nick 2.0. I had my Marian Hegemony III Legio vs. is fantastically painted Arkab Legion. Needless to say, I have also lost my first game of 2026. Having gotten that out of the way early in the year: Onwards to victory!

Baxter the pregame-terrain piece, warming up the table. You can see the WiP Triumph about midway up the table.  

The Arkab forces flee at the sight of the Neeka Kaiju!

The Arkab Legion passing the also WiP savior repair vehicle which is working on a defunct PDF Urbie.

The final close quarters scrum, it was at this point that I threw in the towel. The Dervish and Blackjack were in decent shape, the Hermes II was little more than a free roaming flamer, and my Cyclops and Clint were both down. 

Nick 2.0's Arkab Legion...or well some of them. I know he also has a Javelin painted up, and likely two more to flesh out second lance. 

Speaking of games, I also finished the Clan Solahma star I was working on the last time. which fought just before Christmas in my last game of 2025. That game was a brutal slugfest. I didn't know how well they'd fare against mechs, being the clan equivalent of Bulldog tanks (i.e.: average speed, over-gunned and under armored).

I added a point of Clan heavy assault jump infantry to these. 

Unlike Bulldogs however, Oros have clan er-medium lasers, large pulse lasers which are backed up by LBX20s. I lost all 4 tanks with no infantry/Elemental losses. Nick only lost a Phoenix Hawk but everything else on his roster was in dire straits. Had we not called it, we both agreed that it could have gone either way were we to continue. However it was getting late and with both objectives contested, we settled on a draw. 

New Shadow Hawks

 

Let's just get this out of the way up front: Shadow Hawks suck. There, I said it and with that out of the way let's move on. 

I bought these from Reddogminis.com (who is having a sale it seems, so more minis are on the way). These two (three actually, I have one set aside for Nick 2.0) showed up within a week and flawlessly cast. Plus there are two arm options allowing for slightly different posing. Not much more to say than that so I'll just show off some my pics of these two. 

Alternate  arm options

I left the LRM-5 off of this one and covered up the SRM launcher to use as a Primitive Shadow Hawk. 

The Desert force Shadow Hawk, painted, sealed and ready to get dirty...

...and dirty it is! Slathered in the AK streaking grime. 

After a 10ish minute pause, the excess grime is removed via mineral spirits and severl Q-tips and here ya go! Easy peasy (and why the desert force has exploded in size so quickly). 

The primitive got the same treatment, but it is not as noticble on OD green as it is on the wraithbone primer. This one is painted for my 65th Lyran Regulars.

Callsign: Daisy, with the decals to match

Yes Votann players, it is a daisy. Get over it.

Finished Desert Force Shadow Hawk.

The 9th mech in the unit, there will be a full mech company in no time!

And they said Nuln oil was liquid talent...bah!

Two more, ready to go!

More little guys

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This bunch is a mix of very new and a few not so old paint jobs. All have been painted within the past 2 months or so, though none were really worthy of a singular post in their own right. 

1st Royal Cavaliers WASP-WSP-1D 

Generic 10 Ton Tracked APC for no one in particular. Basically it is local militia/PDF

Like all of my 10 Ton APCs, this will be a filler model for when I don't feel like fielding infantry, or rather a horde of infantry. 

1st Royal Cavaliers' 10 Ton Wheeled APC, for when I don't want to spend 1400 points on a Sturmfeur, yet still want to field a lance of armor (and I use that term loosely in this particular case).

 

Wolf's Dragoons' Alpha Regiment Wasp WSP-1A

This is not this mini's first appearance on this blog. Rather that debut was in my last post where it was my Dragoons' sole survivor.

Yes, this is what surviving light mechs look like: Running away!

10 Ton Hover, Wheeled & Tracked APCs. I couldn't resist making a blue 'SWAT' APC to again add to my generic filler forces. The tracked APC is painted to match my Capellan Homeguard, because why wouldn't they have one of these? 

With the teeny tiny skull decal, this hover APC will go to my Dark Caste Bandits, though it would work in a pirate force as well.

Scorpion Light Tank ML/LAC variant(s). This was originally supposed to go to my snowballing out of control desert force. 

On a whim, it got shunted into the 1-off/geneic category after I wanted to try my hand at the old, US Desert Storm era 'chocolate chip' desert camo. 

While I may not have been entirely successful in that endeavor, it looks decent enough.

Production! Production!

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Technically, this isn't all of them...

This is more like 2ish weeks of painting or so. As mentioned above there is one more, a repaint of the (now former) Hotshot of the Whipits. That mech can be seen running around in my prior post. Here are the latest mechs up close: 

Just a minor conversion of an existing conversion. 

Previously, this Urbie was one of two UM-R68 conversions (the other one is here). However I recently bought the new Urbie lance box and got an actual UM-R68. So, with the addition of a little bit of plasticard, and a decal of 'IV' to drive the point home, I present to you the UM-AIV. The artillery Urbie that has been known to launch nukes from time to time. Of the two, this one turned out better, so the other went to eBay (I seriously don't need two arrow IV Urbies) and is currently transiting the inner sphere enroute to a repeat customer of mine Texas.  

Yeah, this is too dynamically posed to be an actual Catalyst model. 

Originally I gave this stats for an industrial mech called the 'Tonka' that could be modified in times of crisis to wield a modular LBX-10. That said, more likely than not I'll just use it as an Arbiter (if ever).

Marik Militia Ostroc & Quickdraw.

The Quickdraw, I have yet to use this mech but it seems decent enough on paper.

I just love the garish color scheme of the Marik Militia.

The Ostroc, another new KS mech, and a vast improvement over the old model! 

Years ago I had the ancient lead version of this mini and it did fairly well on the tabletop, it was just hideous looking which resulted in it getting sold off.

The whole, newly finished lance together. 

Why did the Dark Caste Bandit cross the road?

This is another mech where the base was harder to do than the mech itself.

The Starslayer is...kinda ugly, but it's grown on me. These guys must've been digging deep into the trash heaps to find and refurbish this old STY-2C-EC (Early Clan). 

Closing out with a group shot. 

Tonight I am going to the FLGS for some campaign games hopefully (I'm waaaay behind on those) and next wednesday Nick is coming over tentatively for the first mini game to be held at our new house. So I should have some battle reports to post on next week!