It's got an axe! RUN!!

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lol, these three are the latest to cross the finish line. The Axeman is painted to match my 5th Donegal Guards, and the two Howlers are for my newest faction: Clan Fire Mandrill Kindraa Mattila-Carrol (yeesh, that's a mouthful!). I also tried out some of my new AK diorama (basing) paints on these and am really happy with the results. 

Applied to a sacrificial base, it looks good as is.

However I added a sepia wash and once dry again, I drybrushed it with wraithbone and I really like the final result. So much so that I did just the same on my Howlers below.

First up the: Fire Mandrills. These howlers were previously painted in Jade Falcon colors, but were stripped and repainted. the rest of that JF star will go to the Desert horde where I will be able to field a stupid fast, second line binary.  As for the Mandrills, I just liked the color scheme, yellow with black & red trim. Though you have to be careful not to add too much red trim, or else you start to get McDonalds' vibes...

The outlandish, yellow, red and black almost work as a sort of camouflage in the desert scrub landscape of their bases.

The side of the Howlers that you most often see as these little fuckers run away at lightning speed!

Saving the biggest for last: the Axeman AXM-2N. This mech joins the Steiner Scout squad, and matches them reasonably well. Especially after I truncated the disasterously difficult painting of the 'scouts'. As such, I will add 3 more assault mechs to fill out a second lance, if not expand them further to an entire assault company (because Steiner).

Folks like to try and get in close to missile boats, but not this one!

Mech #6, I had to look up the number on the Steiner Scout Squad post to make sure I didn't duplicate the numbering.

Note the Jade Falcon Hunchback IIC-turned-stepping stone and the 'concrete' AK diorama paint.

 

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.