BattleTech: Clan Invasion Box Set - Painted

I recently completed painting my BattleTech: Clan Invasion Box Set in anticipation of some post-COVID restrictions gaming.  I painted them green with gold, red, and blue accents, and used Kroma Crackle to provide a broken mud effect for the bases.

Despite being a kid in the 1980s (and wargaming since the early 1990s), I have not yet ever played a tabletop game of BattleTech.  Although one of the wargaming industry’s most important and longest-lasting science-fiction universes, I'm sadly much more familiar with its computer game version, MechWarrior.  My best BattleTech / MechWarrior memory was at the now defunct Wizards of the Coast Game Center, which was located near the University of Washington's main campus in the late 1990s.  The Game Center featured a BattleTech virtual-reality game with twelve simulator pods, and I played in more than a few sessions with my friends back then....

I'm glad that Catalyst Game Labs has released a new version of BattleTech - and I'm excited to again jump into some battles in the BattleTech / MechWarrior universe - this time on the tabletop!

Unreleased Blood Bowl Miniature Sells for Thousands on Ebay

On the day that the New York Times has an article titled Here’s How Bored Rich People Are Spending Their Extra Cash, I noticed that an unreleased Witch Elf Referee miniature has sold on Ebay for $2,425.  

Which begs the question - what does one do with an unpainted miniature purchased for this price?  Flip it?  Paint it?  Have it pro-painted?  Proudly display it?  Giddily gaze upon it each morning to start your day?

Collecting Citadel Miniatures has more on the history of this particular miniature which was a Fanatic Games miniature that was never released.

Classic Warhammer Fantasy Miniatures: Ariel, Mage Queen of Loren

I painted up another classic Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniature, this time it's Ariel, sculpted by Gary Morley, again from back in the mid-1990s.  She was one of Citadel's "super-sized" Warhammer models -- similar to other Morley sculpts such as Nagash and Ariel's Wood Elf companion, Orion.  I won her off Ebay in a steal of a deal, and repainted her over the course of a few months (as a side project alongside other painting projects).  

Ariel will lead a pack of Wood Elves that I also purchased off of Ebay, for which I only did some very minor enhancements.  I aligned the style of all their bases, highlighted each model with pink, and then added some flowers in an attempt to tie them all together.  They should be a very small (but fun) Wood Elves force to play with down the road.