Got the printed minis, cleaned them up, primed them and did a bit of a white drybrushing to highlight the print on the shoulder.I added a third Medium Laser to the left torso and put the Royal Black Watch insignia on the right shoulder:
I am pretty certain this will not print well, but it's worth a shot lol
Pretty damn big.
I started doing this exact thing with Warhammer at one point. I would buy STLs that were nice and put them on a usb stick. And just give them to people. If they didn't have or want a printer I would offer my services. I made a decent bit of money. But eventually I just got so annoyed at Games Workshop I migrated to One Page Rules and never looked back. Everyone I know at my LGS plays OPR over 40k now. No one buys any Warhammer minis if they can help it and I still get asked to print stuff for people. At the very least I make back the £20 I spend on resin.
£5 worth of a 1L bottle of Anycubic resin will get you 1000 points of troops according to Lychee and Chitubox slicers. The bottles are £20. 1 Bottle will get you 3000 points easily. Add one more bottle and you can get a Imperial Knight out of that easily. You could get those expensive Sirya Tech bottles for £60 but they are way overhyped and overrated frankly. I am not denying that it is cheaper to play Battletech. You get a lance of 4 mechs for pennies. About the same cost as a full 10 man squad of Space Marines with all their weapons and gear.
In case the "Battletech chads win again" bit didn't make it clear, it was exaggeration for the sake of a fucking joke. I know we're all autists since we're talking about big stompy robots, but make an effort here.
Hell you can go First/Second edition and get cardboard mechs if you want to be even cheaper.
"At least they're not Davions!" - Grover Shraplen, probably.
Because the Jihad.
Which is you know, fair to think about when you realize all the shit the Davions have given the Concordat. Like nuclear warheads and orbital bombardments.
And that's just because they were too busy irradiating the Free Worlds League and the Federated Suns.
I believe any conflict was pre-Star League. The Capellans didnt participate in the Reunification War. There might have also been instances during the Succession Wars, but the Cappies had their hands full with their two big neighbors, I doubt they had time to open a third front.
Yeah, I went and double-checked stuff on Sarna, and the first conflict was during the Age of War before the BattleMech was invented or even the signing of the Ares Conventions, and while horrific and bloody due to the use of strategic weapons, was restricted to the border regions quite unlike the horrors of the Reunification War. Even when it blew up from a border skirmish into the Rim War it was still just a border conflict. Nothing like what the AFFS and SLDF would do to the Taurians or continue to do.
