troez3D

Hey guys, this week I wanted to draw attention to the Patreon of a guy on the Battletech Discord. He's a freelance 3d modeler and is doing some really cool stuff for tabletop Battletech, Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons communities. As I know him from the Battletech Discord (Come check it out by the way) I'm going to showcase some of the models he's put up on his Patreon in relation to the game with the big stompy mechs!  All of his models are created by him from scratch and they look great!  I won't put any names with them, for copyrighting reasons, but I'm sure you Battletech fans out there will be able to figure out what's what. I picked a small selection of his models to show here, but go check out his page for the whole lot and he is releasing new models all the time. Tanks 'Mechs If you don't see what you like or if Battletech isn't your thing, he does commissions for custom models so it would definitely be wor...

Here we are again for another POTM.  If you caught last months you'll remember I talked about some larger scale 'mechs I printed, but as much as I loved them, they didn't feel... well.... big enough , if you know what I mean.  The Centurion especially was not really at a scale I was completely happy with, so I though I'd try a couple other 'mechs and see if I could make them a lot closer to 28mm scale or 1:64.  I went back and found some models of some well known 'mechs and got to printing!! Each 'mech was around 50 hours of printing, and as cool as the Warhammer is (see below for a pic with the Marauder and the Warhammer together), I feel the Marauder came out especially well making it my print of the month for March 2018! All three of the 'mechs printed at 28mm scale! Information on the battlemech from sarna.net ; The Marauder was first built by General Motors in 2612 for use as an attack and direct fire support BattleMech . The firs...

It's been a whole month already!  That means it's time to pick my favourite print from the last few weeks to give the award of POTM... This month it actually goes to two prints, the large scale Locust and Centurion Battlemechs from Battletech! As any of you who know me even a little will probably be aware I am a big fan of all things Battletech, from the tabletop game to the Mechwarrior games on PC.  I have even begun printing out my own set of tabletop scale Battlemechs which I will probably talk about at some point in the future, but for now here is a sneak peek; The normal scale for a Battlemech in tabletop would be 1:285 or 6mm, making a 14meter tall 'mech roughly 50mm tall.  My large scale models however are quite a bit bigger than that!  The Locust is around 135mm tall making it 1:60 scale and the Centurion is 155mm tall making it 1:96 scale. I've definitely got a couple more large scale 'mechs planned and will definitely post about them in the fut...

As far back as I can remember I have been a fan of Battletech, even without knowing it for most of that time.  My introduction came in the form of video games, namely my Dad's copy The Crescent Hawks Revenge back in the 90's; I'll most likely do another post at some point detailing the history and setting of Battletech but is has such a vast amount of lore that I won't be going into it here. There are so many PC and console games based within the Battletech Universe but most recent ones have been a first person style simulator game which come under the title of Mechwarrior.  Mechwarrior 4 was my first real introduction into the world of Mechwarrior games and thouroughly enjoyed both it and the resulting spin off - Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries, where you took command of your own mercenary group in the Inner Sphere, earning cash and influencing politics on planets by choosing sides. The most recent game has been Mechwarrior Online (MWO).  I love the art directio...