The 116th Light cavalry

These are for my small Battletech forces.  They are more a proof of concept to see if I like the colors.  These will be for my mercenary force, a dedicated light cavalry tank unit.  They are old Kenner Mega Force tanks.  I got these when I was a kid back in 1989 and kept them.  I did paint, if you want to call it that, them back in the day to fight with my Epic Space Marines against some Orks.  They have been refurbished again with a new lick of paint and a nice base.  I'm a bit proud of the bases, they are metal washers with some oven baked clay on top.  I pressed the tracks into the bases to get the indentation.  

They ere very quick to paint up, only one day from start to finish.

 

Battletech

I've always loved the idea of giant robots fighting it out in the remains of a destroyed city.  I never got into the original Battletech game, it seemed to complicated for me.  Some of the old figures did not appeal to me, but after seeing some of the recent video games my interest was brought back "online".  I was perusing e-bay when I saw a seller posting a large collection of plastic click figures for Battletech Dark Age.  I know these are not the same design as the current figures but they work for me.  I plan on painting up two major factions with a few mercenary companies.  These will be loosely based on the Battletech universe. One faction with be green with tan, the other probably grey with different colors to denote units, and the mercenaries/pirates to be multi-colored.  I'm thinking of using Fist Full of Lead to have these giants duke it out.  Here is the first unit, the 7th "to be decided later" light lance.  

A Valiant

A Phoenix Hawk I

A Mjolnir

A different angle

A large Wasp

A to be named light lance