My first Mecha painting
The Beasts - Ebon Jaguar | Cauldron Born
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My first Mecha painting
The Beasts - Ebon Jaguar | Cauldron Born
#Mechwarrior #Battletech #Minipainting #Mini #EbonJaguar #SmokeJaguars #CauldronBorn
My next mech mod for Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries is out - the non-canon Emerald Drake modelled by Hardware Studios
Grab it here: www.nexusmods.com/mechwarrior5... . Link to Hardware Studios' amazing work: hardwarestudios.co
My next mech mod for Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries is out - the non-canon Emerald Drake modelled by Hardware Studios
Cover artwork for BattleTech: The Long Road by Tan Ho Sim
Blood Rage cover artwork by Tan Ho SIm
Iulia’s constant stream of sublime artwork makes me go insane, it’s so amazing to see
Two Savages
#SmokeJaguars #Battletech #Mechwarrior #EbonJaguar #Elemental #Art #Cauldronborn
TIE Fighter Total Conversion in VR with a VR controller interactable cockpit is phenomenal. God I love this game, it's so cool re-visiting it like this.
Romano Liao's Cataphract from Battletech Legends
The second large piece I illustrated for Big Red's Pheonix Hawk IIC video. He sure loved pitching the complicated paint schemes to me on this one.
Watch the new video here:
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Buy a print here:
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a simple MAD CAT question..... No no no, silly goose. Not THAT Mad Cat..... I mean the MAD-3R Marauder & CPLT-K2 CATapult. The question? If you were in the late 2nd Succession War thru the end of the 3rd Succession War.... which would you rather? The Marauder is far and away the more popular, but hear me out. Despite out-massing the Cat by 10 tons, the two of them are rather similar. -Both are 4/6 movement. -11(ish) tons of Armor. Marauder has a half ton more. Cat arguably has better distribution. -Both rely on twin PPCs for their heavy lifting, and paired Medium Lasers for stuff that gets close. -Both can essentially fire their PPCs in their rear arc. The MAD can also fire it's MLs. Where they differ? -Tertiary Armament: MAD has AC/5, CAT has 2x MGs. Neither will wow you, but one is more useful at range, the other against PBIs. Draw. -Heat endurance. The MAD has a mere 16 SHS, not even enough for both PPCs, the CAT has a massive 20, allowing it heat neutrality with it's PPCs if stationary. Advantage CAT. -Ammo placement. The MAD was 20 shots of completely unpadded ammo in the Left Torso with only 17 pts of armor. ANY crits in the LT and KABLOOEY. The Cat has 200 rds of Nuclear MG Ammo, in it's Center Torso. Which is protected by 24 pts of armor, and 11 slots of crit padding between Engine Gyro and a Heatsink. Advantage: CAT. -Melee. While neither are melee gods, the Marauder does have 10 tons more mass, and lower arm actuators, making it easier for it to hit with it's punches. Advantage: MAD.
When it comes to Logistics, neither are ubiquitous designs, but the Marauder has been built far longer, in far more Nation States than the Catapult, with the catapult flirting with extinction by the 4th Succession War, and the k2 itself BEING extinct between 3020-3033. And if we are using quirks, the Marauder does get a decisive boost, even with it's negative quirks, because of getting Command Mech & Narrow/Low Profile helping it shrug off extra damage. Whereas the poor K2 gets shafted with No/Minimal Arms (making getting back up hard, as well as punching), and for some reason Weak Head Armor (1). That said, I have always found myself leaning into the K2 camp, being such a stan that I accidentally got it made extinct over at the MUL. Why though? Heat sinks, and that damn LT ammo bomb on the Marauder. The CPLT-K2 is simply more durable than the MAD-3R Marauder, quirks be damned. ***NOTE: This is specific to the MAD-3R, by far the most common version of the Marauder. Not your pet minmax custom, or other canon variants. If I had a choice of a MAD-3D instead of the 3R? I take the 3D 11x out of 10. Which would you choose, and why?
Wall of text. The text is broken down in the ALT sections of the first 2 photos.
It's 3005
MAD-3R Marauder
or
CPLT-K2 Catapult
Which would you take, and why?
extra details, Pros/cons of each, in the alt.
Linebacker and Incubus in Mechwarrior 5 Clans: Wolves of Tukayyid
A small mod I made a while ago that changes the cockpit glass of Clan mechs in Mecwarrior 5 Mercenaries and Clans to silver or bronze glass reflection rather than the orange look in vanilla
Blood Asp in its classic form modded into Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, original model by Pawel Czarnecki
Randy Asplund-Faith BattleTech Man O' War (Gargoyle) C Illustration Original Artwork (1996) - currently being auctioned away on Heritage Auctions
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New Month
Old & New Problems
Still sitting under $50 in my acct, Patreon should cover rent, Internet, but not a lot more.
Need to refill some new scripts, get to Colima for my next Neurologist consult, buy catfood, etc.
Still not able to work, any help would be huge thx
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I sometimes wonder how retail and shelfspace felt about them :P As a customer, I loved them and made them feel much more 'holy' when picking one up. Not to mention all the contents that added to the game experience (manuals, keyboard layouts, lore stuff, even registration cards and flyers, etc.)
@th3b33f.bsky.social has a new video up. A painful one for the Clans, who run into the true masters of the universe...
Everyone should check it out.
youtu.be/_YN2XBQdOGA
Because Carcinization is real.
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It's February news time! As usual, BattleTech delivers with events, art, and even some new MechWarrior DLC. It's all in Sarna:s news blast!
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I miss video game boxes. They represented years of human effort. They were a thing you made. Not just bits and bytes.
Bullshark in Mechwarrior 5 Merecenaries' Shadow of Kerensky DLC
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Ranna in Mechwarrior 5 Clans Wolves of Tukayyid
Congratulations to you Sean with the big news!
Your BattleTech News Round-Up For February, 2026
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MAD #Inprogress
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for all it matters from a bluesky gamer account like me: no war in iran. this attack is horrific and all decent people of the world must oppose it with no hesitation or equivocation about iran's government or nuclear programs. that's irrelevant to the pointless depravity of this bloodshed
If you want to 3D print and paint the Lilith statue that I commissioned from LaMazmorraStudio you can grab it on his GumRoad mazmorracustoms.gumroad.com/l/Lilith-Tie...
