Battletech: Inner Sphere Direct Fire Lance and the Patchwork Guild or "The Unseen"

The Battletech Inner Sphere Direct Fire lance has four plastic mechs: Atlas, Orion, Marauder II, and Crusader. The Atlas and Orion are painted with my Federated Suns Regulars colours. the Marauder II and Crusader are for a mercenary group I created, The Patchwork Guild" or "The Unseen". More on them below in this post.

Atlas: 100 tons, slow, Autocannon-20, LRM-20. SRM-6, two medium lasers forward and two medium lasers rear. Painted in Federated Suns Regular colours. 

Orion: 75 tons, regular speed, autocannon-10, LRM-15, SRM-4, two medium lasers.

The next two are part of a mercenary company called the Patchwork Guild and their paint scheme reflects this. They are a made up group by myself and not part of written Battletech cannon. They are mostly veterans of Houses of the Inner Sphere, Periphery groups, Mercenary companies, and Clan warriors who had become disillusioned with their factions. They take contracts that do not target innocents and strive to make things better. Even though the are picky about their contracts the Guild never seems to lack spare parts. When in public they wear patchwork jumpsuits and black full head masks with mirrored frounts, as many are wanted by their original factions, and mimicked for their mechs. They are also nicknamed "The Unseen" because of this.

Crusader: 65 tons, average speed, two LRM-15, Two SRM-6, Two Medium lasers, Two Machine guns. Primed black, heavily drybrushed Iosian Green and drybrushed mix Iosian Green and Menoth White Highlight. Patches of Khador red Highlight, Cygnar Yellow, Cygnar Blue Highlight, Khador Red Base, Murderous Magenta, and Beaten Purple used. Cold Steel on metal parts. Washed with GW Nuln Oil. Sulfur Yellow for missiles, Khador Red Base for lasers, and Thamar Black for projectile weapon barrels. Thamar Black applied to head area with Cryx Bane Base drybrushed on then Cryx Bane Highlight lightly drybrushed on, and Army Painter Gloss used on cockpit window. Base painted cheap black then GW Technical Armageddon Dunes used on base. Army Painter Matt White applied on frount and back base arcs, and finally paint pen was used to write the name of the mech.

Marauder II: 100 tons, slow with jump jets, LB-10X autocannon, two extended range particle projection cannons, and two medium lasers. Primed black, heavily drybrushed Cygnar Yellow and drybrushed mix Cygnar Yellow and Menoth White Highlight. Patches of Khador red Highlight, Iosian Green, Cygnar Blue Highlight, Khador Red Base, Murderous Magenta, and Beaten Purple used. Cold Steel on metal parts. Washed with GW Nuln Oil. Sulfur Yellow for missiles, Khador Red Base for lasers, and Thamar Black for projectile weapon barrels. PPC barrel painted Meridius Blue and in center painted Arcane Blue. Thamar Black applied to head area with Cryx Bane Base drybrushed on then Cryx Bane Highlight lightly drybrushed on, and Army Painter Gloss used on cockpit window. Base painted cheap black then GW Technical Armageddon Dunes used on base. Army Painter Matt White applied on frount and back base arcs, and finally paint pen was used to write the name of the mech.

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      "The Unseen" will be made up of mechs that in the real world history of Battletech went through legal troubles. They were called this because FASA, the original company that created Battletech, paid money to a company that claimed it had exclusive rights to the mech images from the original Japanese anime outside of Japan. In the mid-90's FASA was sued by Harmony Gold, who owned the Macross Saga rights in the USA, because of the use of several mech images that Harmony Gold owned the rights to. FASA lost the legal battle initially and all the mech images used from any Japanese Anime were severely altered. The originals of these mechs were called "The Unseen". After several decades Topps, the current holders of the Battletech license, won the rights to use the original images. Since I played Battletech when the original images were used and stopped playing (no connection to the removal of the original images) I wanted to make a mercenary company as a nod to these original mechs. A good article on SarnaNet goes into more detail.