This was a fun little project that let me use a few unique elements and recreate one of the more famous scenes from the early novels of Battletech. Here I did my best to recreate the early hours of the Gray Death Legions landing on Verthandi - nearly shot down in there Danais class dropship the legion was attempting to unload as many of there supplies and war machines as possible when they were attacked by a lance of Duke Ricol's household guard, as well as an aero-lance of Slayers. To make matters worse they also had a whole company of Galleon light tanks assault there position. In the end they are able to slip away with a group of rebels and keep there dropship intact - mostly. A fair amount of plot armor in this one I think.
The slayers are both 3d Models I picked up at some point and scaled up by about 10% with a little thickening of the model to bring them in line with the current CGL scaling. The Galleons are all the modern version, these printed really well and I think they look great. I decided to represent the 'newseen' version for this one since I had already done some Galleons in the more classically tank style of the HBS game. I have not found a classic Crusher Joe version in 3d print yet...
The dropship is a Hardware Studio Dropshuttle which is a great proxy for a map scale dropship. I do have several Union models but the GDL was employing mercenary dropships which were merchants similar to, but not, Unions. The class is never formally identified but the Danais fits it pretty strongly. So I went with this model as a solid representation of a Danais, or merchant refit, Union. I left it unadorned of markings so I can use it as a general merchant dropship in future projects
The map is a custom print from '
Kat Draws' - it looks like this artist is no longer producing new material but there existing work is top knotch.
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