Painting Lore: Miniatures Inspired by the Story

In 3024 the world of Altais was defended by the 5th Sword of Light when Waco's Rangers dropped on the world in an attempt to raid a supply depot. The mercs, in Steiner employ, rapidly marched on Supply Depot 23 for which Sorenson's Sabers arranged a defense in conjunction with the limited planetary defense forces they could muster - in this case a platoon of the 255th Armored Cavalry and a the 107th Motorized Infantry Company.  This project is part of my love of the poor infantryman in this game - they are rarely decisive, but when deployed in strength and in the right way, can make a difference to the wider game.  And they are cheap - oh so cheap.  Planetary garrisons can field infantry in division strength at times - and in campaign play quantity has a quality all its own.  This is the first company in a battalion of DCMS motorized infantry - one company each of jeep, quad bike and motorcycle troops.  This particular set up was kitbashed from a light jeep mode...

 This is an update project - I had originally created a lance of Tokugawa and Bulldogs to go with a mixed company for the 4th Succession War but as I had been expanding the DCMS forces I decided to make a company of this project rather than a single lance.  Here you have a company of the 53rd Vegan Lancers in the defense of Vega circa 3028 in the fourth succession war - all done in my SOP DCMS Armor regiment khaki.   The Tokugawa is a classic DCMS design, though it did not get cover art or details until the clan invasion - fortunately the powers that govern Battletech retconned some succession war era stats to go along with a single line mention in the House Kurita sourcebook.  It was these two variants I used for this project - the TKG-150 and TKG-151.  The 150 is a simple downgrade with an AC/10 in place of the upgrades LB-10X.  The TKG-151 takes the opposite approach to stopping power in the hopes range will suffice with 2x AC/2's.  This is a q...