Moustacherie

Tropical heat is not a fucking joke.

I am a jingling handful of change's worth of degrees south of the equator and Jesus H Christ

Shiro, Avatar, Akuma, Grand Dragon, and Inferno. The Inferno is a new design, only available in metal so far from IWM. It does, however, speak to me in a nice kind of way.

Venom, Hitotsume-Kozo, Phoenix Hawk IIC, and Panther. The Hito is also only available from IWM, and it makes me wonder why they didn't go for it to round out the trio of Shiro/Hito/Roku.

Shadow Hawk IIC, Rokurokubi, Chimera, Griffin IIC. Speaking of the Roku, look at that little ankle biter. Played against one at the shop, and launched a Charger C at it for a 10 hex charge. 80 damage to that 35 ton mech and it didn't even break armor. Jesus christ.

Some glamour shots of the samurai trio. I am *especially* proud of those swords.

Add this to my Shadow Cat and we've got an understrength binary, or two lances if you're a dirty unwashed spheroid. Turkina, Mist Lynx, Naga II, Stormcrow, Timber Wolf, Summoner, and Dire Wolf.

Yes, that first one *is* a Turkina and I am *damn* proud of it. Try as I might I cannot bring myself to love CGL's Roswell reject take me to your leader lookin ahh. The body and legs are from SMB's Turkina II, which is a wholly fanmade design, and I grafted the arms of a CGL Turkina to it. Looks appropriately falcon-like to me now. Also VLS missiles my beloved.

Neither are games I play anymore but I keep it in my followed tags for nostalgia.

Back from Korea, first thing I do is pick up an exacto and go to town. Please enjoy this BLR-1S. The S stands for Shitbox, BTW. Would you like to have not one, not two, but *three* ammobombs in your Beemer? No? Fuck you. This bad boy swaggers onto the field with, get this: an LRM-15, an LRM-5, and *two* SRM-2s. And just to kick you in the shmeckel, you lose your rear-mounted MLs.

These pictures are mushier than expected but just lean back from the screen a bit and they'll be better. Please enjoy the last lance I painted before going back to work.

1. Ostsol OTL-4D -- He is literally just a guy. I hate to say it, but the Dragon might just have been dethroned as my favorite fast raider heavy. Especially when you get the lostech version with a full battery of pulse lasers? Mmf.

2. Blackjack BJ2-OA -- Once again I proclaim my love for Inner Sphere Omnimechs. Yes, I know that there's technically only 15 tubes, hush now. They were exactly the right size.

3. Rifleman -- Visually similar to a RFL-8D, I sliced on these Steel Rift bits because I hate hate hate the visual profile of the standard CGL Rifleman. I dunno what it is, but it just don't hit. This, however. This looks like lean mean aircraft-killin' machine.

4. Super Griffin GRF-2N-X -- I love ugly ducklings. I love one offs. I love technology demonstrators. The YF-23 should have won the contract... ahem. Literally one of a kind, chock full of prototype improved jump jets. Slower base speed, since it's now a 60 tonner, but 4/6/6 is decent.