Battletech: Painted Gepard Dropship from Hardware Studios

[@steveharrison76]

That's gorgeous. Love the lighting effect on the bridge glass - it really looks like you're looking though and can see the light coming in from the other side. Amazing piece of work.

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Hey thank you so much!

[@rickt.4118]

Looks great. Really like the cockpit glass. And yes would love to see an airbrush tutorial of the Davion paint job.

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Painting tutorial in the works!

[@rollingthunder55]

Good looking ships, got a map scale MWO version nice ship and prefer its design to the original leopard, but those are quality. Thinking about getting one of their blue water ships for scenario I'm thinking about doing Vengeance class frigate I think it was.

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Thanks! I actually picked up that water navy ship from them - great model

[@verysilentmouse]

Love your work

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Thank you so much!

[@turnbeutelseparatist7360]

Nice 👍

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Thanks!

[@matthewbirdsall9518]

Great work, love the Hardware Studios models. Are you going to eventually get the Monitor Drop Ship? that's a big boi.

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Oh yes... I ordered a Merrimack, but Im sure a Monitor is in the cards eventually...

[@thezomby5015]

Top part red, bottom part black ? Sounds more Kell's Hound than Kurita to me :)

[@CrankyOldGamer]

I may or may not have intentionally picked this scheme to pull double duty!

[@thezomby5015]

@@CrankyOldGamer I've started painting some Lyran Guard, Blue with a white stripe, hard to pass for another unit :)

[@PlasticraicGaming]

Loving the paint job. I take it this is the mech scale dropping? Are you able to scale the file for map scale prints? Been thinking about getting myself a Gérard for some time now.

[@CrankyOldGamer]

This is def. Mech scale, not map scale. I believe HW studios just announced you can get stl files, allowing you to scale it. Previously it was just FDM prints available.

[@PlasticraicGaming]

@@CrankyOldGamer Well thats good news. I'm more likely to print one off for map scale as that's how myself and mates play most games. It is nice to have the option to print either once you do have the file though. Loving the Battletech content, keep up the good work bud!

[@Grimlock-y6l]

Ive been thinking about getting a space marine drop pod and converting that for a drop ship do you think that would work size wise ?

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Im not sure - I think it would be ok. It depends on what kind of drop ship you're thinking but I bet you could make something work!

[@PlasticraicGaming]

You manage to get this pair painted up and done with Decals?

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Im actually doing decals on this guy this weekend!

[@Joric78]

Looks pretty good to me. The lines on FDM prints don't bother me that much at the moment, but as I'm getting better at painting it's bound to eventually. Any recommendations for a levelling primer?

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Thats a great question. I dont have a recommendation, never used one. Id have to research it.

[@jrodriguez3787]

Take me money! Gonna be hard not to buy all their dropships

[@CrankyOldGamer]

I know right? I seem ti be on a personal mission to clean them out of dropshios lately... 😀