A new branch of hobby I'm getting into now is BattleTech. My first interaction with the IP was back in the 90's when I played the Mech Warrior 2 game on PC. Since then I've played a few of the other games but now I'm starting to collect the miniatures. Last year during one of my local hobby stores anniversaries, I picked up the Game of Armored Combat starter set and one of the random surprise Mech packs.
Looking into BattleTech's lore proper, it's as daunting I'm sure as a new 40K player might feel. I quickly realized that my knowledge of the BT universe was very small, so I was a little deterred from starting to paint the minis until I had an idea of what faction I wanted to pursue. However, that never gained any traction with me and finally, after watching the Tabletop Minions video "Change HOW You Hobby to Increase Your Motivation", I got inspired to just paint the Mechs randomly to what ever color scheme appealed to me at the time. It wasn't about having a cohesive scheme across my collection, it was just trying out new things, or color schemes that I'd thought about trying, but didn't really want to commit to for a whole army. The results have been great. I've already completed 5 new models.
And in completing models, this has rejuvenated myself to complete some more of my 40k backlog. So with that, I feel like I'm back in the saddle for my hobby again and making progress.
So with a bunch of new BattleTech minis now complete, I've made a new gallery for them which is now live.
Until next time!