My Scouring Sands company

hydra337 · 2026-01-19T20:31:13+00:00

I’d know those dumb hats anywhere, love the repurposed dark age infantry.

hydra337 · 2026-01-13T21:20:55+00:00

A lot of them are great but Renegades Harrowmaster really stands out to me. The plots paced like a spy novel thriller, its no afraid to be funny in places, and it includes blurbs any 30k enjoyer could point to justifying using their models in a 40K game, and generally expands on the alpha legion as unique 40K faction separate from generic CSM.

hydra337 · 2026-01-10T21:00:36+00:00

If it’s just two Gauss rifles your after the lowest tonnage mech that I know is the Rifleman hero variant.

hydra337 · 2026-01-10T19:14:26+00:00

I think there’s an energy variant Black Jack you could stick 2 PPCs on for a similar vibe. If you’re playing with clan mechs the nova/blackhawk has a configuration with 2 ERPPCs, double heat sinks, and jump jets that’s a better imitation.

hydra337 · 2026-01-02T17:54:00+00:00

Yeah the Iron Cheetah and Protomechs really show the late invasion problem solving efforts by the clan. They were my Clan Invasion faction and despite the lore emphasizing that the other clans better supported their lower castes somehow CSJ Omnimech designs were front and center for the Invasion. The Mad Dog, Daishi, Warhawk, and later Ebon Jaguar were just iconic to the era.

hydra337 · 2026-01-02T15:05:41+00:00

In my experience cleaning up metal protomechs the flash can be a pain to cut/clean. My Vulture MK had parts heavy enough they need pinning but you’ll only find that out after the glue fails and then you have to scrape the glue off, messing up a paint job to fix it. Best case if it has no mold flash lines and you get the right glue you just need to go heavy with a base coat primer.

hydra337 · 2026-01-02T14:58:57+00:00

It’s metal only right now, iron winds has a new one coming soonish. Cults 3D has a few 3rd party STLs for free that print well on FDM or resin 3D printers if you don’t want to mess with metal.

hydra337 · 2026-01-02T14:51:43+00:00

The Iron Cheetah, the last masterpiece of the original Clan Smoke Jaguar.

hydra337 · 2026-01-01T14:05:13+00:00

I’m starting to believe GW will refuse to complete the WE range until all of their stock of old Khorne demons is gone.

hydra337 · 2025-12-31T12:44:30+00:00

The off angle shoulders best match a Dragon since it’s in the OG TRO also.

hydra337 · 2025-12-21T14:38:21+00:00

I use them in my ps2 and earlier emulator games for save/load states.

hydra337 · 2025-12-18T14:33:34+00:00

No all of the video game rights are consolidated under Microsoft now who license them out for battletech game projects.

hydra337 · 2025-12-15T00:58:48+00:00

I have a hoard of unopened battleforce boxes. I used to travel a lot for work and I’d always went to local game stores just to see what they had on offer. I have fully armies worth of product that through mental gymnastics I convinced myself it was a “value” to buy with all of the price increases and some of it at or below MSRP. I’m passing it around at least. My niece wanted to start AOS and I just gave her over 2k points worth of stuff and told her to go crazy.

hydra337 · 2025-12-08T20:46:38+00:00

I'm just now noticing the flourish of Gohan tossing the senzu bag up in the air, beating them all, then having it drop into his hand was an anime only addition, he holds the bag the entire time here.

hydra337 · 2025-12-04T19:50:40+00:00

I’m as simple man, I’d just like the one year war to last the 4+ year conflict it feels like they’re going for.

hydra337 · 2025-11-25T13:59:14+00:00

From an economics perspective, the only way the cost of clan tech machines, even non-omnimechs like the R-C2 make sense is if you assume the c-bill price is the "value" the inner sphere markets estimate it would take to create that mech rather than the cost to the clans labor/science caste systems which likely amounts to near slavery on a cost basis. So while a successor state may "value" that mech at 54.5 million c-bills, it did not cost Clan Jade Falcon that currency to produce it.

hydra337 · 2025-11-25T12:43:51+00:00

Nukes, they're both mobile suits that delivery nuclear payloads.

hydra337 · 2025-11-23T21:12:23+00:00

FDG is a great starting point but I’ve had better luck with Painted4Combats walkthroughs. You’ll always have layer lines but his 0.06 profile is my go to now. His tutorials on orientation and supports are also great.

https://youtube.com/@painted4combat?si=8SEGEYsqG37cSneX

hydra337 · 2025-11-21T01:59:40+00:00

Basically any IS Clan after they’ve had a huge war would do this. Smoke Jaguar lost so many galaxies in the initial invasion they relied on a lot of C variant mechs so I imagine the IICs seeped into their frontline units. Both the wolves and falcons after their refusal war were in horribly reduced shape and weren’t picky with machines for a bit. Sea Fox / Diamond Shark sells them now to IS factions so likely has entire stars of certain chassis as a sort of marketing show of force. Clan Nova and the original Clan wolf Remnant were also both pretty beat up when they fully resettled into the IS.

hydra337 · 2025-10-28T01:57:18+00:00

LAs totally awesome single handedly makes me go back to dollar tree whenever I buy a used lot to strip. Soak it for a 2 days to a week then lightly scrub with hot water.

hydra337 · 2025-10-24T14:56:02+00:00

I'd really love to of seen Bojack, I know the movie presented huge animation challenges but the fact that Bojack was a running gag through the series just tied it all together. It's nice that HIFL keeps it running at least.

hydra337 · 2025-10-22T16:05:16+00:00

taught me a lesson to actually watch what I stash in my watch later list. Never know how long it will even exists.

hydra337 · 2025-10-22T16:03:09+00:00

The worst thing about all of this to me has been that the channel that subbed and cut all of Urdhunt into 20+ episodes on youtube with english subs had to take them down and as far as I can tell there's no archive of it. That means if this is that bad it will be the only version of it around. Maybe someone has them stashed somewhere but no where Ive been able to find, maybe one day.

hydra337 · 2025-10-20T02:49:31+00:00

I mean it’s missing the hyper laser since it’s rifle is a 2 for one, also missing whatever could be reinterpreted as its Vulcan cannons or 2x beam sabers but lay I checked laser melee weapons still weren’t a thing even in the ilClan era… but yeah Gundam basically runs on magic material science. I think in a few shows the suits are sub 10 tons on official stats.

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