Great looking game piece! O0
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Thanks Worktroll!
Here's a new piece from this weekend:
This is a personal favorite. About a year or two ago I bought a large lot of second hand BattleMechs from a local gaming store. Among the lot were a few LAM odds and ends, but nothing to make a complete miniature (The closest was a Phoenix Hawk, sans "boosters" and with a broken main gun). Since everything was beat to hell, I figured this would be a great opportunity to do some kit bashing. The new "boosters" are off the reseen Phoenix Hawk, and I added odds and ends that I'd picked up over the years. In the lot were a couple Phoenix Hawk BattleMechs, one of which I modified into a complementary "'Mech mode" mini. The 'mech is painted in a scheme I use for my Amphigean aerospace fighters (ground camo on top, three shades of blue on the underside.
My head-canon: Amphigean Agriculture Inc. salvaged a badly damaged Phoenix Hawk LAM in the 3020s, and enlisted LexaTech and GTK enterpises to refurbish the machine. The LAM required vast modification before it could be restored to flying status. It was fitted with equipment that would later appear on late-model Phoenix Hawks, and the avionics and control surfaces needed to be totally revised. The 'Mech was treated as a "floater", attached to Amphigean Light Assault Groups when needed, until Operation: Bulldog, when it was permanently attached to the 1st Amphigean LAG. Ultimately, the machine survived Bulldog. Structurally fatigued and beyond repair with the destruction of LexaTech's LAM factory, the machine was retired and became a museum piece at Amphigean's corporate HQ.