Down at the holler--The Filtvelt Coalition Faction Page

[Starfury]

The only thing I could find was the white on purple symbol for the Thumpers Assault unit.  Some fan ones have them in tiger stripe orange.

[Deadborder]

The Militia‘s shortage of supplies often leaves their equipment in locally-produced black primer, but units with the means have adopted a bright orange as their standard color. - Camospecs

[glitterboy2098]

i copied this from one of the sourcebooks to post in an old thread, but darned if i can find it again right now, IIRC it was a pre-dark age era work so this represents the earlier days of the Militia.
The Militia's shortage of supplies often leaves their equipment in locally-produced black primer, but units with the means have adopted a bright orange as their standard color.

my current Icon is a Hound in Militia colors, TRO art with colors by a friend.


kevarin_hound_filtvelt_militia by Mark Temple, on Flickr

[worktroll]

Thanks! Well, if I do that, it'll be colourful ... the Thumpers favour yellow & black trim.

[Arkansas Warrior]

Basically, all the Filtvelt military equipment is painted up like like construction machinery and/or firetrucks.   ;D

[worktroll]

So I have my battalion planned. Looking for an excuse to buy some Skytrex Action 200 (1:200 scale minis), so a platoon of Chieftans as Rommels, and a platoon of M60A2s (the 'Starship') as Pattons, plus a platoon of Ranger VV1s for the armour. The 'Mechs are already put aside.

I'll be going the 3rd Filtvelt Defenders - a nice little comment to the effect that they're organised for combined arms at the company level. So justifies a nice organisation with lance of 'Mechs, platoon of armour, platoon of vehicles.

Must do some proof of concepts to get the right orange - not sure to go base drab orange with brighter highlights, or base brighter orange with drab highlights.

[Colt Ward]

What mechs are you using btw?

Right now, I could field a Filtvelt 3145 expeditionary force if I wanted to . . . hmm, and might for a pick up game!

Hound
Hawkwolf
Hetzer
Hetzer
and maybe some J Edgars for giggles . . . unfortunately, they will all be forest camo or primer.

[Onion2112]

Since you have a “H” theme going, you could add a Hornet (HNT-182 model) - this was initially a major refit but could possibly be in production (see TRO Republic Vol II)

Filtvelt is at least refitting or even producing Javelins too (JVN-11P model) TRO:3145 NTNU.

[worktroll]

What mechs are you using btw?

I'm using up minis I already have in my strategic reserve - trying to run them down before the KS minis arrive. Old minis look somewhat anaemic next to the new GoAC minis. So I've got:

Charger
Banshee
Archer
Jagermech

Shadow Hawk
Hatchetman
Quickdraw
Whitworth

Locust
Assassin
Cicada
Clint

Filtvelt has all these at Early Republic era, I just need to work out the variants so I can mod the minis. Whitworth, for instance, is going to be the WTH-1H RL carrier version.

[Colt Ward]

Heh, I LOVE the WTH-1H . . . my mercs managed to salvage a -1S that was pretty chewed up and it was cheaper to put it back together as a -1H, which makes it a good trainer & guard.  Any Thunderbolt toting variants of those?

No Hound?

[greatsarcasmo]

97Jedi and I were trying for something a bit less “Dukes of Filtvelt” but that didn’t seem to go through. It was Blue-Grey with red trim.