Miniature(s) of the Fortnight #16: Nova/Black Hawk and friends

[Xiwo Xerase]

Another one of the Operation REVIVAL OmniMechs, the Nova (Black Hawk) showed up rarely in the original TRO.  It seems to have been outshone by the Stormcrow in gameplay and popularity but the Nova had an important leg up: it had a plastic CityTech miniature.

This fortnight, we're covering the Nova (Black Hawk) and its descendants, the Black Hawk-KU and the MWDA-influenced Black Hawk.

The sculpts I know about are:

• The original sculpt was released in metal by Ral Partha (20-610) and in resin.
• The plastic CityTech miniature, which I believe was based on but not quite identical to the metal sculpt.  (I have neither so I can't prove it.)
• Iron Wind Metals has three sculpts available, but I'm not sure which came first.  The H configuration is 20-359, the A configuration is BT-013, and the Prime configuration is BT-014.  I suspect these are all based on the same resculpt but I'm not completely sure.  (I haven't seen any good shots of the H to know for sure.)
• Iron Wind Metals also has a BF-scale model of the H configuration, 20-9126.

The Black Hawk-KU, the Inner Sphere's copy of the Clan 'Mech, only has a single sculpt, 20-907.  (Surprisingly, at least to me, this is not an archived miniature.)

The standard BattleMech Black Hawk (how is this not confusing?) also only has a single sculpt, 20-441.  I'm not sure how this sculpt differs from the MWDA figures since I missed the MWDA years.

So there we have it.  Please post any miniatures you'd like to share, old or new, Nova or Black Hawk or Black Hawk-KU!  And thank you for reading!

Our next fortnight's 'Mech will be the Commando.

[Mendou]

I love the Nova, though I've only got this one painted. I have an H variant I'm salivating over, once I figure out where in my new house is best to set up a painting table......

[Luciora]

Old sculpt and the resculpt pending a paint scheme.

A custom old sculpt, mimicing the Komodo and the Resculpt H

[Luciora]

Basic Ku and my custom magnetized Crescent Hawks color Ku.  Basic layout and some custom weapon loadouts. (Too excited to sort them properly)

[klarg1]

Hooray! I get to participate!
This is a Nova A that I painted up, back in 2012. I'm pretty sure it has been posted to this forum before, but still:





Working on this topic taught me just how shockingly bad the Nova's leg design is for actually walking. If you look closely, you can see that I basically added an extra joint to the lower leg to make it work. ;D

[Sgt. Scream]

Black Hawk plastic miniature from the old CityTech (2nd edition) box.

[klarg1]

Interesting. I'm not sure if I'd ever seen the Citytech plastic Nova before. It's actually pretty different from the original metal sculpt, although I can see how they might be related. The feet are especially different - the metal mini's feet looked a lot like the ones on the current sculpt.

I learned something!

[hauptmann fanjoy]

Someone mentioned the Nova H sculpt... here's mine, from the Alpha Strike manual:

[Vaaish]

Here are my two Black Hawks:

SmokeJag Delta:


Wolf Green Keshik:


Both are converted to the A variant with two PPC.

[dirty harry]

Two Black Hawks available.
The first one is an original sculpt metal mini, painted in a generic Clan Wolf paint scheme. Weapon loadout has changed a bit (i prefered 8 ER-M-Lasers and 6 ER-S-Lasers with an additional heat sinks).
The second one is a modified Citytech plastic mini. I changed the toes and hacked the arms. Front ends were replaced with the forearms of the Daishi from the same pack. Now it is a Black Hawk A waiting for service with Clan Hells Horses Theta galaxy.

[KhanPhelanWard]

This mini was the third one I ever painted, I really like the sculpt, I have to buy another one :D

[cavingjan]

Prime, A, D, H, and I. I have a T that still needs painted.

[Wotan]

A resculpt Nova C for the Goliath Scorpions.

An old sculpt Nova Prime in generic desert camo for clan Wolf.

And i see i haven't done a pic of my resculpt Nova H ...  :-[

[Siberian-troll]

Blackhawk prime,  Sigma galaxy, clan Jade falcon, arms from Stormcrow.





BlackHawk A








Blackhawk KU - OD