Miniature of the Fortnight #56: Turkina

[Xiwo Xerase]

Thursday is going to be Thanksgiving Day in the US.  And what is Thanksgiving without a Turkina?

(This is what passes for humor in my house.  My wife has to live with this every day.  She is clearly a saint.)

Anyway!  This fortnight, yes, we're looking at the Turkina.  This is the first Clan OmniMech we've looked at from Technical Readout: 3058.  This is a departure from before but... the joke was worth it, right?  Right?

The Turkina is an assault OmniMech of Clan Jade Falcon and is one of the earliest Clan Jade Falcon-specific OmniMechs.  I'm not an expert on the evolution of Clan 'Mechs so I can't say much more.  If you want to know more, read Top Gear: Turkina (the 'Mech of the Week article).

The Turkina has two sculpts, both of them available from Iron Wind Metals:

• The Turkina Prime (20-759).
• The Turkina C (FT-011).

Do you have any painted?  Please share pictures!  We'd love to see them!

Thank you for reading!  (And thank you for putting up with my sense of humor.  No, really, thank you.)  And a special thank you to those of you who will post pictures!

And, for those of you in the US (or otherwise observing the holiday), have a happy Thanksgiving!

Our next three fortnights will be:

• Inner Sphere (12/3): Spider
• Clan (12/17): Howler (Baboon)
• Special (12/31): Second generation battle armor

[dirty harry]

Just a single Turkina for the Jade Falcon's Iota galaxy.
As this mini is extremly wide and bulky it was one of my first ones to be build with magnetized hip/torso, even if one cannot twist the Turkina torso. Just for better storage and transport.

[worktroll]

Just one Turkina also (and friends) - Turkina X, 8th Falcon Regulars, Epsilon Galaxy

[Luciora]

Here's my 2 turkeys.  A Prime and a C.  I'd have more but i'm not that big a clan player.

[Psycho]

Went looking for one, came up with two others. I had forgotten about the Cobra and Mandrill ones. The Falcon's Delta Galaxy contribution is modified to the D config, which has proven popular. Who would've thought that a 'Mech packing 4 ATM-12s would be popular? ;)

[Siberian-troll]

Some my Turkinas, old and new

from 2011, Turkina-C


Same time, Turkina-D (yes, we love ATMs)


More ATM's from 2015


This year ones, - prime (at last!)


And Dee - as fat traveller with really big suitcases. :)

[Fear Factory]

This is the only one I painted... and it was for a friend who loved Clan Smoke Jaguar.

[agen2]

IMG_20190203_163806 by agen2, su Flickr

[Getz]

It's a little known fact that the Turkina assault mech is a highly territorial creature - here we can see two specimens squaring off in ritual combat...



The example in the Foreground is mine, painted in the colours of Clan Smoke Jaguar's Alpha Galaxy, the other belongs to my friend Steve and is in the service of Clan Snow Raven.  Steve was running an B whereas as I was using a D and up until this point things had been pretty even between us - however, I'm about to pour on the High explosive and plant 36 missiles into him in a single turn.  The Turkina B kind of disintegrated at this point and what was left collapsed with it's gyro blown out.  I delivered the coup de grace at turn later.