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WORK IN PROGRESS]
Long story short: in my Operation:REVIVAL delayed-participation KS loot I had some loot boxes and one of them had a Grendel or Mongrel with an Alpha Strike card talking about the A config while the mini was obviously the same Prime as in the Clan box itself. This was not acceptable, so I pestered some colleagues and also some good folks in the this+2 subforum here.
Unnecessary pieces were mercilessly snipped away to make way for some other weapon stand-ins. As I wasn't ready or skilled enough for a scratchbuilt RA, I left most of its bulk intact. I used a bit of a tube from a qtip for the Medium Pulse Laser that I filled with Vallejo's Clear Water to get a lenslike thing in the end. For the ER Small Laser I wanted a tube as well but had nothing smaller, so I glued in a 1:35 fire extinguisher from one of my many Tamiya Panzer models, drilled a hole in the bottom and widened it up a bit with a hobby knife. At least the bit had some texture on it unlike the qtip handle
I cut some sub-millimeter strips to glue onto the LRM-15 bay doors for texture and behind them as hingelike greeblies. To make the LA look a bit less depressing after removing the double lasers (it was clearly malnourished) I added some polystyrene greeblies. Vallejo's Black primer on top, then a Vallejo Cold Grey overbrushing, some Vallejo Stonewall Grey camo lines here and there, and Vallejo RLM66 (a dark grey) on the metallic surfaces instead of metallic paints.
Yeah, that was my interpretation of the Clan Ghost Bear's Delta Galaxy pattern, and then I tried to freehand the Ghost Bear insignia on the LA, and the Delta insignia somehow (the lightning bolts were successful-ish) on the RL below the knee. As far as I knew the 73rd Battle Cluster had no insignia so I did like I did over a decade ago and painted a black-shadowed red number "73" on the other leg. And a Point number on the LA below the CGB insignia.
Here and there I added some caution/hazard stripes (Yellow Ochre base with RLM66 stripes), mostly near the Jump Jet nozzles, and used some Vallejo AMT-7 (a Soviet greyish blue) for the Camospecs-dictated highlights. The contrast between greys and greyish blue was, shockingly, not that strong.
Once again I defied my absolute and total lack of skill at drawing/painting and freehanded some things that were supposed to represent the Clan Ghost Bear insignia on the left shoulder, and their Delta Galaxy's insignia on the right shin. Luckily the 73rd Battle Cluster (or the 314th Battle Trinary) didn't have imagery as far as I knew so I just added a "73" to the left shin and a unit number below the CGB roundel. No closeup of those, they're foul and may be partially acceptable from a (great) distance
The yellow ochre cockpit jeweling is simple (black, then yellow ochre, a bottom-right offset blob of yellow ochre + two drops of off-white, then an top-left dot of even brighter colour). I guess I should've done more layers but these viewports were so small it felt futile:
I was much, much happier with my green MPLas (black, escorpena green and off-white) and somewhat ok with the red ERSLas (black, bloody red, off-white) effect. Obviously it looks better from a bit further afar:
Whenever I'm done I'll set this one next to the other two Points from over a decade ago, the two Omnis from the 25th anniversary intro box (I thought it was the 30th but who notices five years anymore?)
Next up: pin wash (Abteilung 502's Sepia). Then a very simple base.
