3rd Royal Guards | diceandpaint

Sixteen BattleMech miniatures painted blue with gold trim, massed together on hex bases.

Royal Guards shield insignia: a yellow coiled snake on a light blue field with a gold border.

3RD ROYAL GUARDS LYRAN COMMONWEALTH c.3060

Competed 05/08/23
Catalyst Miniatures
Paints used: ?

The 3rd Royal Guards are among the best equipped, best trained, and most loyal Lyran units. I wanted to do them for one simple reason, their parade paint scheme rules. Battletech offers very few chances to paint units with a lot of metallics, and even fewer with gold.

Beyond the paint scheme it’s fun to do a Lyran unit because they skew very heavy, honestly I could have done more assaults here. I went with a reinforced company and included some later mech designs so that I can use this in earlier time periods as a standard strength company. As the 3rd is an RTC I have plans to add a company of tanks and some infantry in the future.

Fighting Pirannha Graphics doesn’t make transfers for the 3rd so they have the Royal Guards organizational level logo.

COMMAND LANCE: AS7-D Atlas; AWS-8Q Awesome; ZEU-6S Zeus; WHM-6R Warhammer

ASSAULT LANCE: TDR-5S Thunderbolt; GLT-4L Guillotine; BLR-1G Battlemaster; ON1-M Orion

FIRE LANCE: SHD-2H Shadow Hawk; GRF-3M Griffin; CRD-3R Crusader; GRF-1N Griffin

STRIKER LANCE: PXH-1 Phoenix Hawk; COM-2D Commando; WLF-1 Wolfhound; BSW-X1 Bushwacker

The painted 3rd Royal Guards company in blue and gold parade colors, photographed together.

The same blue and gold company seen from the front, arranged in loose ranks on dirt hex bases.

Four blue and gold BattleMechs, each carrying the Royal Guards shield transfer on its chest.

Four slimmer blue and gold BattleMechs posed mid-stride on rocky hex bases.

Four blue and gold BattleMechs, including a bird-legged design with a long-barreled arm gun.

Four heavy blue and gold BattleMechs led by an Atlas with a white skull-faced head.

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