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A Kurita Battlemaster from the world of FASA's Mechwarrior. The Ral Partha miniature pictured is scaled for table-top gaming and comes in at about two inches. The lead mini is based on the design from the game, which itself was based on a mech design from a japanese series called "Dougram".
The paint scheme I chose was pulled straight from one of the Mechwarrior game supplementary rule books. It was an illustration showing a Battlemaster in a camo pattern which started like foliage at the feet and faded to a sky-blue and white at the head. It wore House Kurita markings (a coiled black dragon on a red disk) and looked darn neat.
Since I'd stopped playing the game by the time I finished this kit, I chose to mount it on a small wooden base in the middle of a battle vignette. The base was made from two layers of foam core covered in spackle for the topography. The river was blue paint covered by Kristal-Klear(sp?) window filler, and the grass and trees from Woodland Scenics grass and moss on a toothpick. A miniature Abrhams tank in House Steiner colors opposes the Battlemaster. Sure, in game terms, the tank would be 1,000 years out of date, but what the heck.
