Fuck yeah, BattleTech!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!

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The board and card games were the shit.

I've got about 80+ minis for the boardgame, and I used to have 660+ cards until I had to sell them all. Sadly, none of them are Cyclops models.

Also House Kurita, I believe it was...I was always a Steiner fan myself.

This 'Mech is actually adorned with the marks of House Liao, the Capellan Confederation. I am personally a House Kurita guy, though I am a merc above most else (.... with an almost Clan-like sense of honor if I can stand it, it's good for reputation).

I was never into the Cyclops though. I liked the warhammers and Atlas' better. Also Omni-mechs.

Hey... Did Topps buy the Battlemech franchise? Shoot! I recall when the game first came out, and they literally cribbed their battle robot designs from cheap Japanese model kits which were available in the discount stores during the early 1980s.

It went FASA to Wizkids Games to Topps, Inc. (A parent company of Catalyst Game Labs).

Wow! Am I behind the times. My favorite Mecha in the series was the old "Warhammer," AKA the "Tomahawk" from the old anime "Macross" which became the first of the classic TV trilogy. Of course I was more into building the models and painting up the mecha and gaming figures. I noticed in the original "Battledroids" game they borrowed heavily from Macross, Southern Cross, Legios, Dugram, and Crusher Joe. Those 1/72nd and 1/144 scale models I picked up for pennies are now worth hundreds to prime collectors now. I still like the Tomahawk though. (Okay. So I'm an Inner Sphere Groogie.)

I'm fond of any Marauder, myself, whether it be the original from '84, or the Marauder IIC or even the new-school "Project Phoenix" Marauder. I love them all!

Oh man! How I'd love to get another one of the Arri 1/72nd scale kits of the Marauder. I painted the one I built back in 1988 with an airbrushed "Desert Sand" top coat and a light gray underbelly. I added rust red and black "Tiger Stripes" to that, but kept the decals the same. To me the multicolored paint scheme of the original just seemed to say, "Hey! I'm a big target! Shoot me!" The resultant camouflage colors sort of made the model look more "Lethal." I never got to build the all Panzer gray version with white "Lozenge" designs on it's upper surfaces that I had drawn up. I was going to call that one the "Night Stalker."