Duncan is like a young, British Bob Ross for neckbeards. I'm glad he left GW so he could branch out, these painting tutorials are fantastic!

Fun fact: The Inner Sphere called it the Mad Cat because when they first encountered them their sensors bounced between calling it a Marauder (MAD) and a Catapult (CAT) because it looks similar to them.

More BattleTech rituals please! Love to see the Griffin and Wolverine next. :)

Yes! Duncan is taking on Battletech!

The Mad Cat has got to be one of the most iconic mech designs of the Battletech series. Right up there with the Atlas, which has become the official "face" of the series as the silhouette of it's skull head is used as a kind of logo for the series as a whole.

The cockpit is an amazing detail! Love how you painted it.

BattleTech's so hot right now! 😎

The glass was a fantastic touch. Thank you kindly for the wonderful painting lesson!

Having just received my Kickstarter stuff, I'm ok with more BT content.

I love you even got the placement of the transfers lore accurate, the clans would always place their clans sigil higher on their mech than their galaxy markings, the the ones on the cockpit are for clan wolf and the legs are for beta galaxy. *chefs kiss* lovey work mister Rhodes!

Just really genuinely happy to see a professional mini painter of your level branch out into so many different genres and miniatures from so many companies. For the all the love that GW deserves (and it does deserve some :P) so do many other figures and lines. Nicely done.

My favourite mech when playing mechwarrior2 on pc back in the 90s .

Duncan, your techniques always make the models appear as if that mech can blast inner sphere mechs into nothingness with its PPC guns right from the table it stands on. Your talent for making the window pane on the cockpit shine and be reflective is incredible also. A hand clasp from across the miles my friend.

Woohoo! Loving this Battletech content! Thanks!

Oh yes, BattleTech is my jam! I really need to paint my mechs.

2 years later... just getting into battletech and mini painting in general... god bless you, Duncan!!!

Absolutely amazing job. I can't wait to try some of these techniques on my mechs.

I’m definitely using this color scheme for my tau

Duncan and Battletech are the chocolate and peanut butter combo of mini painting.

You have good taste , clan wolf smiles upon you today friend

Here’s to years more of painting tutorials and a good long life to our favorite painting teacher.

you always had my curiosity but now you have my attention

Welcome to the Inner Sphere Duncan! There’s a cult mech from a certain animated show that recently got re-imagined in the new Legends book. Nicolai Malthus red Summoner. Ohhh the new subscribers you’d get if you painted THAT particular mech.

Amazing work Duncan. Glad to see you move over to Battletech too! Thanks for the reminder about the sense of scale. I also learned a bit from your canopy technique. Nice colour choice too, brings me back to the 80s.

Would love to see a tutorial on some elementals as they're so teeny but I'm sure some real details could be created on them by a talented painter.

OMG It's Happening ! Thank you Duncan !

I found Games Workshop's Agrellan Earth and Agrellan Badland (or even a mix of both on one base) a very good choice for basing BattleTech miniatures. Just apply them and give them a shade with Agrax Earthshade, that should already suffice. Plain sand will also do fine, but be careful when using sand mixed with small stones. Very fine sand works better.

This is so amazing. I swear I learn new techniques with every video. Gotta get into battle tech now lmao

I can't unsee the "portal" color scheme for the cockpit glass jeweling. Amazing paintjob.

Never seen Battletech models before but this looks great. I'll definitely be looking to get some of these!

Probably one of my recent favourites - Love these new sculpts, lots of detail.

Bargained and done. Nice job.

More battetech content, Duncan!

This is awesome! As someone starting to paint mechs even little things like brush selection is very helpful. Time to go to the hobby store!

Awesome painting of one of 90's most iconic mechs!

This is seriously impressive, such an iconic mech.

Hopefully the first of many mech tutorials, I am in desperate need of camouflage ideas

I would absolutely love to see more BT content. This was great 😀

Wow, this is great! Outstanding work as usual, with a few things I would like to try on my own Mechs. Fun side note: while the MadCat / TimberWolf is a BattleMech, it is more specifically an OmniMech. The Clans used both, but an OmniMech has several advantages that pure BattleMechs do not have (and a few drawbacks). Mostly in repair time, how quickly they can change loadouts, and time to get back onto the field of battle.

I really appreciate that you paint such a variety of models. I just picked up the Alpha Strike box and was happy to see not one but two of your videos at the top of my search for "painting battletech". I likely won't go as detailed as you show here (especially on the canopies) but as always I learned a lot and it will inspire me anyway.

Love the tutorial and can't wait to see more. Especially since Battletech colour schemes aren't individual mech specific so 1 tutorial covers a whole faction. 1 point I have to disagree with though is the use of static grass... remembering all the different worlds the mechs fight on alien grasses and wild grasses could be quite high. I can appreciate your point of view on that though.

Stellar work! Looking forward to your next battlemech tutorial, Duncan!

Long time Battletech fan, new viewer here. Thanks for showing the old game some love!

Great Battletech content, Duncan. Let's hope for more in the future!

Thank you so much for this! I have a ton of Battletech minis from the Kickstarter and I'm still agonizing over the color schemes to use, but these techniques will be immensely helpful.

Duncan, you are killing it!

Great work! Many thanks. Not messed with Mechs since the late 1980's - I shall do now!

Thank you , DRPA . Nice job .

Duncan painting Battletech! Well this will be a treat.

best looking Mad Cat I have seen! great work.

This looks fantastic, a great paintjob really elevates these simple plastic sculpts. Would love to see more tutorials for Kurita/or Steiner or clan Ghost Bear too!

I did my first clan box as black widow company but the rest of my clan mechs will be this colour, thanks Duncan ✊

Huzzah! Finally Duncan is doing BatTech!

Having just received a bunch of stuff for this game I greatly appreciate this video. Thanks

Very impressed with the canopy 👍🏻

OMG THE LEGEND? PAINTING BATTLETECH???!? WOOOO! When I abandoned GW I thought i'd never see him again beyond painting GW stuff Now he's painting miniatures from my favorite setting!

This was just a fantastic video. Learned a ton of technique from it. Thanks very much.!

Glad to see the Battletech love. More please! ...Atlas.

Woo Hoo! Awesome job Duncan.

I've had a lot of success with both Battlemechs and Adeptus Titanicus miniatures by using Typhus Corrosion on the base, then painting and drybrushing it like grass or sand, and using Stirland Battlemire (because that's what I have, you could easily use Astrogranite instead) and painting over it with grey and highlighting it for rocky stretches of terrain. But my best idea was using Valhallan Blizzard for shrubs... basically, put a clump of that down, wait for it to dry, then paint the whole thing with Plaguebearer Flesh Contrast paint and put scattered coverage of Militarum Green so it's mostly that color with lighter bits.

DAMN!! I got to start Battletech, that looks incredible! You're the best Duncan 🤘👍

Battletech rocks!

Wonderful tutorial! Need more faction tutorials for both IS and Clans.

More! More! More! Finally some high-quality Battletech-painting!

The clan wolf colour schemes always seem more militaristic and professional than the others, that sand and grey colour is pretty good default camo for a good chunk of environments

Thanks for painting a Mech... more mechs please 👌

This is perfect - mine are from Beta Galaxy! I've even got the decals.

Awesome Video D-Man!! Please Please do more Battlemechs....

I always enjoy ur relaxing videos

Thanks so much ! More Battletech schemes would be like a christmas gift !

Great to see Battletech on your channel. Awesome looking paintjob!

Wow, this tutorial makes me want to throw down and defend the inner sphere, but then probably die due to the vastly superior skill and technology of Clan Wolf Mechwarriors and Mad Cats.

Duncan painting BattleTech!? Oh happy day!

Love me some Battletech! Good to see you stretching your wings, and bringing some more attention to these deserving IP's! Heavy Gear is a thing... ;)

I'm glad to see you doing some battletech stuff! Such a cool combat game.

Now we just need to get you playing Battletech and all is well :) Great job man, will be stealing some techniques.

May I make a request. can you do a video on brush care? I have a devil of a time with bristles fraying and would like to hear your tips on how to fix and prevent that happening, thank you.

This is so cool! I'd love to see more of the unique camo and paint schemes from Battletech.

Glad to see you painting something besides GW!

Great to see some battletech on your channel. I'm doing my clan mechs as ghost bear, so the tips on grey are going to be a big help!

Duncan plus Battletech. For me, this is like a match made in heaven. (Or Earthwerks-FWL Inc. manufacturing facility on Calloway VI.)

Yay for Painting Battletech Mechs!!! Please do more!

This is perfect. You picked my secondary clan and galaxy I can't wait to try this on my mechs

Fantastic work Duncan! It looks good and quite realistic too. Thanks for sharing this, I will be watching it again.

Great tutorial! I was heartened to see this is somewhat similar to my process, but I've been doing all my layers/secondary colours/metal highlights before the wash & drybrush at the end. Definitely faster but clearly more steps (as shown here) would produce better detail! Would love to see more Battletech content in the future.

Beautiful, but now you have to make a vid for every clan, every clan unit, and of course inner sphere too ^^ Mech looks awsome :D

I love this tutorial! I've painted a Star of Wolf Beta Galaxy previously, and am looking forward to incorporating some of your techniques into the next one (especially the contrast paint time saver!). I'm getting my kids into the hobby with me, so any time savers that still help minis look good is a win! Can we get some love for a Ghost Bear unit next? I'd LOVE to see how you do some deep blues, ice color schemes, or something really fun and complex like the galaxy paint scheme from the Ghost Bear Alpha Galaxy!

Very easy to paint....well for someone who just started to paint his first minitures this looks like magic ^_^

Blessed be the two thin coats...

Absolutely exquisite!

YYYEEESSS! Conqueror the Freebirths of the Inner Sphere.

Lovely stuff, Duncan! Do more Battletech videos!

Good tutorial. BTW, Chevrons are V shaped pattern markings. What you were painting and calling chevrons are simply trim markings. And the warning trim has angled or diagonal stripes.

wooo yes Duncan . Battletech love :).

I'd like to see clan ghost bear

Love this, Duncan! Yay, Battletech!

Huzzah! Top Notch build Sir!

Anyway you might be willing to make one of these for Alpha Galaxy or Clan Ghost Bear? Love this video, wish there were more out there of this high quality for battletech

Screen said citadel brush when you were dry brushing with an army painter brush. Just an fyi. Thanks for teaching me how to paint!

This is great! I would really love to see more Battletech from you so more people have a chance to see that battletech can look "AWESOME" too! (pun intended :P )