#Turkina A

[alphamecha-mkii]

Turkina A by Franz Vohwinkel

[asoftepiloguemylove]

laika and the pain of loss

Matthew Stover Revenge of the Sith // Laika in a flight harness (via wikipedia) // Aeschylus Aeschylus: The Oresteia // Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart // Olessya Turkina Soviet Space Dogs // Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood // Ada Limon Sharks in the Rivers // Marina Tsvetaeva from a letter to Boris Pasternak // @fateology muttnik // H.D. Loss // Lavinia Greenlaw For the First Dog in Space // Why Laika the Space Dog is All Animals (via lakia magazine)

[zegalba]

Turkina Faso

[bienenkiste]

Ph. Turkina Faso

[radnewworld]

Another star to add to the 16th Striker Cluster of Clan Jade Falcon's Omega Galaxy. Brings the total to 25 JF mechs, so about half a cluster. I don't have a problem.

[laguzmage]

Kind of want to make a third set of battlemech of the weekday posts but we're starting to scrape the limit of mechs that start with T

[controlledelegance]

[kasperl-ruprecht]

Ha. Nice. No idea where I found your photo. Going to change the file name for future reference.

[spacejunksally]

Laika cigarettes, USSR, 1958. // Olesya Turkina, Soviet Space Dogs. // Postage stamp, Socialist Republic of Romania, 1969 // Alex Wellerstein, Remembering Laika. // Postcard, USSR, 1957 // Postage stamp, Polish People's Republic, 1957. // Patti White, Laika. // Matchbox, USSR, 1966.

[leporellian]

the binding of laika

ben florin, "laika"/jamaica kincaid/le loup, "we are gods! we are wolves!"/archival footage of the soviet space program/genesis 22/alan shapiro, "space dog"/olesya turkina, soviet space dogs/brennig davies, "first dog in space"/daniel ortberg, "children's stories made horrific: curious george"/idomeneo prepares to sacrifice his son in the garsington opera production of "idomeneo"/alan shapiro, "space dog"/louise glück/jonathan coulton, "space doggity"/bojack horseman, "free churro"/maynard solomon, mozart: a life/mac demarco in an interview with npr/@/fateology, “muttnik”/unknown/alex wellerstein writing for the new yorker/ ancient doll found in roman egypt/steiff laika toy/guillermo del toro's pinocchio/richard silken/laika wikipedia page/bojack horseman, "free churro"/photograph of laika//nih.gov’s page on oleg gazenko/oleg gazenko/alan shapiro, "space dog"

[cal-1maf]

First time getting the lightbox out in a while.

This one combined a lot of techniques that are new to me. The glow on the crystal was the most difficult. Fortunately my fellow BattleTech fans helped walk me through the process, for which I am very grateful lol.

The bird on the back was hand painted, and yeah it made me sweat. It was so intimidating! I can see why some painters really don't like this scheme.

This may be the best mini I've painted so far. And the Turkina was a joy to paint.

[herbsmechstables]

first actual posts for this blog! a turkina and a painting jar

[doolallymagpie]

my first in-person game of BattleTech went well, in terms of fun

in terms of my actual playing...eh? I deliberately went in with a sub-par 'Mech, used questionable tactics because they were fun, and I scratched the paint on the "final raid boss" ED-209 Turkina with a store-provided Hatchetman's axe, so whatever, man

[stinkygoatman]

My sister and I played our first team game against a father/son duo at our friendly local game store. Went super well, pretty sure we made some friends that day. The father made all of the stellar terrain we played on, it was super inspiring to scratch build my own stuff.

So about the game, we played 600pv per side KING OF THE HILL match. The enemy team was an even split between the two players in points and mech force. Meaning they both played a lance and a star with the same amount of heavy,med,and light mechs. All of their mechs are of more subdued/military drabs aside from the handful of Marik Militia the son played. My sister and I hit 600pv exactly with me playing 3 lances of light mechs with on Spartan as my only heavy, putting me at 273. She however, played 6 big mechs with a turkina, Longbow, and nightstar all at skill 3. She decimated their lighter mechs with indirect fire as she approached as I used my Spartan's TAG and my Trebuchet's NARC. We took it due to speed and sheer numbers in the first half, but lost our footing and were ultimately outlasted as they captured the point limit on the Hill. Absolutely stellar game and great company. R.I.P. the Longbow splashing in the water overheating for 8 damage per hit. You will be missed, even though you never did lol.

[agbpaints]

Lads out to play some battletech today. Clan Ghost Bear command star plus some toady friends and a museum piece take on Jade Falcon. We were playing Wolfnet 350 Alpha Strike games- first a king of the hill game mode, then a territory domination mission.

The first game was an argument of speed onto the point vs tonnage in total, with my team moderately fast thicc boys winning the day. It turns out black knights have a lot of armor for their points and summoners and executioners are tankier than their XL engines give them credit for with their TMMs

Second game I decided to do something funky and bring my battle armor to make taking and holding objectives a nightmare. In the process I discovered just how much I like the Viper- my opponent brought a Marauder IIC and a Turkina and my speed meant that they simply couldn't penetrate deep enough into the survivability onion to threaten it consistently. I kinda misplayed one of my BA points but overall my plan of guarding my home objectives and then assaulting forward worked well and I won 3-2 when we timed out.

Because I was such a good mechwarrior I decided I needed a treat so I got a salvage box- Fire Falcon's a really not bad pickup from that!

[puppydragonzombie]

finished my stone rhino for my jade falcon of the turkina keshik galaxy!