MERC for Hire; something different finally - FCC Packrat

Decided to take a break from the historicals by painting one of my new MERCS miniatures. MERCS is a totally awesome game that I first got into a few years ago, played a few games, then neglected. Now during my hobby renaissance I'm determined to go back and do it justice, and as part of that I've picked up two new teams, FCC and USCR.
Almost all my painting this year has been in large batches, and while it's allowed me to paint a lot (124 models and counting), it hasn't helped me really improve my skills to try and get back to where I was a few years ago before 3 years of neglect dulled my skillzors. So with my MERCS I'm going to try and take a bit more care - they're such nice, characterful, detailed models, they deserve nothing less.
I wanted to try and capture something of the stylised, graphic nature of the MERCS art, so I deliberately went for contrast and blacklining to try and make the model distinctive. Not sure how well it worked, let me know.
I see the FCC as definite socialist anarchists - victims of the global corporate society of MERCS, these guns for hire come from the 'Lost Margin', those areas of the world where Megacorps have failed, leading to chaos and war.

I'm pretty happy with how the Packrat has turned out, I just need to decide on a base scheme now.

Also, I playtested my rules for WOTR last night for the first time in two years. Only a small game with the forces I have painted, but it was one of the most fun, tense, unpredictable games I've played in years! I'll be doing some rules/playtesting related posts soon.

-Alex/Magos