I managed to find the 30th Anniversary reissue of the 1/144 Dougram kits. These were the kits that originally inspired Battletech and were sold as Battletech kits by Twentieth-Century Imports. It's a set of 10 kits: 2 Shadow Hawks, 2 Griffins, 2 Wolverines, Thunderbolt, Battlemaster, Scorpion and Goliath.
I might document these for Sarna.net before building them.
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/TCI_Model_Sets
It's one of my regrets that I didn't buy this set in 2009 when I first saw it, but I have a lot more disposable income now compared to my student days.
Luck has it that I found it while I'm on a Battletech model building roll and have time to build model kits. (Although I was just working my way through my backlog of builds)
These are legit good kits for their time. Nice details and proportions. Clear cockpits. About 3 runners in 2 colors. The articulation is just shoulders, hips, knees and feet.
I'm already planning on putting them on hex bases and playing some Alpha Strike with them.
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Interestingly, the TCI model kit release for the Shadow Hawk was the Dougram JAKT type.
The Dougram JAKT type has a right shoulder rocket pod that corresponds to the LRM launcher in the record sheet. The vanilla Dougram does not have the pod, its art was used in TRO 3025 and the mini was based on the TRO art. And that's why the current Catalyst design has missile tubes on the chest.
The same thing happened for the TCI release of the Griffin. The Roundfacer Kojima Special was used for the TCI model kit, while the TRO 3025 art directly traced the Roundfacer model kit box. The Kojima Special was later used as the basis for the Griffin 1S variant. Instead of a gun it has a wrist mounted weapon and a backpack. The model kit even comes with a thin rubber tube to attach the weapon to the backpack.
Soltic is the manufacturer that produces the Roundfacer. The box names mix it up.
Loji