{"id":493,"date":"2025-04-07T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/?page_id=493"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:00:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mpu-placeholder-1200-675.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"MPU lettering in red, yellow, and blue paint\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mpu-placeholder-1200-675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mpu-placeholder-1200-675-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mpu-placeholder-1200-675-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mpu-placeholder-1200-675-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The strength of the &#8216;Mech Painters Union is that of its membership. We seek to enrich the BattleTech community by providing resources to support the average painter and help them value and improve their craft. By being accessible, the MPU shall show that the miniature painting hobby is for everyone. By being approachable, the MPU seeks to expand the BattleTech tabletop community and to welcome new hobbyists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Submissions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The MPU welcomes and invites submissions: <a href=\"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/submissions\/\" title=\"Submissions\">Submissions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a Discord server: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/5brfkAP3Wx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mech Painters Union<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re also on Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mechpainters.org\" title=\"\">@jakeskelcher.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need to send a message to the MPU team, you can use the form here: <a href=\"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/contact\/\" title=\"Contact\">Contact<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strength of the &#8216;Mech Painters Union is that of its membership. We seek to enrich the BattleTech community by providing resources to support the average painter and help them value and improve their craft. By being accessible, the MPU shall show that the miniature painting hobby is for everyone. By being approachable, the MPU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-493","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}