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Just a quick shot of the 3 of them.



Funny how sometimes I buy a model and I'm all psyked when I buy it but then months drag on wtihout doing anything.

And with these crummy little $8 tanks I'm all over them.

Maybe I'll be more.

And then let months drag on without doing anything.

With me it always seems that the more complex or intense the project the less inclination I actually have to do it. I also always procrastinate far more over the more expensive models

Those Bronekorpus are nice and easy! Any chance of a scale shot with a chimera?

Hot from the forge!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Just a quick shot of the 3 of them.



Funny how sometimes I buy a model and I'm all psyked when I buy it but then months drag on wtihout doing anything.

And with these crummy little $8 tanks I'm all over them.

Maybe I'll be more.

And then let months drag on without doing anything.

Really good work with those! I realize you said terrain, but It looks to me like you've got a pretty cool hellhound there.

Ketara wrote:Those Bronekorpus are nice and easy! Any chance of a scale shot with a chimera?

Not a Chimera, but in my initial review I did side and footprint comparisons with a Leman Russ
http://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2015/02/21/six-dollar-tanks-from-russia/

 Ketara wrote:
Those Bronekorpus are nice and easy! Any chance of a scale shot with a chimera?

I'm on the road this week but I can say it's close, smaller and shorter but close.

The auction has this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131798596968?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Cool stuff. I really like the Emperor kitbash.

EDC

So you may have been wondering why one of the Bullock APCs was a bit under decorated.

And you might also be wondering what ever happened to that tank carrier I started months ago.

Maybe you see where this is going...





Yep, while I shyed away from using a $40 chimera model just for a tank carrier I have no qualms about using a $8 Bronekorpus.

Paint coming soon.

Also got another yamato model



I didn't notice till I was working on it that this one has Star Blazers packaging and English instructions. i wonder how old it is and why I never saw it back in the day. I would have killed for Star Blazers or Battle of the Planets branded toys!

The model itself ain't so good, way too many tiny little fins and antenas for my fat fingers. But ti will go nicely with the others in that fleet, I'm thinking Tau.

Quick update, first off the Space Fleet plastics are getting there.



The Yankee, the Kanto and the Yamato have got basic paint on them. Really happy with how the Yankee is coming along, we'll see if I can do a passable job on the stars.

Then there's the "Oh my God why" supply drop. A dozen or so figures from Moonraker/EM4, old Grenedier Copplestone figures. Great service from them BTW, for example I asked them to give me different arms on the big terminator guys (replacing gun arms with 2 sets of fists) and they just said sure. I've been buying off and on from them for ages and they're just fantastic.

Anyway they will join the 10 pounds of Colony 87, Copplestone, Hasslefree, Pig Iron, Lead Adventure, Reaper and Ramshakle models awaiting paint.



They're all part of what will be my next project after Space Fleet/Galactic Knights/Battlefleet Gothic ends (and that end is in sight). A dusty spaceport in the middle of no where filled with broken down shuttles and broken down pilots.

Coming... Ah who the @#$% knows, hopefully before leaving India.

A page back you said you needed frigates. I humbly suggest these missiles with a healthy dose of DFC station bits.

Some success on ebay today, 6 more SF ships on their way!

Eagle one as a Tank carrier? Brilliant!

Nice selection of old Grenadier sculpts. The Scavenger figures were some of the first non-GW figs I painted. Really nice stuff.

Well this has been quiet for a while so let me put up some WIPs.



"Three Aphrodite Class mobile pleasure palaces travel are taken into custody by the Inquisition's Nemesis Class light cruisers following reports of abnormal social activities being practiced."

All need ink but are coming along nicely.





The space station is a kitbash, Pegasus pipes and Buck Rogers ships. As a civilian station it gets my second ugliest color scheme safety orange while the parked shuttle gets my ugliest color scheme - UPS brown and yellow.





An old Tyrant cruiser gets some modern bits (Drop Fleet space station) to make an Adeptus Arbites Punisher cruiser.

I do like that Naval Dude! Awesome work mixing the Empire bits with Imperial stuff. That is my preference also.

 kestral wrote:
I do like that Naval Dude! Awesome work mixing the Empire bits with Imperial stuff. That is my preference also.

The scion great coat is a really nice bit, but it means there will be a lot of guys walking around with their coats unbuttoned and draped on their shoulders.

"But daddy, that's how everyone wears them at the Schola Progenium! It's the fashion!"

I blame that Creed setting a bad example......

Some more works in progress.

Another twin carrier, plastic Space Fleet with DFC space station parts.



A double pylon carrier based on old concept art



And the start of a new Tau fleet using those Yamato ships I mentioned earlier.



I really can't tell you what a pleasure they were to build and paint.

Now to fill out the escorts with Silent Death plastics for the world's cheapest BFG force!

The Yamato/Silent Death Tau fleet is coming along nicely.



Explorer Class ship with escorts.



The whole line up.

At 300 yen per cruiser and 2.50 UKP for 12 escort sized ships this is probably the cheapest fleet I can do. Almost makes up for the cost of the Space Fleet Imperials.

Almost.

I can't believe you found unpainted spacefleet models.

Unpainted?

I keep finding one in blisters in ebay!

Just opened one last night with a 1 pound price tag on it.

I remember seeing them on clearance way way back in the day, considering how terrible the board game was (before the WD articles) it must have been a huge bomb.

Bored...



Inspiration (this ain't sexism, it's history!)



And together...

Fleet are looking brilliant. Nice collection. Love the posters. Crazy the stuff we have used to promote war.

Turnabout is fair play

I would like to begin by saying I am very, very sorry. Sometimes the spirit comes upon me and it will not be denied.

Did 20 propaganda posters today, will probably keep going.

Ahahah nicely done !
Guilman does have the same haircut.

A friend provided this rebuttle

Nice. I might find a bare stretch of wall for that last one somewhere in my city.


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I think I will cue up my space ships as my next project. Thanks for the inspiration!

Tired of always trying to recreate these searches so some possible future buys....

Guide to space ship minis
http://www.star-ranger.com/Minis.htm

Space Dreadnought 3000
https://www.kallistra.co.uk/?page=22

Some more progress on the Power Ranger fleet.



Cruisers (yes I need 3 more to form a megazord)

And with color-coded escorts



Got a stupid number of additional Space Fleet ships, plus a stupid number of Galactic Knights ships, and I think I'm ready to call the Imperial fleet done. 80+ ships is enough no? No, wait, 120 if I count the Rogue Trader arm.

Though I would not object to getting some more plastic space fleet ships for conversion if anyone has them lying around.

So look for some more WIP and fleet shots soon.

Now I understand what astrophysics means with the wrinkles in space-time

M-