My fleet schemes

[hamilton]

As I said earlier, I picked up a bunch of minis from the recent Brigade sale. I got their SAC and PacFed factions, and I've painted up a CA in each to figure out my color scheme.

Here's a closeup of my bases - weighted with a pair of 7/8" washers like the Star Ranger tutorial, but with magnets instead of barrel clasps. The minis can spin on the base, but I'm going to paint a direction arrow on them.


Here are the two CAs on the stands:


And here are the CAs dismounted showing their keel magnets:


Feedback welcome (before I get any more painted!)

UPDATE: Well, I guess I can't link to a picasa image? I'll just do them as attachments. And I guess that will have to be on subsequent posts because I can't add an attachment as a modify action!

[hamilton]

Base detail:

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[hamilton]

CA Tops:

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Belly Magnets:

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[TheDreadnought]

Very nice!

[warchariot]

Yep good stuff. I like the washer idea for the stands.

[hamilton]

I updated my bases by adding a 1/4" length of heat shrink tubing to give some extra hold to the magnet.

I also added a short piece of yellow sticker to indicate facing since the ships can spin on the base while moving them around.

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[hamilton]

Here is my Blue fleet. I still have fighters to do, plus I ordered some of the new SAC ships.

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[hamilton]

And the Red fleet. I got an extra of one ship that had a miscast engine pod, so I converted it to an over-under engine scheme and will probably use it as a scout.

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[hamilton]

Here they are posed on a single megahex sheet. I guess a felt or fabric hex mat is going to be my next purchase!

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[TheDreadnought]

Very nice!

I'm a big fan of the Hotz Mats space mats. You can get custom hex sizes and the nebula backgrounds look fantastic.

[warchariot]

Oct 31, 2011 10:45:14 GMT -5 TheDreadnought said:

Very nice!

I'm a big fan of the Hotz Mats space mats. You can get custom hex sizes and the nebula backgrounds look fantastic.

You can find a picture here:

www.steeldreadnought.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=aar&action=display&thread=410