The Space-Pirate Dreadnought Ramona

Hey Internet,

The other night I finished my most recent project, the Space-Dreadnought Ramona. 

Named after the most beautiful flower of them all, she is currently serving as the flagship of a band of Space Pirates in the outer reaches of the known Universe.



Very soon (in fact, as soon as I finish uploading this post) she will have statistics and rules so that she can be used in games of 'Full Thrust'.



The model itself is a Spur Class Heavy Cruiser from Spartan Games' 'Firestorm Armada' line, part of their Syndicate faction. In my humble opinion, this is one of the most fantastic looking space-ships that I have ever seen what with its sleek, evil looking 50's curves and big ball-shaped turrets.



Because of its retro design, I thought I'd paint it in a nice two-tone 'classic car' colour scheme like the one here;



I'm really happy with my handy-work, but what do you think?

MM.

Admiral Lazarev and Greig.

Hey Internet,

I painted some more ships and thought I'd put them up on me old blog.

In an effort to make my Ironclad games a little more balanced, I've done two of the most powerful warships in the Tsar Alexander's navy, the Admiral Lazarev and the Admiral Greig.

Both were interesting ships, both triple-turreted Frigates. Despite their appearance and low freeboard they were not monitors but sea-going warships.

The models are triple-turreted ACW monitors from 'Tumbling Dice's 1/2400th Range. Like all ships in this scale that dont have sails they were a joy to paint and took near to no time to get finished.

I've also, well, glued a little bit of paper to, the my model of the Great Eastern, meaning that she is now finished and ready for battle.

Ive got some more bits on the go, will post them once they are done.

MM.

Kimagure Class Pursuit Cruiser

Hey Internet,

Although I was sort of happy with the spaceship that I posted up the other day, I felt that plain green was just too boring, so Ive added a few yellow highlights to jazz it up a bit.



Also, Ive identified the model as a Battletech Kimagure Class Pursuit Cruiser.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kimagure



What ya' think then?

MM.

Assorted Painting

Hey Internet,

I did some painting and thought I'd blog it up.

First up, a large siege howitzer for my Russian Colonial project. Its a foundry model from their Franco-Prussian war range. It used to be painted a nasty blue, but now its a nice green.


I've also been expanding my minor horde of Russian infantry over the last few weeks...


and adding to my assortment of 'other Victorian and vsf things'.....an Automaton....Nicola Tesla....the Tsar of all of Russia.....Miss Marple.....


Ive also got a pair of 1/2400th scale Ironclads painted, the HMS Dreadnought and the HMS Ajax. Both are new models from Tumbling Dice, and are really rather nice. The Ajax in particular.




My last little effort to show off is a bit of an odd ball really - a space ship. Ive not done any space ship gaming in yonks (at least 5 years!), but I saw this model a bit roughed up at the bottom of a box and thought Id give it a lick of paint. Ive had the model for ages. I think its a Battletech something-or-other, not sure what thought.

Using my crappy, highly dangerous Dremel like thing that I got from Lidil ages ago I mounted it on a nice acrylic flying stand (from Spartan Games).

Its Green with green and red bits because I watched an old episode of Star Trek recently and felt like painting something up vaguely Kingony.

I'll need to play some Full Thrust now....


MM.