Category: rules

The paint jobs are all complete.  Like the hit-mongering whore that I am, I’ll be breaking up the shots into multiple blog posts.  So let’s kick things off with the escort class ships.  A better man than I (gunga din) would have sat down with his bits and his...

Quick thought for the day.  Here’s a comparison of the bio-ships (which really need a better name) to human ships of comparable scale. Capitol Frigate Escort No fighters yet.  We need to assemble those for both forces yet....

Continuing on with the bio-ship construction, we’ve got paint on the field – paint which illustrates why you have to let these ships dry before you paint them – especially if you stick extra doo-dads into the foam. Whoops. Painted too soon.  Didn’t put foam on top of the...

The nice thing about this construction method, is you can use it for all kinds of ship sizes.  These little pukes will wind up as fighters: And this big bad boy is going to make for a fine capital ship.  That egg looking thing is a toy package for...

Today we start construction on an opponent for the KoDan Armada.  We want ships that look nothing like the human ships, so we’ll need new construction, new paint colors, and a unique look.  We’re also going to be building an alien force, so all that works together to make...

Watch out, Space Nerds and Starfighters, the human fleet is leaving dry docks and headed for a sandy stretch of beach near you!  Okay, they still need posts and fighters, but this seems like a good time for a group shot. The total cost of this fleet was probably...

Can’t remember if the unpainted version of this ship was ever posted or not.  Either way, here is the last and the biggest of the human ships for Big Thrust – the mighty fleet carrier.  Down the road we’ll assemble some fighter groups for it, but that won’t take...

Still have a lot of ships to paint up, but here’s a few shots containing one each of the escorts, frigates, and battleship class ships for Big Thrust.  These should give a better idea exactly how big that battleship is compared to the deodorant-stick escorts....

The latest addition to the human fleet for the game I’ve taken to thinking of as Big Thrust is fully built and painted.  This bad boy was hand made out of foamcore and lots and lots of found items.  Old medical syringes, superglue lids, a pen lid, bamboo skewers...

So very tired. Operating in a bit of a fugue state at the moment, what with sleeping in a hospital and the every-two-hour feeds. Had a great post showing the paint process for the big spaceships ready to go. Deleted it in my torpor. Not even sure if that’s...