Ruckdog's Firestorm Armada Terrans

[Ruckdog]

Made a little progress on my carrier and Shield Cruisers:

[Landlubber]

Looking good!

Man, those things are a pain to face on the table.

[Ruckdog]

Continuing my slow progress...I've gotten all the painted markings done on the carrier and shield cruisers. This included some free-hand work for the carrier. I have since given them a coat of Glosscoat ahead of getting their decals:



As for the rest, I've started the washing process on them:

[Landlubber]

I gotta say, I'm not a fan of the design of the Terran carrier, but you're making it look good. When you get enough of your ships finished, we need to see the whole fleet!

[Quickdraw]

Are those little triangles in the middle of that group that was just washed older style frigates? I've not seen those ones before.

[Ruckdog]

They're actually the old-style Terran Escorts:



Tiny little things...made of metal, to boot. They are somewhat disappointing models, to be honest, especially in light of Spartan's latest offerings. Still, I've had them for almost 5 years now, so it seems like a shame not to finally finish them!

[Quickdraw]

Interesting!
They fit the old style Terran ships nicely but I agree with you the Terran ships really got a boost in asthetic appeal for me when they were updated.

[Ruckdog]

Finally getting back around to my Terrans! Here are the cruisers:



And the escorts:



They've been drybrushed, had their metal parts basecoated, and the blue areas done. Next up is markings and decals!

[Ruckdog]

The cruisers and the escorts are done! See some pictures here:

http://www.manbattlestations.com/forum/index.php?topic=826.msg5603#msg5603

Next up on the docket is the battleship and dreadnought, along with some SRS tokens and an objective set:

[Ruckdog]

Been a while since I've updated this thread! I'm starting in on a new wave of Terrans! First up is the Reinforcements box:



I fully magnetized one of the hulls, but I'm seriously considering permanently gluing this set as torpedo cruisers and getting a second box to do the CLs. The way I do the fluff for my Terrans, having presto-change-o ships doesn't work out so well .

[Quickdraw]

Those are going to look great with your color choices.

It's funny that you posted this. Last time I was home I started working on my reinforcements box and plan on finishing them shortly after I'm done for the season. This is the second or third time we've worked on Terran ships at the same time.

[Sailion]

They look quite nice, the dark grey with the blue. Aslo agree, the newer terran ships look really quite nice. ^^

[Ruckdog]

I got a wash put on the Torpedo Cruisers and magnetized the light frigates. I just noticed, I wound up with an extra light frigate in the box!

[Charbe86]

Are the pegs just a preference, or have you had problems with the Spartan pegs?

[Ruckdog]

Preference, totally. I like to make my bases completely detachable from the model to make them easier to store and transport. After trying a number of different solutions, I settled on the OmniStand system from Corsec Engineering about 5 years ago, and haven't looked back.