Sunday, August 7, 2011

Sunday Starships: transports

The various starfleets of the Five Powers amass a lot of firepower--but those spaceships need something to fight over.  That's where these transports come in: as targets or objectives for the military forces in a starship combat scenario.
These minis come from several different manufacturers.  The majority of these models are Star Frontiers ships:
  • Federation battleships (2)
  • Federation destroyers (3)
  • Federation frigates (7)
In addition, there's a trio of Stardate: 3000 models (the ones with the circular sections to their front):
  • Auriga-class fleet support ship (kitbashed with two Draco-class destroyers)
  • Orion-class heavy cruiser
  • Perseus-class light cruiser
Finally, toward the front we have some minis from the old Citadel spaceship range (the smaller ships):
If you're curious about the paint scheme, it's my usual three-color drybrush method--metallic black, metallic gunmetal gray, and metallic silver in this instance--with running lights picked out in bright red and green highlighted with lighter shades of those colors.

2 comments:

chibiaion said...

That's really cool! Been a fan of sci-fi movies ever since as well as "mecha" or machines genre anime. Those really resembles the toon thing. Like the color and formation.buy aion accounts

Patrick W. Rollens said...

These look great! Perfect for a group of space pirates to ambush from behind an asteroid field or something. You've inspired me to take "fleet pics" of my fleets to help organize them as well!