Work in progress: Fghters

I was able to spend some time Wednesday at the table, assembling stands of fighters for priming.  I was able to get quite a few based, but believe it or not I still have a great deal to go.

In addition to some Terran fighters for Starfleet Wars/Galactic Knights, I put together some stands of pursuit ships from Stardate: 3000--both the human faction and the alien forces (the aliens are the ones with the bug-eyed look).  At first I thought about painting these alien pursuit ships as Entomalians, but I decided that they have the right look to supplement my Vogon Construction Fleet, so they'll be getting a coat of that road crew orange someday.

What about all y'all?  For those of you who had the Fourth off, did you have a chance to work on anything?  What's on your workbench?

Happy Independence Day!

It's time for the fleet's annual Independence Day flyby.  Happy Fourth of July from Super Galactic Dreadnought!

For those of you in the U.S., enjoy your holiday commemorating our French-assisted victory over the British by eating German food and detonating Chinese pyrotechnics!

Vintage ad: McEwan Miniatures

Thumbing through my copy of The Best of The Dragon (vol.1), I stumbled across this advertisement for McEwan Miniatures.  While some of the figures for aliens and Terran Marines seemed slightly derivative of mass media offerings, the spaceships piqued my interest.

I don't have any of these designs, and I've never seen any in person or for sale on ebay.  Did anyone ever own any of these McEwan Miniatures starships?

Sunday Starships: Pics from the playtest

Just to give you an idea of how many ships we had on the table:

What's your (character's) name?

In a thread over at Dragonsfoot, people are talking about some of the goofy names they gave their player characters.  I chimed in with a character I created with the name of Urban Renual, and his cousin, Urban DeKay. 

There's also the names I gave my characters for Unlimited Adventures, the D&D computer adventure creation engine: Aiyre Bourne the ranger, Sir Guudeguye the paladin, Heppmi Meddick the cleric, Wylie Sneak the thief, Faye Lanks the magic user and the elf F/M/C Jack (later Jill) 'Voltraydz.

What are some of the goofy names you gave your PCs back in the day (or even more recently)?

What I learned from playtesting Star Navy

Fighters on the board slow things down.  A lot. 

So does rolling for 20 separate damage locations after a successful attack. 

More streamlining is called for.

Coming this August ...

... the second South Texas Mini-Con.

UPDATE:  The event will take place Saturday, August 18, from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. at the New Braunfels Convention Center.  Additional info at the Hill Cantons.

That's right, after last year's premiere of our miniature summer gaming convention, we're gonna put on another one here in New Braunfels.  Like last time, this will be a one-day event with several games going on at the same time. Nothing's set in stone right now, but I'm sure we'll have some Dungeons & Dragons, something fun from Two Hour Wargames, other minis games, and probably a spaceship game run by yours truly.

More details soon.  I hope y'all can make it.  Who's interested?