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A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break and haven't looked back since. I must admit that I seem to be more of a painter/collector than a gamer, but do hope to correct that at some point in the near future. My gaming interests span the ages, from the "Biblical" era all the way through to the far future. I enjoy games of all sizes, from a handful of figures up to major battles (see my megalomaniacally sized Choson Korean and Russian Seven Years War armies).

Saturday, 22 March 2014

Challenge Entry #19 - NAC Fleet

Late last year, I painted up the NAC intro fleet I'd won in a prize draw on Seb's blog. Moving on a few months, my final final entry to this year's Challenge were the extra ships I'd ordered to upgrade it to a mega fleet.

With the intro fleet I'd made a bit of a booboo at the early stage (I was a bit too heavy with the wet brush stage) and had to go back and do a wash step to add some depth to the base colour of the hull. With these ships I learnt my lesson and the wash step wasn't needed (nor the preceding gloss varnish step) - quite handy really, as otherwise I probably wouldn't have finished them before the deadline!

That's enough blather from me though - you want to see the pics.

The Fleet:




Scout Ships:




Corvettes:



Heavy Cruiser and 2 Escort Cruisers:




Battleship:



Battle Dreadnought:




Super Dreadnought:






Tomorrow I'll be posting a review of my Challenge with pics of all my entries (and my hall of shame).


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13 comments:

  1. Stargazer22 March 2014 at 19:28

    Wonderful work, Tamsin!

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  2. DaveD22 March 2014 at 19:30

    All your spaceships have been real eye candy. Coupled with the mass it makes four a great collection. Well done.

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  3. Rodger22 March 2014 at 20:24

    Stunning work Tamsin! Very impressed with these ships!

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  4. Moiterei_198422 March 2014 at 21:27

    These spaceships are very nice! I was quite taken by your spaceship stuff.

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  5. Millsy22 March 2014 at 22:33

    Nice work Tamsin. You have a knack for adding just the right amount of highlight colour to make them interesting without being over complicated.

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  6. jmilesr22 March 2014 at 23:58

    Great looking fleet - the ships have a nice character to them
    What ruleset do you use them with?

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  7. Simon Quinton 23 March 2014 at 07:25

    Fantastic looking fleet. I love all the little touches of paint here and there it brings it all to life nicely. I really like how you have done the thrusters in that cold blue flame effect compliments the miniatures nicely

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  8. Clint23 March 2014 at 07:28

    Another nice fleet. I now believe your aim is to have a fleet of every type. )

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  9. Hobbyworker23 March 2014 at 09:19

    Great looking fleet you got.

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  10. Dannoc23 March 2014 at 09:28

    Very impressive Tamsin - great detail you picked out.
    Cheers
    Dan

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  11. Michael Awdry23 March 2014 at 14:16

    Nobody does them better Tamsin, well done.

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  12. Markus Schenk23 March 2014 at 16:56

    Wonderful work. Really wonderful. Looks like an aweful lot of work to paint all those details.

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  13. TamsinP23 March 2014 at 22:11

    Thanks guys!

    @ Miles - I'll be using them for Full Thrust. Getting the right amount of highlighting is a matter of trial and error. I got it very badly wrong with my initial go on my NSL heavy carrier

    @ Simon - the blue-flame effect thruster is copied from other people. My only addition is to wash with fluo blue at the end.

    @ Clint - I might stop at 6 fleets....

    @ Markus - it is quite a lot of work, but the fiddliness is the worst part.

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