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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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