UCM - Dropfleet Commander

Here we got what I have been working on the last couple of nights.

A growing fleet of United Colonies of Mankind.

And with all the spare parts you get its a great opportunity to convert some special ships.

First out is my Military salvage ship.
The idea is to have ship with some self-defence and armour that is meant to salvage ship wrecks, help stranded ship crews, deploy military engineering troops on asteroid mining or military installations.
The ship is meant to be able to take some damage while doing its job.
 

Lots of doors in the front, for quick access to the transport/cargo bays.

 

The "arms" on each side is meant to be used as some kind of tractor beams.

I havnt decided on a stat line yet but Im thinking something like:

Scan 4"
Sig 6"
Thr 7"
H 6
A 3+ or 4+ (I want this to be a robust ship that can take a beating but I dont want to go over the top).
Pd 3
G 1
T M

It got two UF-2200 Mass driver turrets
And it will need some special rules to make it work.

It is intended for special scenarios.

Dropfleet Commander - Shaltari fleet

Hawk wargames had a Kikstarter for their Dropfleet Commander game and were able to produce a lot of miniatures in plastic because of it. The kickstarter as kickstarters often do took longer time to ship out to the backers then originally planned.

I wanted to continue with the Shaltaris as I got them in the ground game of Dropzone Commander and to be able to link the armies in future campaigns.
Here we have my fleet at the moment, its the basic recommended starter list with some added extra ships.

Painting wise I continued with my paint scheme from Dropzone Commander. Im not totally happy how they turned out, I miss some of the yellow/orange details from my groundtroops for that added contrast. I have thought about repainting the now green "core" on the ships in yellow/orange but this will do for now. In the next batch of ship I think I will try that.

But enough about that bring on the ships them selves...

Here are some picture taken outdoors for better light.

Wing Commander: Kilrathi fighters

This takes me back...
I just painted some Kilrathi fighter from the OLD computer games of the Wing Commander series.

It was when I saw the miniatures painted by Aegis Neugenbaur that I knew I had to get some miniatures.
http://www.agisn.de/html/wing_commander.html

The miniatures them self were ordered from Shapeways and have been.. ehm.. resting... since when I ordered them. But I wanted a little something for fun to paint and there they were.

I dont have any rules to use them yet but think maybe I could toss something together when I have painted some humans to oppose these.
Im thinking a sort of beer and pretzel game where the skill of the pilot should matter more then the spaceship he or her are in.

And a little something for scale. The miniature are a 28mm miniature.
- Pull.