Canada FTW!

Woo hoo! Team Canada wins!

Full Thrust Chinese Fleet - Part 3

Tonight I finished my Full Thrust Chinese fleet off. The pic below shows 2 pairs of cruisers. Not sure what I'm going to make these yet, maybe a pair of escort cruisers and a pair of strike cruisers.

Now I need to make up the ship sheets, come up with some terrain and then to battle!

Next, I'm going to start on my large Basic Impetus project for the Successors. On my table is 4 bases of Macedonian/Greek skirmishers.

Full Thrust Chinese Fleet - Part 2

Tonight I finished a few more ships in my Full Thrust Chinese Fleet. The picture below is of 4 battleships (2 of them carriers) and 8 squadrons of fighters.

I have 4 ships left and they should be done in the next day or two.

The weekend before last (Feb 14-15) I placed orders to Crusader, Vendel, 1st Corps and Aventine Miniatures for a pile of Successor figs. All orders are from the UK. Today, the order from Vendel and Aventine arrived. Seven days. Wow. Now that is fast! I love ordering from the UK.

Full Thrust Chinese Fleet - Part 1

Tonight I finished the first half of my Chinese Union Starfleet. All the ships in this fleet are from Brigade Models European Federation line. I've included Ned for size reference. The first picture is of a group of 4 frigates and 6 destroyers.

The picture below is of 4 heavy cruisers.

The detail on these minis is not quite as good as the Ground Zero Games ones but the magic dip really brought out the existing detail. In the next few days I should get the other half of the fleet completed.

Last night I had Chris over and we played a couple games of GMT's Twilight Struggle. We each took a turn playing the US and the USSR. I ended up winning both games. The image below shows the board at the end of the first game in which the USSR had won.

Each game took somewhere between 3 and 3 1/2 hours to play. Like CCA it is a card driven game, but unlike CCA the cards don't really force you to play in certain areas. And as I've stated in a previous post, the components (especially the board) are top notch.

Full Thrust US Fleet - Part 3

Today I finished my US fleet. Once I was finished painting I gave the entire fleet a wash of Future and a mix of black and grey paint. Overall it looks pretty good though on the superdreadnought it came out really dark. So here's the last two ships to be painted, the dreadnought and superdreadnought posing with Ned:

And finally here's the entire fleet:

Next up, I'll be starting my Chinese Union Starfleet.

Tomorrow at game night, Bob and I will be running a game of Command and Colors Ancients using Expansion 5: Epic Ancients. We'll be running the Battle of Clusium, 225 BC between the Gauls and the Roman Republic.

Full Thrust US Fleet - Part 2

Tonight I finished up the second batch of my US fleet. As before, these ships are from Ground Zero Games Federal Stats Europa range. Ned has been added for size comparison. First pic shows a pair of escort cruisers on the left and a pair of heavy cruisers on the right.

This pic shows a pair of battlecruisers on the left and a pair of battleships on the right.

There's two ships left to be painted in this fleet, the dreadnought and superdreadnought. I should get them done in the next day or two. After that is the Chinese Union Starfleet.

Full Thrust US Fleet - Part 1

Tonight I completed the first batch of ships for my Full Thrust US Stellar Navy. I started with the smaller ships. I've included Ned in the pictures to provide a relative size. The ships are all Ground Zero Games from their excellent Federal Stats Europa Astromarine range.

First up is a trio of scouts and a group of four destroyers.

Next is a trio of corvettes and a group of four frigates.

And finally there is a pair of light cruisers.

My next post should contain the escort cruisers, heavy cruisers and battlecruisers and with a little luck a couple battleships.