Showing posts with label Firestorm Armada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firestorm Armada. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Firestorm Armada Dollar Tree Scratchbuilt Freighter

Last week I wrote about a 6mm sci-fi terrain piece I made using handgrenade squirt-'gun' party favors that I had bought on a recent trip to the local Dollar Tree store. Today I am gong to show a Firestorm Armada scale freighter I made using the these same party favor grenades. Shown below with a US quarter for scale








For the hull, I used the handgrenade pretty much straight out of the package. I removed the squirter handle and the cap that inserts in the water well. Then, once again, I raided the bits box to get suitable spaceship 'looking' parts.


The exhaust is a pony bead glued to a goblin shield. The bridge is the front end of a Space Marine bolter. The laser port is a seed bead. The top tower is the water well cap (turned around and covering the hole it went in.). And the two side fins are the muzzles off of Kroot rifles.





Once all the parts were glued on I sprayed the model with black primer. It is shown below next to a Firestorm Armada Sorylian frigate to give a sense of scale.





I then painted the model. I first gave the whole thing a coat of dark navy blue, then painted it with GW Shadow Gray. I then washed it with dark blue ink, and then drybrushed highlights with Duncan Decorator Acrylics Slate Blue. the final touches were to pick out some detail in metallics and then apply a couple decals. The results are shown below, again with a FA Sorylian frigate for scale.
























Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Firestorm Armada Showcase

I thought this week I'd share a sampling of my Firestorm Armada fleets: the Sorylians and the Dindendrzi. I'm really enjoying this game, and there are a few guys in the club who have put together fleets, so we get a chance to play often. Recently, I just started painting and mounting up old Battlefleet Gothic fighters, bombers, etc. to replace the cardboard tokens used in the FA game; so I've enclosed some shots of those. I glued them with Gorilla brand superglue onto bases made of plastic canvas cut to match the size of the FA tokens, and marked each base with a letter corresponding to what it represents: F-fighter-B-bomber, I- interceptor.
Click on any photo to view it larger. My apologies for the focus on some of these; the dark background was giving my camera's auto-focus fits.



Sorylian Battleship with Interceptor, Fighter, and Bomber bases


Sorylian Interceptors, Fighters, and Bombers



Dindrenzi Battleship



Dindrenzi Battleship, rear view



Sorylian Carrier



Dindrenzi Carrier



Dindrenzi Carrier, rear view



Dindrenzi Crusier



Dindrenzi Crusier, rear view



Sorylian Crusier



Sorylian Crusier, rear view