So, More dust coming

As I've mentioned, it's been a modestly, at best, success as the year closed out, buy now we're well entrenched in 2014.  So what has happened lately?

My current project has been a macro scale space warfare game (as I've explained earlier, Gamer's ADD).  Originally this started as a desire to find some larger scale spaceships to mix in with fighters for some escort/interceptor battles in the deep Black. One of the gentlemen behind Silent Death mentioned a Star Blazer injection kit being available cheap (under $2 a ship, except for a few destroyers which were two to the package).  Oh, and shipping....they did come from Japan.

So if you have a good deal on a ship, the transitive property leaves me thinking that I could have a great deal on a fleet....or three.

Current count is 46 ships on order, many back ordered.

Here's three of the ships, with their rare earth magnet bases sitting on nails in remarkably poor light.  The  Cruiser Ceres (CC-4, Big Mama Boom), sits in the fore, with it's traditional escort (Pallas) and its deep space Picket Fleet escort (Mimas) which joined it right before the Incident.  As you can see on the right the two raiders (Tyr and Freya) still being painted.  It's been slow, but we'll get there.

Why slow?  Well, Chinese New year brought me more than a new year of good luck.

Both he and his mother are healthy.  But needless to say free time is going to be a dear commodity for a little bit.

Back to the trivialities that keep things sane...The ships themselves are not to scale, a common complaint among the wargamer community.  The two "Raiders"-Captain Avatar's Cruiser (Crew ~700) and the Missile Boat (Crew ~20-no I'm not that much of a geek, it's mentioned in the first episode) are both the same size.  And what size?  The smallest ship I've found is 3.5", the largest 5.5".  Many of the ships are still on order, and I'm still a little flummoxed on basing, but once painted they're pretty, and fun to put together.  I'm normally a Fleet Action Scale kind of guy, but for these I'll make an exception.


Incidentally as I write this the original series is sitting on Hulu for the watching here.  I'd never watched the series, and after watching the few episodes I have, I think I would have avoided the ships out of response to the series.  I'm chalking it up to fortuitous timing.