painted satellites

[MustEatBrains]

I just finished painting the first of my scratch-built satellites; thought I´d share the results with you.

First, my generic satellite:

A Brakiri defense fleet:

Raiders using more Narn weapons:

And my Drazi turret, orbiting a colony world:

 

[prelude_to_war]

Wow, very nice. Each satellite captures the feel of their respective race. So when will you be casting these? :wink:

 

[Hash]

These are all very nice indeed, very well done!

 

[Morgoth]

Good job, they look really nice

 

[Burger]

Great stuff!

 

[Greg Smith]

Very nice.

 

[MustEatBrains]

Wow, very nice. Each satellite captures the feel of their respective race. So when will you be casting these? :wink:

Actually, I AM casting them already - making a mould that would cast the drazi turret in one solid piece was a little tricky, but now it works quite fine (after a little sanding, but I guess that´s not unusual for resin).

The trouble with turrets is, that you need quite a few of them for big games, so it´s a little time consuming to cast enough of them for even my needs.

The funny thing about the "captures the feel of the race" thing is, at least in the first pictures, that it´s the same model for both the Brakiri and Narn - it´s all in the paint job, I guess.

But thanks to all for the feedback; I guess I should make a few more races. Any suggestions?

 

[Locutus9956]

Centauri Blockade Mines

EA GOD Defence Satellites

 

[Shadow Queen]

Shadow and Vorlon sats

 

[prelude_to_war]

The funny thing about the "captures the feel of the race" thing is, at least in the first pictures, that it´s the same model for both the Brakiri and Narn - it´s all in the paint job, I guess.

Quite right - Narn camo in action. Even now they look like different models...

 

[MustEatBrains]

Centauri Blockade Mines

EA GOD Defence Satellites

Well, I won´t do exact copies of what we saw in the series (or in any licenced publication), I´m a little cautious about copyright (the Nike and Boreas - great as they are - are already on some slippery legal ground, I think, ) - however, I have come up with a few concepts that should be close enough to the feel of the fleets to be recognizable... I guess, I´ll start work on a earth-style sat next, people seem to want them badly! 8)

As for other satellites: Vree will come, I have a nice idea for Centauri, and I´ve been thinking about a special shadows project which might, as a side effect, "give birth" to a shadows turret... :roll:

 

[chaos0xomega]

I like... except for that Drazi one. IMHO, it looks like a piece of space-crap.

 

[Jhary]

@ musteatbrains what will an Vree Sat look like?

 

[Nightmares about Minbari]

I've been thinking about trying to do a Vorlon observation post myself, but have no idea where to look for suitable bits, any suggestions?

Like the basic sats, two hex flying bases fixed together if I'm not mistaken, piece of genius if you ask me. Using something cheap and realily available, that your likely to have in large numbers in a bits box, and turning it into useful and pretty targets for the enemy to blow up. NICE ONE!

 

[Locutus9956]

reminds me of a mate of mines Vree fleet. Entire force is made up of assordet flying bases stuck together with verious other bits like pennies and drawing pin tops and so on. Sure its not as nice as the actual minis but beats the hell out of counters

 

[[Omicron]Urobach]

really nice stuff....so,
I hope you scratchbuild an G.O.D. Satellite as next.
I am not lucky with my project. Luciano from efni.org don´t answer me.
mhhhh...copyright....slippery ground...time will see. :roll:

 

[MustEatBrains]

About the generic satellite: Yes, it´s based on two hexbases I still had lying around (from Full Thrust, I think) - I found out that you can do all kinds of wonderful things by glueing together two bases (have you ever needed a base for a statue?). It gave me a good ground to work on with modelling putty (I usually do freehand-sculpts of Fantasy terrain, coverting miniatures and such - not professionaly, but with gusto).

Now, the Drazi satellite... I don´t know about the "space crap" thing, but I must admit that it looks a little to much like a brick wall (fantasy scenery again...) - I might give it a workover someday (although I´m pretty satisfied with the overall design).

The Vree turret I want to do will have a flat gun array sandwiched between two discs - Imagine the turret guns from the old Galactica between two small flying bases, or something like that. I´m still looking for the right bits and pieces though (it´s SO important to have proper pieces!). However, I´ll first make the EA satellite (I already have a nice body for it; I´m still not sure how to design the missile launchers and the solar fins) - I´ll keep you updated.

 

[Nightmares about Minbari]

Just a thought, battletech figures have lots of different missile pods, one of them might do the trick!