Heh, I won't keep you waiting any longer, here goes!
These are the first ships in my fledgling (or should that be hatchling?
) Krayt fleet for Hostile Stars; a pair of mighty TwinBlade cruisers and a pair of agile Dark Knife frigates. Cheers Doug for hooking me up with these!
The TwinBlades are awesome models, with plenty of gribbly bits which makes drybrushing them a dream, and the large flat areas are great for stripy details and symbols.
They do take a while to clean up due to all the detail, but I think they are well worth the time, and imo they are a bargain at £3.50 each.
Here are a few closeups;
The basic paintjob for these is REALLY easy to do; I simply brush Regal Blue over a black undercoat, then Ultramarines Blue on top of that, finishing with Space Wolves Grey and maybe a bit of white drybrushed on top - simple as that. I highly reccomend using large brushes when painting models like this; a large drybrush gives you a really even coat and speeds painting up no end.
With a new game like this and limited background on the SoW races it is really nice to have some freedom just to play with colour schemes and designs.
I took the striping I'd used on the 'studio' models I painted for DRM and tried to apply it here in interesting ways, differentiating the models and using the flat spaces to their full potenital. I chose the little nova symbol as my fleet insignia; it is easy to paint and adds a little splash of interest and colour to the restricted palette I'm using. I'll add symbols to the firgates once I have a few more finished; I just wasn't feeling up to it last night at 2am.
 The flames I just did for fun but I'm pleased with how they came out and I'll definitely be using them more.
Hope that whets your appetites; I'll be back with some different spaceships later!
G
