Back to the Storm Sector

I was wasting time on Facebook when I saw a post by The D6 Generation, a picture of a 3-way Firestorm Armada with comments about the new changes in the rules and the 2.0 rules.

It was this picture: Looks awesome, click click!

My first reaction was: ''Holy Pony! There's Nukes in Firestorm Armada now??!! I've got to get back into it!''

So I looked around my room and found a Didrenzi Starter Fleet, one of these 1st generation ones that are a little warped, tons of cleaning required, etc...

It had been given or traded in by a friend of mine who decided he 'd probably never play the game...

Then my brain told me: ''Hey Guru, you have an airbrush, if you know what I mean.''

And that's when I discovered that, although made in the Vallejo Air range, ''Radome Tan'' is a real pain to use and clogged my evolution twice, even the Badger Patriot 105 was not very successful with it. It's as if the paint thinner wouldn't mix with it (despite me mixing both with my paintbrush)...

2 hours later for a job that should have only taken one or less, I had a basecoated Didrenzi fleet.

The following morning, I finished the fleet with paintbrushes, adding white and metallic where needed.

With the fleet out of work table, (okay this fleet is not spectacular, I just wanted it painted...you'll see my Aquan fleet one day and you'll understand why I'm not able to spend lots of time on spaceships anymore.), I could try to do something I wanted to do since this game came out...

Space terrain!! In 15mm 

Using insulation foam, pegasus bits from various kits, sandy paste from Vallejo to give some texture, a little plasticard and colored plastic from Necron sprues that a friend donated to me knowing I'd use it someday, I created:

A Mining Thing, somehow they are getting green crystals (or vespene gaz? ;)) from these asteroids.

A small Spaceport as well as what could be a secret base inside an asteroid.

Group shot, sorry for the poor picture done with bags....I have no space mat, yet.

And here with some of my ships to give an idea of scale.

Hopefully I'll catch a game against Llew sometime soon after my exams.

Thanks for reading, as always, comments and questions are welcomed!