Completed Imperial Space Fleet - The Red force

If Space is the final frontier, then someone better guard it well ! After painting a tyrannid and Eldar fleet, I had to paint the last remaining faction for this jewel of old school gaming that Space Fleet is.

I won't bore you (again) with what Space Fleet is but if you're still wondering, hen you can check these posts to get a better understanding.

Now, I've been collecting Imperial space ships for a while and I've known I would have more of them than the rest right from the start (they were more available and there's a bigger choice. I had to come up with a plan.

Well it was pretty simple honestly, I just decided to split the fleet in 2 and make them compatible to either use the whole as a gigantic force OR make both face one another making sure both fleets wee the same size.

So this is the first half AKA "the red force".

To pick which models I would get in the red force, the choice was quite simple, I picked all the models that had been given to me because if my fondness for Space Fleet and completed to 760 points with others I had bought.

First part though consisted in filling the gaps on those babies...

Well, as much as I love those models, this was NOT an easy nor pleasant task. The width of the upper parts and lower parts is just different so making them fit is almost impossible without cursing and using a lot of putty...

Next issue was that I had ordered VERY cheap flying bases... VERY cheap flying bases have one advantage : they're VERY cheap :

... and a bit shitty yes.

So with only a couple of painting weeks left ahead I assembled everything and got started !

Now here are individual shots. I'd like to be honest here, The paintjobs are not as good as I would have loved BUT I made myself the promise to have the fleet with all the ships that had been kindly donated to me done for this summer's Oldhammer event. So with very little time (due to poor planning from my part) I did take necessary shortcuts to meet the deadline.

I won't go too much into the details of the rules since I already covered that previously HERE.

Now here's the Emperor capitol ship, mightest ship of the fleet, and a fat sculpt to put atop a plastic rod if you ask me but it does look like what it's meant to be. A strong and offensive flag ship for the whole fleet.

The dominator battleship is without a surprise the  one shooting explosive shells from a distance, not exactly a sniper, more of a mortar.

The ironclad is interesting sinc eit's supposed to date back from before the crusades and it's therefore not protected with shields like most other ships but with armour, that's why thisone is the only ship with actual battle damage.

The Gothic battleship is of course the most iconic ship since it's on and in the box

The thunderbolt cruisers are splendid sculpts with a rear engine twice as big as the one on bigger ships, I painted it glowing with energy and I really like how these look fast.

The firestorm looks and actually is just a smaller Gothic Battleship :

Not sure how and if the constellation targeting ship is going to be useful but that an interesting model with a different design.

Then you have the light weights with the cobra destroyers which look like eneven tinier versions of the Gothic battleship (aren't they cute !)

So here we are, that's 13 more ships who'll most likely will see some action at the end of the month in Newark !

Now my attention is set on BOYL (the oldhammer event in Newark) at the end of the month so I will very unlikely have anything more to show or tell since then... You can expect full reports of the games I'll play, models I'll see (and get) and other things like that to share it with you all.

I wish you all fantastic summer (or winter if you live in another hemisphere than I do) holidays !