Texaco Oil Tanker: Texas Teapot

Next we have an oil tanker from Texaco complete with period appropriate (or so I think) logo. 
The martime signal flags on this one is advertising a vacant crew slot for work though you'll need to translate it yourself. 

The tanker is named the "Texas Teapot" for its cargo.  Also a minimum air escort of a single attack craft is cradled below.  A Fairchild Brigand fighter called the "black gold" due to her black and gold paint scheme.  While you might expect a fuel tanker to need a larger fighter escort these texaco tankers have a nasty reputation of being suicidal.  Fitted with several high pressure nozzles facing several directions, it is able to spray a sizeable volume of fuel into a makeshift Fuel Air thermobaric explosive.  Any fighters charging it are likly to charge into a cloud of pre-saturated fuel which then ignites by their engines or a flair fired from the teapot or her escort fighter, and its game over.   If they believe they are going to loose anyway, captains have been known to set all nozzles to spray then jump overboard firing a time delayed flair as they fall.  To date no hostile hijacking of a texaco fuel tanker has been successful.  Dont F' with Texans and their Tea!

Pulp WW2 airships spotted

After frankly years of backburnering this project time and again Ive finally made a solid push over the past few months to get a big chink of the fleets finished.

The inspiration was from crimson skies aircraft pulling from a pulp or dieselpunk ww2 era, but I felt they didnt go far enough.  Their airships were a little.. dull.  So many years ago I started kitbashing airships.  A hint was shown about 7-10 years ago with the large graf zepplin conversion (which still isnt finished being painted)  but more recently I started pushing through alternate airship designs.  I thought if we are taking zeps and adding more weight than they can possibly carry, why not go with sails and other fun or more exotic designs.  Now in the next few days/weeks ill post the progress.  I had to make myself stop painting and start taking pictures... because painting is always more fun when I can find time for it.

To start, a Yakuza yacht.  With 1 small ducted turboprop this thing can get decent speed and with the sails, its as fast as the wind.  .. mainly useful to get them away from rival gangs while their air cover mops up.  But nothing makes  a statement of elegance like 4 enormous sails.  With the right jet stream few fighters have the range to be a threat for long.  And it may look like a Yacht,  but never trust the Yakuza gangs from sneaking zepkiller rockets in place of their life boats. 

 

 Ive got about 4 more zeps  then a shload of fighters both from the CS universe and from our own WW2 history that should be posted in the next few... when I get around to it.

DS9: (site almost back to normal)

After a long time of being lazzy, and preferring to do real work rather than update a website I started refreshing the broken image links from the blog after the photobucket exodus.    But to kick off the repair work I will post a present I made for my mother, an avid DS9 fan.  For her birthday she got a DS9 and her choice of 3 ships, she chose the refit enterprise, the solar sail ship, and a Klingon BOP.   The background is just a gaming mat I made years ago for space games since it had a supermassive black hole with superluminal jets... that looks a bit like a wormhole.

all models, to the best of my ability, are roughly 1:2500 scale. 

Now back to the diesel-punk air armada!

High Tech Phantom Reinforcement

Another Commission for a Phantom titan.
This one to demonstrate more tech in its painting. 
And a few local shield hits that are barely worth its notice. 

When dealing with warp spiders....

Yo Spike for brains!
1. Never turn your back on a warp spider
2. Especially never turn your back on a Pheonix lord 
3. If your stupid enough to break rules #1 and #2, DON'T FLIP HER OFF!

It doesn't matter how tough their armor is, projecting a warp into an armor seam then diving into the warp with 4 scythes is a great way to crack that petulant egg!

Steam Punk Scorpion

As part of my Diesel/Steam punk force buildup (slow build up)
The scorpion giant walker is done enough... for now.
The model was some cheap resin thing found at a store that had a good start. I added some turrets to her tail to protect them from straffing runs,  a few turrets on her back for the same, and a main quad cannon on her back facing forward.  Her tail was also augmented with an autoloading autocannon with shells almost as big as a man, for the scale.  I also broke the legs free as well as the arms and repinned them and glued them in  slightly different positions.  The legs are not strong enough to support the massive block of resin so I took 3 brass tubes and stuck them into her belly to hold him up on a tripod.

For tabletop purposes the little turrets are flak cannons or point defense.  The main quad cannon is forward facing only and land targets only. The tail cannon is land or air but packs enough of a punch to keep enemy airships at high altitude.  Yet the armor is tough enough that most of what an airship can carry cant penetrate its carapace.

 Itll take some heavy high altitude firepower to lay this monstrosity onto her belly for good.

BFTP: Sci Fi cast and almost painted, plus bases

And then they were 3d printed, cast, and slowly started to get painted... That took a while but I did enjoy playing with simple and exotic vehicle paint jobs.   I wish there was more color on the road today.

I also wanted more sci fi bases so I designed a bunch.

and then the painting began.