Friday, 31 December 2010

Dystopian Wars Prussian navy

For my Birthday and a thank-you for painting his extra Flames of War bits Luke got me a Dystopian wars Prussian fleet from Spartan game with an extra air fortress carrier. He has got some Britannian forces for himself. Apparently they are about 1/2000th scale which make the battleship about 144m long, which seems reasonable. They have a really nice look about them, steam-punk but realistic. The only really 'mad' bits is the carrier on a Zeppelin about the same size as a battleship and the bombers the size of frigates but it is supposed to be sci-fi so I guess its all OK. The casting are really crisp, although it will be interesting to see if the moulds are as sharp in a few years time.

I am going to try and keep you up to do date on my painting with some pictures so you can see how I do it. However I have failed already as got too excited and assembled them and base-coated them with white Gesso primer before I even remembered. I then got out my airbrush and my new spray booth (thanks mum and dad!) to lay down some base colours. I did everything a medium grey except for the Zeppelin body that is green. The plan is to stay quite close to the Spartan games own schema as I like the black and white dazzle patterns on them. However the aircraft are going to be more WW1 with each squadron having its own colours so I can distinguish them (and a Red Baron ace somewhere mixed in!) . The bombers I am still undecided about, I have sprayed them grey but might try and look for some pictures of Gotha bombers and go with their colour scheme. The only thing I had any problem with is the little frigates that are so light they kept taking off when I tried to spray them, even at low pressure!!



Above: The whole fleet,
Below: The battleship, with frigates in front and cruisers behind

Below: The Zeppelin flying one way and the bombers in the opposite direction

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3 comments:

  1. inrepose1 January 2011 at 13:36

    I have heard that this is based on the starship rules which is apparently a pretty poor game system. Are you planning on using your own rules or the actual system for these?

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  2. Leigh1 January 2011 at 20:43

    We'll use the published rules. We have played the Uncharted seas rules which are also the same mechanism and found them OK. Not very cerebral but great fun.

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  3. inrepose1 January 2011 at 22:34

    Whatever floats your boat I guess. No pun intended. When I compared them to Aeronef I was shocked by there lack of substance. Nef might be simple but it is more elegant. These models are nice and I am sure someone will write up some specs for the flying ones to be used in Nef.

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