Star Wars Armada a new beginning
Hello boys and girls Leebo here, and I have been asked to jot
down a few words about why I have chosen to have a go at Star Wars Armada. Now
from the beginning of me playing x wing miniatures I always wanted to play with
capital ships after playing a pc game called Empire At War. As soon as I
finished that game I wanted to play big ships in big games. There was a game at
the time which came with Home One ( Admiral Akbars ship) and a super star
destroyer, but at the time of me finding out about it it had already gone out
of print and the licence had gone elsewhere. Enter x wing miniatures game, this
filled my need for space combat and was in my favourite subject of all time
‘STAR WARS’. Having played that for about a year and a half Fantasy Flight
Games then released the news they were bringing out another game using the
capital ships, Sold I’m in just tell me where to send my money and I want it
all lol. So a core set was purchased and as I am a Rebel player at heart an
assault frigate and fighter pack purchased as well.
On to the contents I suppose, the capital ships come
painted, and in my opinion are done really well as is FFG’s way with their
pre-paints, but the fighters only come in beige plastic for the rebels and grey
plastic for the imperials. Cool I get to paint some spaceships! Now they are
small but still retain quite a bit of detail. This being said a simple scheme
would be in order to get the best from them. So with brush in hand I began.
First up was the two a wing squadrons from the pack, I only
have GW paints in my collection so went with a skull white base coat, there is
no need to under coat these ships as the paint seemed to go on well, I used
scab red as a nice dark red strip down the middle of the ship and a touch on
each of the engines. The cockpit was touched with black and the engine exhaust
had a dab of yellow applied. Then a light Nuln oil wash applied to the whole
model, which covered nicely and just filled in all the recessed areas and
defined the blocks of colour well, giving a nice used look to the squadrons,
objective one and they looked pretty good, so confidence brimming I moved on to
the y wings.
So the ywings basically went
exactly the same way technique wise and I used a bone colour for the base coat,
a little grey on the engone pods and cockpit, the glass touched in black and a
yellow trim around the cockpit denoting gold squadron.
So up next are the Bwings and they were a bit more fiddly, but same bone base coat, with grey the accent on the engines, wing straps and bottom gun. And then touched with orange dots as squadron markings. Black was touched on the cockpit glass and the washed with nuln oil.
Now on to the superstars the x wing squadrons as you get 4
in the core set and a further 2 in the fighter pack I had 6 to paint, these
repaints do not take to long even for some one of my skill, which is basic at
best. But is started the same way as the a wings with a basecoat of white, then
used blood red, a brighter shade of red, to make the model pop a bit and ran a
line down each side of the fuselage and then a touch on each of the upper
wings. Grey was used on the engines and cockpit with black in the glass
sections. Then a touch of yellow on the nose cone, and finally a wash of nuln
oil.
For a basic lick of paint, they haven’t come out that bad
and I cannot wait to get them onto the table and free the galaxy from under the
imperial jack boot hehe. Thanks for reading this little bit of info and I hope
it helps.
And remember Fly Casual and may the force be with you.
Leebo Williams.
