Surprise Invasion

No, I wasn't expecting a Scourge battle fleet to turn up either.

These are the last of my unpainted ships for Dropfleet Commander. I've had them in the backlog for so long the company has changed hands and a new edition has been released.

Why paint them now?

I was short on time today and was looking for something that would be easy to get done and by taking the same slapdash approach I originally took with the models from the Kickstarter to get them on the table, they didn't take long at all.

When the game was originally released I swapped my UCM for Carl's Scourge, giving me plenty of shops for a decent sized fleet. So much so that there was a sprue of frigates I never got round to painting.

These two are Harpies, the basic fighter frigate that you're encouraged to build when starting off. I only made two (possibly because they're not very good) so I figured taking that number to four might be a good idea.

The other two ships on the sprue I turned into Charybdis, which are interestingly, if I remember correctly, the only ships in the Scourge fleet with bombardment capability (note the downwards facing guns).

I think this is because the parasitic Scourge seek to take over rather than destroy.

I do remember not building these previously because they are ridiculously easy to destroy when they are hovering over a city without their shields.

The main attraction, however, is the hulking monstrosity of the Daemon super heavy battleship.

I went with the Daemon, which has lots and lots of guns, over the Dragon, which has torpedoes, mainly because I didn't realise there were options when I was building it and I had stuck the weapons array before I noticed the other bits.

The model is resin and was really well cast with lots of detail to work with.

So I sprayed it silver and dumped a load of washes on it, as is my way.

I'm happy enough and it counts as done.

Will I ever use these? I don't know. But they are off the list and I can get rid of the box I was keeping for the sole purpose of storing a sprue.

Acquired: -61
Painted: 379
Lead Mountain: 633