Painting Star Wars Armada: Corvette and Nebulon B

Now that the squadrons have been completed there's not much painting to be done now however two ships which have received a minor amount of work are another Corvette and Nebulon B.  As I have three of each these I have altered the colours on two of them so that there is some small difference between them.

Painting Star Wars Armada: Rogues and Villains Expansion

I managed to knuckle down this bank holiday Monday complete the Rogues and Villains expansion which comprises of various named characters and their iconic ships, which are represented by unique squadrons in Star Wars Armada.

It was quite tricky getting some of the paint schemes correct due to the scale of these ships so in most cases they are more a rough approximation to get the correct feel of the design however I think they have turned out quite well. 

 Rogues and Villains

Millenium Falcon

Outrider 

Havoc 

Moldy Crow 

Slave I 

Hound's Tooth 

Punishing One 

IG-2000

This actually marks the last of the full paint jobs I'll be doing for Armada though I still have a few of the actual capital ships which will get a very small amount of touching up (mainly a small colour change for the Rebels and perhaps a bit of extra work on the Imperial Interdictor).

Overall I have really enjoyed painted these as they have been something very different to what's normally in my painting queue and well... it helps being Star Wars ;)

Painting Star Wars Armada: Imperial Squadron Expansion 2

This morning saw the completion of the second Imperial squadron expansion, again I've really enjoyed painting these and they've been much quicker to finish than the Rebel expansions thanks to the lack of of the Rebel markings.

This just leaves me with the Rogues and Villains expansion to paint up and other than a few little touches here and there on some of the Rebel ships I'll be done.

 TIE Defenders

TIE Phantoms 

Lambda Class Shuttles 

VT-49 Decimators 

The completed expansion

Painting Star War Armada: TIE Interceptors and Bombers

Apologies for the dark photos however the weather has taken a turn for the worse and isn't the best for taking snaps.

With the Interceptors and Bombers done the first Imperial squadron expansion is complete and I'm moving on the the TIE Phantoms and Defenders.

Painting Star Wars Armada: TIE Fighters and TIE Advanced

Though not as interesting to look at or perhaps paint due to the lack of markings it does mean they paint up really quickly so I have finished up half of the first Imperial squadron expansion, the TIE fighters and TIE Advanced fighters.

Painting Star Wars Armada: Ghost and Shadow Caster

This morning I finished off the last of the miniatures from the Rebel squadron expansions except these ones are a bit different as the are irregular squadrons, single ships rather than three, and represent icon ships from the SW Universe.  In this case we have the Ghost and Shadow Caster from SW Rebels along with a generic version of each (VCX-100 freighter and Lancer Class Pursuit Craft).
It has nice to be able to paint up what are in effect character models for this game and put a bit more time into them.

Painting Star Wars Armada: E Wings and Z95 Headhunters

I've now moved on to the second Rebel squadron expansion in which there is a more eclectic mix of ships including some unique squadrons (too large for fighters too small to classify as a 'ship') but I've tackled the standard squadrons first which are the E Wing fighters and the Z95 Headhunters.
As a former SWG player as was aware of the Z95 however I had to brush up a bit for the E Wing but Google Images came to the rescue as usual and provided some good reference pictures for colour and markings.

Next up are the Ghost and Shadow Caster.

Prepare To Die - Dark Souls has arrived!

I'll start off by saying that I love the Dark Souls games, the worlds, the lore and of course the difficulty.  So when Steamforged Games announced that they would be producing a miniatures boardgame for Dark Souls I was both intrigued and wary, could they possibly take what makes Dark Souls so special and transfer it to another medium?  If you've read my blog before then you know I was lucky enough to me able to try a boss fight out at last years Ardacon and it did indeed have that Dark Souls vibe (good job as we'd gone all in with the Kickstarter) so I've been looking forward to this moment.

As with any game with this amount of content we went through the box to make sure everything was present and correct and to sleeve up all the cards, while we were doing this I took some photos (the light was a bit hit and miss so they aren't the best I'm afriad) to pop up on here in case your intrigued about the game or even just the miniatures.

The box 

Lift the lid and this is what you're met with, nice touch Steamforged

A well packed box but there's no way it's all going back in afterwards 

To boxes of miniatures and a card tray 

The rule book 

The card tray, keep them tidy in the box but useless once the cards are sleeved 

The smaller box of minis and it's contents

The large 'boss' box which also includes the tokens

Titanite Demon

Outrider Knight

Winged Knight

Ornstein

Smough

Gargoyle

The Dancer

Hollow Crossbowmen

 Hollow Soldiers

Silver Knights

Silver Knight Archers (I actually quite Dark Souls I for six months due to these swines)

Large Hollows

Sentinels

The miniatures are the now almost standard pre-assembled PVC boardgame miniatures, they're decent enough and any bent components are easily sorted with a bit of hot water.

One small apology as I forgot to take any pictures of the game boards but the quality of the print on them very good and the card stock is nice and thick.

I'm hoping to get a game in this week and will be painting these up after I've finished Star Wars Armada as there aren't too many miniatures so it should be a relatively quick job to do.