Iron Dwarves Citadel & Shroud Mage Cruiser for Uncharted Seas
November 29, 2011 by brennon
Some Uncharted Seas previews today from Spartan Games, continuing their theme of 'bigger is better'. First lets check out the Iron Dwarf Guardian Class Floating Citadel...
As the name would suggest this is a floating citadel used by the Iron Dwarves to create bastions of rock solid defence in the remote corners of the empire. With 360 degrees of fire this could hold its own in the centre of your fleet.
If magic and elemental might is more your thing however, you might be interested in the Shroud Mages and this beauty, the Darkness Class Cruiser.
With heavy cannons to the fore and broadsides which pack a bit of a punch even if this isn't as big as the Citadel, it could still do some damage. Added to that the Shroud Mages ability to boost the movement of their ships, and powerful Red Ram Ratings, they are a formidable side.
Both these previews are for models set to release at the beginning of 2012.
Loving the stuff coming out of Spartan for Uncharted Seas, but what about you?
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Great models. Lots of sunbathing surface on the Guardian and I like how the Shorud cruiser is not too samey, compared to the other SM ships.
Keep it up guys.
I don’t know about this one. The footprint looks a bit like something my dog left out on the lawn last night…. Not sure about the circuit / Tron like plating designs. Part of the fluff?
The designs on the plating of the Shroud Mage ships are constellation maps from their sky.
Ok, makes sense now, but still looks too much like circuit board connections to me. I think its the uniformity of the holes. Stars have different sizes / brightnesses, so I think if the holes themselves varied up a bit, then perhaps it would be less circuit boardy… I think I would rather just paint the images, rather than actually have them be big gaps in the armor plating…
Given that there ARE two sizes of holes (one for the actual joined constellations and one for the loose stars) and you’re asking for diameter randomness in what – 1/600 scale which will barely be seen (maybe even by some painters) I’m going to have to call this nitpicking again. All sculpts shown for sale, no matter their level of dynamism and/or detail, boil down to a binary choice – you buy it or you don’t. Now of course there IS a minimum standard which everyone could probably agree on if it were worth the time debating, and it IS… Read more »
If you can see the variation here (in the mock up), you should be able to see it on the model, otherwise whats the point? To me (check that now, I am premising this statement with a subjective bias, as I did the original statement), this just does not work. I don’t see the holes and lines as constellation patterns. They are just too simple to come across as such. Perhaps the 5 point constellation in the back, that one gets close. To me, they just look like random geometric designs. Break out your astronomy books. There are very few… Read more »
I’ll grant you the constellations don’t contain enough stars to really capture the imagination through the shape produced (I know it’s a fantasy world rather than our own but still…) but I was focusing on the dot sizes rather than the lines, which I agree with you on, though they are too straight to look like battle damage to me. The talents of some sculptors really do capture facial features and nuances of expression very well – I’d never suggest they stop – but in this case we’re talking about something with nothing like that level of granularity, since it’s… Read more »