VLOG: Dropfleet Commander Week – John’s Paint Schemes
December 5, 2016 by johnlyons
With less than a week to go for the Dropfleet Boot Camp, we're wracking our minds to get work complete on the various ships, moons, and tables ready for the all-important weekend.
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Join John today as he talks us through constructing the Mega Warren Ship and the paint schemes for the joining fleets.
What colour schemes have you painted your ships?
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End of play Monday?
WARREN!!! they’ve clocked off early again 🙂
Looking good guys, can’t wait, see you Friday 😀
Now thats a lot of fleet models, it’s like the Spanish Armada incident all over again 🙂
So I missed out on the KS and then on the bootcamp so I have considered this to be enough justification to buy a starter set, a PHR starter and some of the launch assets. All arriving tomorrow hopefully.
Looking forward to building and painting along to the live blog.
Rebel troopers were awesome.
same, missed out on the kickstarter and bootcamp but picked up some stuff at retail.
looking forward to following the fun this weekend.
John, quick and accurate with that side arm of yours mate. I think my brain would melt if I was faced with that many kits.
Lloydy give us a wave, Lloydy Lloydy give us a wave.
@warzan, why does that large monstrosity of a space station remind me of Babylon 5? (If this is the case, where the hell are the Narns, Centari, Minbari and the bloody Vorlons??)
I seriously think poor @johnlyons needs either a pay raise or He needs a minion to assist him with the workload that @johnlyons keeps getting from@warzan.
oops, didnt see your comment and posted the same thing sorry!
It is absolutely a homage to my No1 space station of all time 🙂
It even has a tiny Michael Garibaldi on it (in my mind anyway lol)
Great Homage to a great show!
….. and the best character on said show 😀
well all looks like it is coming together nicely … @warzan you got enough cruisers there? I am sure you could get another 15 or 20…lol
I limited myself to only what would fit onto the space station 😉
Seriously wait to you see it all come together 🙂
well you will just have to invest in an extention to your length 😉
Will the weekend involve a ‘gang up on Warren’s fleet’ mission?
If they think their ‘ard enough 😉
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope, for peace….it failed.
But in the year of the Shadow War it became something greater, our last, best hope, for victory. *queue epic music*
Stunning looking work on those stations, but John seems to have slipped his chain @Warzan, you need to check the lock and make sure you take all the tools off him in future.
@wesadie1969 – To be fair its probably best that you missed the KS. Going through you FLGS you’re more likely to get product and probably at a cheaper price too at this point.
@darklupine please dont bring the KS gripes here… as to getting in on the kickstarter i have loads of stuff that is not available through retail so your point is incorrect
Actually @darklupine has a very fair point. We are really disappointed for all you guys who are still waiting, and know it has put a real dampener on the whole thing for you.
Hopefully you will join us this weekend and we’ll try to get a little of that excitement back if we can, and who knows maybe you can grab a prize in the process.
It’s been pretty sore on you guys (and tbf the guys at hawk too) but hopefully your stuff will be with you asap so you can enjoy what you helped create 🙂
Keep us posted…
Sorry i did not mean to come off all righteous, it was more a plea then anything. I know people have not got their stuff, and yes i feel for them and hope they get their stuff.
to my eyes, when I do see a KS gripe about dropfleet. Its really more of a plea than anything. Cause we really hope we get our stuff as well 😉
love the space station, I get a babylon5 feel from it.
Good! 😀
Definitely Babylon 5.
Poor John, left to paint so many ships and space stations… while Lloyd moons about 🙂
lol
Great progress looking forward to seeing it in the flesh 🙂
Babylon 5.1 😎
The grey with white paintscheme looks effective too. I’m looking forward to seeing more of the moons!
I hope we will have enough time on Friday to build and paint (at least prime) our stuff as I’m sure the tables will look epic and deserve better than grey plastic 😉
Oh noes! When I saw the empty tables at the beginning of the update, I thought everything was impossibly behind for the boot camp. After I finished the video, I thought it was merely just way behind. Good luck, guys!
Wow that is some fleet, great job with the paint scheme. I have been trying to paint my shaltari for weeks and I still haven’t finished the starter fleet.
Guys get a 6X4 print out and some clear perspex or if time a custome mat made of your area in ireland with BOW HQ on it centered have the big space station on top of it. (give it an awesome name! 🙂 ) & boom defend yourself!
Epic idea!
Jeez, that fleet is a thing of beauty! Glorious!
The Babylon 5 homage is super strong there @warzan. Very cool!
Wow, and I thought I had a lot on my plate assembling 6 UCM cruisers. It all looks awesome. Back when Hawk Dave mentioned burn through lasers I immediately thought of the Shadows from Bab5. Can’t wait for Friday.
great work guys the big station reminds me of the USM Auriga in Aliens Resurrection ?
32 frigates, more guns, more speed…butchering names and bad accents, coupled with outlandish statements (conspiracy theories)……Warren is the Jeremy Clarkson of Beasts lol…….;)
That only dawned on you now ?! 😉
Great paint jobs! I wish I could build and paint my DFC ships, but alas I am a Kickstarter commodore pledge level backer so of course I hadn’t received any of my rewards, weeks after they were released at retail and restocked multiple times.
inspiring