Dominion Expansion Fleet

A few weeks ago I decided that I needed a new misunderstood empire (aka bad guys) to take over the known galaxy.  After looking around on my favorite blogs, websites and forums I made the decision to develop and build out a dominion patrol fleet.  Given that it has been a topic of discussion in many a thread there was quite a bit of information out there on the availability of miniatures with associated reviews.  With all this information I set out to start building my fleet and today the first of my ships arrived in the mail.

I decided to go with 3 eaglemoss cruisers and 4 Star Trek attack wing Hem Hadar attack ships.  I have not decided what to use as a battleship yet, but I believe I am going to get on of Enders.

Aquan Battleship Derelict Hulk

In a recent post I mentioned that I was converting Aquan Battleship into a burning derelict hulk.  After several weeks I have made some progress.  I took a ship that I received that was already damaged more than likely from being mis-cast and started trying to figure out what to do with it.  How would it look?  Who would have attacked it and what type of damage would it have received?

Here is the beginning of the project, I started by chipping away at various parts and it was looking good.  However I wanted more of a derelict that I could create a back story from.

Therefore I decided that I would create a ship the was ambushed by the Directorate and their mighty plasma weapons.  After several hours of bombardment by a Directorate ambush the Aquan Battle ship could not take anymore.  Their plasma weapons burned holes in the side of the ship, flash vaporized the atmosphere and blew out a section of engineering.  Here is what it looks like after I undercoated it black in prep for detailing.

Next up I need to paint in my standard Aquan scheme and work on the details of the battle damage.  After looking on the internet trying to find out what plasma damage looked like I just decided to wing it.

 

And I am done.....

Miniature Wunderland

On my recent vacation to Hamburg, Germany I was delighted to visit Miniatur Wunderland (German for miniature wonderland) it is a model railway attraction and one of the largest of its kind in the world. As of January 2011, the railway consists of 39,370 ft of track in HO scale, divided into seven sections: Harz, the fictitious city of Knuffingen with International Airport, the Alps and Austria, Hamburg, America, Scandinavia, and Switzerland. The exhibit includes 890 trains made up of over 11,000 carriages, 300,000 lights, 215,000 trees, and 200,000 human figurines.

We spent well over 3-hours walking through the entire exhibit and it is still growing.  They have plans to build new attractions all the way out until 2020.  Here are a few pictures from our trip.

4th of July Weekend Break

It has been decided!  Since the family and I will be going on a trip to Hamburg on the long weekend it will leave no time to the hobby.  Thus no progress on my multiple project front.  I hope everyone has a great weekend.  *On the down low my wife does not know I am looking for gaming stores in Hamburg to visit, so there might be a post for this weekend*