Niðavellir Shipyard: January 2019

Niðavellir Shipyard

The Nidavellir Shipyard is a large UCM Shipyard hidden far away from any planetary system.
After the scattering of humans after the first Scourge attack many ships used their ftl drives and made an random Foldspace jump just to get away. Many of this ships found themselves alone in the dark, to close to a star or a black hole and perished but some made it to an empty place in space. And that’s how the Nidavellir belt was discovered. A collection of large rocks, asteroids in different sizes and collection of dust and sand. Exactly how this place come to be, far from any sun, placed in between systems is not known. It is believed it was created after an extremely unlikely collision of two larger celestial body, with no stronger gravity pull in the vicinity this collection of minerals and rocks have held together by their own combined pull of each other. The scatter of large rocks and the natural background radioactivity have created a hiding place. After the survivors made contact with the now formed UCM the area have been put to good use.

Named after the Norse mythology Nidavellir, the world of the dwarves, for its rich mineral and metal resources. Perfectly for foundries and a large shipyard complex.

This is the place to produce ships...

Monday, 28 January 2019

UCM Battlegroup

I painted up these three UCM ships during the weekend.
Well to be fair two of them, and finished the last details on the last one.

Its two Moscow class Heavy Cruisers and an Seattle Fleet Carrier.
Not all the details are easy to see in these pictures but it was hard to get some good picture.

"C23" - Seattle class Fleet Carrier.
Its hard to see here but I painted the fighter and bomber decks in an light brown tone to get the feeling of the wooden decks of some ww2 carriers.

This Moscow Heavy Cruiser have been seen before but I added the last details on her and she is now ready for front-line service again.
I really like the shark mouth on her, inspired by ww2 fighters like the P40-kittyhawk.

"U41" - Moscow class Heavy Cruiser.
I gave her a red front and a small small red star in front of her numbering. The camera had a hard time focusing on it but it is there, I promise.

For the engine glow I added some blue florescent paint from Vallejo, it really added some extra depth to the colours.
I think they will shine bright blue if shined on with an UV-lamp. I dont have any UV-lamp so I cant test if it actually works, but in theory...

And together with the Saratoga class Light Cruisers I painted previously I get a neat little force ready to be sent to the front.

Friday, 25 January 2019

Saratoga class light cruisers

Fresh from the shipyard, three Saratoga class light cruisers.

It was some time since I painted some ships for Dropfleet Commander. And it was real fun to paint these.
Hopefuly will these small overgunned ships make some problem for my opponent.

Niðavellir Shipyard