Niðavellir Shipyard: UCM Centurion class Grand Cruiser

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 20 July 2020

UCM Centurion class Grand Cruiser

Here we have a freshly refitted or rather repainted Centurion for my UCM collection. She has seen action on the table before but that was before I had finished the painting.
She has just left the starbase and is ready to face the enemy again.

The Centurion is an older Grand Cruiser class design heralding its construction from before the loss of Earth from the Scourge. The UCM have refitted some older ships in this design and pressed into service yet again.
With a ship design name of Centurion I thought It would be really fitting to give her a hand painted Roman Imperial Eagle motif on the smooth nose armour. You can see close up pictures of it in pictures down under here.

I wanted to have lots of smaller chippings and paint damages on the smooth armour design of the Centurion and I think I somewhat managed to capture what I was after. To show all debris having made small damage on the outer hull.

The turretgun is magnetised so I can turn it around.

I know that you shouldn't really do this but here you get some extreme close ups on the Centurion, showing all the gritty mistakes but atleast some highlights to.