Resistance Monitors, Newton Kill-Sat & Galileo Orbital Telescope

Resistance Monitors

I bought these just for fun. I liked the idea with the Orbital telescope, and the kit also included bits to make the Newton Kill-Sat.

 

Newton Kill-Sat is equipped with a big as gun, one shot that can be target ether enemy ships or even ground targets.

The Newton was the most common pre-war naval defence monitor in the service
of mankind. Unlike modern monitors, the class is visually closer to a space station
than a ship, suiting its near-static mission profile. With the speed of the Scourge
invasion, few could manoeuvre into a firing position - unfortunate since it packs
an enormous mass driver for a frigate-sized vessel. The XN-40 “Godray” was
designed to destroy incoming targets long before they could return fire. It sits on a
swivel mount, allowing not only tracking of deep space, but precise bombardment
of surface targets. Pre-war this was largely used to quell any thoughts of
insurrection or to level inhospitable landscape prior to surface exploration.
Today, the Newton still brings incredible firepower for its cost, at the price of speed
and survivability. This gives it a valued place on the gun line of any Resistance or
Kalium admiral capable of harnessing this ship’s strengths. Although unwieldy
to bring to a forward position, its bombardment and anti-shipping firepower can
lend the class a new lease of life in an offensive role.

 

Galileo Orbital Telescope is my favorite, a big telescope to detect other ships. It can relay this information to nearby ships.

Galileo orbital telescopes are among the oldest human ships still flying. In the
earliest days of foldspace exploration, jumps to un-noded locations had to be
conducted in drive-wearing ‘hops’ or random inaccuracy would result. Surveying
potential jump locations for potential and celestial threats necessitated a ship
built around a gigantic, high-power scanner. Speed was unimportant, so the
superstructure of the more common Newton class monitor was chosen as an
efficient, low-cost base. Never a military vessel, the Galileo is unarmed besides
basic point defence.
Surviving Galileos were vital to stranded Resistance fleets forced to use archaic
jump-hops to seek the meagre resources not already discovered and either
captured by the Scourge or (as with the Colonies) had their node codes changed.
Being able to detect enemy activity from a vast distance is also of great use to those
small remnant fleets hiding in the cracks of the galaxy - lest they be ambushed.
At battlespace level, such observational power can be turned on in-system targets
to achieve extraordinary definition unachievable with smaller hardware. This can
augment Resistance vessels’ older scanning technology and aid a skilled captain
in targeting vulnerable spots on enemy ships.

 

Link to their rules:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0965/1274/files/Resistance_Monitors_2.0.pdf?v=1621003584

And together with my other Resistance ships I now got this small fleet.

Daggers Fauna

 
Daggers... small fauna.
Not really small for its scale but a small miniature top paint.

These are used in special scenarios and I think its a really funny idea to have the local fauna intervene with you miniatures on the table top.

I went with a dirty look of a light brown base colour changing its colours into blue/ purple with dark grey almost black spikes.

And here are one of the official art pieces released when these were first released.

UCM Light Pathfinder Battlegroup

With the addition of the latest ships I can now present a reinforced light Pathfinder group composed of Santiagos and a Vancouver.
So here we dont have anything new, just some pictures of previously painted ships as I like to get pictures with more ships in them.

UCM Vancouver class Escort Carrier

 

Newly commissioned Vancouver class Escort Carrier ready to lend its hand to the UCM.

The Vancouver class emerged from the UCMF Naval Design Bureau in the late 2640s in response to the obvious need for more cost effective fighter and bomber support than the well armed Seattle class offered.

The Vancouver class Escort Carrier is a smaller carrier that lacks the launch capacity or the firepower of the mutch larger Seattle but I think it has a role to play.
I painted it dark grey, with red markings and a large transfers from and old undead set. The skull really ads its unique character to the ship.

I painted the flight deck brown to make it stand out but also to look a little like a ww2 wooden  flight deck. Totally wrong to have a wooden deck on a space ship but I blame the aesthetics, rule of cool. The shipyard or the officers in charge maybe painted it brown to look like a older naval ship as a sort of homage to when the carriers started its history.

She is seen here escorted by the newly built Santiagos making a really light Pathfinder group for patrolling areas a long distance from the front lines.

And because I really like these pictures.. The engine exhaust and the lights are painted with flourecent paint to make them really stand out under UV light.