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.

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.

Unboxing a PHR Dreadnought

Well since I'm a PHR collector I had to have the new PHR Dreadnought. But I don't think it's really play worthy if you don't play mega battles. Still it's a cool model. So let's get on with the unboxing.

 The box is pretty nice with a new design and nice art work. 

The backside features a fully assembled ship with some technical info. I think this is good since you can pretty much assemble the ship from this one picture. But if you're still unsure you can download the manual from ttcombat's webpage.

All the parts are nicely wrapped in bubbleplastic. You get a stand and stand-stickers with the model.

 Well you get a total of 26 pieces aside from the stand. First impressions are somewhat disappointing. I spot a couple of large moldlines and excess plastic cling to the models. Some of the fins have warped :(  

Massive excess plastic.

Ungh this piece really made me cringe.

3 of the 5 fins where warped

I mean what the hell. I hate trying to bend resin back with warm water.

Moldlines , still they're on the bottom so should be okey with some sanding.

Massive moldlines and holes from the bubbles in the resin.

Lots of bubbles.

This one wasn't that bad, but still had to use my hobby knife to shave some of.

:( This one will need some greenstuff to smooth out the the hole and bubbles :(

Moldlines and some bubbles

Something that bothered me when I was fixing the diffrent bits was that the quality differed from piece to piece. And the color and texture wasn't consistent. You could see it very clearly on the fins. Both the texture and color. Weird that they use diffrent stuff on diffrent parts on a new model.

Well here are all the parts cleaned.

I tried some dry assembly and the large parts are like forgeworld. Horrible

Could be that I trimmed a little to much. Still it's a difficult fit that needs some work to make it happen.

But when you put the side panels on it's pretty forgiving. But it still needs some greenstuff on the upper part.

Well that's all for the unboxing. I'll be back with a assembly walkthrough to put this beast together.

See you until next time.