Starships And Space Elves

I've got the spaceship bug again. Last time I got it this bad I was on holiday in Norfolk in the early 2000s. Today I painted a Lunar Class cruiser, the Invictus, and a Mars Class battlecruiser, the Imperator Vult. This puts Strike Group Invictus several ships short of its current full strength, but since yesterday it's grown from seven escorts to seven escorts and three ships of the line.

Imperator Vult on the right and Invictus on the left. Invictus is the flag vessel of the little fleet at the moment.

I also painted up another Tactical Marine for the Righteous Fists, bringing my total of Fists left to do down another notch. Eight more Tacticals, the Captain and his five-strong Command Squad, two Bikers, and a Terminator Squad. Hmm. I can see the light at the end of that tunnel soon enough!

A basic bolter-toting Marine. Just noticed that I haven't painted his red-dot sight, but oh well. He's finished enough for my wargames!

Then my son arrived for the day and when he went to sleep I got distracted by some Eldar:

These will be up for sale when they're finished. Metal figures from before Finecast!

Painting Points: 3
2013 Total: 146 (99x 28mm, 2x 54mm, 3x tanks, 2x spaceships)

Spaceships And A Space Marine

I dug out my copy of Battlefleet Gothic today, and discovered two things:

1) I have a sizeable Chaos fleet and a reasonable Imperial Navy Fleet,
2) I need more flying stands.

I also touched up the Plasma Cannon gunner from Squad IV of my Righteous Fists, and designed what is likely to be a fiendishly difficult 40K scenario for me, JY and JS to play through on Thursday night.

It's very late and I should be in bed, so here are some pictures:

Battlefleet Paridon - Strike Group Invictus elements: 'Red' Squadron (Cobra-class destroyers), INV Radamantine (Dominator-class cruiser); 'Ghostmaker' Squadron (Firestorm-class frigates).

Righteous Fists Tactical Squad heavy weapons Marine carrying plasma cannon.

No painting points this time as all I've done is some touching up. I hope to build some scenery tomorrow night and maybe get another Marine done.