Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

"Now, my friends, our honoured guests from the Humans have prepared a presentation about one of their latest border squabbles that we hacked their deep space surveillance feeds and intercepted. Our feeds appear to have been compromised from two directions, so we will be rather limited in our viewpoint, but I'm sure the Ambassador will be able to explain and cope." The Auren Emperor floated in his dining tank, surrounded by many of his family and closest acquaintances. "How am I supposed to not break eye contact with a whole pool full of senior Aurens?" This was the first time any human had been invited to such a feast, and it was considered a major diplomatic breakthrough, somehow, the Ambassador had the feeling that was being set up for him to become the starter. On screen, a volume of space appeared in 3d, with various assets highlighted in Auren script. Several fleets were closing around an asteroid belt. The Ambassador did not recognise the system, but he co...

  Alarms sounded... *THUNK* It still sounded... The Ambassador picked it up and threw it against the wall, pulling the sheet over his ears. A muffled tinkling sound suggested a new alarm was needed, but it could still be heard! The pillow went over his ears next, accompanied by vocabulary that would certainly have seen him disbarred from most organisation's bars across the galaxy. A cold, metal hand gripped his leg and unceremoniously dumped him on the floor, only breaking his fall at the last second with an anti-grav field. "Get up!" the droid, a replacement he assumed, for the one smashed by the Emperor... How long ago? "How long was I out for?" He asked the new shell as he tried to stand. It had upgraded armour, and had shown it had inbuilt shield generators, he suspected the mind was the same as his previous 'minder' though. "2.5 standard." "WHAT!" 2.5 was a long nap, not a night's recovery, what was going on! ...

 Jumpgates from Brigade Models Coz you need jumpgates. And a gunstar from the 'Last Starfighter' again from Drew at Studio Bergstrom

To quote Benny from the Lego Movie! SPACESHIP! So, June 2014, I painted the capital ships for the O.R.C. fleet. 7 years later I did the fighters, that's almost a record! Why? On Wednesday I have my first game of 'A Billion Suns', so I hunted (two hours) out my Studio Bergstrom fighters to go with the fleet, attached them to Brigade Model's funky fighter stands, and painted them up. Trying to remember the colours I used was, interesting! Interceptor (to be used as Recon) at the front, two fighter groups, followed by a bomber group. I think they work well. BIG engines! With a frigate and destroyer from the original fleet! There's not much about this fleet that doesn't mean businesses!