More Boats, Sir!

 Ziggy thought it would be frightfully funny to pile on with more Orc/Goblin ships for Armada as a Christmas present. Of course, I got him back by giving him a copy of the rules myself, forcing his hand. He's waiting for the Dwarf fleet to be released...

I finished up the Orc Support Ships for the Gatorade Goblins yesterday and bummed my bride's photography lightbox to take some pictures.

This ship's called a "Bloodrunner." Would you believe me if I said it was a long-ranged weapons specialist? Curious about the last of "axe motif" on the sail, but no worries!

Here's a squadron of small Rabble cutters. Typically these would be the goblin ships in an orc fleet. In my case they'll just be "da small wunz."

This last one, the Hammerfist, had some "challenges" with the primer or something on the sails. The green seemed to take OK from my airbrush, but the wash on the sails just pooled up instead of covering smoothly. It was certainly disappointing, especially as that was was one of the last things I did in the painting process. No matter, I'm leaving it as is. I do have a second one of these ships in drydock, waiting for Mantic and the postal service to get a new front arm assembly to me.

As for the lightbox, my wife found this little guy on Amazon for around $16. Since it's pretty damn cold out this morning, I though it might be a perfect opportunity to give it a go.

It's about 12" x 12" x 12". Has a strip of LEDs along the front upper lip. You plug it into a USB power source to light it up. I used one of my portable chargers.

Not a bad little gizmo that goes a long way towards making excellent pictures. Of course, it just makes it easier to find painting flaws!