Red Alert - The other side

 Over the weekend I managed to finish painting and basing the second faction.  To stand out from the blue fleet, I have gone again for a gunmetal base coat, but this time added red and grey highlights.

Here is the second fleet:

Here you can see the six battleships at the front, the command ship with its escort fighters, six cruisers, 12 destroyers and three clusters of fighters.

I also painted three more blue faction battleships.  This completes all of the capital ships and most of the support vessels.  There are a few more odds and ends to do, but I now have enough for the opening scenarios of the game.

Red Alert - Setting Up

 Inspired by a post on David Crook's Wargaming Odyssey blog, I decided to dig out my unopened Red Alert board game.  It was one of those ideas from a few years back that never came to pass.  I have another set that has been painted, but not by me, so I thought it would be fun to paint some spaceships and set up a basic game.

The models that come with the game are quite nicely made and come in a basic green or red plastic for the warring factions.

I experimented with various colours and in the end I decided to give all the ships a coat of shiny gunmetal and then add colours for each faction.

This is the result of my initial effort.  My green ships are now blue and sand colour:

I have started work on the other faction and set the game board up for the first scenario in the rule book.