A Poor Man's A Billion Suns - Fleet progress

 I have made progress with the fighters, bombers, recon craft and smaller capital ships. Pleased with this.

As it stands, these are the smallest of the capital ships. Frigates? Corvettes?

These are bigger. 

Front row are recon scouts. Behind are some fighters. They are made from tile separators. 

Three squadrons of bombers. I like these the best.

Because I mount them on little magnets, storage is pretty straight forward.

A Poor Man's A Billion Suns - Clothes Peg fleet complete.

 I have completed my first group of ships. My favourite are the small corvette type ships. I need to have a think about getting any ships in the size area between the big ships and the small ships. 

It is amazing to me, the difference a lick of paint makes. The blue and red dots just give them so much more life. 

These are my favourite and I have a few more on the way. Simple, small, cheap in game terms.

I need to work out how to make sure the card doesn't curl, but otherwise it is all fine. I like how these turned out. I imagine these will be unique ships, or I will have to come up with some in-universe handwavium about how large spacecraft are all built as single units and are all different.

The missile racks are from Brigade Models or GZG. They were meant to be on something, but I can't remember. 

I have already begun working on some more mid-sized ships, and am always on the hunt for medium/different pegs. 

 

 

 

A Poor Man's A Billion Suns - Clothes Peg Fleets.

Over on the Book of Faces I have curated my feed to consist almost entirely of hobby related groups, and a few friends who come out with regularly amusing things. I am a member of the Super Cheap Wargaming group, and over the past month or so there has been an explosion of people making space ships out of clothes pegs. They started out simple and became increasingly intricate and complex as the month has gone on. The entire time I bemoaned not having clothes pegs. I think I have some at work, but am on Easter break. So I went looking for them in shops. Tesco had this set, The Range had nothing normal, but did have a set of 200 mini pegs, useful for corvettes, Amazon has loads, but I wanted to hold off. 

The Tesco pegs are the most boring, vanilla shape you can get, but will be fine to experiment with. 

 Here are my first four attempts. The double purple on top is the size of two other experiments unpictured. I am not sure I like the double purple together. I will paint these over the weekend and see what happens. The flight stands are of course my nails, with magnets on top, but the ships are quite top heavy - I might need to rethink my bases and have longer ones.