I've been working on my Directorate ships lately. Settled on a fairly corporate looking paint scheme as it fits there background. I'll post a painting guide for them when I get a little farther along. Also played with some glow paint scheme. I'm not really happy with the glow effect but I spent to much time on it and gave up. Ordered some Trollbloods and Cryx from Priveteer Press' Warmachine and Hordes range so look for a post soon about that. Check out the two completed ships below.

 Induction Class Frigate

Integration Class Assault Carrier

The last two aren't in natural light that's why they look a bit yellow.

Hope you all had a good Christmas! I received some cool games and some minis which I will be posting over the next couple weeks. Hopefully I will make some videos shortly too! First up is the Firestorm Armada box set, Battle for Valhalla! Sorry that some of the pictures are blurry the combination of my bad camera, bad camera work, and 80 year old man hands is a slight handicap. The factions included in the box are the Dindrenzi Federation and the Terran Alliance.

Main bodies of the Battleships, and the Research Station.

Fighters and other small ship bits.

Cruisers

Ship Bases

Dice

Ship Engines for the Battleships

Frigates

 I think these are the arms for the base.

Couple sheets of asteroid terrain.

Counters

 More Counters!

 Score sheet, and turning templates.

Cards

Scenario Book

Hardback second addition rulebook.

Ok! Back with my painting process for the Reaper Frigate. Again I used all Reaper paints and a GW Badab Black wash. 

 Based in the usual cheap BLACK.

First layer is PEACOCK GREEN 09226 

Next a few layers of BRILLIANT GREEN 09227 

Next a BADAB BLACK wash in between the armor plates.

Now Highlight the high armor plates with VIPER GREEN 09228

Layer on the high black areas with STORMY GREY 09088

Add the yellow stripe with MUSTARD YELLOW 29807 this make take a few coats

Finally add the last highlights on the grey areas with CLOUDY GREY 09089 then MISTY GREY 09090 and the yellow stripe with  PALE SAFFRON 29809

Thats the frigate and corvette box done! Next I'll be doing the battlecrusier box so stay tuned for that!

Alright so here is my first set of step by step guides for the Sorylian Collective. I used only Reaper Paints. I'll list each paint by name and number at each step. First up is the Plumbata Corvette. Sorry about the weird shadows on the first couple.

 Right out of the box

 Based in BLACK, I use the cheapest, biggest bottle of black paint I can find.

 The basecoat is PEACOCK GREEN 09226

 Next I used STORMY GREY 09088 on all the weapons and exposed metal bits. Then painted BRILLIANT GREEN 09227 on the green sections.

 Then I did a highlight layer on the grey first with CLOUDY GREY 09089 and a second highlight with MISTY GREY 09090

Next up I added the yellow strip and a small strip on the bottom. The first layer was MUSTARD YELLOW 29807 then a highlight of PALE SAFFRON 29809

 Finally I highlighted green areas with VIPER GREEN 09228

 BOOM! Done! I'm still working on the engine colors, but I'll post my process for painting engines at a later date.

Finally received my back ordered paints and started working on my Sorylian Armada. I started with the smallest ships, the Plumbata Corvettes and Reaper Frigates. I'm saving one of each type to hopefully record some painting videos. I have a couple complete pictures here and tomorrow I'll post a step by step painting guide for the Plumbata. 

 Reaper Frigate

Plumbata Corvettes

Directorate Pacification Fleet Unboxing

Just wanted to throw up some pictures. They are fantastic quality just like the other boxes I opened. They have some flashing on the back that should be easy to clean off.

 Same rule supplement that was in the Bastion Fleet box.

 Integration Class Assault Carrier and 4 Induction class Frigates.

 Appropriation Class Assault Cruisers.

 Short Range Shuttle craft Tokens.

Hope to get to these models after I finish painting my massive Sorylian Collective Fleet. I had to order some more paints after I decided on a paint scheme. They where back ordered so It might be awhile till I get them. 

Opening some Sorylian Collective boxes!

 Bastion Fleet.

 Amentum Class Battlecruisers.

 Katar Class Assault Cruisers.

 Corvus Class Frigates.

 Various bits and flight stands.

 Also in the box, some planets and a rules supplement.

 Carrier Group.

Xiphos Class Carrier.

 Kontas Class Escorts and Short Range Spacecraft.

 Hasta Class Battlecruisers.

 Short Range Spacecraft.

 Finally, the Frigate and Corvette Box

Reaper Class Frigates, with a bit of flashing on the nose.

 Plumbata Class Corvettes.

Overall I really like these models, some of the larger ships have a few bits that need to be glued but nothing to difficult. They have very little if any mold lines and only a few models had flashing. I'll work on getting them assembled and start painting soon. Also tomorrow I'll post the unboxing of my Directorate Pacification Fleet.