Sunday 24 June 2012

FSE Full Thrust

 FSE Full Thrust.


FSE Starter Fleet
Must be 18months ago that I bought two starter fleets of Full Thrust ships. At the time if I remember correctly it was £25 for them both now, having checked the web site (http://shop.groundzerogames.net/) it seems that the price has risen to £18 each. Just looking at one intro fleet, this one being the FSE (Federal States Europa,). INTRO FLEET pack contains: 1 x BATTLECRUISER (BC), 1 x HEAVY CRUISER (CH), 2 x LIGHT CRUISERS (CL), 2 x DESTROYERS (DD) and 2 x FRIGATES (FF). They are nice sculpts with each faction having a distinct look which makes national identity in the game easy to fix.

Battle Cruiser, Heavy Crusier and Frigate.
I must admit I did struggle with painting these. Not the actual painting but the colours. My first thoughts were to paint them a wine red but is just did not look right. Maybe on another fleet it would work well, but for these it looked dull and uninspiring. Once cream, I prefer "champagne", they were still lacking something so a quick Flesh wash brought out the detail and then a blue stripe really did lift them and unite them. Overall I am happy with the colours now but I always find it hard to paint things which don,t have a face.

Frigates, Destroyers and light Cruisers.

The Frigates do look small when next to the larger ships but when clustered with the other small ships seem to fit in quite nicely. The only assembly was one join on the Battle Cruiser which is held in place with both green stuff and superglue. So no complaints about assembly at all. Having got this far I have enjoyed them. It has made a pleasant change in my painting and I would be willing to get more space ships. Graham at the club also has a couple of small fleets (NAC and ESU I think) so a game might be in order soon.
As a club we do like Stargrunt Sci-Fi rules so I hope this might also be something we could get into as it has a shared background. Not that there is a huge amount of background material, but there is enough to hang some games on. With Stargrunt several players have factions and seem happy not to encroach on anyone elses. This is great in one way, as it adds variety, the down side is that it can be fragmented, as we all like to use our own forces.

That's today's post. Thanks for reading I'll blog again on Tuesday. All the best Clint 


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  1. Mecha Ace24 June 2012 at 03:26

    Looking nice, I do like me some spaceships.

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    1. Clint24 June 2012 at 03:44

      I found it really hard to settle on a paint scheme. But did enjoy them so can see me getting some more.

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  2. Simon Quinton 24 June 2012 at 03:46

    Nice fleet mate, nice colour scheme as well

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    1. Clint24 June 2012 at 04:04

      Thanks mate. Colour scheme is simple and MUCH better than the first attempt!

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  3. Zabadak24 June 2012 at 04:41

    My son swears by Full Thrust and those models; really good looking paintjob.

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    1. Clint24 June 2012 at 05:03

      Thanks for the comment. Only played Full Thrust once so next game will be an experience.

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  4. colinmnash25 June 2012 at 01:49

    I've had teh exact same problem painting spaceships - i.e. what colours to use?

    Took 3 different schemes to finish my Iron Stars ships and I'm still not entirely happy with the final choice; I think frustration made the final decision tbh!

    But you seem to have found a good scheme here Clint - nicely done, and I look forward to seeing pics of them in action!

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    1. Clint25 June 2012 at 02:36

      Thanks mate. Coulor scheme wise I was looking at red wine (something that unites all the FSE) But settled on white wine.

      I totally agree frustration lead me to settle quickly on these colours./ Give me things with faces to paint.

      As for seing them in action, I suspect end of July.... if not later. Club games booked till then, but strangely not this weekend although Spearhead was mentioned.

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  5. The Extraordinarii25 June 2012 at 05:25

    Oh cool! Spaceships me likes... I can empathise with you regarding colour schemes, maybe I can suggest having a look at some manga for inspiration .... they have the spaceship thing down pat, check out robotech, macaross saga...appleseed, not all are spaceship related but the colour choices and schemes should work perfectly.

    Look forward to more on this front Clint.

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  6. Clint25 June 2012 at 07:01

    Well as mentioned in the text, I did buy 2 intro fleets. I have just got to find the other one! (Yes I am that disorganised)

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