"New Aerial Vessels join the fight against the Hive" Topic

Craig from Gaming Models gamodls.com took a model I built and made a production mold for resin casting. I've always loved his work and have kit bashed a number of designed from his 15mm resin tanks and guns and what not. It was a ton of fun to work with him on this project.

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These are VSF drop ships for the HQC Universe, but will certainly work for a lot of different game universes. I haven't seen models yet, just these pictures. You will be able to see these assaulting the Hive next year at Diecon, Origins and maybe a few other places! I'll have to add a prop to them, maybe counter rotating ones.

So these will be putting the Rough Riders under General Roosevelt into the thick of the battles in South America.

So what colors should I paint them? What markings should they have? Are they U.S Army craft or Navy?

Let me know what folks think!

He made a silicone mould and sent it to you so you could make resin copies? Or he did a production run for you?

He made the molds and is casting for me. I'll be putting them together and painting them.

These ships look even better when they attack enmass!

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These ships are available from Gaming Models Inc.

Based on WW2 organizations, I think the US Army would own things dedicated to landing troops, Navy would own things with guns (along with some things for landing Marines). After all, the US Army still maintains a pretty large fleet of landing craft and a few landing ships. link

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Good point. These ships are decently armed, but not really made for air-to-air combat, which would be the domain of the Navy in HQC.

In the game Terry ran at Origins, a big group of 'em did drop off their troops and then beat up on a swarm of Hive creatures, almost killing the Hive Queen!

In HQC the United States Army has two branches that initially invested in aerolyth vehicles; the Coast Artillery Corps and the Quartermaster Corps. The Coast Artillery Corps concentrated on craft that could defend harbors, both from naval attack or from aerial craft as well. This means flyers armed with heavy torpedo batteries or rockets.

The Quartermaster Corps designed and bought the vessels used for transport. As Arun said some of these vessels were heavily armed.

Here is a sketch of the markings of the Quartermaster Corps machines

The color schemes will be based on between the wars USAAC ones including this link

That tigerstripe pattern is pretty cool, but I like the blue&white fuselage with yellow wings on the A8 Shrike better:

That is a great color scheme on an interesting aircraft. WE wanted to include more tactical looks for the combat aircraft. We did use some of the more high visibility schemes for some of the Ornithopters and that did seem to work out well. In the HQC universe the bugs do see in the visible light spectrum, so traditional camo is of value