USS Directorate - Federation-class Dreadnought
With the Dreadball project out of the way, I've got back to painting
Federation models for the Star Fleet game. I had planned to paint all
the models in my fleet from the smallest to the largest upwards but I need to get
some different ships painted so I can start playing with them at the
club. With that in mind, I started working on a couple of Heavy
Cruisers, two Fast Cruisers, a Command Cruiser (essentially a Heavy
Cruiser with added hull sections) and a Dreadnought. The hard part of
painting these ships is getting the panel lines done - my way of doing
it is spraying the models white, painting the panel lines in with grey
and then carefully paint each panel white again. It's fairly time
consuming as it takes a few coats to the the white to build back up over
the grey. I ended up concentrating on the Dreadnought in an effort to
get something finished - so here she is, the USS Directorate.