Drop Zone Commander

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Well congratulations of sorts are in order, for thanks to this post and its contributor I will soon be making my order of a DZC starter set ! I figure I'll need another player to get the ball rolling and having two armies to show off and burrow out should be a nice incentive. My inner moster afficionado makes me want to go with Scourge, but I will have to give the UCM at close look as well.

[Speknawz]

I picked the same name as on here, Speknawz. I've used that handle for almost 10 years now. Started as my main in World of Warcraft back in Vanilla version and now I used it for just about everything game related. It was my Xbox Live gamertag also but I sold my Xbox in January so don't send a friend request... Anyways I have been back and forth on buying an army kit for the PHR or just go with the 2 player starter and stick with the UCM. I'll most likely just go PHR because I like their story and their play style from what I've read so far. But like I said I don't know anyone locally that plays it yet. Guess I'll start interrogating and converting people over to the dark side.

Still waiting on being accepted into the forum... Is this guy on vacation or something? Kinda dislike waiting an entire week to post on a forum, but what can you do right?  I should be putting my order in around the 25th of this month.

[inferno]

Stingray, word! Will I be seein ya on the Hawk forum as well?

Speknawz, Simon was away for the convention they just ran but he's back now so if you're not in already you should be soon.

[Speknawz]

Still waiting to get access into the DZC forums. Could someone please contact an admin for me? I've been trying to find out how I can do this myself but every time I click a page it tells me I need to be logged in to access that part of the forum.  Just ordered the starter kit today, should arrive in four days and I'll start painting the UCM after I play a couple test games.

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Received my UCM/Scourge starter set today. Really liking the un-grimdark fluff so far, but have yet to take a look at the rules. Now for kidnapping people to play with me...

[Speknawz]

Nice, mine arrives tomorrow. I've already got a couple people interested in trying it out with me this Sunday.

[inferno]

I got my Shaltari starter army and a blister of Spirit light Gates the other day and will be jumping in on a DZC day at my FLG on saturday. Man, the detail on these minis are friggin nuts! I have never seen such fine and crisp details on a mini.

[Speknawz]

Really? I was a little off put by the 10mm scale at the beginning, mostly because you normally wouldn't have the fine detail things like on most Warhammer's Special Characters, but I guess I'm so used to seeing GW's flat and boring vehicles that I don't know what to expect. Guess I'll find out for myself in 12 hours.  Also, Inferno, I see you've been posting on the Hawk forums, could you please help me out with getting a message to the admins about getting my account approved?

[barbedsparky]

Also waiting approval.

[Speknawz]

Feb 27, 2014 10:38:21 GMT barbedsparky said:

Also waiting approval.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one, I'll just shut up and wait patiently then. Until then I'll get back in my dungeon and try to finish my army of face tentacles.

[inferno]

Apparently they've had massive problems with spammers on the forum so they've been vetting every person that signs up until they figure out a way to keep all the spam out. Message them on their facebook and email hawk at [e-mail] and they'll get you in. Hawk is still very tiny and they've been flying around for tournaments during the last few weeks which has slowed their responses. As crazy as it sounds, all the minis were designed by Dave, the rulebook was written by him, everything was painted by him, all photography, etc.

I tried my best to take a pic so you guys can see the detail level. Nothing on the model is blurry, thats just my camera and the angle I had to take the pics at.

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Yeah, I read that. Guy is a freaking machine for being able to pull something like that off. The fact that some of the tanks/ground units actually fit into the fliers blew my mind. Also very impressed by the detail, though for painting purposes I suppose I'll end up drowning out a lot of them, hehe.

[inferno]

I'm going with Army Painter colored primer and quickshade, I'll report back soon how it works. I feel confident It will allow me to capture all the lovely detail. Really nice that their paints are color matched to the primer. After priming and washing with the Quickshade, I can go back and drybrush with a paint that matches the primer to clean up any surface areas that I don't want to be colored by the quickshade and know it will match.

Dave is a machine! It's a real breath of fresh air going from a huge company that won't take the time to address rules issues to one man who goes above and beyond. I really admire the passion!

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Do be sure to report back. I have been considering a green Army Painter primer with a red wash/shade on top of it for my Scourge (which I think is the army I will be investing in. Can't beat evil space-monsters). Don't know how the fluff feels about differing color schemes, but this way it will (hopefully) end up looking a bit like my Tyranids, which I think would be kind of neat. We'll see how goes.

[inferno]

Shaltari's utter contempt for camoflauge is the only thing mentioned in fluff scheme-wise. Everything but camoflauged Shaltari is a go from a fluffy perspective. I should have some pics tomorrow of the basing/quickshading tomorrow

Green/red would look cool on Scourge. Their models are by far the easiest to do entirely with washes/inks. All you need to pick out are the "eyes". Search "painting scourge" on youtube, David uploaded a great video showing how easily and well they paint quickly. It should come up first, by hawkwargames.