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	T-55 1/35 is a tad too big for even modern 28mm models.
	Starships While not actually a game of Full Thrust, it looks very much like one...
	Starships Can you count how many starships are in this picture? Meteors don't count.
	Starships Old GW Spacefleet ships. These are officially troop transports, cargo ships and shield ships if I recall correctly. Small wonder they were the only ones left in the discount bin.
	Starships Niilo demanded have this picture taken.
	Starships A closer look at the old Spacefleet ships. Even though these ships were next to useless in the rules, they are rather nice models, actually.
	Starships Castellan shield ship, I think.
	Starships This is a troop transport from old Spacefleet range.
	Starships Originally, this was a cargo ship.
	Starships Another view of the old Spacefleet ships.
	Hills Look ma, it's a stack of hills!
	Starships A pair of ESU ships from GZG.
	Starships An ESU fleet carrier.
	Starships An ESU battledreadnought.
	Starships A squadron of NAC ships from GZG.
	Starships I believe the small ones are frigates from the NAC range.
	Starships This must be a NAC destroyer.
	Starships I believe this is a NAC light cruiser. I chose this color scheme because I had too much Rotten Flesh left and couldn't think of another use for it.
	Starships A NAC battledreadnought from GZG. I actually liked the old asymmetrical setup more.
	Starships Another view of the NAC battledreadnought.
	Starships A NAC fleet carrier. This was a bitch to put together...
	T-55 This is a 1/35 Trumpeter model built as a generic science fiction tank.
	Starships Top view of the NAC carrier. The colored stripe is a transfer from a long lost car kit.
	Starships This is built from a cheap Super Cobra kit and various bits box parts including conning tower parts from a Graf Spee and a Legioss missile launcher.
	Starships If this picture was sharper, you might actually how it doesn't really have any details.
	Starships This is a Gundam kit. A Gwazin from OYW era.
	Starships Another view of the Gwazin.
	Starships A Musai kit from Gundam painted in very unofficial colors (normally they're all dark green).
	Starships Side view of the Musai. The horns have broken off, as true experts can immediately tell. Unfortunately, these kits aren't really sturdy enough for gaming.
	Starships Ok, it's a Bird of Prey and a Ferengi Marauder I got from an Adversaries set. The Romulan Warbird which was the main feature in the box never got finished.
	Starships Closer view of the Bird of Prey. While ok, I wish I had painted it better and given the wings more detail.
	Starships Another view of the Bird of Prey.
	T-55 This is also the first model I've really painted with an airbrush. I got myself an Iwata HP-C and some Vallejo ModelAir, so I can only blame myself for the lousy results... ok, it's better than I expected.
	Starships I really don't know which way it should face... My knowledge of Star Trek, especially beyond TOS is extremely limited.
	Starships A couple of heavy conversions. One is based around a diecast Hind-D toy while the other one is pure bits box wonder.
	Starships But this one sports a decal from a Hind-D kit...
	Starships Closer view of the conversion wonder. This one got the smokestack from the Graf Spee.
	Starships This is converted from a Mk14 Bullock jetbike.
	Starships A Kra'Vak squadron ready to blow some humans to bits.
	Starships A small (frigate?) Kra'Vak ship from GZG.
	Starships A Kra'Vak destroyer, I think. Originally the KV were horribly overpowered RPG-style alien menace until Fleet Book 2 toned them down to reason.
	Starships Some sort of Kra'Vak cruiser from GZG.
	Starships A slightly bigger cruiser for the Kra'Vak.
	T-55 Niilo can't keep his hands off it.
	Starships The biggest Kra'Vak ship I've got, and in my opinion, about the largest playable size.
	Starships Scratch-built wonder. Made from LEGOs, a toothpaste cap and a small Titan part.
	Starships The gray color scheme is a bit dull, though.
	Starships The BattleTech fighters, again from a discount bin. They're not the same thing! The little one is a Liao Thrush and the slightly bigger one is a Kurita model, if memory serves me right.
	Starships Apart from these guys, I also have a half-built Chippewa stuck around somewhere...
	Starships Silent Death ships, old skool. These are from the time the game still had Metal Express as a subtitle.
	Starships Revenge from the Silent Death line. I really like the look of it, but it's very boring in the game - a pure torpedo delivery platform and that's it.
	Starships Two Pit Vipers in the foreground and two Teal Hawks in the back. The one thing common with both designs is that they're both very fast and they're both next to useless in a fight.
	Starships The real powerhouse of the game, Night Hawk. Undercosted and sporting very lethal weaponry. Curiously, in all the example scenarios the Night Hawk pilots have lowest possible gunnery scores...
	Starships Thunderbirds from Silent Death. Another less than optimal design.
	T-55 Rear detail. Note how the mesh is loose and partly clogged with paint.
	Starships Two Talon fighters from Silent Death. I got these later than most of the ships, that's why the shade of red is wrong.
	Starships Epping gunboat, the only gunboat design in the original game.
	Starships Another view of the red Epping.
	Starships The tiger squadron. This happened to be my tiger stripe period.
	Starships Salamanders from Silent Death, I think. I like this design, and it's relatively ok in the game too.
	Starships Pharsii II. Out of scale compared to the rest of the ships, it's supposed to be just about the heaviest fighter money can buy... Note the small color variations - you can tell the units apart, just not very quickly.
	Starships I forget what this model is called, but it's the KV-1 of Silent Death - overarmored, undergunned and butt-ugly.
	Starships Tiger squadron Epping.
	Starships Another view of the Epping.
	Starships Another nice looking Silent Death design, Sorensen III. And yet again, crappy stats.
	T-55 The tank is intentionally painted in a nondescript color scheme with bogus insignia. Oh, and note the scratched toolbox - the model isn't quite to scale it seems.
	Starships Black squadron Silent Death ships.
	Starships Another Night Hawk.
	Starships Another of these lumbering thingies... what was the name?
	Starships A Shryak shuttle from Silent Death. Somewhat capable of self defence, actually, with a quad-mount laser in a 360 turret.
	Starships A black Epping.
	Starships Some Spirit Riders from Silent Death. It's actually a very good light fighter - I just never liked the model that much.
	Starships A close look at a Spirit Rider.
	Starships I really don't like these... especially the horrible paintjobs. I think these were among the first Silent Death Minis I painted.
	Starships A couple of Pit Vipers escorting a pair of Shryak shuttles.
	Starships Pit Viper up close.
	T-55 You will note that the upper and lower hull did not come together neatly at the front. I painted the subassemblies separately to keep paint off the treads and this is what I got for it...
	Starships A Shryak shuttle.
	Starships Another Shryak shuttle. When I was into this game, I scoured the local shops and bought practically all the Silent Death minis they had.
	Starships The White Tigers. Actually, I was going for a zebra look, but it's more white tiger.
	Starships Another Salamander.
	Starships And a Thunderbird of the White Tigers.
	Starships Actually, I did not paint this bunch. When we were into Silent Death, I painted most of the stuff as usual. However, a friend of mine (who can actually paint) did a small number of them.
	Starships As these things go, the models found a new home in my collection.
	Starships Sigh... I wish I was half this good.
	Starships Well, not actually starships, but a lone beacon in an asteroid field. These are the original stands from Silent Death, and I hated them. So I bought the plastic flight stands instead and made these into asteroids.
	T-55 I think this was actually the first 1/35 scale model I've built.
	T-55 A couple of Cobalt Mercenaries stand on top of a new tank. The hatches appear to be ok sizewise, but everything else is too big.