Official Marauders & Mercenaries Thread: OSO OmniDyne

[Johntomass]

Does the oso dreadnought come with task force stats ? 

[Bessemer]

Yes. All TF stats are in the patrol fleet box.

[Johntomass]

Cool next question what does a dreadnought function like in the smaller task force platform ? 

[CDR_G]

Soon, I just got the OSO Reinforcement Group. I really like the modular parts that make it an escort carrier. However, in my Dindreznzi fleet there is room to place magnets and you interchange parts. 

How are others dealing with switching out the parts and keeping them in place?

 

[Misterbucket]

I bought 2 boxes... so I guess I didn't really deal with it.

[Paladin21]

I keep some blue-tac in my storage box and sticky them together when I want to use the escorts.  Not particularly elegant, but the cap pieces were small enough I didn't want to drill on them for magnets.  This is also helpful for the ships that just don't want to stay on their peg.  I've got a few that I've worked on repeatedly, but they still crunch over...

[Bessemer]

So far in doing the above. That being said, I have yet to paint them, so that may be an issue for the future.

[CDR_G]

Is the Racketeer- OSO Corsair Battle Carrier available for sale?

 

[Paladin21]

They've never released a model for it, so it isn't available anywhere.  I've seen various stand-ins around the forums, basically pick a ship you like the aesthetics of and paint it to match up with your fleet.  Corsair support is, in general, non-existent if you don't want to buy ships individually for squadron prices.

[Bessemer]

Just an experiment with the light cruisers. I wanted to  emulate the bent wing of the corvettes. Got a bit of a TIE interceptor thing going on.

Thoughts?

[fracas]

Looks good but the curve is a bit subtle

[Bessemer]

True, but my original plan was to make the wing two segments long rather than one, but it was too long and didn't look right. Your own mileage may vary of course.

[BluFlcn]

I think it looks great. It's exactly what I plan on doing if I pick up a second box of light cruisers/escort carriers. 

I'm really looking forward to seeing them painted, now. 

[Botticelli]

Looks much better than the half ring and I will definitely do the same should I ever buy those models. It's a shame you still have to purchase additional engine half rings for that.

[Bessemer]

Actually, if you used a modeling saw and took your time (as opposed to butchery with a stanley knife...), you should have enough "links" to go around the full squad, seeing as each ring section is 4 "links" long.

To be honest I didn't mind the half-ring. It's just that the Representative/Paradigm model has a strange problem. A full/half ring makes the 'Rep look too big, yet the stub-wing like I've done, is too small for the Paradigm. Ah well, it's done now!

[Frans]

On 4-11-2016 at 4:30 AM, Bessemer said:

Actually, if you used a modeling saw and took your time (as opposed to butchery with a stanley knife...), you should have enough "links" to go around the full squad, seeing as each ring section is 4 "links" long.

Just scoring the "cut" line with a scalpel and then breaking will probably work too.

To be honest I didn't mind the half-ring. It's just that the Representative/Paradigm model has a strange problem. A full/half ring makes the 'Rep look too big, yet the stub-wing like I've done, is too small for the Paradigm. Ah well, it's done now!

In my opinion this whole modular approach doesn't produce great results.

Nice as this approach may be for Spartan, the new gunship model isn't really an improvement over the old one, and we would have been better off with a dedicated escort carrier hull instead of those drop-on parts for gunship and escort carrier.

And the same goes for the battleship / dreadnought combo; they should have gone for a dedicated battleship hull instead of this drop-on part to turn a dreadnought part into a (smallish) battleship.

I have come to the conclusion  that the OmniDyne range now effectively exists out of a corvette, a light cruiser, a cruiser, an (OOP) gunship, and a dreadnought.

Not enough models to built a versatile fleet with, and thus my OmniDyne fleet project went back into the same freezer it has already spend five plus years in 

 

 

[Bessemer]

Ok, so my Foundry keeps doing the limbo...probably due to the old school metal rings weighing it down.

The pegs are glued into the model, but not to the base (for transport reasons). Would gluing it the the base solve the problem? 

[BluFlcn]

It will work if you take the time to hold it while it's drying. I did glue mine to its base and I added another peg behind the two main pegs. I'll post a picture. Because I didn't trust the glue to hold. The only other thing would be using widgets that force it to sit upright? I don't use widgets or anything and don't mind gluing my models to their pegs since my foam is deep enough to sit my models upright and carry them without worry.

Clearly I need to clean the base a bit. But yeah; This is how I got my Foundry to keep from wobbling.

[Bessemer]

The third peg may be the way to go, or just be lazy and get me some resin rings. Cheers!

[Chief Mutt]

Finally got my third gunship and revisiting my Omnidyne fleet plans.  I'm torn between the escort carrier and the cruisers   Eventually, probably both.

I favor the tactic of using them with corsair boarders but hate that that dilutes my gunship strength.

[Ryjak]

Magnets allow you to have both...

[Chief Mutt]

Thought the escort carrier is based on the light cruiser hull.  I am planning to magnetize them when I get them even though I'm not really a fan of the light cruiser.

[Ryjak]

Ah, thought you meant something else.  OSO Cruisers and Escort Carriers are both solid units (and models), so it's mostly a matter of preference.  I went with the Cruisers, because you get four ships.

[Chief Mutt]

That's the direction I settled on, just waiting now...

Next month I'll probably do the escort carriers.

[Lerriano]

Sup firestorm peeps I'm new to the OSO, would you recommend the support or reinforcement box as a second buy?