IMPERIAL HUMANS BACK TO THE DRY DOCK

The Imperial Humans have one of the best looking fleets within the factions of Uncharted Seas, not to mention is the most "historical-like" of them, very closely resembling the ships of "the Age of Sail", and rules-wise is one of the most balanced, because it has no real weaknesses besides being dependent on the wind direcion, as you can imagine. I have embarked myself on a little projet of painting the basic ships of the fleet before Christmas. The rules  stipulate you need at least one large ship of the line (the battleship) a squadron of cruisers (medium ships) and another squadron of small ships (frigates)  to be a valid an "operational" fleet. Do you think I could do it in time?

Here there is my Work-in-Progress fleet so far:

The Heavy Cruisers on the left do not count as they need the regular cruisers on the right to be included in the fleet. Already have paintted two squadrons of frigates, and need to finish the sails of the curissers and, I hope to finish both battleships (the centermost ships) before this month ends. They are almost ready for an Army Painter's quickshader (dark tone) wich works the best with those ships with that colour scheme. At some point I will post here a tutorial about how I based and painted the models, because the tutorial in Spartan Games' forum is very likely to be deleted. I think you will love it ;)

The monster and the destroyers trailing the rest of the fleet (plus the Sloop on the right hand side) are the extra challenge for me to paint them before the end of this year because I plan to play an scenario with a friend of mine that works in Canada with his boyfriend but comes back to Spain for Christmas and New Year holidays. I will lend him my Sky Pirate fleet (another fleet that you will see here soon) and I will be playing with (I hope) newly painted Imperial Human fleet, so he can try out the game. I hope he likes it because he loves elves and I have an elf fleet (still unassembled and unpainted) that I am looking forward to lend it to him (painted, hopefully) the next Summer holidays. Let's see what happens...