I just got the book and some models in-hand from them last week, and I've only read it over once so far, and it doesn't look to hard as you said. It also looks like a lot of fun. I hope to find time this week to paint them up, and get the review started.
What I saw looked very promising at a glance tho, and the models are very retro in a Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers-esq, cliff-hangar serials sort of way.
I need to go to the fabric shop and pick up a piece of that black felt with glitter on it for a space play mat on the cheap, and some foam balls and chunks of foam to whip up some roids and planets with too now.
I like you pics as well, it's getting me geared up to play the more I see others imagery of it.