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Title: [BFG] Help with IDing Imperial fighters/bombers/assault boats?
Post by: timdp on August 28, 2013, 06:56:57 AM
Trying to figure out whether the loose sprues I'm getting on Ebay are the ships they are supposed to be.

Now with a pic!

Left to right: 1. ?, 2. ?, 3. Imperial bombers, 4. Chaos fighters, 5. Chaos bombers

Which is which in the two left hand ships?

Thanks,

Tim

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/timdps/Battlefleet%20Gothic/fighters_zps2dfcbd45.jpg) (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/timdps/media/Battlefleet%20Gothic/fighters_zps2dfcbd45.jpg.html)
Title: Re: [BFG] Help with IDing Imperial fighters/bombers/assault boats?
Post by: Armiger84 on August 31, 2013, 04:46:53 AM
Way way way way back when GW first did Attack Craft models for BFG, they had two different models for Imperial Fury fighters (Type 1, Type 2).  I believe they ditched the Type 2 design after a couple of years.  Type 1 is the leftmost (in the Blue Book, you'll see the Type 1 fighters used on the massive space dock scratchbuild on page 62, and the Type 1 and Type 2 fighters used on the Imperial Blackstone Fortress modification on page 61), Type 2 is second from the left.  Imperial Starhawk bombers are in the middle.  Chaos Swiftdeath fighters are second from the right.  Chaos Doomfire bombers are on the right.  The only thing you're missing are Imperial Shark Assault boats, and possibly Torpedoes and Mines, if they're something you care about.

Edit:  come to think of it, the Imperial Blackstone Fortress conversion also shows a third fighter style, but I suspect that might have been a modeler's scratchbuild, as I've never seen that particular design (long straight noses, stubby square wings, wingtips possibly folded up) anywhere else in GW's product line.
Title: Re: [BFG] Help with IDing Imperial fighters/bombers/assault boats?
Post by: timdp on February 05, 2014, 01:36:56 AM
Quote from: Armiger84 on August 31, 2013, 04:46:53 AM

Edit:  come to think of it, the Imperial Blackstone Fortress conversion also shows a third fighter style, but I suspect that might have been a modeler's scratchbuild, as I've never seen that particular design (long straight noses, stubby square wings, wingtips possibly folded up) anywhere else in GW's product line.

Are these the mystery fighters?

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/timdps/Battlefleet%20Gothic/mysteryfighter_zpsa4f8cb61.jpg) (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/timdps/media/Battlefleet%20Gothic/mysteryfighter_zpsa4f8cb61.jpg.html)

Title: Re: [BFG] Help with IDing Imperial fighters/bombers/assault boats?
Post by: timdp on February 05, 2014, 07:14:54 AM
Quote from: Malika on February 05, 2014, 06:49:10 AM
Oi, what about trying to add some organic chimneys on the hulls of the cruisers? Kinda like the Tyranid Carnifex (http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2009/11/3/62210-Carnifex,%20Tyranids,%20Carnifex%20back%20right.jpg), Death Guard Grave Wardens (http://zweischneid.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/gravewardens1.jpg), Typhus (http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121003160820/warhammer40k/images/6/65/Typhus_Battle.jpg), or something like this (http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?373907-Scourge-Drones-Counts-As-Nurgle-Heldrakes). Could be downright nasty!

Um... good idea, but wrong thread?
Title: Re: [BFG] Help with IDing Imperial fighters/bombers/assault boats?
Post by: Malika on February 05, 2014, 10:27:36 AM
Sorry, my bad! It was early in the morning, must have overlooked it. My apologies.