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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => Topic started by: osjclatchford on October 03, 2016, 03:05:46 PM
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those who know of me on resin addict forums have seen all this before but I figured it was high time a put it on display hither as well:
anyway here is a very old ship of mine:
(http://dc393.4shared.com/img/SzOOXeJb/s7/131a8e4a4f0/osjc_nemesis2)
and a newer image here:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0623/o5fhcbvw71vohbxzg.jpg)
and here is an insane creation I made out of junk and bitz!
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/095c/25b4ng6fgltgxx5zg.jpg)
this is the Armitage class station. this one is called Fort Hammond and features a lot of detail! the Idea behind this was to make a station that was +/- half gw space station and half fw ramilies, sort of a full imperial design that's the size and effect of a blackstone (when under imperial control)
here are the rules for it:
ARMITAGE CLASS SPACE STATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 pts
Originally designed on the forgeworld of Voss, the Armitage class station was an attempt to fill the void created by the loss of the blackstone fortresses at the end of the Gothic war. (Three being taken over by Abaddon's forces and the remaining three under imperial control self-destructing.)
As such the Armitage class is releatively comparable in statistics to that of the Blackstones (when under imperial control). The Adeptus Mechanicus Magos took cues from other imperial designs, namely the standard station STC's and the Ramilies starfort designs, taking the opportunity to add port and starbord docking rigs and an extensive battery of torpedo silos. The resulting station design, being much more martial than commercial, is still quite a step down from a Ramiles in its defensive/offensive capabilities but there is safety in knowing that the ease in which Abaddon was able to mysteriously circumvent the arcane power source of the Blackstones is not the case regarding the Armitage...
FAMOUS ARMITAGE CLASS STATIONS
Fort Hammond
Station Deva
Availability
due to the design of the station being among the very newest work from the Voss Forgeworld, the Armitage is available only to imperial navy or space marine forces
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/cf1a/yzy9exjzqadtk2zzg.jpg)
ARMITAGE CLASS SPACE STATION SPECIAL RULES
ORDNANCE
Armitage class stations are considered to have an inexhaustible supply of torpedoes and as such never run out.
DOCKING
Friendly ships in contact with the armitage station can halt their movement as if they were in a gravity well. If they wish to turn they can use Burn Retros special orders without first taking a command check to do so. If a ship is in contact with either the port or starboard docking arms it can fully dock. whilst fully docked the ship gains an extra four dice when rolling for damage control during a battle and can restock ordnance if it has run out remaining in contact with the docking arm and successfully using Reload Ordnance special orders for two consecutive turns, being reloaded on the third. Even whilst docked the ship must be targeted and attacked separately from the station but counts as being in close formation with the station for massed turret fire.
also you can see Ive painted an orbital defence platform to go with it. I call this the mckay class. its created out of two kartcher pressure washer valves and and inner-part of a garden sprinkler
A bit of stuff from shapeways here, by the talented Junith. with his take on the voss escort 'falchion', the 'schimitar' frigate. very faithful to the original technical drawings and as such superior to the similar but short-lived gw white metal falchions which were rather wobbly and full of technical errors. these are clean crisp and detailed print and go well with plastic, metal and resin models.
I have seen first hand in both wsf and then fud. wsf is ok for those not as bothered by the level of detail that we all crave. I strongly recomend fud. as the pictures (sporting battlegroup Armageddon livery) show.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/814a/zitg4868rn26w2wzg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/28bf/p2h0l1tx9m7wg8zzg.jpg)
the detail is pretty good actually...
'kin expensive for what it is though. you'd have to really want something specific to go for it. I also should mention that the frosted ultra detail (fud) medium is sometimes filled with an oily by-product that can be a bast to get rid of it is leaking from anywhere on the model as one of these were from the stand entry hole. cowson to sort out...
my zeus lunar class:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/522d/pfinej2d8itt398zg.jpg)
the aggamemnon.
the detail of this model is simply a dream to paint. Zac's work with Armand is combined in such a way that compliments the skill and design elements of both designers in a way that looks cohesive and neat. I especially love the ball and socket variation on the lance turrets (a logical design evolution no?) an overlooked feature that gw would kick themselves for missing (if they even had the sense or inclination to continue and appreciate the merits of the bfg range).
I was rather pleased with the final job and decided to give it a black prow with a stripe on the area that looks a bit like a shield. very knightly :P
anyhow. with this done I decided to add more to my Battlegroup Armageddon fleet. I wanted something big and chunky as a flagship but didn't fancy a battleship. yeah they are great to paint and model but I just don't feel they match my play-style I'm much more in favour of the cruiser and reams of escorts type scenarios that allow me to keep up with eldar fleets ( as well as I can anyhow) plus trying to get hold of one that I can afford without getting out a mortgage is like trying to find rockin-horse-sh*t these days.
I was going to do a mars class but found I was finally actually out of cruiser sprues (very sad). Instead I decided to recommission and old ship of mine that I created way back in the first days of bfg. a gothic class called the d'sparilius.
I had originally converted its prow to feature the old metal "master of the ravenwing" winged hooded angel (a suitable D'sparil if ever I saw one) it did NOT look good and as such had to go. however I simply recreated the effect of this with a voss/zeus prow and a recast of the little d'sparil in p38 (minus its wings) and put that on the prow in place of the eaglehead:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/efe6/6w0smvlydc2yc6zzg.jpg)
further additons included comms relay stations on the dorsal (made of those aerial thingys from battle for maccragge set) and battlebarge engines for extra chunkyness. yes its just a gothic class in game but on the table it certainly has some gravitas. here it is next to the aggamemnon:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c09b/tbv44ztu3qz1ld3zg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4835/3iy36xh695g5l58zg.jpg)
I added the red to denote its flagship status and simply because variety is nice!
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0a6a/9xr39b3j2ick17wzg.jpg)
here is a new ship added to my rogue trader flotilla. the ardias. this zeus based endurance class has a p38 kar-dunaish prow that makes it fit in a treat with my previous kar dunaish conversion the kashmir.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6479/g6p0qcne9if75q3zg.jpg)
this niccassar dhow is also a part of that fleet. note the tau-installed railguns are picked out in yellow. yes even telekinetic space-bears are tolerated by my roguetrader!
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9eef/mwlcmc6a53p64yczg.jpg) the thunderchild. the astartes strike cruiser (blood angels livery)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fe92/58ha82xe2a8monazg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/96e7/r4mn8uhpmhpglqrzg.jpg)
this blackship is also a rcommission of an old ship of mine the draconis (sadly destroyed in fleet-action against and old adversary of mine; henreticus the dark chaos lord aka crash commander) this conversion was an obvious attempt to blend aspects of the chaos, astartes and imperial cruisers together to create something that looked greater than the sum of its parts. others have claimed that I have simply stolen the idea from the chaos/imperial grand cruiser released bw gw some time ago but as I'm fond of reminding them, I made the core of this conversion back before those were even released! my later work was simply the new bridge and prow to denote its inquisitorial status. the ship works better thusly as the combination of imperial and chaotic parts give the ship a real impression of menace. a dark ship of unknown origin, bristling with weaponry and a suggestion of possible divided loyalties...
this is also a great method of adding a mars class to whatever imperial fleet I choose to play with without having to worry about matching colourschemes! LOL
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7b46/bg9h1z2nyv79v0xzg.jpg)
a heavily mined asteroid field, heavily inspired by bfg rulebook art (chaos spikeysprue chains to the rescue!)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4789/k13gc31bb0ikrm7zg.jpg)
oh and here are some dirty old transports from the yellow-line trucking company coming into orbit around a small planet.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4771/qpj1o5395u5p1f2zg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9181/snzw1yc7lzjwa6vzg.jpg)
behold 'the scumnatus' a murder class nurgle cruiser and the first of my descent into chaos.
as you can see its rather heavily converted with a battleship bridge, horned prow and added filth rot and decay modeled on. a suitable filthy colourscheme of greeny browns and lots of weathering including drill damage to create a woodworm/decay effect, flock, varnishes and copious washes to create the look I was going for.
I hoped this would satisfy the great unclean one and that I could recant from such heresy and return to the imperium before I started to rot away...
but I immediately craved more. and more of a design challenge too.
I fancied a daemonship conversion coming on. it needed to look nasty. like it was made of flesh, bone, steel, corruption and death. I chose a styx class as the base as the one I had got hold of had been constructed wrong with missmatched launch bay configuration, making it look all wonky and lopsided. perfect for a filthy child of nurgles touch...
let the conversion begin:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/addb/2dy4cg7e9dkele4zg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0688/ctewrgtd927z1evzg.jpg)
It features a lot of the same effects as the murder class above but also includes tentacles and bits from a carnifex. and also the ribcage and spinal parts from and old undead horse. the idea behind this was not to show a ship with deamon bits on it. I wanted this to show that this is the deamon inside the ship, bursting its way out of the very hull itself. the front end also has an odd beak/spike ram made from a tyranid shoulder pad. this to me has created a great effect. it looks like an odd symbiosis of an undead carrion-corvid skull and also a lot like an old fashioned plague mask. both visions ideal for nurgle plague ships!
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1c42/42wfx8m8q2wl8vwzg.jpg)
heres the two together. I can just imagine hoards of fighters and dreadclaws swarming out of the styx class like bloated flies around a rotting carcass... lovely imigary eh?
and before I got labeled excommunicatus I had a thorough shower and got to work on this:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4937/c03jbq8dnedq7dizg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2d09/i16w47mvde7pjk2zg.jpg)
the lumos astra - greyknights strikecruiser from admgr on shapeways. a very faithful 3dprint is it not?
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c66f/9fkewgc0ltu9rwrzg.jpg)
this was miliput on a plastic cat toy ball as a base and at an inch and a half (as opposed to the usual 2" that moons tend to be in bfg) It doesn't look too big against smaller planets either.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0860/fcdoefvrjhcidfbzg.jpg)
talking of planets I reworked a 3.5" wooden ball into a watery looking venus-esque sorta vibe world:
and here it is with some models:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/54ac/qvrbh6d5vc62dv6zg.jpg)
a good excuse to show off the helion escorts I had recently painted...
here is the dictator class cruiser that goes with them too, the benedict:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fbc3/nccmkxyn8tm48bfzg.jpg)
You cant see it here but the engine decks (the bits that look like a huge air intake) are done in bronze with verdigris effect. maybe a better shot soon.
also part of that fleet is this:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1265/67ec9hw5ryi3v7kzg.jpg)
the sacred duty, a lunar class
then its time to bring out the big-boy!
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8ab3/yayg610fpmr09v2zg.jpg)
sorry if it appears sideways, mediafire is doing that for some reason...
a jupiter inspired green gas giant. this is pretty big, 8" actually, and as such is not wooden but is a plastic light fitting globe. here it is with one of my converted sword class frigates for an easier size comparison:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d657/842q5ug4wf7aldvzg.jpg)
this was fun. fyi sponges make great tools for the cloud (on the blue planet) and an 1/2" brush was used to make the rings on the gas giant...
here's a group/montage shot of my current main fleet project:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1955/8odomvh6wq9awirzg.jpg)
hope you enjoyed these. more soon(ish)
c and c welcome but please nothing to do with the quality (or lack of it) of the photography I'm aware I'm no photographer and have no intention of becoming so.
oh and for those in the wonder of who or what the hell a D'sparil is when its at home: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/D'Sparil (http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/D'Sparil) yes I was (and still am) obsessed with doom heretic hexen quake and all things nineties fps! LOL
oh and those unclear on the references to p38: http://www.halfords.com/motoring/paints-body-repair/fillers-preparation/davids-isopon-p38-easy-sand-250ml (http://www.halfords.com/motoring/paints-body-repair/fillers-preparation/davids-isopon-p38-easy-sand-250ml) great cheap alternative to most resins when casting from silicon molds... probably considered heresy by those who do proffesional casting I know but its just my preferred medium when it comes to casting...
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An Epic post! Love the gas giant!
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Woah, that's quite the fleet...... or fleets! Very nicely painted - the Nurgle ships are suitably nasty. As for the photography I can't see any problems since their crisp, clear and show off your collection very well indeed.
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Oooh i love everything i see here !
But mainly the nurgel ships. Nicely converted, and not "too much nurglysh" as we frequently see. The ships still look as ships.
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many many thanks guys!
nice comments makes me want to share more!
so here's more of the latest:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b24c/ik5z22y1ew4ybc1zg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4840/7frbzfrczj8dorczg.jpg)
known as 'Ex Libre Imperialis' a dictator class cruiser and a vital missing component to my ever growing fleet; a carrier...
as you can see she's based on a metal ad-mech cruiser with zeus prow and 'fittings'. As such it matches in a treat with both the classic stuff and the zeus gear too!
I went for a grey prow this time as its obviously a fair compromise between white and black and its a bit different to the others... gives a nice no-frills standard naval issue look to it though...
Also I decided to make up a decent bearing compass template as I seemed not to own one...
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fceb/9cwl03m28aym87ozg.jpg)
as you can see its made of steel, aluminium and copper. heavy but nice...
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You got the wow factor. Nice collection, you make me want to build. Thanks for enabling my addiction!
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Where is the like button?
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thanks again folks!
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ok time for some little tiny yaddat-ships now!
first up some custom torpedo markers made of the old '95 gw slotta base (easier to cut down) and some aerials.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6211/5cp1lu3x95m894zzg.jpg)
I did two variants. one straight on the base and one on 'stalks'
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f648/p9d8pepu6kbmm88zg.jpg)
these custom made lightnings are based on the standard imperial fighter models with plasticard wings added and other alterations...
I got hold of some plastic (FUD) thunderhawks from grim-dark-bits on shapeways. quite expensive but the quality is great!
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/354c/zba42nhh5dzjz8hzg.jpg)
I started with two frames of the wee-ships in greyknights colours to match the 'lumos astra' strikecruiser I had done previously. however these are even bigger than the original fw casts (so are even more hideously out of scale) I feel they look a little cumbersome with even three on a base but they're done now so, so-be-it I guess...
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0878/h21mtdt6dxr4ytizg.jpg)
this is the first one I tried out on a single copper base in (yawn) ultramarine colours.
in the end I've elected to do the rest on the single stem bases as the are +/- the same size as the ordnance marker and this way I'll get more markers for my money. easier to paint this way too and look less clunky...
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8fdc/2mbk482yasl8tvvzg.jpg)
so these are the pair of blood angel thunderhawks to go with the 'thunderchild' astartes cruiser I own
and not wanting to leave my children of nurgle without attack craft I've done some for the styx class.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e594/ha8zp75zsd5gu3yzg.jpg)
some swithdeaths
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/52a0/bb9spefkbf4qi5hzg.jpg)
and as I don't own any doomfire's, I've done a couple of death-guard thunderhawks to fill the same role.
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Looking good, man!
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You continue to inspire and entertain! Please keep them coming!
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Great stuff would like to know how you converted some ships, some parts look familiar others not so, purely for inspiration off course ;)
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Thanks but which ones are you referring to specifically? Always nice to inspire. And as a modeler I understand the desire to know the components to replicate the conversion.
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Well how did you made the prows, or they from shapeways? the weapon bays weapons on the Ex Libre Imperialis looks like nothing i have seen before
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Hey Jehan,
The Prow on the Ex-Libre is a Zeus Prow.
The Launch bay is from the Zeus weapon modules.
http://www.resinaddict.com/blog/2015/01/wip-zeus-weapons-modules/
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indeed. as Horizon has said. mostly zeus stuff and the occasional shapeways component/ship. however this and details of my own casting/conversions and specific bitz listing is all listed in the text around the pics. I feel I've actualy been very thorough for those interested in replication of such conversions. however I guess I might have missed out a few bits here and there when I ported the posts over from the resin addict forums ;)
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I present to you, the Prejudice Exremis an armageddon class battlecruiser:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1302/zioadlct97t1rz3zg.jpg)
as you can see she uses one of AdmGR's 3d printed prows and to rather nice effect If I do say so myself.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/bcc8/7x6m2qw79ow5kblzg.jpg)
I kept the rest of the weapons loadout as 'out-of-the-box' as I could to keep the standard issue look as much as I could.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0126/228vmdd0mdj3g0vzg.jpg)
here is the back as I often forget to take an 'ass-end' shot of the engines so here it is.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a2b4/xn8jhdwo9t4w191zg.jpg)
also, I made sure I kept the extra lavishes and detail to a minimum to again reinforce the standard-issue/no nonsense look of this ship. looking at this shot its like it burst its way straight out of pages of the armada rulebook itself!
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Very nice ships indeed, and nice to see the use of Chaos and other parts to customise the Imperials in particular. Gives a rather 'current' vibe to them, as if they're some of the more modern cruisers the Navy has available. Well, as modern as millennia old hulls get I suppose! Thank you fo rsharing.
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many thanks ragsta. glad to see that this 'modern' design aspect comes across properly.
it fits into battlegroup-armageddon much better than the overly baroque styles of the ships of the gothic sector.
I'm always glad to share. in fact now I found this forum I'm pretty sure I'll be sharing a lot more... ;)
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Nice works. I especially like yellowish/brownish colors of your fleet. May I ask how you painted them and which colors you used?
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Always chaos black undercoat then.
Basecoat Snakebite leather. Devlan mud wash. Dry brush snakebite leather. Very light Dry brush desert yellow.
Or for you new kids. Basecoat Xv88. 70/30 agraxearthshade/nuln oil wash. Dry brush xv88. Very light Dry brush zandri dust.
Plus details like black, white and metals. All domes are tamiya high gloss varnish over black. ( Or over green or red for port or starboard lights)
Simple
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nurgle reinforcements are in:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/352d/m6y6m12of6341k3zg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/05f4/58szqvg4p1mstjnzg.jpg)
the 'foetid claw' escort squadron.
some simple conversion on these. I have never really liked the look of the chaos escort vessels much. aside from the iconoclast that is. the others just seem a little odd looking. I know this is a purposeful design choice to show that the vessels are based on hybrid human/xeno technological elements and the disparate and 'spikey' forms are very obviously chaotic.
however I like my escorts to be more or less baby versions of the cruisers in essence. as such my chaos escorts feature a more streamlined aesthetic (using parts from the imperial sword escorts and my trademark domes) that ditches the excessively spikey bits and points it all forward, giving a greater sense of forward momentum.
also here are my prototypes for a nurgle specific 'blight' torpedo.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/66da/e3uc7891wyf0ea1zg.jpg)
in rules terms either a boarding or regular torpedo but, in truth, simply an excuse to create a torpedo that looks like ginormous maggot with an engine grown out of its posterior that rides across the void to chow-down on imperial-lackey ships...
yes... Rank.
(made from the engine vents off a Valkyrie with bits from imperial aerials as engines)
and before the foetidity of the chaotic forces soil my eyes and or brain any further, I've gone for a gentler kind of heresy, here is the latest addition to my rogue trader flotilla:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6f59/42dhz3qs6ajr2ojzg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/3759/rn7ioikj7dj330pzg.jpg)
the tau are coming to tea...
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Love what you did with those Traitor ships! Paint job on that Tau ship is also pretty sweet!
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Thanks Malika!
the escorts are quite different, but as I envisaged them, so all turned out ok I suppose
The tau turned out better than I hoped. I'd never do another one mind, its just so far from my usual colours/style of painting that I'm used to but is good to stretch yourself occasionally so as not to get stuck in the comfort zone of painting. I think this can lead to complacency and slap-dashidness otherwise...
talking of which, LOL:
final parts of the nurgle fleet (for the foreseeable future anyhow)
the 'filth incarnate' A slaughter class cruiser.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/914d/f56abxjxaxk6x6xzg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ad84/nlf6y1297cx7c2yzg.jpg)
for this conversion I decided to redesign the bridge (thanks to an old chaos battleship bridge) to be much more forward to suggest at the speed of the vessel. she is the fastest cruiser in the chaos fleet after-all! the nurgleisation has been kept to a minimum to again further emphasize the speed factor. stripped down and slick.
I used imperial turrets and aerials for a slimline look too.
however I could not resist a bit of scumming-up, namely the greenstuff guts hanging out of the port side midships and the spines thrusting their way out of the stern-side hull. (I shaved these off of the chaos vehicle spikey sprue spike-plate) also I did a lot of drilling to do the old maggot/woodworm-eaten look I did before, especially on the courtyard just rear of the bridge (keeping most of the holes in the triple circle nurgle symbol where possible) and a little greenstuff 'pustule' triplet (a nurgle design staple if ever there was one) on the starboard 'socket' just behind the prow.
the next up is a second murder class. having at least a pair of these gunboats is an essential in a chaos fleet if you expect to achieve any sort of victory. the slaughter is the cheetah of your fleet, that's a given but these are your workhorses without a doubt. stick a carrier like despoiler or a styx in the back with an escort of idolaters, and sling in a few iconoclasts and infidels and you've got yourself a good working fleet.
still, I digress. here is the 'most unclean'
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5c22/tgsg4z8st1v6lwazg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/bc20/amfa7adqyd0mz7dzg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/38c6/m53lg7b5154hrr0zg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/33a7/h9mf7c23lbahri6zg.jpg)
this conversion was actually something I've wanted to do for a LONG time. as you can see it features another pair of horns like the previous murder class, this time taken from the tyranid warrior shoulderpad (the same component used on the styx's nose) I 'broke' one for a more lopsided look that nurgle is famous for. also, It cant have escaped your notice, the enormous great unclean one riding the ship from behind the bridge! (the bridge is from a chaos escort) this is actually a lone nurgling from the boxed set. I just loved the idea of a greater daemon riding the vessel out of the warp and this image harks back to the very early days of 40k (a similar image is in and old rulebook I believe, there's a challenge for you: go though your old rulebooks and see if you can find it!)
I used the small bridge to not over-shadow the daemon. as crazy as this seems I feel it works as a parody of the winged angels and eagle tributes to their corpse-god that the imperial lackeys like to smother their ships in.
I just love the way he is spewing up nasty nurgle-filth to spread all over the very hull of the ship itself...
I tried something new too, agrellan-earth to create a crusty splitting texure to the hull. it did get a bit lost in the basecoat but soon reappeared after the wash/shade coat, and to good effect if I do say so myself...
the success of this, plus the particularly overt appearance of having a greater daemon sitting on the hull made me leave the chaosisation to a minimum. this time, apart from the horns, I simply added a chaos star with added nurgle symbol to the starboard stern. simple but effective imho...
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4000/brc542dkokgge2wzg.jpg)
here are the two together.
sorry for the less than perfect pics, the light is horrible today...
more imperial stuff next!
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Nothing to worry about the pics mate. The ships look great and I'm digging the converted bridges. The chaos escorts look so much better without their bridges.... I'm gonna have to do that on mine when I get around to doing my Chaos fleet.
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Nothing to worry about the pics mate. The ships look great and I'm digging the converted bridges. The chaos escorts look so much better without their bridges.... I'm gonna have to do that on mine when I get around to doing my Chaos fleet.
thanks lord B! looking at this screen the pics are actually better than I thought they were on the laptop.
also looking forward to this future chaos fleet of yours... I'm curious now, will they be the patrons of a particular dark god or chaos undivided?
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In all honesty mate, I haven't thought that far ahead. I'll probably do 1000pts of 'Undecided' as the core and then a 250pt mini fleet for each of the 4 Gods for a bit of Variety.
I don't even have any Chaos models yet so I'll have to trawl ebay (or China) for bitz n ships. Chaos Ships don't seem to go for too much on ebay anyway. *sigh* Dammit.......... now I'm gonna go off and write a fleet list.
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Like the great one sitting on the back
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ok its been an age since I posted anything, so I figured I'd go all wip on you and share the goods before they get a hit of chaos black and the real fun begins.
recently, a friend gave me his huge collection of imperial and chaos bfg gear.
so I'm exceedingly pleased to announce that my voss fleet will at last be getting some serious firepower in the form of this retribution class battleship; the 'Righteous Infliction'
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9105/k8gs9c8m532vw5vzg.jpg)
in actuality, I've had this on the shelf for ages now but have been too tied up with my imperial guard 40k stuff to do bfg at the minute.
and also this overlord (my favourite class of battlecruiser), the 'Ultimus Umbra'
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4e21/nlrrtz3zt794aaezg.jpg)
obviously based on the blackship kit with an alternative voss prow
please ignore the old grey paint scheme on these... all will be in the appropriate fleet colours of battlegroup Devastatus soon...
and finally the deathwatch hit the stars:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/768d/eb4d5pc1sk2vecdzg.jpg)
this all came about because the first print of admGR's grey knights cruiser sent by shapeways looked like it had been held over a candle all down the port side. having informed them of such a failure, they promptly sent a replacement free of charge. so this damaged strike cruiser plus the strike cruiser conversion kit and some zeus weapon batteries and this is the result...
enjoy!
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Niiiice ! A picture of the complete fleet soon ?
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Great stuff. Where did you get the Resin parts from?
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Thanks... Lord b, the resin parts are the talented Zac Soden's creations...
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Is it for general sale? If so, link please :D
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The Deathwatch hit the stars!
the 'Daedalus'
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4c3b/lxf3o3sox0s9l3jzg.jpg)
an Ordo Xenos inquisitoral strike cruiser filled with black powerarmour clad space marines with high tech bolters and bad attitudes ;)
as seen in wip shots this cruiser uses several other bitz to alter its shape. I feel it really encapsulates the personality I was going for. high-tech but brutal, as space-marines should be.
Especially the inquisition, who have access to the very newest of the cutting edge tech available to the Imperium...
here is a shot of the two Inquisitorial strike cruisers together:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b025/vl5a0bowdv66jwizg.jpg)
the right and left hand of the inquisition, rarely seen together except in extremely dire circumstances... someone gonna get purged...
some dw thunderhawks soon...
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Looking really nice mate. The Grey Knights one looks like a 3 print? What parts did you use for the Death Watch cruiser?
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Thanks lord b.
They are both 3d prints by admgr on shapeways. The difference is the dw one is altered with a resin conversion kit...
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You and your resin bitz!!! I'll take a look at those Shapeways parts :)
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;D
as promised:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2d90/4ux8dyjyvvavgylzg.jpg)
deathwatch thunderhawks...
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Really great work throughout this thread. Very nice conversions!
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Thanks!
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Great thread! Keep the good stuff coming!
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here is the overlord class: 'Ultimus Umbra' in full paint!
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8581/lk93hups04n7aca6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/21e6/7i2btd0jqsej07r6g.jpg)
quite please with its beefyness in the end. looks kinda huge actually! almost as big as a battleship.
talking of which...more soon! ;)
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Looking really good. What colour do you use for your ships? Do you use a spray? Airbrush?
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Airbrush! Emperor no, i cant afford one of those. Let alone the skill it requires. That's the best comment I've ever got though! ;D Never used one truth be told. Well not model sized anyhow. Only industrial sized.
No. I simply chaos black spray. Xv88 base. Wash devlan mud. Xv88 drybrush. Xv88/desert yellow drybrush. Then details etc... Simple really.
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Simple but effective!!!
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If you are furious enough and use enough layers of it, drybrushing can really look like a good airbrushing! =D
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indeed. but the best thing is choosing the right colours for the job. many people neglect drybrushing the same colour as the basecoat over a washed finish. instead opting for the next colour up in the process. layering, as you say. basecoat colour. wash. drybrush same as basecoat. then keep lightening the basecoat and be less and less vigourous as you work your way lighter. it works well in the end but especially on browns and other muted warm colours like dark red or orange... its all in the wash really... devlan mud has been extinct for some time now but for emperors sake dont just substitute with agrax. it wont work. you need to use an alternative.
vaaish suggests Army Painter Strong tones. he says its a dead ringer. as yet I've not used this but vaaish is a steely-eyed seasoned painting veteran you can take what he says to the bank as far as I'm concerned. ;D
at present I'm using one of the new agrax earthshade tubs (the larger ones: 24ml) and add in: 2.5ml of nuln oil.
(flat not shiny!!!)
its not 100% devlan mud buts its as close as I could get it. and it looks ok on what I'm doing for now. will invest in that armypainter stuff when this runs out...
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the Righteous Infliction is here... (these pics are bit poor quality. taken indoors as its raining. I'll get better pics soon. once the sun comes out again!)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2d89/ydsmb525s5r8mnn6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8b49/mizba6oipb1auqe6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d138/fy8r36uw2mncob56g.jpg)
yep a voss retribution class...
yes I know she has a nova cannon not torpedoes but I field her as such and swap out torpedoes for nova at no extra cost and why not eh? its more than a fair trade for the opponent. strength six torpedoes swapped out for a single novacannon..?
I had been after one of these voss battleships for what seemed like forever and a friend of mine ditched his entire collection and donated this (and many more) ships to me.
I couldn't believe my luck, I had coveted this ship since he bought it! and back then funds were even worse than they are for me now! so I knew i never had a chance to own one.
anyway, bit of stripping of paint and some re-jigging here and there the Righteous Infliction was re-born*
why not simply do an apocalypse class? well to be honest; style. pure and simple. not to blow my own trumpet, but this conversion has everything I have ever loved about bfg stylistically; massed weapon batteries, arches, buttresses, voss prow, church for a bridge section, eagles, golden winged angel, chunky-assed-engines with horizontal protection plates and the ability to purge a planet from orbit with a single broadside volley! To be honest battleships aren't really my style but the retribution is faster, gunnier and blunter in tactics than all the other battleship classes. to my eyes its pretty much an over-amped overlord class isn't it? :D
classifications aside this ship is the perfect centrepeice to my ever growing armageddon sector battlefleet and was a fun conversion and painting challenge.
that being said, conversion was bare minimum. its pretty simple, for those not in the know the weapons batteries are helian and the bridge is off of the planet killer. but, who am I kidding, you knew all that already didn't you... ;)
*I say re-born as my first retribution class had the same name and was in gothic colours. in my fluff, the Righteous Infliction suffered terrible damage after fleet engagement with the dark chaos lord henreticus (the same buddy who donated his fleet(s) to my cause ;) ) after limping her way to the Armageddon sector she was re fitted with reclaimed weapon systems and a new voss prow. hence the nova cannon...
what a fine excuse not to convert that voss prow eh?
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Great use of bits, the ship really looks very beefy, just uber majestic!
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Looks fantastic mate. The bridge works wonderfully.
The mechanicum retribution can take a Nova Cannon for +10pts I think. Seems like you should just use that as a guide ;)
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A very nice and simple conversion. sometimes the simple ones are the best :)
I replaced the prow eagles head with a wolf head from the space wolves thunder hammer to the Wolf of Centralia which is my flagship for the Cantrallian system defence fleet ;D
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Pic of that please? ;D
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Rightio, I shall be able to get one up tomorrow providing I have it saved to the laptop. Other wise it could be a while until I'm back home...
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As promised, the Wolf of Centralia... ;)
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wUSw8THsYwc/WRw6CXSe1oI/AAAAAAAABGg/Vt-QKI8oyaUtxzspcbLUdVWNVtLPOzw4wCLcB/s640/IMG_20170218_102722.jpg)
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r2T0ykYPnv4/WRw6hWu9ZeI/AAAAAAAABGo/_VHUbCP8XhcXYvHdqV6PR_EhymLey0x3wCLcB/s640/IMG_20170218_102754.jpg)
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No offence but the wolf head is a little crooked. Should be pointed down a little more... Nice idea though. Have used the old marneus calgar backpack eagle before but overlooked the space wolf one...
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I'd replace the back mounted eagle with a wolf like icon as well!
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No offence but the wolf head is a little crooked. Should be pointed down a little more... Nice idea though. Have used the old marneus calgar backpack eagle before but overlooked the space wolf one...
To be honest it is the photo, It was one of the things I focused on when placing it was that it level both horizontally and in line with the rest if the ships form from above.
I never thought about the rear eagle haha. May be time for me to find something suitable... dives in bits box...
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ok, Malika actually asked for a wip shot of the other one of these I made ages ago but at the time I did not have one.
I just decided to make a new one for my merchant/transport fleet; 'Yellowline trucking', as such I have a wip to show you...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fb20/o6b13mr18n8bj806g.jpg)
so to break it down. its a meltabomb. bit of sprue as the prow (dome is a blob of tacky glue) plasticard fin with the lugs off of an imperial tank track as engines and a cut down aerial as the main engine/bridge. copper roofing nail as base.
easy parts to get hold of and as such easy to replicate, so have fun making bubba fuel transports!
it works pretty good as a system-ship sized fuel transport as far as I can see...
*EDIT*
did a couple more and took a shot:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5505/7e96mbdow4t5z6t6g.jpg)
see if you can recognize all the bitz!
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Oooh, those are awesome! What are the dimensions more or less of these? I'm pondering about making a sprue of system ships, but don't really know what size they should be.
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Thanks. As for scale. The front one is a meltabomb so I'd say 15 to 20 mm is about right... That's more or less the sizes of the gw ones that came with the metal defence monitor model...
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https://youtu.be/hHOrpFeXUao
transportation is a precise business
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e331/kn49pcvz98ztk316g.jpg)
'tis the 'yellow Snork' part of the yellowline trucking company of transports I have.
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/89c0/sniao38dhwmmxdd6g.jpg)
here they are all together...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2f76/no15hybmd5z4rjo6g.jpg)
although owned by Jago Kane, founder and operator of yellowline trucks, this high conveyor class transport barge is mostly run and crewed by the miner's guild, mining asteroids and dead planets for minerals and gasses via the extensive launchbays filled with ore-transport and drilling craft.
as the flagship of yellowline, kane himself commands the yellow snork to make sure no underhanded sneakiness or back-alley dealing goes on that's not his own...
proof of the dangerous nature of this work is evident by the small moon that has accidentally been dragged out of orbit by the extensive mass of this vessel and has embedded itself into the port side. now mined and integrated into the very ships systems.
I took two other shots to show other angles but the colour ended up less yellow and the prow less white and more grey for some reason... not enough light I'd say...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8f63/811m5e96g3ikcte6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1166/w71a3o0bviyrter6g.jpg)
for those not in the know this is a conversion of the incredibly talented LordBorak's High conveyor transport barge model. the conversion involves the rather obvious addition of the moon (miliput) and the wings are from an imperial cruiser. there are a triplet of helian laser lances added to the prow and the launchbays are also helian, made by mangozac.
this is the merchant fleet where my system ships I made in the previous post will end up...
I intend to do a second of these but I'm stuck on colourscheme... was thinking of light-grey/dirty white or something all together different... ideas?
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Oh wow...that ship is pretty mind blowing!
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damn straight it is. and that's all down to the talented hard work of lordborak. his design and implementation of the high conveyor is a clear labour of love.
for those not in the know see here:
http://www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=8366.msg73873#msg73873
it just deserved a good enough paintjob so I went all out on this. still feel it could have been a bit better but so be it I guess.
I just love how it looks like it fell straight out of a gw bfg catalogue. if you read the armada rulebook there's a bit referring to transports scaling from escort sized up to cruiser sized behemoths. THIS is what I pictured back then. not the cheapo stretched-limo transport cop-outs that fw delivered (yeah I bought a fuel one but I only used one section ;)).
seriously can't say enough good things about this model. I just love it!
go get one!
so what say you on the colour of other one I'm doing?
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The colours really make it look industrial, the whole truckers in space feel you were going for basically! Kick ass stuff!
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That looks SO much better than mine it's annoying/depressing. It's also very similar to the colour scheme I was doing on one of mine so I might have to do a few last minute changes to mine.
I feel a bit embarrassed getting that much praise. Thanks though :D
What are the plans for the other one?
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Nice !!
I love his faty and used aspect. Very industrial look. Good work !
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Thanks guys. Industrial / 70's sci fi is the look I was going for. The colouscheme is clearly based off of JCB/dewalt/catipillar industrial tools and machinery. Hence the steel chips and rust/grease/soot.
@lordb, I'm sure your ship is just as good as this. I've seen your painting in your thread. Not ashamed to say I feel it's often better than mine. Are you sure you've just not been looking at it too long and gone into over critical mode? I do that a lot.
As for my next one. Seriously guys I need help on a colour scheme! Was thinking dirty industrial Grey's or filthy white van effect. Other suggestions very welcome...
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Filthy white or light grey with red/orange markings would be awesome. Akin to this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BScrl9Aj7F3/
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What ever you do, don't do green and white :P
Dark Grey with Gold and white always works but what about deep red and black for Mechanicum/Administratum?
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Lols... Sure I'll leave gothic to you. To be honest I'm all red and black ed out after doing that dw strike cruiser. Black is a bit of an in joke with me and the missus. In the past I did an awfully large amount of black minis. Deathwatch, fallen angels, guard, then when I did my inquisition Blackship she was like, 'oh what a surprise, its black!' Well obviously a Blackship had to be black but I think I got what she was saying... As such I've tried to to strecth myself and move away from monochrome where I can and I've still not quite embraced colour fully. At lot of my guard is particularly dark in tone but I suppose that's a style. Anyway I digress. I got to say that red is off the table. If I did it red i would always feel that the one with the moon in should have been red if you know what I mean... Orange is tempting but again it feels like another copout... Why is this so tricky?
right now the idea of the dark grey is feeling tempting because its so easy to make it look good. but good aint great is it?
the whole dirty white is actually quite a challenge as I've actually always struggled with painting white to be honest. just look at that small white transport and see what I mean. I mean yeah I got away with it on that one but a high conveyor is a very large area that leaves very little room for error... the whole orange stripe thing sounds fun. and orange goes well with industrial grey its true. I can picture a stripe like how vaaish did on those voss cruisers he did for zac.(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w108/mangozac/BFGothic/Zeus%20Light%20Cruiser/Final%20Pics/zeus-painted.jpg)
I'd love to know how he got such a straight line on such a textured surface of a bfg model. masking fluid? or airbrush trickery? or perhaps its just that he's a steely-eyed painting veteran that makes everyone else look like an amateur by comparison?
I think I need to go away and practice some technical stuff and re approach this after. don't want to funt it up on a rush job now do I?
thanks for the suggestions guys.
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yeah I'm done with these now too.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9055/yp6fujfsi2k1ibf6g.jpg)
the system-ship sized transports.
I've shown these three scratch-builds with my yellow transport escort and one of the gw system ships (back two) so that people (malika ;)) can tell the scale a little better.
at first I had them simply yellow/white and dirty but the one directly under the transport escort looked a little shite so I added steel damage and a bit o' rust effect and it looked so much better. I then felt I had to add a bit of this to the others too. gotta say that after that I'm real happy with the result. obviously they look better in the flesh as the gleaming metal catches the light better than a single frame shot shows but I'm sure you can use your imagination on that a bit and just take my word for it I guess...
more soon I hope...
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ok been a while but I have been working on stuff:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f0ba/d5pc7qp7njel0766g.jpg)
finally got this squadron of corvettes done for my voss fleet,
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f220/842k4d1b04m02136g.jpg)
the 'Asp' a dauntless class,
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0c9e/t4qaug56z4acmxv6g.jpg)
'Imperious Patronus' a sister ship to the 'Ex Libre Imperialis' ( simply an excuse to include a tyrant class as I'd not yet done one and I did the prow to match the dictator I did as they work well together in game.) good god this is a bad photo... :-[
and finally this loony lunar class conversion:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7960/2six56pc64j47796g.jpg)
the 'Indominus Aster'
that's not all I've been up to though.
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e666/vamo1hwwaciigkp6g.jpg)
the yellowline trucks have a fuel transport added to the roster.
and I did this transport green, simply for a change from yellow and white!
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/804b/6r7wkak8r7uf6wd6g.jpg)
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I especially love that one. A good cargo look.
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e666/vamo1hwwaciigkp6g.jpg)
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Your Yellow-white ships are just awesome!
The green one looks awfully flat in comparison, but since that never was the case with your other ships I guess it's just because of the camera lighting?
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Your Yellow-white ships are just awesome!
The green one looks awfully flat in comparison, but since that never was the case with your other ships I guess it's just because of the camera lighting?
Thanks. Yeah I'm gonna say yes it's the camera's fault! But in truth it is a bit flat in reality. ( Tis bad lighting though) Twas an experimental colouscheme that I discarded immediately after completion. But thought I'd share to see what response bit got. Now I know I was right to discard any possible follow up on this colourscheme... ;D
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Loving the Corvettes. Where did you get the prows from? R.A again? The Lunar class...... I actually really like it. Where's the front section of the ship from?
The colours, as usual, are fantastic.
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Thanks lordb
Yeah it's resin addict again. More leftovers from the bits I bought from zac last year. I made all my Zeus frigates with prows cut off of firestorm frigates. I then noticed that the Zeus Voss prows when fitted to what remained of the firestorms made a nice stubby looking escort vessel. I dub them 'raven' class Corvettes... In actual fact the front one (that's the only one in focus I might add) is actually based on a sword class I got hold of that the previous owner had mutilated the prow on it.
Now the lunar class... It's a plastic Imperial cruiser with a shapeways light cruiser ( by admgr ) front half and engines and the plates put where the cruiser wings go. Unfortunately the shapeways cruiser was printed in wsf not fud so it looks actually pretty damn awful in texture... I added a new prow eagle from the ravenwing set and wings from an ig tank Aquila and a spike from the chaos spikey sprue. The bridge is a bizarre mix of Imperial and chaos parts. the ship also features lots of additional aerials domes and bits too. The pic is small because I felt it looked so damn bad up close lol! Will pay me to be more attentive when ordering to make sure I tick the correct box next time...
That's the last time I order stuff after a few whiskeys...
Up side is it cost a lot less this way.
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more fuel transports for yellowline...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a8a5/g2dm77qdcoznvc06g.jpg)
because the imperium simply won't run without promethium...
kane also decided that the growing merchant fleet could use a little fire support and so has reluctantly forked out for some ex-navy bombers and fighters, crewed by ex-servicemen turned private contractors, these spend most of their time in the ample launch bays of the 'yellow snork' high conveyor. although kinda outdated compared to most imperial vessels the veteran pilots more than make up for this with their high skill and the motivation of a good wage...
the double fueller is simply a conversion based around cutting the prow off of one and the ass-end of another and then whacking the two together! This then left me with a spare prow and engine section.
Now, I had previously bought a pair of the fw tankers (over a decade ago now :o). one of them was constructed with a single tank (grey colourscheme) and t'other was converted with launch bays to be an escort carrier (in my armageddon fleet). this had left me with three fw fuel-pod sections.
so I simply glued it all together as a super heavy tanker.
now I know that I previously stated that I strongly disliked the 'stretched' fw transporters but in hindsight I think It's because with just two sections it looked a little odd, proportion wise. I feel the resin addict one works fine doubled up like this because the fuel-pods are simply more slimline and integral looking. In comparison the fw ones are obviously much chunkier and cumbersome. but with three tanks the oversized chunkiness just seems more proportionate now... or perhaps its just me. ::)
got to say though the fw casting is piss-poor for the price you pay (But then I've always found that with fw resin) but I resolved this with some nice weathering and scumming up...
enjoy! more soon? maybe
was thinking that Jago ought to consider purchasing a decommissioned warship to support this ever growing trucking concern of his... at this rate he's soon to make the leap from trucking firm ceo to rogue trader... but with his typically imperial xenophobia i'd doubt that that would ever happen...
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explosivo:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/dcba/k1e2s8mufw8wh846g.jpg)
as you can see this is an attempt at modelling a realistic (ish) explosion for use as a blast marker in games of bfg.
its simply constructed from a copper base with clumps of 'course turf' from the woodlands scenic range superglued together into an appropriate explosion/debris cloud shape. next its painted with a pva glaze (I used watered down hobbycraft tacky glue as it has a real tough finish when dry and tends to dry real quick). once dry its painted with a chaos black spray (best way to get the base) then baint the cloud white. followed by yellow, orange, red then black (overbrushing each layer away from the 'epicentre' of the explosion). the black being more prominently used on the 'branches' of the debris cloud.
simple but effective? I don't know. I want to post it here to let you guys pass some judgement on it.
I think I've been looking at it too long now and it just looks a bit of a mess to me.
Personally, I think it's certainly a bit better than these by okb14: (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/50/39/03/503903224037c15e647e8e59131afc84--game-tables-warhammer-k.jpg)
which, although truer in style to the actual card templates look an awful lot more like sea urchins or tropical catachan cacti than an explosion... but that's just me...
it obviously looks better in context:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b0b9/j0aa3571ysdhqds6g.jpg)
BOOM! Imperial and Eldar forces clash in a mined asteroid
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/06c6/5djatuqagnaehi86g.jpg)
POW! a second volley of torpedoes thunder into the already crippled murder class
At present I have but one of these as I' still not 100% on whether or not to continue pursuing it (seeing as I generally only model not game you could say I'ts entirely pointless but its a bit of whimsy and kinda completes my 'card into models' journey I have been on since I first got into bfg)
Anyhow I'm not sure of a better way to make these and it certainly has been a challenge. I have made several attempts at this in one way or another over the years but this is the best I've managed so far, certainly the only one good enough that I'd share LOL...
but what say you?
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Really nice work.
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Awesome work!
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well thanks guys! the kind and supportive responses have put my paranoia in check so I guess I'll stick to this design for now! (but I do have another in mind with a pretty unstable medium in mind, more of that later..?)
in fact I made a few more of the blast markers but I shan't bother to take a picture as they're all much of a muchness. if you've seen one debris cloud done like this you've seen the rest really... I've kept them consistent colour/form wise, not much difference in them except for the randomness of the shapes...
BUT! I had an idea for a nova cannon template:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/bea3/hl9vkv1x218opzf6g.jpg)
inspired by the pressed-tin 40k vortex grenade templates (or those realm of magic ones for whf that I use as planets) this is made of the lid from the sainsbury's mens antiperspirant. (classy I know...) Its a handily sized 5cm accross, simply cut down to be more of a perfect half dome, added 1cm hole in the top and decoupaged with watered tacky glue and standard grade toilet tissue.* with a few creases and swirls deliberately left in for texture. simple paint of white, and dapple on yellow, orange, red and then black with a sponge (working out from the centre) and its job done.
yes I know , in game, I could simply use the bearing compass I made (and probably still would do) but again, this was a hobby challenge and I wanted to see if I could make something more visually dynamic. I think I succeeded... but, again, I'll leave judgement up to you...
*note
I originally attempted to cover this with the clump coarse turf, as to match the blast markers, but it ended up a disastrous result. this, I feel looks visually fitting for an awesome sized explosion that rends the very fabric of space, yet somewhat practical in terms of potential gaming use...
the picture is a bit crappy and is not doing it the best justice but its raining here so this was taken on the window sill. when the weather improves here I'll endeavour to get a better shot with some ships and the other markers (because that was fun last time!) Hell, I might even completely re do this again before then!
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I love your explosions ! And you nova cannon impact is great too.
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thanks!
to be honest I've just had a look at the template this evening and its terrible!
as such I've gone and got another lid and started from scratch, this time with just the sponge colourscheme and none of that horrid texturising that made it look a bit like a schoolkid's science project!
v2.0:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7009/ydlp8updn1g3b1p6g.jpg)
looks much more professional now if I'm honest and as promised, here's an action shot with the blast markers and ships for a greater sense of colour/scale:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/67cd/q6wp6a366bjb0ht6g.jpg)
KABOOM! the mars class looses patience with the stalemate of trading blows with the murder class and unleashes the power of its prow-mounted novacannon...
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the light and weather is ok today so I've gone all snap-happy!
some stuff you've probably all seen afore, some new, both looking much more presentable!
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d756/rjmnkjmh29094016g.jpg)
some fuel transports of 'Ace' trucking Co. arch rival of Jago Kane...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/3e77/l8ctvu8nu63o5d16g.jpg)
'Excelsior' endeavour class light cruiser, with carrier escort (admgr 3d-print for the cruiser and conversion of the fw heavy transport for the escort)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0e74/rf9u2ltzlxm3nzo6g.jpg)
'Indominus Aster' lunar class... rediculous name for a rediculous conversion (such a shame about that wsf texture...)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/455d/aaza5ayvj7hh08w6g.jpg)
'imperious Patronus' tyrant class
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ffbf/fqfiyd6j4f2rmql6g.jpg)
endeavours, 'roys revenge' and 'Invictus' (ad-mech conversion with zeus prow and a full zeus)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8de3/7bd1xt6afuxn6co6g.jpg)
Falchions. another shapeways print...
stations and such:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d83e/76sthzqirkiejs66g.jpg)
Mac'kay class orbital defense station
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/366a/5dvkm4oq9bqn1jn6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/bc40/u4fe8v79c1ck00p6g.jpg)
station 'diva' asteroid base - with docking transports from yellowline trucks and 'parking' bay with shuttles etc...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0ab8/47r964wf0wdaatn6g.jpg)
'Fort Hammond' Armatige class space station (feat. docking 'eternal vigilance' dominator class
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/bfed/b5ocdcnq3cn0z186g.jpg)
top view
some groupshots:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5ac0/df3f4vr18zfe0d06g.jpg)
Battlegroup Fatalis - Inquisitorial fleet
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a016/vjwit6ne5ce6rpb6g.jpg)
plaguefleet 'heresiarch' in all its glory
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8859/a7fblekebe75b256g.jpg)
yellowline trucks (missing the new tankers but this pic is a little older and I just forgot to upload it!)
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Awesome stuff!
By the way, regarding your Inquisition fleet. How about a Death Watch Kill Ship?
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Thanks...
Well the black strike cruiser is dw... What's a killship then...
Something specific?
Must be a new thing for dw, fluffwise..? Or something I've just not heard of yet...
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It's a shame that Lexicanum is down. They are basically small automated ships used by the Deathwatch to carry out exterminatus.
I did manage to find a picture, it was originally one of Jes Goodwin's sketches for BFG, but later on the artwork was used in one of the Fantasy Flight Games' RPG books.
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Well that's happening!
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No idea about the size though, Id imagine it akin to the System Ships. However IIRC the smallest warp capable ships are Destroyer sized escorts (not sure here).
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Yeah that's true. Smaller non warp capable ships need to dock, tether or be contained within a warp capable ship...
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Jago kane has finally added some much needed muscle to his merchant fleet in the form of this aggressive and cussed little(?) gunship:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a4b7/7tcaf52q80uut5ezg.jpg)
the Pertinacia! a battered old (counts as) endeavour class.
built from the salvaged hulk of a mostly destroyed dominator class vessel.
Jago managed to blag the battered hull off of an eldar corsair pirate (supposedly under truce but who can say with a scoundrel like Kane?) who claimed the hulk was found in one of their local shipping-run/asteroid fields. After dragging it back to the kar-dunaish shipyards he bargained with local cogboys to give her an overhaul and get what was needed to get her back in action. Boarding parties of Skitarii troops reported excessive evidence of deamonic interference in the bridge and engine decks (supposedly when the ship was lost to warp currents or possibly by chaotic boarding actions) and were force to purge said decks with extreme prejudice.
long story short; deployment of cleansing explosive charges meant that Jago found himself needing, new engines, new bridge and due to the front half of the ship being missing when it was found, a new prow. thankfully the remaining weapon systems were good-to-go and ready to be loaded with fresh munition.
The replacement parts required were simply stripped and taken from the tug that Jago used to bring her in! A simple solution to save money and time. put it this way, what would you rather have, a busted-ass old tug or a functioning gunboat? leaving the rest of the tug with the tech-priests as part of the payment, a few months to paint, fuel, arm, bless and crew her and the Pertinacia was ready to aggressively defend Kane's shipping caravans...
Pertinacia was in fact the original name for the vessel as kane never renames his acquisitions to his fleet (frightful bad luck you know...)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/55f4/ipnhqkws2r4itrczg.jpg)
portside
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d70c/wlvra9a0mw89m25zg.jpg)
ass-end! note the fresh engine (no. 7) fitted back at kar-dunaish...
the observant among you will see this conversion uses a plastic imperial cruiser as its core hull. I then made a custom prow from wood in the style of the transport model prows. the bridge is taken from a chaos frigate and the engines are chaos vehicle sprue 'nade launchers mounted on cutdown tau weapons (I feel they look very sw blockade runner). the port and starboard 'wings' are simply cut down for a slimmer/less aggressive profile.
To me, the small bridge and stubby yet chunky look of the vessel help to give the idea that this is not a warship but a vessel that is made by merchant-men and as such reflects this in its design aspects.
the paint scheme is deliberately as grubby and weathered as the rest of the fleet. I'm rather pleased with it, but what say you?
more soon...
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ok. apologies for any blurryness/lack of quality of these shots but the models are small and the light was poor...
these are the latest ordnance stuff from the talented malika (that are available now from vanguard miniatures).
I got some dreadclaws for my nurgle fleet:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5379/nquokfw7d7d3bppzg.jpg)
These are simply epic quality, filled with detail and come in two 'positions' open and closed. fantastic stuff!
also had to get some of his amazing torpedo models:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9487/kva167rgjvq2eldzg.jpg)
I have twice what is pictured here. yes...the bases were a cowson to do...
also his 'javellin' fighters are a must as far as I'm concerned. The design ques that form them have everything I like about spacefighters in them!
they make ideal proxies for xiphons (a heresy era astartes space/air fighter craft), making them ideal for both imperial or chaotic forces or they can simply be considered generic fighters too of course...
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c90c/186es3n2c7w39tfzg.jpg)
pictured here I have done a pair of them for my merchant fleet, deathwatch and nurgle fleets respectively.
here I also have experimented with a couple of different schemes:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f09f/b6rzc21ap9vx1czzg.jpg)
the space sharks hit the stars and a colourscheme inspired by the splorkon systems XJ-37 Interceptor ship in 3d astroblaster
(an old 90's asteroids clone game for windows that I played the shit out of back in the day. this is also the inspiration for the fact that all my space mines are bronze in colour...)
that being said, it has obvious visual ties to starwars/galactica too!
I went for the stem bases as the ships are much bigger than furies or swiftdeaths but are closer in size to those thunderhawks I got from shapeways. they turned out looking great so I figured these would too...
enjoy!
oh, don't forget to get on over to vanguard and go get some of malika's ordnance models if you've not done so already. the quality is high. they're metal (YAY!) and the price is very fair. you won't be disappointed...
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Woooooooow!!! Mindblown!
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By the way, I've been wanting to share your pics on Battlegroup Helios' official FB page. Would like to add your name in there for the credits, should I use your username, or would you prefer me to put another name up there?
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Thanks malika. That's nice of you.
My name is Matthew Latchford.
I go by osjclatchford.
My company is the osjc.
my modelling sub division goes by the name of droppod studios...
So yeah I guess I'm Matt Latchford of droppod studios (a subsidiary of the osjc) lols!
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Do you have FB page you'd like to have tagged when I share your pics?
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no. no facebook... thanks anyhow.
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Or maybe a website or anything else you'd like to have shared? We can add it in the description text. :)
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Alas no. This is the only place I've got my droppod studios stuff online in any form...
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No worries. I've shared the pics on our page by the way. Once you have a FB page or website, let me know and we'll share it for you. :)
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Nice paint jobs, really like the prow on the cruiser
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Nice paint jobs, really like the prow on the cruiser
Thanks. I'm stoked at how well that prow came out in the end. It's just the wooden handle off a wire brush cut and formed on a desk grinder and polished smooth on a desk sander. Interesting factoid; I made the desk sander myself out of an old washing machine motor... no not just to make the prow... That would be dedication... Lols
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Thanks. I'm stoked at how well that prow came out in the end. It's just the wooden handle off a wire brush cut and formed on a desk grinder and polished smooth on a desk sander. Interesting factoid; I made the desk sander myself out of an old washing machine motor... no not just to make the prow... That would be dedication... Lols
Not that I would've put that past you... ^
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Been a while.
Just bought a couple of Malika's ships from vanguard minis.
So report on the panthera...
Great kit. Conversion kit easy to use. However even though it was a great model and so nice to work in metal again I totally fucked up the paint job. I mean. Argh. It just looked like a newb has painted it. GAH. What's going on with me these days. I know it sounds mad but I blame it on the change in citadel paints. Yes I know that was an age ago to some of you out there but I'm not even half way through replacing my collection. (If it's still wet, it's still paint! And it stays, I'm not made of money after all...) I'm still not used to how the new colours drybrush in layers together to be honest and although the base/wash/layering/highlighting/weathering on my primaris is real nice (If I do say so myself) it did NOT translate to drybrushing a ship. There was no depth of colour and the lighter colours just made it worse with each successive layer. It looked so amateurish. I can't even show you because I stripped it down and threw it back in my bfg bitzbox in a fit of pique! Lol. This is one of the reasons I'm leaning away from bfg these days as I'm bored of painting the colourschemes I'm good at but suck at anything else...
So basically no spacesharks fleet today...
Why do I have absolutely no luck with Astartes vessels that aren't with the inquisition..? That strike cruiser of mine has had four paintjobs and I'm still not happy with it now...
Meh...Perhaps jago might benefit from this disaster..?
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so (heavily) WIP:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/89e2/qoqnt51g109xeod6g.jpg)
for those not in the know its a modification of the gear on the new adeptus titanicus civitas spires sprue. which just so happens to feature gaps in its structure that fit standard issue bfg weapons/bays beautifully!
the inner sanctum features the eagle from the ig tank sprue (or was it from a the assault on macragge aerial thingy, I dunno now), a bigass macro cannon in a quad patern and it also has the battlefleet helios lance turrets on this section.
next layer is the main armament section featuring , again, helios weapons batteries, classic imperial/chaos turrets (mounted on bits of old lascannon barrel) and what will be converted imperial launch bays (to be straight not angled) all of which will fit on a larger octagon of plasticard. the bays will look similar to the ramilies ones, kinda like parking bays that lead inside.
then? well a larger, docking, layer is needed and who knows what then? will this layer cake ever end? and will it ever get painted? tune in for more next time!
two layers down... more to go!
oh, C&C is not only welcomed, but ideas and stuff is needed to be honest. don't want to make a balls up of this like the original armatige station I did. I want this to look legit!
does anyone know of/reccomend which 40k/aos scenery wil be good for the lower layers. need docking sections akin to the pitched roof dealies on the ramilies and at present I'm funted if i can figure out where to poach them from...
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excellent idea and fabulous realisation to mix the both games.
I'm currently studying my AT sprues tu beginn mouting my warhounds and reaver. :)
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Wow, that's awesome!! Great idea....... must........... not......... buy
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thanks guys
and lord b, its like £20 man go for it! ;)
seriously though I was thinking of using four of the 40k shipping containers in a cross as bigass docking bays, large enough to fit a cruiser inside! but have no actual experiance of using them. do you think they would work in such a way or just look plain odd/ too big.
Im kinda thinking of, ramilies:
(http://www.resinaddict.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ramilies_9.jpg)
meets port maw:
(https://cf.geekdo-images.com/original/img/LTaaRexqOfAen1sByXwVJ8k94Ro=/0x0/pic72068.jpg)
that conversion is from wd (circa 2005/2006?) but somewhere in between size wise (ok a lot less than port maw. that sonovvabitch was huge man!
It will also be featuring some features/ideas from this spacedock: inspired by dave andrews one in the bfg rulebook)
(https://theshellcase.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/sdc10362.jpg?w=775)
and I'm sure I'll throw in a few things I learnt from making the original fort hammond and other stations...
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Firstly, the jury rigged gunboat looks great, I loved modding the old BFG hulls! Secondly, don’t worry about your SM ship painting blip - I don’t even use GW paints anymore and it still happens! Paint summat else and go back to it later :)
Space station plan is good! Those containers would need some scale references removed I suspect but you should go for it! At the very worst they can become terrain for your Primaris yes? Also, consider picking up some of the Vanguard civvies ships to add as detailing to your build - docked or whatever. That’s my plan anyway... Eventually ???
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Yeah I got four sprues of containers in the end on eBay for £6 each! So that was a result. As you say. It's terrain for 40k if It don't work! As for the system ships? I've got that covered with scratch builds to be honest but that size of stuff was the plan. Those little ships push the scale up an add depth and life to a model. The containers will have open ends and full interior detail , including docking ships and stuff. I will be doing quite a bit to remove scale issues (that keypad either side of the door will be a bast) and the top hatches will be gone too. Also thanks for your support in this and the sm catastrophe! It's truly appreciated!
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Er, well. Do all of them? Why have 1 Space station when you can have loads? ;)
Always loved that scratch built station (3rd Pic). Great use of parts.
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Yeah it's gorgeous ain't it. And as for all three? You crazy? Port maw would fill my damn lounge alone! Might well do a flat starport after this'un... Ive plenty of bits still from the titanicus set so that's the 'buildings' side of it figured...
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Port Maw is supposed to be a Planet isn't it? A failed Necron World Engine that's completely hollow..... (*cough*DeathStar*Cough*).
But, yeah, do the thing!!
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well, I never knew that!
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Oooooooh....!!! Wow!
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Thanks folks!
progress!
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5459/38jy1s4aj4p64lj6g.jpg)
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Oh my F..... God. That's awesome.
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Thanks, mega happy so far. It's all just worked out so well...
I ran out of thin plasticard for the cladding but my wife's Moser Roth chocolate packaging to the rescue! The hex heatshield style texture stuff on the 'runway' is from the bottom of some eclairs packaging (someone's birthday at work!) Plasticard angle on the join and the leftover panthera weapons and bays for the defence ring and to hide the cheapo thick plasticard I made the platform from. Also had some brassetch eagles left from an old fw purchase just dying to be used on this. Yeah, It's all wonky all over of course but remember who's making it!
Oh and the shipping containers? Dear god what a disaster. Far to big... What was I thinking?
God knows what now... Might just leave this one as is... Can always be added to something else later. Put it this way, it would have to be painted in sub assemblies anyhow so..?
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To your posts men! Man the battlechurches!
Excellent model.
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Oh and the shipping containers? Dear god what a disaster. Far to big... What was I thinking?
This is 40k. This is the IMPERIUM OF MAN. "Far to big" is not something that should come in to it. ;)
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Nice job man !
I love the modern/old style. Looks really 40Kish.
I would not have chosen a squarred and regular shape, anyway. i would ahve gone a weird way, lije the third picture you have showed (space port). It's a so big structure that it can't be fully regular and symetrical. Have to show some few differencies.
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Well, on this occasion it really was too big. it would have made all the lovely work I did in the inner sanctum etc... Look
simply 'plonked'' on top of it. Real ameture-hour... You know? I've something else in the wings. I'll see how it goes.
Also I went symmetrical like the ramilies because it felt nice to model. Personally anything asymmetrical shaped added to the superstructure itself now would jarr. However on the next level down the details on the superstructure themselves were intended to be more asymmetric... That's if it even happens at all now.
So anyone wanna buy some containers then...? ;)
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Did you have to buy the whole £90 scenery kit for just that? I couldn't find any smaller sets of scenery.
As for the station, yeah, symmetry is king :D I just hope no one attacks from the top or underneath ;)
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Woah, that's insane...!!!
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Good lord no. I found the container sprue on eBay and got all four for forty quid with postage. Was a folly purchase that I can't really afford at present but I guess I'll just put em back on eBay again... ::)
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more progress:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/09ed/jh3rmaplnei31ybzg.jpg)
so as you can see I got the docking section done. quite complicated and expensive and I've still one docking section pending (batteries in the post from vanguard)
I went for a pointy look to the bottom side, the inverted roof also serving as the base stand and the inverted towers as counterparts to the butresses.
forgive the shyte photos and the general wonkiness of the mini at present, a lot of this is simply balancing/blutacked in order to dry-fit for pics. a lot is un-glued to facilitate ease of painting and then again a lot of it is simply wonky LOL!
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Wonderfull !
Find that it equilibrates better between width and heights now.
And also, it has a more "dockyard" aspect like that. But still clearly a temple feeling.
Courage gluing all those turrets.
What paint schem are you going after ?
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Cheers. as for the turrets, the little helion turrets were, in the end , snipped and superglued without Thier tabs on the bottom. I felt I had more control that way. I had originally drilled out tiny divots to locate them when doing the basilica innermost sanctum. I didn't bother on the dock arms ones for some reason!
Oh, and should you mean the turrets on the sides of the docking arms, that's not happening at all. If anything there will be little docking ports added (for smaller ships) or perhaps just the turret locator divots will be filled with GS...
Now colour... Before lord B says "white" I'm saying NO! Lol I've absolutely no luck at all with white bfg models. To be honest I was thinking of my battlefleet Armageddon scheme, with black on the flat areas, the roof of the dome and buttress/towers would be verdegris copper. But tbh I'm wondering if something better is called for. Perhaps just a few extra layers of successive lighter drybrushing on the Armageddon scheme to bring it up to a bone colour a bit more... Kinda like the official paintjob on fw's ramilies...
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Whi.......... Damn. Missed it.
Most space stations are run by the mechanicum. I painted all mine up in metallics and reds. So you could go that route?
It's looking great mate. I honestly thought it was finished before, but now youve added more!! Although, personally, I would have added the docking sections at a 45 degree angle. So the incoming fighter crews would come in between any docking ships (not over them). But that's just me. It looks great as is.
So, when are you going to paint it pink?
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yeah what a dinkle move of me! I've been looking at it thinking, yeah, they'd fit between the balustrades on the docking arms, forgetting that there'd be a damn cruiser there at times!
yeah so I simply rotated it 45 degrees as suggested. much better.
only real disaster is that the piers have warped/twisted somewhat. making it all pissed and wonky. gargh! what can you do. typical bfg...
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while I've been at this remake of my Armatige class station, I figured I'd do a remake of the Mackay class orbital weapon platform I did too:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/3f6b/08ndl8p10j2z8m5zg.jpg)
I'm rather pleased with how this came out tbh. the bulk of it is from the AT spire sprue, the dome on the underside is an imperial guard tank searchlight, the weapons from the helion set and an aerial from an imperial cruiser. I'm most pleased with how this actually looks like an actual bfg miniature that would have been released.
although I've gone for lances, not batteries, this time around, I've enough parts to make another of these so watch this space!
I also feel it nicely references some of the artwork from the rulebook to some extent:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e07e/9soi8zstm899ldp6g.jpg)
I Just love this image and many like it in the rulebook, it really shows the scale of the setting of bfg and has inspired me a lot in my creations/conversions (mined asteroids for example)
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Oooh, simple but effective!
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Stop making cool stuff!!! :P
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Nice one !
I love it. Simple and efficient. Well done with the bits from here and there.
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Excellent - the use of Vanguard batteries/ turrets is really cool. Liking that wee laser platform too!
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(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/262c/fy9jjdbeizdtc7gzg.jpg)
got a couple of hours to myself today so the mackay mkII orbital has had a dose of paint.
not a great shot but what I've done is add more lighter highlights than on my devastatus/armageddon fleet just to differentiate the station somewhat. went for slate grey roof panels and weathered bronze on the aerial (but that doesn't show too well on this pic.
fyi the ad-tit spire kit has lots of sharp contrasts to its detail making it ideal for basecoat/wash/drybrush technique oftimes used for bfg so this is +/- how i'll do the starfort too...
it'll have a bronze/verdigrised dome with a very golden eagle, slate grey spires/butress tops, and slate grey/tarmac black flat areas. ;D
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I like the colour so far. Not too visible. A station will hardly have brightfull colours, while a vessel will be painted that way a more frequent way i suppose.
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That looks amazing. But, surely, you need more than one? ;)
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Yeah, got enough bits for a second one... ;)
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I was thinking at least...... 10. ???
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What in hell's satans am I going to do with ten!? I've only a half bedroom house so space is a serious premium. Not collecting to game just to paint/convert these days... Otherwise would have to ditch half my collection each year to make room for fresh...
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Build an other house :)
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See, Marell have some sage advice! :P ;D
I can sympathise with those issues though. I had to pack all of my things away for about 2 years whilst I was building my new house. Luckily, I am in there now and have a converted stable as my gaming room AND have a hobby room/study to escape into and dodge adult responsibilities. ;D
Another possibility is that you store all your things at my place. I wont charge you rent or anything!!
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Damn man that sounds like my dream setup. I rent a tiny little lodge house bungalo in Chigwell that is just me the missus and the kitty. 1/2 a bedroom(10'x7'), lounge, kitchen and bathroom. That's it indoors... The garden on the other hand... Huge! Perhaps a decent high-end shed come summerhouse/workroom is in order but who will pay for it is anyone's guess... Love it though... Home is home...
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https://youtu.be/S94PCkft0iY (https://youtu.be/S94PCkft0iY)
- it is indeed my birthday!
so yeah, Im off to gw later to pickup some contrast...
I've a feeling bfg will never be the same.
I'll let you know how i find it... ;)
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osjc's contrast review:
well you can colour me... unimpressed.
pure gimmic...
you could probably make your own by mixing shade and colour together to be honest! lOL
essentially, they're just fancy named glazes that dry flat. using the official contrast undercoat bases, is not vital imho and to be honest yields better results on things like Caucasian skin. e.g.
a base of 50/50 wraithbone and cadian fleshtone, roughly highligted/layered up with more wraithbone as a successive admix, then the guilliman flesh is much more preferable to guilliman flesh straight over wriathbone. (that is unless you want the flesh to look anemic! if you're umming and ahhing due to cost, save your money. instead invest in more time to perfect your current skill level. seriously, I'm cross at how gw has sold this as talent in a bottle, (not that I thought it would be as much, too much of an old soak to fall for media hype these days) but I feel sorry for the kids who will feel like they're doing something wrong when it dont work that way...
dont get me wrong, they'll have their uses:
alternative/more gentle shades for skin.
nice blending on capes/tabbards,
metal undercoat and contrast glaze for glowy power weapons/alternative enameled/anodized armour effect.
easy yellow for another example but, shit, we've all been using the white undercoat, successive shade/glaze method for yellow since before the old king died anyway, not to mention that inks and washes/shade have been allowing us to do the other stuff too so I dont really see the big deal here.
perhaps its just me. I dunno. put it this way, I can see me using the flesh and yellow one and thats it... but then Ive been at it for a while and have learnt other ways of doing stuff that yield just as good(if not better) results but may take longer. big deal... why is the world so impatient these days...
oh, don't even get me started on the apothacary "white" one ::) that i thought to be an answer to my not painting white good issue. you can forget that!
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it has been a long old time eh?
so whats shakin' with me in bfg?
not much.
last two ships I had on my to do pile done today:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/696b/zj7zcejp49nbsbm6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1670/2xy7lt2gxohvv5w6g.jpg)
'Excelsior II' (endeavour class) and 'Sinclair' (endurance class) light cruisers. (will get better, less blurry/overexposed pics soon)
these are actually recasts of adamgr's lightcruisers that can be found on shapeways. i found them some time back on ebay and had to have them as they are clearly recast from the high resolution print but come in at less than a third of the price!
you may remember my first foray into buying from shapeways resulted in the original 'Excelsior' model i did that unfortunately came in the hideously lo-re and piss-poor textured ship that looked like it was made out of low grade sandpaper LOL. this model and its new sister ship is intended to replace this in my fleet but bears the II in its name to ever remind me of the folly of ever buying anything other than frosted-ultra-detail level models from shapeways again. LOL
these may very well be the last ships I ever paint for bfg as I'm +/- satisfied with the fleet and other than that gargantuan-painful painting project that is the starfort/station to do, I've no real desire to do much more of it nowadays...
i guess i feel my yen for bfg kinda died recently and TBH I've done about as much as I ever want to or have room for! there is a final ship conversion that i've still got in the back of my mind (a recreation of something i did from back in the day but redone properly now) but that may never happen...
I guess watch this space...
..get it? space?
...nevermind... i think I'm loosing it...
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Really solid stuff as always!
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Great looking ships as always mate. I picked some of these off ebay but both of mine had a miscast in the side of the main hull. These are much nicer casts/prints.
Sad to see you're 'finished' with BFG. i can't say mine is even 10% of the way done. Just far to much to get done. :/ Hmmm, I guess I'll have to make something else for you to put in your fleet :D
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Thanks lordB, took a hell of a lot of cleanup...
Well I had a final rummage and found a clean cruiser chassis that I'd got in a joblot I had stashed for future use then stupidly forgot about... So THAT will be the last of battlefleet Armageddon stuff I think... But never say never eh?
As for making stuff what we ALL need is a good proxy for a standard imperial cruiser chassis... The sprues just don't exist anymore and although there is mangozac/Armand's Zeus cruiser, that's not all that accessable to everyone as he's much more low key with his sales nowadays. The helion cruisers are too stylistically different and anything from shapeways is not worth the cost... So where else to get imperial cruisers..?
I mean 3rd party weapons and prows are quite grabbable and very reasonably priced but cruisers are another deal...
All the stuff you've made has been great quality and so reasonable price wise I'm surprised you don't sell out faster!
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Vanguard miniatures will bring the Zeus line back somewhere this year.. Without Corona it might had have happened already.
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Hot damn! That's music to my ears... With a Zeus and a bunch of different weapons and prows you can do quite a lot to be honest...
Am I to assume that's the Zeus cruiser and light cruisers too?
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It's basically the entire line of the old Resin Addict ships, so the Zeus ships, prows, broadsides, etc.
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Drool! Seriously though. Would still be nice to see an alternative but fairly faithful alternative to a plastic cruiser hull... So if you are serious lord b... ;)
Oh yeah, was gonna ask you guys, where's the javelins in bfg scale gone from the vanguard site? They're not in the ordnance section nor elsewhere... Curious... I loved those little fighter models...
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so:
St. Anger is reborn. the original st anger was a dauntless conversion i did in the early days of bfg, it had a powerfist grafted to its prow... lets just say it was not expertly done...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/54de/58o6rtcukpm8gtp6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/c902/lbsx0dxez0ggrzd6g.jpg)
this lunar class st. anger is clearly based on a plastic cruiser, the prow is from a zeus light cruiser with a GK termie fist grafted into the slot wehre the eagle head was.
I had no enginebay/sidefin parts so did similar to what I did on my old dominator conversion, simply used tubing to continue the engines. in this case the 'tubing' either side was part of one of these:
(http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/images/tau_crisis_suits_plasma_rifle.jpg)
the defense plates are off of the panthera conversion kit and are mounted on some small sprue wedges.
where the model was now lacking width, the use of the chaos bridge adds height in similar proportion.
also did some more work on the prows of the light cruisers and took the opportunity to take some better shots of them:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/69a9/ok6dw6nk46aei1i6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ef44/7hluddrwy3nd8xa6g.jpg)
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The light cruisers are fun. Were did you get them from? They could rightly fit into the Zeus line.
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Oh yeah, was gonna ask you guys, where's the javelins in bfg scale gone from the vanguard site? They're not in the ordnance section nor elsewhere... Curious... I loved those little fighter models...
I know... I've submitted updated versions of those, they even got printed. Curious why they still aren't in production yet.
To give you an idea, see attachment.
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Oh yeah, was gonna ask you guys, where's the javelins in bfg scale gone from the vanguard site? They're not in the ordnance section nor elsewhere... Curious... I loved those little fighter models...
I know... I've submitted updated versions of those, they even got printed. Curious why they still aren't in production yet.
To give you an idea, see attachment.
yeah saw the stormbird(?) proxies on there! glad to know the javelins are likely not gone forever then!
have I got that right? is stormbird the right proxy? if so that should make them a little larger than a thunderhawk right?
The light cruisers are fun. Were did you get them from? They could rightly fit into the Zeus line.
https://www.shapeways.com/product/52Z9R7F2H/razor-class-cruiser-hull?optionId=63886831&li=shops
but as I said, the ones I got were recasts from ebay. probably done on the naughty without admgr's permission but at a third of the price, I was not going to argue, because I'm selfish like that when it comes to ships! put it this way, cant find em on ebay now so i guess he's been bubbled... which is only right really...
however for all I know the seller on ebay was actually the same designer. just recasted his prints to have another platform to sell them other than shapeways taking all the proffit? its a morally reprehesible way of doing it, sign up to shapeways, get them to host your design, order one and recast it to make direct sales whilst shapeways does all the printing work for no extra charge... i doubt thats the case though as he'd have been kicked off of shapeways if he did that. surely...
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The latest 3 ships look excellent and a great kitbashing of parts on the St Anger. There's something about Imperial ships (and Chaos yins to a lesser degree) that make using various parts really easy and fun.
I wish the Voss light cruisers had been given a bit more oomph back in the day - yours look excellent but the slab like hull plates are a bit meh to me. Just me though, and if I'm not careful I'll have to put my money where my mouth is!!
So... If you're slowly wrapping up your fleets can we get some group shots?! ;D
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yeah saw the stormbird(?) proxies on there! glad to know the javelins are likely not gone forever then!
have I got that right? is stormbird the right proxy? if so that should make them a little larger than a thunderhawk right?
That model in the middle is the Eagle Dropship, many have used it as a Thunderhawk proxy. We haven't done a Stormbird proxy (yet).
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As for making stuff what we ALL need is a good proxy for a standard imperial cruiser chassis... The sprues just don't exist anymore and although there is mangozac/Armand's Zeus cruiser, that's not all that accessable to everyone as he's much more low key with his sales nowadays. The helion cruisers are too stylistically different and anything from shapeways is not worth the cost... So where else to get imperial cruisers..?
I mean 3rd party weapons and prows are quite grabbable and very reasonably priced but cruisers are another deal...
All the stuff you've made has been great quality and so reasonable price wise I'm surprised you don't sell out faster!
Well, I was thinking of doing my Grand cruiser at some point in the near future but it would be more of a pocket battleship or a larger cruiser in design rather than the design GW has. The weapons (rules) seem to fit three weapon 'ports' rather than the 4 GW gave it. Which means the design will be more like a Battleship with 3 port alongside rather than two up and two down.
A cruiser would be cool but there are already the Helios ships which are amazing and I wouldn't like to step on their toes as I love those ships (but yet have to buy some! ::) ).
Weapons though isn't a bad idea. It wouldn't take me long to knock some up and get them sent off to the casters. Any particular designs you like the look of?
Great conversions and paint jobs all round (as usual!) Love the prow fist/ram on the Battlecruiser
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@ragsta, thanks and re. the light cruisers, no you are right, the plates are purest derp. I just wanted these as is as part of history in my collection. (in point of fact I only ordered one with the intent to replace the original excelsior I did but the guy sent me two anyway, which was nice...)
also you know what, with hearing that the zeus line is on the way you can forget my "im done" crap... were never done with this hobby are we, 20 years on and not done so..? yeah...
@malika, really, a thunderhawk... at 14mm? thats a seriously big-assed TH... ;)
@lordborak , a decent grand cruiser on a less derpy take than the gw crossbreed monstrosities (of which I'm STILL desperate to own just one for the sake of my collection) would be nice its true.
I still stand by what I said about cruiser chassis. as good as the helios gear is, its very design specific.
an alternative design could definitely exist without @treading on toes' or thunder stealing for sure...
however, if the resin addict zeus light cruiser and full zeus cruiser are coming to vanguard you could say that kinda has that covered I guess... so yeah I dunno. a Gothic/classic-style chassis would still be recieved well...
as for weapons, Id say that a plasma-specific battery would look all kinds of cool. it could be used as generic (rules wise) or used to represent the mixed plasma and standard batteries that a tyrant-class is loaded out with.(the 45cm range that operate alongside the 30cm range battery in the rules) I know most people just use four matching batteries but two different types to actually specifically represent to 30cm and the 45cm guns would be interesting and visually awesome...
Also, it seems I'm STILL not done entirely... (when will Learn to not say things like that anyway?)
my previous attempt to paint up one of malika/vanguard's panthera cruisers as an astartes vessel led to another disastrous paintjob that always occurs whenever I try to paint spacemarine ships for bfg that aren't inquisition based. the blood angel one that sits somewhere in an above post was the third attempt at that model. and I'm still not 100% satisfied with it tbh.
as such I have recently resigned myself to never attempt to paint spacemarines in bfg again.
However I still had a second of those pantheras waiting on paint, so I had a good think.
I personally dont like the panthera prow. it looks like a hybrid between tau and ad-mech to me, as such I cant unsee it thus and for me it had to go. so out with the exacto-saw.
so what to do with her? astartes? no chance! light cruiser? too small inquisition? been there done that
a flitter through both my rulebooks and my bitzbox found the perfect answer. defense monitor!
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4b08/hr3cfcu2nzndzsh6g.jpg)
I have never liked either the gw nor the fw versions to represent a defense monitor ship. the gw one has a nice prow (clearly based on a cut down cruiser prow) but the 'ship' itself is clearly just two lance battery sections slapped together. the fw one? urgh! wtf!? whats with that hideous prow? dont get me started... LOL
so as you can see I had a gw def-mon prow knocking about and donated it to this panthera.
addition of the aerial bits from an imperial frigate and the plastic lance turrets for an even more defined gw imperial look and this new defense monitor the "spitehawk" was born.
I stuck with the armageddon colourscheme as I like painting it and this way, she'll match the fleet and stations I have too.
oh and heres a pre-paint shot:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2dbd/n7tl6p75tgfj5zc6g.jpg)
I know I dont usually but I took this in a fit of paranoid panic that I'd bugger it up painting it yet again. LOL
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Yup, that's cool. I was pondering upon the same thing myself when I got those ships. I also thought about using the Marine strike cruiser front launch bay bit as the prow for some Marine/Inquisition strike cruisers. Alas, that idea went on the back burner as I was distracted by other things!
Weapon batteries are certainly a thing people need in some abundance. It shouldn't be that much of a problem to make some of these. If I get a free evening this week I'll see what I can come up with. Seeing these ships has started to rekindle the plasticard bug in me again :D
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Lol on those Grand Cruiser remarks. Though I do regret not having one in my collection.
As for cruiser hulls : I really want another AdMech cruiser. But the thingiverse and/or shapeways one just don't do it. There is something wrong with the prows and the hulls aren't as the original ones.
In this case the Zeus line would come close but then I still need a prow.
Vanguard is doing mini-AdMech prows, mayhaps a bigger on will arive one day. @Malika?
Otherwise I also still need an Eldar craftworld eldar dragonship. Weapon bits I have. For that one ambitious painting project in the back of my head...
As for painting Space Marines: my Novamarines went pretty well. Plus I've seen some other good chapters around as well. Ultramarines may be the easiest due the blue colours.
The defence monitor looks neat.
I totally forgot the FW variant, why did you bring it back?
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Lol on those Grand Cruiser remarks. Though I do regret not having one in my collection.
As for cruiser hulls : I really want another AdMech cruiser. But the thingiverse and/or shapeways one just don't do it. There is something wrong with the prows and the hulls aren't as the original ones.
In this case the Zeus line would come close but then I still need a prow.
Vanguard is doing mini-AdMech prows, mayhaps a bigger on will arive one day. @Malika?
Otherwise I also still need an Eldar craftworld eldar dragonship. Weapon bits I have. For that one ambitious painting project in the back of my head...
As for painting Space Marines: my Novamarines went pretty well. Plus I've seen some other good chapters around as well. Ultramarines may be the easiest due the blue colours.
The defence monitor looks neat.
I totally forgot the FW variant, why did you bring it back?
I've two metal admech prows unpainted I'll never use. Send me a pm with your address and they're yours... Least I can do.
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That's really generous of you. Thanks.
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(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/379b/t3bmzdll87x3iw66g.jpg)
a concept i have in mind of using either one of admgr's razor prows or a zeus prow to convert a helian ship... what say you?
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Regarding the questions of Vanguard Miniatures' production queue, honestly I have no clue, I only do design work. Sometimes I'm also surprised by what gets released first and what not. I mean, I've submitted the updated fighter designs a while back and they're still in queue.
As for the ships, last I've heard is that Vanguard might want to re do them in resin instead of metal.
@OSJC: Can I share that awesome conversion you've done of my Panthera design on the very unofficial Vanguard Miniatures Instagram fanpage (https://www.instagram.com/thewarsoftusculumnova/)?
As for your new concepts (new prows on the Battlegroup Helios ships), I'm kinda digging it, especially the bottom one. :)
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Ha, I really dislike the lower variant To stubby for the Helios model. The longer variant flows better but even that one could use a bit extra. Maybe because of the really long prows the Helios cruisers have.
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@malika, please use my model pic by all means!
I suspect it can be a real pain when designing stuff for a company and trying to get the point across that you have no say on when and if it will even be made. Kinda like writers and publishers I suppose...
Also when you said about ships in resin as opposed to metal, you mean the ordnance? If you meant the Zeus stuff then, yeah I figured they're gonna be resin anyhow...
@horizon&Malika
Lols, I feel just as conflicted as your two opposing views, ha!
But I've just found out that the razor (top) prows from adamgr have been discontinued on shapeways so I've only one of those left anyway and I intend to put that on a Zeus body at one point. I think it will go a long way to blend the visuals of the Zeus and razor prowed ships in my fleet and be a good compromise of both designs, making my fleet as a whole look more consistent. Plus it's a bit different isn't it.
Also intend to do a Zeus light cruiser as a defiant carrier, simply because I've not done one yet and was considering a Gothic style prow on it because why not? I figured it would sit well against my dauntless and firestorms that way... Just doodles I've been working on in the anticipation of getting hold of Zeus stuff from vanguard. I know. Crazy!in my mind I've already bought, converted and figured out the paint jobs... I need less caffeine...
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What about Lord Borak's prows, I rather presumed those would work on the Helios ships too? Kinda counting on it actually ::)
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I'm sure they would.
I don't have any.
Although great models I'm not really keen on the spacefleet style and the baby retribution one sure is groovy and all but I just prefer the Voss over gothic anyday...
With the exception of the massive eagle prow on the Zeus light. For some reason I've become a lot less fond of that over time...
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The Zeus light does have the same prow as the regular one though. You really think it as to big?
Now I'm scared to look at my ships... what had been heard cannot be unheard...
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Don't get me wrong. See this pic;
(https://tgneast.blob.core.windows.net/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zeuslightcruisers.jpg)
The middle ship is the normal Zeus light prow. Little slimmer than the main Zeus by about 5/10%. Real nice and actually although a bit smaller still even looks fine on a full cruiser (as used on the above lunar I did a couple of posts back!).
The ship's it's sandwiched between have the other prow I was talking about. Although I did put one on my admech ship to match other zeus' (twas the only spare I had at the time) that's the one Ive grown less fond of over time...
I dunno why tbh. There's nothing really wrong with it. I think it's just s little bit too eagley, yes thats not a word but somehow it just breaks into the ott, too much ostentation barrier... But each to Thier own...
But! You know what, I've got one of these left and now I'm starting to think it might look good on a helian ship... Lols I'm so changeable!
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Ah, those prows. I haven't used those. I think I have two in my bitbox.
But I do think with a different paint approach the effect can be camouflaged somewhat. With Vaaish his scheme the top bit still in shiny gold but the lower wings in a (light?) brown colour.
And with some extension between hull and prow they indeed might be a good thing on the Helios vessels.
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@malika, really, a thunderhawk... at 14mm? thats a seriously big-assed TH... ;)
I know, the fighters themselves are about 9-10mm long, VGM wanted the Eagle to be a bit beefier so they commissioned the designer to make it a bit bigger.
Vanguard is doing mini-AdMech prows, mayhaps a bigger on will arive one day. @Malika?
No clue, I was working on some Cybershadow ships, but I'm having a hard time staying motivated to finish them. :( As for what the other designers are doing, no clue...I'm kinda out of the loop when it comes to that.
@malika, please use my model pic by all means!
I suspect it can be a real pain when designing stuff for a company and trying to get the point across that you have no say on when and if it will even be made. Kinda like writers and publishers I suppose...
It can be annoying from time to time, it's all a bit of give and take. I like to have certain designs in production, but Vanguard might not be that interested in them (mainly some variant fighter designs and some weird terrain), so I kinda have to convince them that they'll sell. It's all a bit of give and take I guess. But even then I have no clue about the time tables. I've designed a whole bunch of ships of them, submitted them about 2 years ago. Still no ETA, especially since they are moving the ship designs to resin production.
Also when you said about ships in resin as opposed to metal, you mean the ordnance? If you meant the Zeus stuff then, yeah I figured they're gonna be resin anyhow...
If I understand Vanguard correctly their plan is to do the ships themselves in resin with bits such as turrets, ordnance, etc in metal. But I've got a feeling that 'bigger' bits such as prows and broadsides will probably be done in resin.
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Also...
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_hTvrXnRx_/
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that's real nice of you malika, thanks!
as we've been recently musing on the failures of gw's grand cruiser hybrid designs and felt I'd see if I could do better.
the aim was to represent a stop-gap in design elements between the ancient (now chaos) designs and the imperial designs without it looking so much of a shambles with a shoe on the front
to be honest this hybridisation happens almost elusively in fiction, the new designs of real military vessels superseding the old in a rather blunt manner.
hybrid ships are much more likely to exist as a result of having to put newer systems on older vessels to bring them 'up-to-speed' if recommissioning.
but, sci-fi loves to do this stop-gap design thing to keep the nostalgia freaks happy so i figured, how can i do it justice, without having to chow-down on a big-ol slice of humble pie?
one (LONG) rummage in the bitzbox later and this is the result:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6275/og7t40lsivvxsly6g.jpg)
the Indominus aster, Enceladus class heavy cruiser.
so the idea is that this is not actually a grand cruiser but simply an old design that just predates the mars class battlecruiser (in fact it has an identical armament), its just an excuse to show what an older design of ship may have looked like.
fluff?
the indominus aster was decommissioned during the new-wave of ship designs that came out of the voss shipyards. however, during the Armageddon conflict, the lunar class that carried its namesake, lasted less than 17 hours in fleet-action against plaguefleet 'hereseriarch', in fact, such losses were reported that many 'mothballed' vessels were hastily recommissioned to fill the voids in battlegroups of many sectors, as such the enceladous class indominus aster set-sail to the stars to answer the call of war once again...
heres a wip:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/74fc/3he1u9boluh4l666g.jpg)
spot all the bitz?
While I was at it, I've also done some basic attempts at the plasma-batteries I mentioned a few posts up (for use on tyrant class vessels to represent the 45cm range batteries) I thought they may look really scale-breaking but now I think it works ok:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/ce9c/dszdbsw838w3zqk6g.jpg)
will likely end up on that aforementioned zeus cruiser ...
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Really loving the grand cruiser designs you're doing here, totally agree that GW kinda failed on their design.
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cheers malika.
thats officially the last of my 'big' stuff gone on this one conversion now though. so I cant really make anything else out of anything for a while I fear... :(
all ive left now is a few frigates and escort stuff, some prows and a load of tiny embellishment bitz and one of lordB's high conveyors Ive no idea what to do with...
anyone up for a swap up? LOL
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Show us the bits you've got. I'm not in the position to do a swap, I've just donated my entire ancient bits box (mainly 3rd edition 40k and 5th edition WFB) to the fellows at 28 Mag (https://28-mag.com/) to support the community. But I'm curious what bits you have left over, maybe we can throw some suggestions at you for conversions? 8)
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lols, no I meant the high conveyor. its a great model and all but I've done one and I don't really feel the yen to do another. and have no heart to hack at it to convert it into something else. it feels like sacrilege...
don't want to ebay it as that's lordB's platform of choice for selling them anyway so that would be purest bad form...
in truth i figure everyone on here already has one so i guess i'll just hang onto it for now...
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If you're on Facebook you could perhaps try to trade it for a Zeus cruiser if anyone in the community still has one?
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Heya,
what does the high conveyor model look like?
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This one:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e331/kn49pcvz98ztk316g.jpg?size_id=5)
But without the moon buried in it. It comes with different wings and transport modules as opposed to helian launch bays but it can take any imperial modules...
This is it too:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Battle-Fleet-Gothic-Imperial-Navy-Galaxy-Mass-Conveyor-transport/303108026892?hash=item4692a5720c:g:9DEAAOSwXDpc6TgL (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Battle-Fleet-Gothic-Imperial-Navy-Galaxy-Mass-Conveyor-transport/303108026892?hash=item4692a5720c:g:9DEAAOSwXDpc6TgL)
on lordborak's eBay auction page where he sells them...
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Ah, that one. Cool thing.
I dunno from top of my head, I have one Tau Protector (rc), Imperial Cruiser (oc), CWE pulsar lancer (oc), some original Imperial prows. And some other stuff I cannot remember.
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What's all this RC, OC mean then? Not familiar with these acronyms
And what's a cwe pulsar lancer when it's at home?
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Haha,
rc = recast
oc = original cast
Pulsar Lance = the weapon bit from a Craftworld Eldar cruiser.
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Ah right *slaps forhead* obvious really...
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so i got this done this weekend:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/1d7c/ubx8bdgrw109xc46g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f266/kwr061fd71f1vpu6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/92a3/fv0e8nv2f6kr4ws6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5dab/obbt8emv90t025a6g.jpg)
the photos are terrible but I've not the time to do proper shots so they'll come later...
as you can see a lot has changed on the lower and docking section since the wip shots. its much more solid looking now and also features some asymmetrically placed systems, some hangy bridgey bits and some smaller docking arms for 'lesser' ships...
was interesting to do but a bit of a logistical nightmare to paint... thank god for sub assemblies.
kinda glad this is done now though!
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That station is really impressive!!!
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Impressive piece of art. Really well done!
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What a gorgeous centrepiece, I'm trying to figure out how much is scratchbuilt and how much is GW / AT ruins!
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Many thanks guys.
In actual fact only the big weapon battery barrels and the flat central "plate" is scratch build. Made from cheapo thick plasticard with cardboard and food packaging skin on top with some angled plasticard strips as the 'runway' edges.
The rest is simply the gw-AT scenery cut to bejesus...
plus some actual bfg stuff and a few 40k bits for flavour.
3rd part bitz? There's helion stuff in there (turrets and weapon batteries) and a lot of panthera weapons on the plate edges too (but that's obvious) oh, and the resin-addict transport ship...
Oh yeah, there is a plastic cava bottle lid on the underside as a big ass dome too, but you can't see that in these shots.
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t'other weapon platform:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a7a1/kyt1ntywbrdovrt6g.jpg)
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with the apparent success of transplanting my paint scheme of my 40k marines to epic scale I decided to see if it would translate to bfg scale:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9695/vcvovq2mtz6gdq16g.jpg)
FINALLY! some bfg spacesharks that I'm happy with.
if found the trick with this colourscheme is not to simply wash and drybrush successively but to wash nuln oil then only drybrush the basecoat back over. then do the successive highlights like i do in my marines! and it don't end up half bad...
the ship is one of the vanguard lynx destroyers with a chaos infidel raider prow so as to blend chaos and imperial designs to portray a pre/heresy era astrtes vessel. Its also handy that the infidel has a sharky toothy grin that adds to the whole effect.
the width of the lynx destroyer lends itself to this conversion quite well as it straddles the lines between the imperial thin straight design aspects and the chaos flat wide ones...
I did the last couple of thunderhawks I had too as, with this ship being +/- a proxy for a gladius frigate(?), I intend to make up a ship to represent a strike cruiser soon...
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ok, more work on escorts for my fledgling spaceshark battlegroup:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/6474/8vydyedms4s57966g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d2c5/b58en3qy64y7d3s6g.jpg)
the one on the left is a lynx destroyer with helian lances and a new prow built from the mid section of the helian launch bay. The front def-plates are actually the rear plates from a panthera destroyer and its rear plates come from a zeus frigate.
the right ship is the aforementioned zeus frigate, with a new prow, again taken from the centre of a helian launch bay but this time t'other way round. there's a helian lance turret on there and an underslung novacannon to represent a lance and this one, again, uses the defence plates to keep the look of the classic marine fleet aesthetic.
this time the front one is the front panthera def-plate and the rear one the front lynx def-plate on a bit of sprue.
bit confusing, yeah, but i wanted to be detailed in case anyone wants to replicate the conversions...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/eb06/y0nx3wvvun8x8w26g.jpg)
groupshot...
also;
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4ac4/02xf27pds1w6ou06g.jpg)
this vessel is intended to represent an astartes-run firestorm frigate.
As you may or may not know already, the astartes fleet rules simply list these (and other imperial escorts) as 'rapid-strike craft'. with this conversion I wanted to show that although built to stc template construction this firestorm is built to astartes tolerances and standards, for use exclusively by an astartes fleet. the best way to show that was use of the rear def-plates from the lynx destroyer, as the chapter symbol leaves you in no doubt as to its role and loyalties...
strike-cruiser next!
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These ships are SO GOOD, Mr O!! The conversions are well executed and came out lovely. Good use of Helios bays. I'm curious re. the paint scheme, I'll go look at your Marind thread now.
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cheers!
here's the last of the escorts and ordnance (I think)...
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/775a/5zcghf81q15shya6g.jpg)
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/2d30/twpneubojh9a3p16g.jpg)
an astartes transport for convoy scenarios, whats in it? I dunno, what do marines need... bolter shells? ;)
with it you can see some very 'different' looking ordnance:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8b00/dvwfj7f7vni2u416g.jpg)
these are simply a bitz-doodle of something to represent a droppod type thingy.
they're made out of the muzzle from a gsc webgun/webpistol and feature engines made out of the barrels from the 'big-square' chaos lances... (the ones that noone ever uses... ;) )
you can also consider them an alternative boarding torpedo, based on the designs of a drop pod, they're obviously bigger, around the size of a thunderhawk, i imagine the section at the 'front' being a mass of melta-charges ready to tear its way into an enemy hull...
alternately you could consider them heat-shield plates for re-entry...
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Great conversions,. yet again! Pretty productive for someone who said he was done with BFG. ;)
As for the colour scheme: nicely executed but somewhat to muted for me these days. Maybe it is the picture?
Excellent use of the launch bays as prows. Top notch.
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heresy cruiser arrived... heresy indeed, that's officially the last time i'm ever buying from shapeways again...
I'll post this here for you guys so you know what happened:
*email sent to shapeways wed 3rd june 2020*
[spoiler]this is possibly the worst print i have ever received from you.
I have ordered frosted ultra detail in the past and have +/- been satisfied with the result.
however this model was ordered in the new(new to me anyhow) smooth fine detail which I was led to believe via your info pages is essentially a proxy for the older now oop fud stuff...
please look at the attached images.
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d1c8/d7qdh0ypc982e1p6g.jpg)
seriously, how can this be called either smooth or fine detailed? its worse than the old cheap white versatile plastic prints I once ordered in the past...
the detail seemed very rough at first so I gave it a very light spray to get a better shot for you.
but before you suggest it was simply 'oversprayed' you can see that a lot of the detail is as it should be, the whole bottom half and back of the model is the real issue...
Also, yes, it was thoroughly cleaned with a toothbrush in mild detergent and left in the light to dry for two hours.
in the past when this happened a replacement model was sent.
I do not want another model.
I want a full refund.
let me know if the faulty product needs to be returned.
[/spoiler]
hopefully i'll get my money... guess time will tell but let it be a warning to you of the fickle nature of shapeways...
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Hmm, Vanguard Miniatures should convince Grimdarkbits to have their stuff cast and sold through them...
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agreed... so how should we go about it? ;)
i've pm'd him on dakka -dakka...
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If you're on Facebook you might be able to reach him through Vanguard Miniatures' FB page or the Dominion group. :)
In the past I've tried to convince John to approach Shapeways designers, but yah...if more people do it, it might encourage him to go for it more actively. :)
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Oh, no, I didn't contact John. I contacted grimdarkbits guy! Just to test the water with him but I've a feeling it's flogging the proverbial exterminated equine... His last post there was half a decade ago...
I'm feeling like I'm getting a little near stalkery on this, hunting grimdarkbits down on dakka dakka, so that's as far as I'm going to take it as yet... that's the ball rolling...Figure they'll talk if they want to.
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yeah so I got the refund so:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/afd0/4st07iuu2bapt7u6g.jpg)
the Rancour.
huge time spent attempting some 'clean-up' and I guess the nurgle scheme does help the situation but urgh, that texture!
at least its a strike cruiser for my nurgle fleet!
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those transports from ebay and the star galleon look ace
might get some tihs week if i finish my other stuff
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those transports from ebay and the star galleon look ace
might get some tihs week if i finish my other stuff
!? ???
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those transports from ebay and the star galleon look ace
might get some tihs week if i finish my other stuff
!? ???
scrolling through, you had posted a link to some models a guy has made and is selling through ebay
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Oh, right you are...
That feels like, a million years ago now... ;)
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I've got very little to do at work and limited access to stuff, stuff so going through threads I've not read has proven quuet interesting
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Yeah I know how you feel. my job is now just gone and I've been kicked to the curb with nothing. So while I try to drag myself back up I've been doing all my projects I can to keep me gee-d up... Who knows when I'll be working again and even what it will be so I figured now's the time to finish all those loose ends. in bfg it's an Astartes fleet. 40k it's my spacesharks and an armoured vehicle I had for my guard armies (which I recently finished up) and a little dip into epic40k just because I'd never tried it... And who knows what then?
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Is that strike cruiser the same one you originally received? If so you cleaned it up well - at the very least it passes the tabletop ready rule and it photographed up lovely!
Sorry to hear about your job, what was it you were doing? You are right, at least we can focus some time on the hobby but I hope you get on okay.
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yup same old shitty print. the texture adds to the nuglization/corrostion effect i suppose and yes i spent a LOT of time cleaning it up. it would never have been possible to clean it to a real decent standard though...
also re. job. thanks ragsta. that's real nice of you to say!
i was previously a greenhouse manager of a family run (not my family mind...) garden centre.
I'm guarding sick and elderly family members and wanted to remain on furlough longer than they were prepared to keep me on it. even though a lot of the other staff (quite a few less senior and less at risk I might add)
the health and safety and social distancing capabilities of the firm are simply a joke and they just keep on regardless.
their solution? simply got rid of the entire greenhouse section (me and my staff) and are buying in stock to sell at a higher stage of growth/development in the shop alone...
its madness. essentially they are throwing a potential thousand percent profit away, to buy stuff in and sell at no more than 200 percent... instead of growing and selling it properly
they tried to hold me to ransom and call a bluff.
I was not bluffing. got to stick to your guns when it comes to my family potentially dying.
thats ten years down the pisser. no job. no redundancy. just fuck off...
this is what is not being reported on the news. the government is giving ALL the discretion and power to the employer to decide what is safe and what is not. and who gets furlough and who just gets discarded like and old johnny...
ok off the soapbox now. ;)
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Hey man, sorry to hear about all this about your work! Pretty sure Section 86 of the HASAWA says that if you can refuse to go to work if your employer hasn't addressed H&S issues or you believe your H&S to be put at risk whilst attending. Been a while since I did my H&S stint so I may or may not be quoting incorrectly!! It might not even be S86..... S68? I'm getting old. ???
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Yeah I was working to begin with. Then got put on furlough. Now just thrown aside. The joke is I was the h&s officer for my section and had a full plan in place since day one.but of course, why spend money making it safe for me and my team when you can just delete them..?
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Well, why waste your time working for a company that doesn't appreciate you? Been there, done that. I was sad to go but I'm Glad I left when I did. At least you get to do some hobby! I wish I was that lucky :P
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(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0094/thnq5vvdbdod1cizg.jpg)
space shark battlebarge conversion.
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It's looking great!
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Thanks! Really pleased with how this interpretation of a battlebarge has come out. basing it on a helian hull means It's still beefy and intimidating, yet has more grace than the official model without compromising it's astatesness...
Now that John over on vanguard has restocked, I've a panthera on its way to fill the role of strike cruiser.
Also I've never really noticed how well the panthera and lynx fit so seamlessly with the helian cruiser hull in style and asthetics untill I swapped out the prow...
There's an idea for a future conversion kit, panthera style prows for use on helian cruisers!
This conversion was rather long time coming but easy to figure out in hindsight. The front is the mangozac black ship prow with the plates off of a retribution battleship (I'd used the black ship plates on sommit else) the rear plates of a panthera were inverted as added to the fins. And the plas-weaps are from a russian guy that sells shapeways recasts on eBay. It's the weapons that make it though. They have enough grace to look right on a helian hull but enough utilitarian brutality about them to look Astartes. So pleased with this! Lol
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Once again well done. The side wings are a real good addition.
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strikecruiser:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/9ab2/p3399yyqk9v97g6zg.jpg)
again with the helian launch bay trick on the prow, this time with a bit of classic bfg bay beneath it for body and substance.
I intend this to be one of two.
I'm pleased wit the stubby, pugnacious look of this vessel but what I really want/need for the second one is a classic marine strike cruiser prow, as I feel this would look even better, not that I'm displeased with this one...
in truth the fleet's coming along nicely:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/bf2f/51atm3ey4kq4ol0zg.jpg)
(forgot the ordnace in this shot, DOH!)
so yeah, if anyone has a strike cruiser prow they'd be prepared to sell or donate to the cause, sling me a PM!
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Really solid work as always!
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thanks.
I bit the bullet and simply stripped down my old bloodangels strike cruiser and donated its prow to this:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a1c8/tnwepfvwqranddnzg.jpg)
the second strike cruiser.
this is much better in my opinion but that may just be nostalgia for the old silhouette of a strikecruiser.
however I do feel this conversion banishes all the things about the original model and keeps all the best bits LOL!
I always felt the strike cruiser was a bit of a cop-out in that it was an unashamed rehash of the dauntless hull with a few tinkers here and there and a fancy new prow.
also whilst stripping the old bloodangels strikecruiser I took the opportunity to repaint the two thunderhawks that accompanied it to spaceshark colourscheme too, topping those up to four markers in the fleet now...
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Yeah, that prow makes much more sense. It adds the tad needed sleekness. Nice Space Marine fleet that way. The Helian hull indeed works for the Barge.
My Marine fleets consists of three ForgeWorld Strike Cruisers which I run as the regular ones and a GW one which Is the bombard variant. Makes somewhat sense I guess.
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some slightly better shots of stuff...
stations:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b116/el26fcdna1rposlzg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fb5e/9xgug2b113oa4bmzg.jpg)
and the marine fleet in its +\- completed form... well for now anyhow...
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/3afc/m1pb4bi90cp9aa7zg.jpg)
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You know what? It's all rubbish. Better give it to me so I can sort it out for you. You'll just have to start again from fresh ::)
Everything from conversion to paint job is amazing. If I didn't like you........ I'd hate you.
The Marine fleet looks great. What colours did you use?
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You know what? It's all rubbish. Better give it to me so I can sort it out for you. You'll just have to start again from fresh ::)
Everything from conversion to paint job is amazing. If I didn't like you........ I'd hate you.
;D lols! Thanks
The Marine fleet looks great. What colours did you use?
Erm...Grey....
Lol no seriously,
Mech standard grey,
Nuln oil wash.
Mech grey dry brush.
Dawn stone edge highlight.
Admin grey edge highlight (lesser)
Some very fine bits of a lighter grey hither and yon.
+Metals etc...
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Glorious stuff, dude! Your use of Vanguard bits is really good - once they get their bums sorted re. ship releases I will definitely be doing a mixed force of IN and Marines and stealing your good ideas.
The Helian cruiser hull clearly has lots of potential, and it's encouraging to see the Panthera prows being a good size for different conversion possibilities.
Could you possibly DM me the 'Russian guy's' details from evil bay? I recognise the weapon bays but can't find them myself. I have a hunch I know who they are, but still!
Space Sharks looking really darn good. Hope all is well with you real life wise too :)
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Still alive so can't complain. Job is still no go. But models are full steam ahead! (Well what I have already anyhow)
Have pm'd with the eBay page...
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an experiment with fighter craft ordnance to make a proxy for a marauder bomber:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/4e99/e409dxj1v7e45uuzg.jpg)
vanguard javelin cut down and trimmed with a swithdeath tail between the engines.
not an excellent pic but bloody small and hard to capture with the phone...
*edit*
better shot
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/dbd5/77t9ttkzokogok2zg.jpg)
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e469/68tpkt22ekk00f6zg.jpg)
*end*
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been experimenting on kitbashing more fighter ordnance:
I have more imperial bombers than anything else so i figured i'd start by using these as a base.
by cutting off the engines and cockpit section and fliping it backwards, then grafting a turret from the lynx class destroyer you get this:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/db73/tptwsetr7f89fg6zg.jpg)
I painted them to look like the player one and player two ships from demonstar:
(https://alchetron.com/cdn/demonstar-5054c8f3-5087-411f-9aa0-05d70e47753-resize-750.gif)
I did another in the merchant fleet colours but this time cut the 'engines' and 'nose' down a bit to make it look stubbier, like more of a shuttle type dealie, rather than a stud-fighter.
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/8aea/utadqcvziwlyjorzg.jpg)
along side it is a ship that was originally supposed to represent the player ship from armalyte:
(https://www.c64-wiki.com/images/4/4a/Armalyte_Endboss_Lvl1.gif)
but it ended up looking more akin to one of these:
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelmovies/images/7/79/Mining_Pod.png/revision/latest?cb=20170803195614)
mining pods from gotg, so I figured I'd do it as another yellerun, and make it one of the mining-guild ships in jago's fleet.
also I used some gs to convert one of my last chaos swiftdeaths:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0f84/q2l832eslck6edqzg.jpg)
into the usp talon from tyrian:
(https://www.mobygames.com/images/promo/original/1473865376-2980961889.png)
quite enjoying this games into models thing I got going on here...
more soon?
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yes..
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0fb0/fglhtqan2fxer11zg.jpg)
got a debris32 xeno fighter done. again with the lynx turret as the foresection (for a bit of shape difference).
as you can see its not any specific one of the debris32 aliens but has the general flavour of them...
trickier to get the gold colour than you'd think.
would have been very easy to make it too lustrous with ruddier copper-golds.
That would have looked wrong.
Whereas the sprites have more of a cold bronze-gold look...
I achieved it with tinbitz mixed with retributor armour... in truth (looking at the sprites again) I probably could have gone a bit brighter, although the shots I've taken do make it seem darker than it is in RL. meh, whattayagonnado?
I added a bit of green to the weapons as this is a way of adding a bit more interest and also to reference the 'exhaust' colour they have in the game...
(http://www.squarefree.com/debris/level8mid.png)
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decided to repaint that xeno ship to be a bit lighter, after all:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/b2e5/0px1qjt925mxgt9zg.jpg)
Ive also converted and painted up another javelin into a truer representation of the splorkon systems XJ-37:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7370/vma52qrcvls5kc3zg.jpg)
really happy with this one...
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Cool!
Zaxxon
(https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.c64-wiki.com/images/b/b1/Zaxxon1.png&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjc7ObQo4zrAhWDKewKHVREB_kQ5hMIBTAA&usg=AOvVaw1eaGfec5KhIN9fgYgB8h4T)
Turrican 2
(http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/screenshots/full/turrican_ii_08.png)
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zaxxon ship conversion:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/f95b/ye4sfff3uw2455lzg.jpg)
made from the flipped ass-end of an imperial bomber mated back onto its cockpit, with the front wings removed and the rear wings trimmed to size/shape...
the colours were intended to represent the ship from the original arcade version:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/ARC_Zaxxon.png)
(Colours are different depending on the ported version)
but it came out a bit off... still its obvious what it is eh?
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Looks like Zaxxon. 8)
Such a waste I cannot remember all the old games I played on Amiga 2000 and Commedore 64.
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I know! I lived on the c64 back in the day! (showing our age now!)
thanks for reminding me of zaxxon... not sure how I overlooked that one... doh!
think i'm done with these videogame little do-ers for now
anyway, I've revisited my torpedoes:
(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/474e/ys1t090dh8wtp606g.jpg)
adding highlights that were sorely lacking afore and changing batch two to happy little red and white jobbies...
also took the opportunity to re-base them on some appropriately cut/filed epic bases as this makes them a better size match for the original card markers... and its a bit neater than my cut-and-shut whf bases...
don't get me wrong, I still like the whf bases for the bombers and fighters (as the they are the right size) and although having all the bases match across the ordnance fulfills my ocds they just looked messy, so although they differ from the other ordnance they'll work better in-game... must get more of these, if john ever restocks them...
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Great looking stuff all round mate. Love the colour schemes and the use of parts. Who'd have thought about using a scope lens to make a shuttle from? Well, apart from you anyway. ;)
Damn, those computer games take me back. Now I feel SERIOUSLY old. Still playing my favourite game from 1997 though! :D
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Great looking stuff all round mate. Love the colour schemes and the use of parts. Who'd have thought about using a scope lens to make a shuttle from? Well, apart from you anyway. ;)
Damn, those computer games take me back. Now I feel SERIOUSLY old. Still playing my favourite game from 1997 though! :D
Cheers!
...What '97 game is that again?
Sure you've told me before but my memory is dogshit these days...
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Total Annohilation.
Basically building armies of Robots/Tanks/Planes and battering the hell out of someone. I've always had a thing for mechs, probably why I play Imperial Knights :D and why I've also just got into Titanicus ::)
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Slippery slope that... Next thing your building a 28mm scale imperator titan in the garage and the car is out in the drive...
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I don;t have a garage so not that fussed ;D I have a couple of old stables that I've converted into my man cave ;)
I'd love them to do a AT scale Imperator. Although I'd be just as happy for them to do AT scale Armigers lol.
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looking at some old bfg models today and relised I'd never got a shot of my 'imperial' repulsive class conversion I did a while back for the 'battlegroup classico' fleet:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/06ab/na780ynsn0nd4fhzg.jpg)
the Dio.
as you can see its had its rear fin orientation swapped, the chaosisation removed and aquilla-wings and a dome added to further push the fact that this is a grand cruiser in imperial hands...
an oldy but a goody. don't know why I forgot to photograph this until now...
also my wife's been playing round with art on canvas and paint pouring, etc... and she decided to turn one into this:
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/0f49/yokt4a5hsso81nuzg.jpg)
get an umbrella, the tyranids are coming...
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Cool!
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Really cool Grand Cruiser mate. It has a very antique look to it. Like it's just been dredged up from a backwater reserve fleet.
You could print that and turn it into a board mate. Look very space-y
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Cool canvas! Your wife has talent!
Excellent grand cruiser. I have two of them pressed into Imperial service myself, it's a great model.
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thanks guys. I've always been totally in love with the repulsive class. I just dont understand how they got that so right and the other grand cruisers so abominably wrong...
it clearly has aspects of the genesis imperial ships designs (prow, keel fin) but its subtle enough to fit in with the chaos fleets without looking like a hobbled-together space-pikey ship...
thats what I tried to channel when I 'designed' the enceladus class grand cruiser thing I did.
as for the colours. yeah I was going for an aged baroque kinda scheme. inspired by the cover art of bfg rulebook (the john blanche one) and i have only a few ships in this scheme. this, the overlord with the kar-dunaish prow (nemesis2) , a dauntless, a lunar class (sacred duty) and a single sword and single cobra. I never truely fell in love with the scheme and ended up going ape for battlegroup armegeddon... but you've no doubt noticed that already... ;)
as for the canvas? it only 8" square so wouldnt make much of a board ;)
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Pulling the cover art is really hard. You have to exaggarate colours to get those effects.
I don't dislike the Chaos models as much as you do, if at all, but yes, the Repulsive is the best model in the fleet. The Desolator and Despoiler are fun as well. Also good venerable barges if needed.
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Oh no I do like chaos vessels. It's the hybrid grand cruiser I kinda dislike...
You know the one that could be used by either fleet?
I'd not go as far as hate but it's design flaws niggle me a bit. Still want one for my collection though! It's the only imperial vessel designs I don't own any of...
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Ah, then I misread you. The Repulsive was released early on and the other ones (with the Vengeance as the base model iirc) around Armada. Indeed those design were... iffy...but I also would add one if I could.
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lols, iffy is a good word for it.
not terrible but not great.
I remember the teased news in wd about new grand cruisers we'd be getting just prior to armarda rulebooks's release and being so disappointed when I finally saw them. however the astartes vessels that came out made up for that!
yeah the repulsive was a big deal when it released. biggest broadside in the whole of the gothic sector. even took a retribution for a run for its money. and fast! man! my buddy (henreticus) brought one and it run rings round my imperial cruisers in every clash we had! I remember going ape with cobras trying to smash the hull out of it but it went to no avail... funny how i can remember playing a game of bfg with an unpainted model from 20 years ago but cant remember my own phone number these days...
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If you ever decide to return to old school video games inspired ordnance models, you might wanna check this site (http://androidarts.com/) out. It really has tons of cool (manga styled) artwork based on many old games. Heck...even some of the 40k redesigns on there are pretty sweet!
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(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/fb1d/0dxxd4q07p61ofnzg.jpg)
some vanguard eagle dropships in shark colours...
due to the absurdly huge size of these (14mm!) against the 8mm thunderhawks I currently have (from grimdarkbitz) I'm saying these are stormbird proxies...
Seeing that stormbird is a catch-all term that refers to a series of various super-heavy dedicated attack landers that are used by the Legiones Astartes as their primary means of deploying forces into combat, I figure these fit the bill and fit into the mythos of the spacesharks, being an older chapter and all that jazz...
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(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/28ce/lhha8kby10dus4zzg.jpg)
had fun with those so I did a pair in the nurgle fleet colours too...
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I was wondering when you'd return to BFG scaled stuff!
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yeah, I had a pack of these in the box for ages so figured I aught to finally get 'em done, now the rest of my stuff is done.
I've finished all my guard and marines and had nothing else left to do.
well, aside a bombard conversion but that requires some specific paint to do and I cant really afford that either... :(
its all down to getting my old oop guard and marine 'stock' sold on ebay before I can get anything new now...
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Welp, the ordinance is looking great regardless, mate. My sympathies regarding finances - been there!
And guess what? I got made redundant last month!!! After commiserating with your good self I now find myself in the same boat ;) So at least I now have even more time to reduce the pile... Maybe...
What’s your eBay seller name? I’ll give you a follow, see if I can help you out...
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Thanks man and sorry to hear about work.
As for eBay;
Its osjc_latchford.
It's mostly old metal second ed stuff and that.
Not cheap but they aren't these days.
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Nice work on those small ones.
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So... are you truly done or at those 4 new entries tempting enough...
https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk
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unless you're offering to buy them for me... ;)
I'm out of work again and its a case of paint what I got...
and try not to end up homeless... :(
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:( Hope that your situation soon improves.
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sure it will. always does eventually.
I cant complain considering whats happening back in europe right now.
feel so powerless to do anything.
cant even afford anything to send over as donation... tragic stuff...
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The floodings?
I live in that region and the Dutch floodings are really bad but 'luckily' only material and financial damage. The place where I lived only had several flooded cellars, we had no problem at all. But 20km from us, in Valkenburg, the whole inner city was completely flooded.
But in Germany and Belgium it was much worse with complete hooded being washed away and over 100 dead people.
The thought you won't two help is good enough. Financially seen we're pretty good here and the government activated a law in which the government will pay financial damage.
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I'm back!
a little side project today, clearing out the bfg bits box and I found some gems.
A dauntless with no bottom/'wing' section,but I did have a strike cruiser's bottom/'wing' section so problem solved there. Also my last metal cobra too, to keep it company.
So I decided to try an old classic on these:
(https://i.ibb.co/9TqNWk8/bfg-blanche-02.jpg)
Clearly inspired by John blanche's cover art for the game and, in extension, his own bfg paint jobs themselves.
So, after the success of the blanchitsu cruiser and cobra, I decided I liked the new way of painting.
So, rather than buy new models, I figured I'd repaint a few of my older voss minis in a new scheme:
(https://i.ibb.co/0m3CMYw/BFG-voss-brown-blue-01.jpg)
This brown and blue scheme starts as a base of steellegion drab, followed by an all-over shade of nuln/agrax mix.
then drybrush steellegion drab. then drybrush zandridust.
now edge highlight ushabti bone.
now target shade nuln oil
rehighlight ushabti hith and yon.
the blue is the fang base with successive streaky highlights of russ grey and fenrisan blue.
also target shaded with nuln oil
the black is just successive highlights of skavenblight, mechanicus grey, dawnstone and white.
The windows/running lights are done in small dots of wraithbone. never done this before, but it really does add scale...
(https://i.ibb.co/Vv7mydB/BFG-voss-cobras-01.jpg)
I had started with these cobras to test the scheme
(https://i.ibb.co/NpBpQ0y/BFG-voss-Aggamemnon-01.jpg)
then moved onto my zeus lunar: "Aggamemnon".
(https://i.ibb.co/RPV15js/BFG-voss-Aggamemnon-02.jpg)
as it was bigger I could play about with the streaky prow/plates more and also add rust to the iron eagle. Which might have looked odd on the cobra sized prows.
(https://i.ibb.co/3CSbhX6/BFG-voss-invictus-01.jpg)
and decided to complete the set with my zeus endeavour class: "Invictus"
(https://i.ibb.co/h2zwZkS/BFG-voss-invictus-02.jpg)
This one had a refit from the classic bfg batteries to the actual zeus ones.
I was rearanging my storage box and found myself looking at some of my older ships and thinking. "you know what, these would look nice in the brown/blue scheme too":
(https://i.ibb.co/L8mqNMn/bfg-artermis-carrier-escort.jpg)
"Achillies" Escort carrier.
This one had originally been done in the armageddon scheme but the wash had gone all shiny at the time. (old gw washes did that for seemingly no reason occasionally) A perfect reason to repaint her in the new scheme! Also a nice reference to bfg's Armada rulebook which this ship and its stats were first seen.
Used almost exclusively for convoy scenareos it is literally an excuse to convert the ship from launchbays, plasticar and aerials as, well as a forgeworld heavy transporter.
(https://i.ibb.co/q7WBwR8/bfg-artermis-fueller.jpg)
"Speedo Ghost" Fueller Escort.
So as not to feel left, out the Achillies has this fuel transport to join it in said convoy missions.
This mini was originally in a dirty grey colourscheme. much more resplendant now!
Both of these Logistic-vessels were chosen to see if the blue would work as pleasantly on a prow with banding as one without. I'm happy that it does, meaning that more ships may yet follow!
(https://i.ibb.co/k3BS0yw/bfg-artermis-systemships.jpg)
Next I tacked some system ships. I've always loved the sense of scale these give the other ships in fleet pics.
Most of these were done in the armageddon scheme before, but I felt this exploritary fleet was better suited as the ideal place for such minis.
Out on the frontier, you need to take all you can with you to survive.
Only the baby fueller (made from a meltabomb, tanktrack, sprue and aerials) was in another scheme, again the dirty grey scheme as was on the fueller mentioned above.
So a fleet like this needs a name!
(https://i.ibb.co/Dt71xcY/BFG-batlegroup-artemis-01.jpg)
Battlegroup "Artemis" as it currently stands.
more to come? youbetcha.
I need a novacannon in there for some long range scaryness but as I would rather spend the points on a characterful grandcruiser than a Mars, I'm thinking Dominator, it just so happens I have one in my old armageddon fleet (funny that, eh ;) ). Yes, I know this still leaves the fleet without fighter/bomber support.
As for a grand cruiser?
Aside the astartes one I'm working on, I don't own one aside my old repulsiveclass. So thats a repaint out of the question.
So I'm thinking new mini for that!
As I'm going for a voss/armada era fleet, allbeit reinvisioned in Zac's zeus line, I'm thinking I need something similar for the GC; Like the chaos/imperial hybrids that came out around the time of the voss stuff from GW but also reinvisioned.
Anything to improve that slapped together look of the chaos ass-end over the imperial engines and that clown-shoe of a prow! LOL
So, something with obvious chaos visual references but less mc'gyvered together and somehow more integral in its design.
Class-wise, after a chat with Lord Borak, I'm leaning towards an Exorcist.
The fleet is sorely lacking any carriers and the exorcist would fit the bill and kinda makes sense as a lead vessel of an exploratory battlegroup.
watch this space!
Also
on a whim, I got another repaint done:
(https://i.ibb.co/C8WjvdF/BFG-Artermis-sinclair01.jpg)
"sinclair" light cruiser, refitted from endurance to endeavour.
(https://i.ibb.co/ky43ZZ4/BFG-Artermis-sinclair03.jpg)
Based on a recast of one of AdmGR's prints of the 'Razor' light cruiser, this mini required a lot of cleanup and a new prow ram (old chaos spikey sprue).
It's also pretty damned huge for light cruiser too but it does bear an absolute striking resemblance to the artwork from the armada rulebook and, as such, the short lived metal voss lightcruisers from the battlefleet armageddon era.
(https://i.ibb.co/XyZcn62/BFG-Artermis-sinclair02.jpg)
As you can see, I've added a bit of extra life to it by putting one of those diagonal stripes oft seen in the rulebook and on Vaaish's and Horizon's imperial cruisers too!
It is indeed quite different to the zeus cruisers already in battlegroup Artemis, but I have three of these (two in armageddon colours) so had no qualms about adding this peice of bfg history to the fleet...
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Hiiiiiiii!!!!
Pleeeeaaaasseeee join the BFG discord with this aces stuff.
https://discord.gg/jJNDqUH9
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I'm not on discord...
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Very cool stuff................. They feel cold and old, almost a lonely vibe. Inspiring to say the least.
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cheers!
(https://i.ibb.co/GcRCk3R/BFG-artemis-orbital.jpg)
Also got this "Mc'kay" class lance orbital I made repainted to the artemis scheme too.
Because why not?
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I'm not on discord...
I know. I urge you to join me and the rest of the community. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Quite liking the Artemis paint scheme. The brown is starting to look like NMM (non metallic metal).
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Lovely lovely stuff, mate.
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I second that. Nice...........................
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Cheers folks, more for you now!
*a few combined posts in one big drop today*
Today I finally got that aforementioned Dominator repainted.
(https://i.ibb.co/H7fyTjF/BFG-artemis-eternalvigilance-01.jpg)
The "Eternal Vigiliance"
This conversion uses the obvious addition of the zeus novacannon prow, instantly tying it in with the zeus lunar and zeus endeavour, already in the fleet.
To take it further, the wings were swapped out with tiny ones from an ad mech cruiser and a chaos bridge added to both tie into the voss cruiser style but also to account for the bulk of the wings, now lost from the horizontal, and put in onto the vertical axis of the ship.
The midships Aquilla comes from an astartes bannerpole and was an obvious reference to the old artwork of ships from the old codex's
(https://i.ibb.co/8YTkyFs/40k-Cruiser2.png)
(https://i.ibb.co/1T0NbdY/BFG-artemis-eternalvigilance-02.jpg)
The missing engine decks were restored using plasticard tubing, this being a nice reference to the 'razor' voss light cruiser mini, the simple sleek lines of the tubing mirroring those visuals nicely.
The most overt changes comes in the form of the broadsides themselves.
The domminator has always been a ill-favoured class of cruiser; Its long range novacannon utterly at odds with its incredibly short range battery armaments.
To show this on the model I built a set of batteries from plasicard 'barrels' mounted onto plates from the venerable dreadnought kit, for the extra gothic details the arches bring to the mini.
These were simply spaced in threes with platicard rod columns seperating the bays either side.
A simple, if not fiddly, solution that gave a very slimline look to the the cruiser and, hopefully suggests at a mass of smaller, shorter range weapons...
I feel the smaller weapons are very reminiscent of a dauntless's broadsides in looks, thus looking appropriately BFG in design yet are different enough to make the mini more than "just another cruiser"
(https://i.ibb.co/qD3BqM6/BFG-artemis-eternalvigilance-aggamemnon-sinclair.jpg)
Here she is alongside the Aggamemnon and the Sinclair, allowing you to see what I mean about the references to both designs she has...
Well, if nothing else, I'm glad I got at least one plastic cruiser based build in there.
Next up? the GC?
Alas, most likely not as its not arrived from the printers yet.
TBH, I don't feel in the mood to start the astartes one yet either...
I think a revisit to another conversion I did few years back might be in order next...
to tease I'll say its one that was good in premise but the way I did it bugs me to this day...
now, where's that exacto-saw and the Nitromoors gone... ;)
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So, here's that revisit to an old mini I teased last post.
(https://i.ibb.co/6yxM6JJ/BFG-artemis-spitehawk01.jpg)
The "Spitehawk"
Based off of the talented Malika's Novan Elite's Panthera Heavy Frigate (vanguard), this mini uses a Defence Monitor's prow and imperial lances as well as a section of gsc laser weapon (for the underslung lance) in its conversion...
The way I had originally built this mini had more of the original Panthera prow showing creating a rather gawky looking mini.
It also had additional aerials etc, making it seem rather cluttered too.
With it's cut down sleeker profile I'm much happier with it now.
(https://i.ibb.co/BVrCh97/BFG-artemis-spitehawk02.jpg)
Although originally intended as a Defence Monitor proxy, the Panthera hull sizes in +/- around the size of a strike cruiser, meaning it could just as easily pass as a strike cruiser or dauntless light cruiser as well as a defence monitor, depending on the mood or scenareo I find myself in.
anyway, classification aside, its a great addition to battlegroup Artemis, nonetheless...
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SO. here is the astartes themed grand cruiser
(https://i.ibb.co/FxBQwNB/BFG-cf-barge01.jpg)
Glorious Purpose - Crimson Fists battlebarge
Based on the zeus grand cruiser mini; featuring fist prow from Lord Borak's battleship conversion kit, plasma batteries (from admgr?), the pods, cannons, church-bridge and domes from battlefleet galaxy, a few beads for extra domes and some hand sculpted fist icons.
(https://i.ibb.co/vqZMHjx/BFG-cf-barge03.jpg)
the torpedo launchers on the prow come from primaris agressors and the prow launch bay is fashioned from a rhino front-light.
I decided on using the prow-rams as decorational towers as they lined up nicely with the dome I added.
The front bombardment canon is from the vanguard panthera kit.
(https://i.ibb.co/HNBqZzb/BFG-cf-barge02.jpg)
I went for the crimson fists scheme as on my beakies. because, well yeah...
tbh not 100% happy with how this turned out.
one of the droppod units had a rung-bit snap off it half way and I didnt notice till the final highlights, (yes the droppods are absurdly out of scale but I love the look, so sue me, perhaps they are titan pods?)
The torpedo things look more like giant speakers which is fun I suppose, perhaps they are blasting devotional tunes to terrify the enemy!
and worst of all the paintjob is, trutfully, a bit messy.
I had problems with this right from the get go.
this one was sadly a bit badly cast, terrible moldlines (unexpected from vanguard), some bits from battlefleet galaxy I wanted to use I couldn't, because they wouldn't fit (launch bays), and dispite how much I scrubbed it in soapy water beforehand the model was so greasy the paint didn't stick and kept coming off. not at the prime stage but at the basecoat stage... gah all the bottom is in a terible state with bare resin showing in the recesses.
you know what its like, once its like that after priming, its too late...
I haven't had trouble like this with painting since I cant remember.
I stopped and left it a couple of days to harden up a bit and to cool my jets some and came at it again today.
But this shitty experiance has left me somewhat jaded and in the end, I wanted it finished more than I wanted to do it.
I knew I'd feel the same if I came back to it yet later again so I just busted it out and this is the result...
shame but you've all been there I'm sure. once you're done with something, or moved on to better or different things that take your interest, its hard to go back to it...
hopefully I'll get my mojo back to paint the last two ships of Artemis I have planned...
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oday I did a couple of classic mars pattern cobras (recasts) for Battlegroup Artemis.
Gifted by a kind soul, the engines were totalled in the recasting method, nothing some clippers and some styrene rod couldn't fix...
(https://i.ibb.co/r52ZGjp/bfg-artemis-cobras-mixed.jpg)
The colourscheme fits just as well on these as it does the zeus cobras!
It also makes me realise just how sleek the original cobras are, well against the apparrent chonk of the zeus ones anyway!
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So, I figured, I've got two cruisers and two light cruisers in Artemis so far.
I've already picked an Exorcist Grand cruiser for an upcoming addition, but I've still the option to pick either another Grand or a battlecruiser...
Overlord says I!
(https://i.ibb.co/Qnz719N/BFG-artemis-overlord01.jpg)
The 'Nemesis III' Built from the hulk of the 'Ultimus Umbra' a prior Overlord class from battlegroup Devastatus who's foolhardy and ever gung-ho captain neglected the range of the batteries and lances, taking her into a suicidal death charge into the heart of the enemy in a fit of pique, resulting in the absoulte destruction of all engineering decks and engines, the bridge was anihilated by bombing runs and the prow reduced to a smoking crater... chump...
still, never ones to waste anything, the Imperium's techpriests gathered the hulk and rebuilt the ship around the surprisingly resilienent and therefore fully intact weapons decks.
once completed she was sent to reinforce battlegroup Artemis' patrols and aptly named; the 'Nemesis III', after a sister overlord from battlegroup 'classico' that itself bears the name of its predecessor, thus continuing the illustrious legacy of the Overlord class.
(https://i.ibb.co/93Gj3hX/BFG-artemis-overlord02.jpg)
Look, anyone who knows me knows I love an overlord class. This one is indeed made from my old "Ultimus Umbra" from my other voss fleet.
This time around, She's sporting engines from a battleship, rear plates are from battlefleet galaxy, mounted on inverted and cut down lance decks. (you cant see those, but they're there).
The resultant gap from not having regular wings was filled either side with the eagles cut from bolt-rifles.
The bridge is chaos battleship and, I felt, matched the zeus/armageddon no-nonsense style nicely and for a bit of 'chonk' I chose the vanguard panthera lances. I feel this better reflects the power of them in game.
As mentioned, the batteries were recovered from the other overlord mini, these were the MangoZac blackship conversion kit batteries. A suitable peice to sell the power and range the overlord can bring to bear. Just as my dominator has many smaller guns to suggest shot range but high power, these suggest at both range AND power! If I had them I would have used battlebarge batteries, however, these fit the bill just as well. They're clearly based on them, right?
The prow is a simple voss from the zeus line, however Its 'blended' to the hull with a couple of strips of plasticard rod (also a nice visual refence to the dominator) for a bit of extra chunk.
To take the conversion to the end, I chose to carve out the original eagle head and replace it with the old marneus calgar backpack eagle, green-stuffing the resultant joins.
This was chosen for twofold reasons, its a nice reference to the jes goodwin concept prows he made (see chris smart's battleship conversion in the rulebook), and the second reason is that the first ever 'Nemesis' overlord I did had a converted plastic imperial prow with this eagle modelled on it! (that ship now has a converted kardunaish prow and battlebarge batteries and is thusly called nemesis II)
All in all, I'm dead happy with this ship. It has all the chunk a battlecruiser should have.
I've used more blue on this ship too, around the bridge and the dorsal lances, to help mark its status some more.
I've also tried to tie in elements of all the other cruisers using the colours too, the blue steel and black on the rudderplates for example.
I like my battlecruisers to be oviously bigger and chunkier where possible. Absolutely no ambiguity here. The massive weapons, standout lances and massive engines make it look like a pocket battleship, which I suppose it is; baby retribution!
Its scary looking, and will probably get a lot of hits right off the bat because of it, but the rule of cool comes first, right?
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bit of a deviation from the usual ships you've seen in battlegroup Artemis so far, consider it a practice run for an upcoming vessel...
(https://i.ibb.co/3v7z3Xr/BFG-artemis-caarnage-01.jpg)
"Crius" - carnage class reserve ship.
Dragged out of mothballs to join the ranks of battlegtoup Artemis, Crius was previously stuck on escort duty of transport and supply details, operating out of the local systems.
However, needs must and all available vessels are now being called for active service in the sector to repel the foe...
(https://i.ibb.co/GWjjqCM/BFG-artemis-caarnage-02.jpg)
Yeah, I wanted to see what a regular chaos ship would look like in Artemis colours...
Compared to modern prints/casts, the details are a little soft, making what I wanted to achive a little, lets say; "fuzzy".
This was never an issue with my nurgle fleet because they were deliberately scummy.
Lives and learns I guess...
Added details are the half-bead dome on the bridge to represent the Imperial bridge design and the midships domes where the lances/aerials would go.
The rearmost being a battlefleet galaxy component, the fore another half-bead.
Just a little something to make it feel more imperial and less chaotic...
nothing special by any means.
Just an old ship past retirement, begrudgingly back in the thick of it...
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Some fighters today...
(https://i.ibb.co/wdzhbvs/BFG-artemis-fighters01.jpg)
thanks to malika for the stl/designs and LordBorak for printing them for me.
I got me some 20mm square bases, drilled them and fitted the squadron, properly.
Not sure if I'll do more marker sized bases or do them induvidually on the copper stands, you know, the way I normally do?
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After my experiment with the generic red/white ordnace marker yesterday, I've decided instead to do my usual and create some ordnance on the induvidual stands, this time in the brown and blue of artemis:
(https://i.ibb.co/vmj59Jh/BFG-artemis-ordnance02.jpg)
I even found my last two swithdeath's and I've done them to go with the others too!
pretty happy with these!
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Finally, it's done...
(https://i.ibb.co/QcXB2Vc/bfg-artemis-exorcist01.jpg)
Cronos - Exorcist class grand cruiser. Flagship of battlegroup Artemis.
(https://i.ibb.co/2jGJXfG/bfg-artemis-exorcist02.jpg)
I wanted this to be a reference to the GC's of the time of the armada releases but refused to pay money for a straight up copy of the hideous clown-shoe design.
Instead I went for this mini; its an alternative take on a Repulsive class and it's an Italian moose design and he has done an exceptional job of it.
I simply added the imperial launchbays eitherside and a half-bead dome where the stand should go. (more on that soon)
To me this mini was a great compromise between the imperial/chaos hybrids and also the repulsive class and I think I've just kept convincing myself that I love it purely out if a misplaced sense of nostalgia. Either way it's definitely growing on me more each time I look at it!
But yeah. In truth It's nonsense isn't it?
Pretty, yes but nonsense.
As I've said before now, this type of hybrid design is purely and exclusively found in fiction. Like the enterprise retconned prototypes etc in startrek. Real world military designs tend to replace the old rather bluntly with complete changes in design and very few, if not none, of the old sensibilities remaining. But that's not fun to model and paint is it?
(https://i.ibb.co/KqBC1f1/bfg-artemis-exorcist03.jpg)
I named the Exorcist 'Cronus' as he was the father of Zeus in greek mythology... Get it?
That's also why the Carnage class I did was named 'Crius'.
Crius was the brother of Cronos and after the failed war in heaven, was banished to Tataros, much as my outdated and therefore less trusted carnage class was "banished" to shipping escort duty after the heresy...
Now. on to the less fun stuff.
I feel duty bound to point out the following.
This print is from scourge scenics and boy did I have some trouble with them.
First outing I had it on a large gw flying base. It was so heavy and unbalanced it BROKE the stand!
Literally keeled over on the garden table (catching some rays to ensure ultimate curing) and sheared it in half.
I will point out that where I have the base now is not where it was. That's the little dome just aft of where the stand is now.
I was displeased and told scourge scenics so.
They were like, 'oh just drill it out and it'll be fine.
It's not our design it's Italianmoose's so we can't forsee these things...'
Well I was kinda pissed at the response tbh and told them so. Mentioning that , as I'm sure you guys know, attempting drilling out the clear stand nub in a printed mini is mental as it's so hard it'll likely slip the drill and possibly wreck the mini. Also it's pointless doing so as it's still unbalanced. That part of the mini is just not the centre of balance. So even if I stick another base in, it's still the same problem. Perhaps Italian moose intended it to be printed in a hollow shell configuration or a different/lighter material but even so, it's atrocious to blame his design . If it's on your store, you must take responsibility for it, surely.
Anyway I told them I intended to re drill and base it, as close to the real centre of balance as possible, and asked them if there was anything specific I should know about working with the resin, before I started to attempt the repair, Their response?
Refund...
Wtf!?
So I said to them, although appreciated (considering the issues)it was not really what I wanted. The product is faulty and I was trying to fix a problem so that it doesn't happen to someone else. It was my belief the design should have been pulled from the store untill resolved.
They were quite meh about it and even though I re-drilled it, fixed it and showed them pics and a vid explaining where it should be based, nothing has changed.
I did get an apology eventually but Afaik they're still selling them as is, hence why I feel duty bound to mention this now.
So yeah. Bit of an odd experience. Untill I pressed the issue it seemed to me they didn't give a funt if I had a good shopping experience or not. After I made them aware that I knew what I was doing, bfg modelling wise, they just threw money at the problem and we're just happy to be rid of me asap.
So do consider that before purchase from them.
Its not all bad. not by any means at all
I will say, the resin is delicious quality and resolution of print is crystal clean and crisp. The Italian moose designs are certainly among the best looking on the site but its clear they are just not quite optimised to scourge scenics printing medium/processes so yeah.
I'd be lying if I said it wasnt a little bit upsetting and a lot more disapointing. There are plenty more designs on there I'd love to try but I'm coloured by my experiance and less likely to trust to buy again... perhaps after some time...
then again maybe not.
Food for thought...
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So, another carrier today:
(https://i.ibb.co/y4SvrYc/bfg-artemis-dictator01.jpg)
Demeter - Dictator class cruiser
(https://i.ibb.co/v36hHWg/bfg-artemis-dictator02.jpg)
This is based off of the MangoZac Zeus cruiser chassis from vanguard, with a midships bridge and prow from battlefleet galaxy.
It also includes some plasticard work by my good self as well as helian launch bays (also vanguard)and standard Imperial batteries.
the skull on the bridge is from an old Imperal guard tank eagle.
(https://i.ibb.co/KXy1JFY/bfg-artemis-dictator03.jpg)
this model was quite miscast and rather damaged when I got it, hence the addition of the skull to the bridge and the trimmed and flattened out area around the thin "corridor" section (the tubes originally there were just obliterated.)
The midships bridge was also made necessary by the fact that that whole section was simply a piss poor cast. Ive had a lot from vanguard over the years and thats two in a row like this now.
first the wonky and slipcast grand and now this? what gives guys, are the molds wearing out at last? sort it out...
I ommitted the rearwings intentionally for both the slimline look it gives and the sensibilty of having a nice clear runway for the attack craft!
I also got this pair of sword class frigates done:
(https://i.ibb.co/C16RKjP/bfg-artemis-sword01.jpg)
Designed by Lord Borak, these heresy era styled hybrid chaos/imperial looking ships are actually just the prototypes for something he's got waiting in the wings to release soon...
(https://i.ibb.co/gZVN2H5/bfg-artemis-sword02.jpg)
But more on that next time...
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Hey, great works man, I just hope this forum was a little more alive...
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Cheers, try here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/776520.page ;)
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(https://i.ibb.co/wBHTq1Z/bfg-artemis-armedtrans01.jpg)
Darius - armed freighter
Hastily stripped of her ample cargo holds and refitted with weapons batteries, The Darius is a nasty surprise, lying in wait for any enemy pirate raiders fool enough to attack the Artemis shipping runs.
Well armed and crewed with ex-navy personel, She punches well above her weight, even giving smaller capial ships something to worry about at close range...
(https://i.ibb.co/0DX3BNC/bfg-artemis-armedtrans02.jpg)
yup. A simple conversion that uses the prow and stern of a printed transport ship and the midships of a zeus frigate, inverted.
consider it a q-ship or armed freighter, depending on the scenareo...
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So some new ships for Battlegroup Artemis today:
(https://i.ibb.co/1Lfhp60/BFG-artemis-nyte-firestorms01.jpg)
Nyte class Firestorms
Designed and built by the Talented Tom Knight (Lord Borak aka The2monkeymonks) the old fashioned way, with plasticard and hard labour, the casts are both crisp clean and fantastically nostalgic in design.
harking from both chaos and imperial designs they beautifully blur the lines, making them ideal as older or heresy/crusade era vessels or simply as reinforcements to the chaos fleets.
(https://i.ibb.co/TTRCgrt/BFG-artemis-nyte-firestorms02.jpg)
Available here;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305854888732
As you will see, they come in with three flavours of prow: standard, lance or torpedo-tube variant.
I decided they'd be the best choice for firestorms in battlegroup Artemis, for the aforementioned design reasons above...
I mean, just look at them! they just fit in perfectly with my exorcist and carnage class, eh?
Well, What you doing wasting time still reading this? Go get some!