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Modeling & painting / Re: [BFG] OSJC latchford's bfg stuff

« Last post by osjclatchford on October 22, 2024, 07:03:55 PM »

So some new ships for Battlegroup Artemis today:


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.


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!

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Modeling & painting / Re: [BFG] OSJC latchford's bfg stuff

« Last post by osjclatchford on October 20, 2024, 03:31:31 PM »

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...


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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[Inq] Discussion / Re: Looking for a Better Understanding of Inquisitor Gameplay

« Last post by Irisado on October 20, 2024, 12:17:56 PM »

Unfortntunately, this particular board on the forum is very inactive.  You may have more success asking over at the Inquisitor forum: https://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php

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[Inq] Discussion / Looking for a Better Understanding of Inquisitor Gameplay

« Last post by dicnar on October 15, 2024, 10:51:45 PM »

it seems pretty quiet here...I hope this message reaches somone I got a problem. I seem to fail to find any resonable source of Inquistorial knowledge, And maby somone here would help? I’ve been really curious about how the gameplay in Inquisitor actually works, because I feel like I don’t fully understand the concept. I’ve ordered the rulebook, still waiting for it. But seeing the game in action would help me grasp the mechanics and the overall flow better. Does anyone have any resources, videos, or examples of a session that could give me a clearer idea of what to expect from the game? I’d really appreciate any help or pointers. Is it just and RPG session or a mix of an RPG and a wargame?

Thanks in advance!

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Modeling & painting / Re: [BFG] OSJC latchford's bfg stuff

« Last post by osjclatchford on October 11, 2024, 10:22:31 AM »

Cheers, try here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/776520.page

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Modeling & painting / Re: [BFG] OSJC latchford's bfg stuff

« Last post by Tyberius on October 10, 2024, 08:14:21 PM »

Hey, great works man, I just hope this forum was a little more alive...

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Modeling & painting / Re: [BFG] OSJC latchford's bfg stuff

« Last post by osjclatchford on October 09, 2024, 03:32:21 PM »

So, another carrier today:


Demeter - Dictator class cruiser


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.


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:


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...

But more on that next time...

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[BFG] Discussion / Re: Ordnance markers for everyone!!

« Last post by Tyberius on October 09, 2024, 11:56:50 AM »

Hi Everyone, Reuploaded the ordnance markers.
Cheers!

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[BFG] Experimental Rules Feedback / Re: Another dreadnought...

« Last post by Tyberius on October 09, 2024, 08:42:31 AM »

Hey people, I've heard that the forum was back and decided to pay a visit. Sorry for resurrecting this old post but it was in a lamentable state, so I decided to reupload the pics.
I don't have the original pictures, Some russian hacker encrypted them and asked for a ransom, which I didn't pay... so they're lost. I did have the pictures of the second Dread I built and sold. not exactly the same but close enough to the original.
Well, I'm 54 now and no, I won't build another. My eyesight is busted. I will also reupload some of the ordnance markers I posted in 2012.
 cheers to all.
Rodrigo Barbera aka: Tyberius

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Modeling & painting / Re: [BFG] OSJC latchford's bfg stuff

« Last post by osjclatchford on October 04, 2024, 11:50:59 AM »

Finally, it's done...


Cronos - Exorcist class grand cruiser. Flagship of battlegroup Artemis.


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?


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...