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Offline connahr

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Re: [BFG] Ordinance
« Reply #30 on: June 16, 2013, 05:41:41 PM »
once i've got all my cruisers and battleships painted i'm defiantly investing in some fighters and bombers from grimm dark, i think they actually look better than the GW ordinance
theres no such thing as over kill, its just making sure

Offline PST

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Re: [BFG] Ordinance
« Reply #31 on: June 25, 2013, 05:03:08 PM »
After seeing the great results Markconz got, I ordered a range of ordnance from GrimDarkBits.

I'll get some photos up later but initial feedback is that a number of the options are just far, far too small.

In particular the Dawnblade, Dagger and Starfury fighters are tiny without any real details (or certainly not in white strong and flexible).

The Avenger isn't terrible, but I think the Narwhal in Markconz' photos looks better.

Voidhawk was okay, likewise the raptor boarding pod, though you probably want something better than white, strong and flexible as the graininess of the material drowns out the detail on the latter to some extent.

I also got the torpedoes in WSF and again something tougher would be my suggestion as one of my torpedoes broke just pouring it out of the bag (at a height of about 4 inches, stem snapped on dropping onto the table).

The Battlebarge and Strike cruiser looked good in frosted detail though.

In hindsight it was a mostly expensive learning exercise and I should have gone with either replicating Markconz and just getting the larger fighter-bombers, fighters and Narwhals or roughly-looks-like stand ins from Brigade or GroundZero.

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Re: [BFG] Ordinance
« Reply #32 on: June 26, 2013, 11:57:18 AM »
Interesting intel PST thanks for posting. Look forward to seeing any pics you post too. I meant to post and say I later got some of the little fighters (Starfury IIRC) and decided not to use them, due to the exact problem you mention about small size. Sorry to hear you discovered the same thing about some of the others.

Interestingly I had 1 broken torpedo stand when they arrived (which I just glued with superglue and it was fine), but all the rest were ok, and I've just stored them to and from games rattling around in a plastic container since then, no problems!

The fighters I have stored in foam, should probably do the same with the torpedoes I guess, but they seem pretty resilient thus far.
« Last Edit: June 26, 2013, 12:08:56 PM by Markconz »