[BFG] Triton Class Dreadnought

[Comrade-K-Rad]

Call me crazy but I decided today to start scratch building a dreadnought for BFG.  I drew up a sketch and started getting to work.



To begin I laid down the basic frame for the keel and started on some of the weapon modules.  The launch bays are just 2 of the gw bits that I shaved most of one side off of and then glued together to have the proper height and the feel of being one large launch bay.  The weapons battery I scratch built. 



Here it is next to the scale(ish) sketch I drew up first.  It's not quite done yet, I still need to fill the squares and then drill out some round barrels.



Triton is one of Neptune's moons and since I already have the Neptune Frigate, then why not a dreadnought shipyard in orbit around Triton.  Keep checking back for more.  I hope to keep working full steam ahead.

[horizon]

Nice, keep it up.

[Malika]

I'm afraid... :O

[connahr]

a dreadnought in BFG, either the work of an enthusiastic fan, or a mad man

i look forward to seeing this completed

[timdp]

Hmmm, four double stacked weapons bays... Works for me!

[Comrade-K-Rad]

Thanks everyone.  Plenty of dakka to go around!  Not sure how I will work it points wise, but this is mostly just to have a sort of centerpiece model for my IN fleet, so to hell with balance!   You can only take one Dreadnought per four battleships or something?   

Good luck finishing that game in one night!

[Comrade-K-Rad]

I have made a bit of progress today.  Took a bit more time to try to keep everything square, and trim.  Worked out pretty well and I got the form pretty much done for the central part of the hull.  Obviously there will be a ton of stuff to be added to this in a similar fashion to all of the Imperial ships.  Next step will be to start bulking out the rear of the hull and the bridge. 

[Comrade-K-Rad]

Another day and some more progress.  Started on the rear superstructure the other evening and felt I had enough done tonight to get an update out.  I still have a lot of work to do on the upper half of it, including constructing a bridge and the 2 side slots, similar to how the Imperial Navy ships go together.  The sides will have small barrels for more guns between each of the vertical strips.  The large slot on the bottom is where the horizontal wing will fit in.  This piece slots into the weapons battery part of the hull and the rear has a tab that the engines will in turn slot onto.  I've also got to do a bunch of filling on the hollow tubes.  Fitting the top plate over the side batteries had me throw in the towel the other night and it took be quite a few cuts to get it right today.  It took quite some time and was very frustrating.  I also took a bit of time and built a little sanding jig to help get the larger styrene tubes squared off on the ends.









That's it for now,  I've used up a couple of my bulking stocks so far, so I am going to need to restock before I can do any more work on the upper superstructure. Let me know what you think.  I feel like I am making decently paced progress with this, but I really cannot wait to go ahead with the detailing.  It's going to be painstaking work, but worth it.  On another note, I recently found out that one of my local hobby shops offers a casting service.  When I go in this week for styrene I am going to talk with the shop owner about casting up my other space ships, the Neptune frigate and the Jovian light cruiser.  I will keep you posted.

[marell le fou]

Really nice til now

[fracas]

very nice!

[Comrade-K-Rad]

Thanks guys.

Some more progress today, I got to the hobby shop for some more styrene yesterday and restocked what I needed as well as getting some new forms.  Unfortunately the owner was off on a trip to an IPMS show and so I could not ask on the casting service.  They'll be back next week so I will find out them.

So, I finished blocking out the upper super structure and the bridge.  I also added the vertical details to the inset  area beneath the bridge, there in a similar vein to the BFG battleships.  Been making the ship in the pieces I think it will need to break into in order to be more easily cast.  Hope that ends up working out.  Lastly I took a shot of it next to my Apocalypse Battleship.  It's pretty darn massive.  I've still got the engines, 'wing,' and prow to go, and with those it will really show some insane scale.  Enjoy!

[Zorcon]

Can't wait to see more!! Great work!