Jago kane has finally added some much needed muscle to his merchant fleet in the form of this aggressive and cussed little(?) gunship:
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...)
portside
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...
