[BFG] OSJC latchford's bfg stuff

[osjclatchford]

t'other weapon platform:

[osjclatchford]

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:

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...

[osjclatchford]

ok, more work on escorts for my fledgling spaceshark battlegroup:



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...

groupshot...

also;

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!

[Ragsta]

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.

[osjclatchford]

cheers!

here's the last of the escorts and ordnance (I think)...


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:

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...

[horizon]

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.

[osjclatchford]

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.


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...

[Malika]

Hmm, Vanguard Miniatures should convince Grimdarkbits to have their stuff cast and sold through them...

[osjclatchford]

agreed... so how should we go about it?

i've pm'd him on dakka -dakka...

[Malika]

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.

[osjclatchford]

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.

[osjclatchford]

yeah so I got the refund so:

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!

[connahr]

those transports from ebay and the star galleon look ace

might get some tihs week if i finish my other stuff

[osjclatchford]

those transports from ebay and the star galleon look ace

might get some tihs week if i finish my other stuff

!? 

[connahr]

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