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It is happening to all of us. I am now using some "cheaters" to see the models I am painting...

CB

Do kids these days even know who Matlock is? What do the young whippersnappers think old people watch these days?

Love the retro and scratch builds.

Waiting for my final ebay shipment(s) to finish off Space Fleet.

So playing around with my Pegasus kits again.


Really happy with the big one.



It's a take on the Universe Mass Conveyor from the Rogue Trader RPG (RIP )



I wasn't really trying to reproduce it, but see what I could do within the constraints of the kit I'm using.



Fun exercise but I might move back to doing 28mm for a while. I think I have taken the chemical kit as far as I can.

Besides I really don't have any new ideas for what else I could do.



Oh hello sexy.

Can I get a close up?



I could build a latices out of pipes, then tons of shuttles and...

What do you mean I'm out of pipes!?!

To ebay!

Which of the comics is that?

"Obvious Tactics" from the early 2000s. One of the text pages has background info on the ships seen.

I like it because it's not just another flying cathedral, it's a practical design that still looks 40k-ish and as far as I know it's the only time GW has shown how IG regiments get to the surface.

Now I just need more pipes.

MOAR!

Nice work on the pipe ships. The big one looks especially awesome.

EDC

Bit of a return to an older project, the Mk1999 Eagle cargo shuttle.

You may recall the first WIP from a few months ago.



Basically built as stock but with a spare Imex cockpit in place of the Eagle's trademark bridge.

But this time...



I left off the cargo pod and extended the spine a bit and yes!




It can hold a Chimera!



It's still on the small side, it's a 1/72 kit after all, but as a bit of terrain or for scenarios it does fine.

Oooooh, a tank carrier, very cool project !

yeah of course now I have a problem, I don't want to lose a chimera just for this bit of terrain!

Wonder if I have a toy that's the right size anywhere...

Magnetise it instead pr male an attaching device of some type so it can be loaded or unloaded?

And some more pipe transports.



As I run out of normal bitz the designs get a little crazier. But that's fine since it forces more innovation from me.



This puppy exists because I am almost out of everything, except the curve pieces. So I made a ship that needed 10 curves to build.



Very happy with this mining ship, I can see it using the twin Melta Torrents to cut an asteroid in half.



You'll notice the little cities this time. I've been looking for a way to make mini city scapes and kept thinking how I wished I had something like those cities in the old Fortress America board game. Yeah if only had something like that...

So I looked on ebay and found nothing LIKE them.

But I did find the actual mini city pieces!



I figure they're some kind of Imperial colony ship. There is of course no reason to put little cities on a colony transport, you can jam the colonists in there just like potatoes or whatever else you're carrying, but that kind of logic has no place in 40k. Colony ships need little flying cities!



The double wide one even has some defensive weapons on the bottom.



But really I'm happiest with this one. It's big, 6 cities and almost 5" long. I had an idea for a floating monestary filled with low-level psykers that constantly flies a circuit around a warp rift. The faith and prayers of the psykers keeping the rift closed.



Either that or just a big colony ship, unarmed and slow, carrying a few million Imperials to their new homes.

Love the cities. Do you have anything that would work for little domes over them?

Funny you should ask... there are these little jelly cups Kyoto Secunda and her Clone Sister love.

But it will have to wait till I paint these of course.

Brexit supply drop 3/3!

Heresy Miniatures this time.



I got their Not-Delaques and added in some random cool models like their security guard team and Not-The War Doctor and Not-Amy Pond



I'm thinking instead of the traditional black doing white lab coats with red crosses (or green) to create the Médecins sans Pitié, doctors without mercy disinfecting the underhive once level at a time.

And from Ruckdog and the good folks at Modcube I got some BFG dice.



Y'know between the out of print counters, out of print minis, and out of print dice GW is making it awful hard to play BFG! Even the rules are out of print though the Specialist Games PDFs are widely available.

Still gonna try...

Part of me says Firestorm Armada. Rules are readily available online. Another part of me doesn't like the models.


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Oh and have a look at Dr H's CD city as well.

Very cool to see the ModCubes together already!

With all this spaceship scratch building, I think the Hawk Wargames space station sprue that is coming out might be right up your alley . But it's not OOP, so maybe not qualified to be used in this project

Yeah that Firestorm sprue looks great.

I'll probably wait a few years till it's out of production, then pay double on ebay!

Edit-Just parking something here for future scratch builds

http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/warrior-turrets-upgrade-set/

Man, I love the fact you made a transport carrier for the Chimera, it looks really wicked.

EDC

I know this has become a bit of an Oldhammer Blog, so maybe some of you are a bit discouraged to see all this recent stuff from 1991 creeping in. After all 1991 was practically last month right?

Well that ends tonight with the latest supply dump from Galactic Knights/Starfleet Wars!

A space ship line from 1977, distributed by GW in the 80s, it was brought back by Monday Knight a few years back.

http://www.mondayknight.com/Miniature%20Pages/GalacticKnights/GalacticKnightsShips.htm

In my quest for a suitable battleship for my Space Fleet I got one of their Super Galactic Dreadnaughts



a good 5" of resin. they used to be metal but alas they have strayed from the path of the One True Casting Medium .

Alas the molds are showing their age.





Nothing terrible, I can see this as battle damage on a millennia old ship, but irking.

The metal casts are better.



And they scale well with the Space Fleet Goliath and Dominator ships (the painted ones in the photo).



The not-Star Destroyers (Samurai Destroyer Leader) have a bit of flash but I've seen much worse.



I can see the not-Star Destroyer line becoming a chaos fleet, with the Star Destroyers as Cruisers and the smaller ships as escorts.

The best part, since Starfleet Wars was distributed by GW I have ruled that these count as Space Fleet models

Also I should note great service from Monday Knight, good communication. Shipping was delayed because they needed to cast up some items but I think it only came to a week's delay.

They also have the space stations from the old line, they're not listed on the site but they will cast them up for you if you ask. I think they are around $30.

Wow, those are some awesome blasts from the past

Just a small update, painting on the transport fleet.



(not even close to all of them!)

I'm going for something like the trucks I see everyday in India, safety orange but dusty and dirty. The next step is lather them in black and brown ink and see what comes out.



I should do some logos or something but I know my hand is not up to the job...

The space dock also got a first coat.



As did the "Super Galactic Dreadnought"

Some more works in progress.



Now to slather them with brown and black ink and call it done.

And we're approaching the end of the era with the arrival of my Ultimate Space Fleet Supply Drop.



STILL IN ORIGINAL PACKAGING! The air in there is from the last century!

And check out the original price tags

Won't mention what I paid

OK technically it's not my last Space Fleet shipment, I have another in the mail, but with the arrival of the Thunderbolts I have the complete Imperial Fleet.

So much win! Always fun to see what you got going on with your bfg oldhammer plog. Keep it coming!

So yeah, I opened them. The ancient air from the last millennium doesn''t seem to be infected with any ancient diseases.

So far.



The final formation assembles!



I already have two of the Emperor Captial Ships assembled 'stock' so I decided on some conversion for this one.



It will be an Inquisition black ship. I may replace the angel with something a bit smaller, but I love the pose on it.



I'd forgotten how nice it is to work with lead. One clip and the tower was off. One swipe of the file and the base was smooth. Even the glue seems to hold better.

Lead

The conversion is simple and does the job really well

It's the weekend and I got some painting done so once more the fleet assembles...

First off I got my post-Ultimate shipment. 3 more SF Firestorms (yay!) and 2 'Moscow Strike Cruisers' from GW's pre-Rogue Trader Star Cruisers line. Hurray for the super obscure!



Meanwhile the main fleet:



this is just the Space Fleet stuff, some of the other stuff I'm put up like the pipe ships, the Orks and dime store ships were left out.


The Imperial navy half of the house

And a couple of 'family shots' of the Space Fleet dagger shaped cruisers.











Then some of the more traditional Cathedral ships





And the 'Super Galactic Dreadnought' from Galactic Knights. Still needs a base and lots of ink.



Finally the Rogue Trader Fleet, this is where I parked the Space Fleet ships GW cannibalized from their Star Cruisers line. I'm also adding some Galactic Knights ships since they fit in pretty well.





Lots of domes. Someone obviously got a bulk deal on ball bearings when sculpting this.

Still to do... paint the latest arrivals, and lots and lots of ink. Then back to the orks and the Tau...

Some additional shots.



The ISS Endurance receives much-needed repairs at an orbiting space dock.



Another family pic of the Gothic, Ironclad, Firestorm and Cobra (or Athena, Nemesis, Artemis and Nike in my head canon)

Inventive use of piping there, Kid.

Small update today Space Fleet and Galactic Knights ships.



The green ships will become a chaos force for BFG.



Someone asked about size, the not-Star Destroyer is 2 3/4"





I don't know if you can make it out but the 'armored pursuit ships' are just covered in turrets, like every flat surface, so perfect for Chaos or Orks.



3 more Space Fleet Firestorms, the Philippe, the Formosa and the 9th Dragon. Yeah all need work.



And the space port is coming along too.

It's the $1.25 supply drop!



I won an ebay action for Galactic Knights ships for $1.25 plus shipping and the seller threw in some free ships too!

Nice to get lucky every so often.

The not-star destroyer is big, 4" or so, and will join my chaos count-as fleet along with its little sisters.

Have to figure out the rest still.