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 Malika2 wrote:
A little box arrived at the post yesterday...

Fantastic work!

It is a bummer about the repairs needed on the bottom of the ships - I have the same issue with my printer, and it's a tough thing to get right. I simply cannot wait for someone to figure out dissolvable supports for liquid resin printers... or some other method, if that's not possible using this particular technology.

Are you connected to the company that recently started selling ships that are somewhat like this, or are you guys just friends/allies but not connected?

Are you connected to the company that recently started selling ships that are somewhat like this, or are you guys just friends/allies but not connected?

You mean Battlegroup Helios? That's a totally different company, really love their work though. Vaaish (the designer of their cruisers) is really amazing and Mangozac has really built a reputation as a model maker, so I can't be anything but in awe of their work.

Mangozac's feedback has been really influential in the development of my ships, the guy knows his stuff!

I also just sent my last batch of ship related goodies to be printed!

Got it . Cool that you're making two factions! Very much looking forward to seeing these cast.

Decided to put two of my old transportships on my shop on Shapeways:

Alpha

http://shpws.me/BiyF

Beta

http://shpws.me/BiL8

Looking for some Destroyer sized escorts?
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Kit includes 5 ships, each one of them is 9mm wide, 10mm tall and 34mm long.

Early teaser... (and yes it's a miscast)

More pics of the cast Destroyers:

(gunship on the left, carrier on the right)



Here are pics of the original prints.

Carrier:


Gunship:

Wow! They look great, Malika! Just phenomenal work.

With casts of my escorts ever closer I started working on some new transportships.




A blockade runner of a sorts, heavily armed for a transport its size. The engines might make casting a bit tricky, or maybe not, we'll see!


A light transportship, about the size of the Destroyers. The design is pretty straight forward, nothing too crazy.


Another light transport, also about the size of the Destroyers but more elongated.


A slightly larger transport, originally based on the Corvette hull, now modified to function as a fuel transport. Might tweak the fuel tanks a bit, the bits on the tops and bottoms are a bit overkill...


Another one of the Corvette sized transports. Kind of the 'black sheep' of the family. Its bridge is mounted on the front of the ship, and it's also armed with a twin linked turret. The sides of the prow still need some detailing.


Whilst based on the Corvette sized hulls, this one is the largest of the bunch, almost 6cm long it's closer to a Frigate or even a Light Cruiser.

I might want to give it a shot at some fighter craft again. Something based on the 'Grifter' from Dreadnought, but then a lot blockier/clunkier:
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http://www.patrickhecht.com/?portfolio=yager-dreadnought

90% of your photos aren't working for some reason, but fantastic work on what I can see

True, most of my old pics aren't working anymore, it's due to a restructuring of my Photobucket. So to help you out:

Ship designs I did for Bits Blitz (my Shapeways shop)

Legion (count as pre-Imperial humans) ship designs

Ship designs I'm currently doing for Fox Box

Cast by Fox Box, donated for Gothicomp 2015.


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To give you a bit of context regarding the status of the transportships:

I started working on an enemy faction. Sort of like Orks, but then human I guess. I like the idea of raiders and pirates being enemy for these transport ships. Since they're human, it means that their technology is not different from the other faction. I don't have any names or anything for them yet...

These ships are frigate sized and heavily armed. They are standard armed with heavy cannons and two twin-linked turrets. The teeth on the ships' prows are not only for decoration. These ships are able to ram and tear through enemy ships and even 'devour' debris (which is then used to either repair the ship or recycled for raw materials).



'Turret ship', its secondary weapon system is basically six smaller twin-linked turrets designed to take out weaker targets such as escorts and fighters/bombers.




'Ordnance ship', its secondary system consists of six torpedo tubes. These can either be armed with a wide array of different torpedoes, or with boarding pods. The boarding pods have some nasty claws which allow them to latch on to an enemy ship whilst unleashing their deadly cargo.



'Lance ship', its secondary weapon systems are Lance Cannons, nasty energy weapons designed to tear through shielding and thick armor.




'Carrier ship', this one is slightly different from the other three ships. What it sacrifices in heavy cannons, it makes up in launch bays. The carrier can unleash swarms of deadly craft that can easily tear through enemy ordnance. Not only that, but these craft can also carry troops, either to drop them on a planet's surface, or by ramming enemy craft.


To give you a sense of scale I've put the raiders and the transports against each other. Note that the raider ships are about 51mm long.

They could be called the judicators, don't know why just sounds like a cool name

Test printed some BFG scaled ordnance:

Update!!!

Corvette Carrier:




Corvette Gunship:

He lives! Looking great brother.

Continued tweaking the existing ship designs, and revived a really old design.

About two years ago I worked on this:


Today it has evolved into something that could match the rest of the designs I've made:


The ships still need a whole lot of work, but the idea is basically they are a more heavily armed, but less armoured versions of my 'normal' corvettes.

All ships are the same size (40mm long):


And now there are three weapon configurations instead of two:

Lances:


Weapon batteries:


Carriers:


The original ships (ones in the back) are as good as done, little tweaking here and there. The sleeker (front) ships need some more work though, (A) to match the aesthetic of the other ships better and (B) to make each a bit more unique.

They Look fantastic!

this thread is so cool

Been working on the frigate sized craft some more. It's becoming more 'techy' than 'ornate' looking, combining my two favourite ship designs (BFG and Homeworld). Kinda curious to see where this'll go...

I like it brother!

Frigates:




Destroyers:



Stations:





Fighter:

Test print came in, apologies for the horrible quality of the photos. Keep in mind that since this print was ordered the design has been updated slightly (see previous posts).

I like the look of those stations!

These are very nifty. Hopefully Rules or production soon?

The stations have some issues when converting the models to stl (printable) files, will have to look into that.

The frigate and destroyer ships are as good as ready and will hopefully be shipped off to Vanguard Miniatures soon. Same goes for the fighter craft.

So with, or without those side guns?

I like the side guns, but both designs are solid

Boarding pods!