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@malika. That IS a lynx destroyer. I originally posted panthera destroyer because I forgot they were called lynx. (Ammended now)The panthera is the heavy frigate isn't it...
Thats more suitable size wise for a strike cruiser but this lynx conversion is, although designated a destroyer, really regular frigate sized ... Imho anyhow...
I've a different intention regarding the (1st? ) strike cruiser though...
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Well I've one of these on order from grimdarkbits;
just fyi that's not my model...
It comes up quite a bit smaller than the chaos cruisers... Ideal in design aspects to represent pre heresy strike cruiser. And will obviously match the frigate I've done...
I also thought I'd try a mix of vessel styles in this minifleet so all sorts of gear may end up in it. Remember the Astartes can take imperial escorts of all types...
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29.39 euros I paid... With postage that is... So not obscene but not cheap by any stretch of the imagination either. The designer has reduced the plastic content by making most of it entirely hollow to reduce cost so it is one of the cheapest on SWtbh... But SW is notorious for being expensive... My GK cruiser I got from admgr on there was over 40 quid if I remember correctly! What was I thinking! Also the first print I got was savagely distorted. They sent another (in the best medium they could as an apology) but quality control is not the best with them. Also the old frosted ultra detail is NOT as stable a medium as they promise. Some of my stuff has degraded over time. Some of the painted models going shiny/oily and the long stored unpainted stuff crystallizing on the surface. Luckily this can be removed from both affected cases with a swift brush over with a toothbrush. Carefully on the painted ones so as not to remove paint but is an annoying thing to have to do every few months anyhow. This is a leap of faith from me buying this as it's supposed let a new medium "smooth fine detail" but I've a feeling it's just a rebrand/rename... If this goes the same way as t'others I shan't buy anything else from SW again... Not worth the cost with such maintenance required...
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Loving the thread. Such a trove of conversions is rare among BFG players, the integration of AT terrain for space stations in particular is inspired. Doubly so with little fighters and such resting on their decks. Reminds me of Port Maw, once built and displayed on the pages of White Dwarf.
Quite the praise thank you. Said port maw conversion was an inspiration behind it as well as the "space dock" scratch build in the bfg rulebook, and obviously the ramilies too...
that goes without saying...
however I've not overlooked making one of those port maw jobbies...
I'd thought about using four of the 40k shipping containers representing the four piers but have ships docking INSIDE!
Also thought of using the dome peice from the 40k industrial scenery as the central basilica done and lots of extra AT scenery as further detaling. Then I realised how insane that was... But I got as far as buying the containers so.... Who knows what the future might bring, eh?
Wouldn't hold my breath if I were you...
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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!
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Very cool stuff, nice and clean conversion work. The plates on the Firestorm help make it look a lot beefier without detracting from the lines of the ship. You are making me want to break out my toy spaceships again...
osjclatchford wrote: all thanks be to you malika! without your panthera and lynx designs these would never have been!
oh yeah, meant to ask before, was it you who designed all the 6mm tanks troops and gunships over on vanguard?
Vanguard Miniatures' 6mm and 3mm ranges are done by various designers. Most of my designs are Novan Regulars tanks such as the Centurion, Tribune, Warrior (Mk1 and Mk2) and all variants. Some Novan Elites Fighters and heavy infantry with missile pods on their backs are also mine.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh yeah, I've also featured your designs on the very unofficial Vanguard Miniatures Instagram fanpage: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxwf-EnQ_I/
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That's good to know. Id like to see vanguard list their design crew on the site. Or at least credit the designers on each product... Just a little "designed by Malika" or whoever on products would be nice...
The great part of BFG is that the ships are "actually" the head of the flight stand. So, being "off" on size is a-ok! Only the base truly matters for game purposes.
--Brian
Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game?
Briancj wrote: The great part of BFG is that the ships are "actually" the head of the flight stand. So, being "off" on size is a-ok! Only the base truly matters for game purposes.
--Brian
Yes a good point. I'd be in real trouble if I was still playing rather than just collecting...
Tis indeed true about the stick of the flight stand (that's why the planets and other celestial phenomena seem off-scale) but also let us not forget that the disc of the flight stand is used to show the range of influence of the ships voidshields. So you know where ordnance and nova templates takes effect.
With the standard size for escorts and large stand for battleship/battlebarge sized vessels. Thing is, the metal stands I use are all the same size and the disc of them only covers the aquivalent of an ordnance stand! To play properly I have to keep adding the difference on to each measurement...
Ok not a big deal but is important to get it 'right'. Would be a minor annoyance for ordnance but a pain in the ass for novacannon and armageddon-gun templates now I think of it...
Automatically Appended Next Post: anyway, 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...
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No chance with that happening as long as I'm about... Lol
Talking of which, I'm desperate to get my hands on another panthera frigate asap!
With the success of the conversion on the escorts under my belt, one of those would be ideal for a strike cruiser conversion...
Kinda hoping vanguard will be back up again next week but that all depends on what John says I suppose...
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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.
hopefully i'll get my money... guess time will tell but let it be a warning to you of the fickle nature of shapeways...
yeah, if they say keep it I guess Its an ideal candidate for nurgleisation. a bit of agrellan earth round here and there and a good paintjob and it'll fit right into my nurgle fleet but theres no way in hell it will look anything with the clean/smooth paintjob of the sharks ive been doing. the wash would show up all those hideous miss-print artifacts even more...
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!
Thanks! Really pleased with how this interpretation of a battlebarge has come out. basing it on a helian hull means It's still beefy and intimidating, yet has more grace than the official model without compromising it's astatesness...
Now that John over on vanguard has restocked, I've a panthera on its way to fill the role of strike cruiser.
Also I've never really noticed how well the panthera and lynx fit so seamlessly with the helian cruiser hull in style and asthetics untill I swapped out the prow...
There's an idea for a future conversion kit, panthera style prows for use on helian cruisers!
This conversion was rather long time coming but easy to figure out in hindsight. The front is the mangozac black ship prow with the plates off of a retribution battleship (I'd used the black ship plates on sommit else) the rear plates of a panthera were inverted as added to the fins. And the plas-weaps are from a russian guy that sells shapeways recasts on eBay. It's the weapons that make it though. They have enough grace to look right on a helian hull but enough utilitarian brutality about them to look Astartes. So pleased with this! Lol
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"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
strikecruiser:
again with the helian launch bay trick on the prow, this time with a bit of classic bfg bay beneath it for body and substance.
I intend this to be one of two.
I'm pleased wit the stubby, pugnacious look of this vessel but what I really want/need for the second one is a classic marine strike cruiser prow, as I feel this would look even better, not that I'm displeased with this one...
in truth the fleet's coming along nicely:
(forgot the ordnace in this shot, DOH!)
so yeah, if anyone has a strike cruiser prow they'd be prepared to sell or donate to the cause, sling me a PM!
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