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Greetings Dakka Dakka-ites, my name is Jihad_Ragsta and I'm new to the forums. I've been lurking for ages and finally decided to register and make a contribution.

A little about me first - I've been into the hobby for nearl;y 16 years now, bar the occasional patch of lethargy. Currently I'm into tinkering with Battlefleet Gothic, I enjoy tweaking the models and scratchbuilding ships for myself.

SO I thought it might be good if I published a bunch of my finished and WIP stuff here - hopefully you guys may get some inspiration and bombard me with comments/ suggestions/ verbal abuse.

The two fleets I have are Battlegroup Crassus under the command of Fleet Admiral Theodor Angberg Crassus (puffs for breath) and the Bloodaxe mercenary flotilla that are Da BossKillaz under 'Killa' Gargruk.


Enought chatter! Pictures!



Arc Imperial, flagship of Admiral Crassus. The admiral is descendant from one of the noble trading houses that flex their financial muscle through shipping and mining cartels in the Eastern Fringe.

In recent times Crassus' flotilla was caught in the Tyranids' Shadow in the Warp. While trying to recover the group was ambushed by a Hive swarmfleet and sustained heavy losses. Confusion in the sector is already rife and now the admiral finds his calls for aid unanswered by fleet command. His astropaths are unpredictable and many of them are already dead or insane.

Comments and criticism very welcome, thanks for looking

I love the Arc Imperial, it looks really battle-ready and awesome.

Could you show us some Ork ships? Please?

Thank you very much! Glad you approve, I have a whole host of ships to post here so this kind of feedback is great!

Could you show us some Ork ships? Please?

Ohhhh, alright then



Hammer class battlecruiser Juggamork and Onslaught escorts

Totally scratchbuilt, there's a variety of pen lids, skipping rope handle pieces, Bionicle heads and part of a car headlight!

Awesome job on the ships. I escpecially like the Ork ships.

The Ork ships are awesome. I've always liked the look of a nice scratch-built BFG ship and your ships are most certainly nice.

Moar!!

Thanks, guys! Building Ork ships is great fun, it's really helped to reduce the size of my bitz box! Currently I'm working on a 1000 pt fleet for Da BossKillaz so will show some of those ships off soon.

For now its some old Ork stuff, I've actually sold them off since taking these photos.



A shot of my old collection of Kill Kroozers and Terrorships, plus the first Hammer class BC I made (out of a chunk of plastic barricade I found!)



My line squadron of Imperial cruisers: Torchbearer, Startiger and the Baron Kurgan

Very nice stuff!

I love the Imperial Battleship. Very nice work on that.

Excellent painting and conversion work. I particularly like the 2 Hammer class ships. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for the kind words, I'm glad the painting and converting has come across well. The Armageddon battlecruiser is a moderately converted Lunar class (it was tired and old so I killed it).

I really enjoyed building the Hammer class ships, Orks are really therapeutic when it comes to modelling! My latest project, as mentioned, is a fleet of Ork Bloodaxes that I'm building from terrain parts. I will post them here!

Also, I have scratchbuilt a grand cruiser and some light cruisers for my Imperials - I'll post them up, plus a little fluff, tomorrow for your insults and abuse

Ragsta

Keep it up!

Citizens rejoice!! Glorious warships of the the God Emperor are even now entering your star system!! All families are to attend the nearest viewing gantries to witness His Eternal Majesty's most glorious servants in low orbit!!



The Exorcist Grand Cruiser 'Brandenberg' leaves planetary orbit for another patrol of the Halo Stars. The Exorcist was primarily used as a long range patrol vessel. Note the large capacity for attack craft and the secondary bridge. The Brandenberg is well known for its colonial transport duties over the last three centuries.

This ship came about from a random 1:72 scale Warrior APC kit I had lying around. I cut the hull in half length ways and that's what the vessel's main body is comprised of. The prow is made from a toy house from the Life boardgame



During the Third Armageddon War the light carrier I.N.S Daring did sterling service escorting convoys into the warzone around Armageddon. It is said by Imperial Navy sailors that their ships have 'souls'- if this is the case then the Daring has a distinctly impetuous spirit. Standard evasive manoeuvres suffer from sluggish thrusters and sudden course changes towards enemy forces, weapon turrets and lances have an impressive tendency towards accuracy and the Daring also possesses some of the most efficient reactors within her class, at least within Battlefleet Armageddon.

Commanded by Captain Ramos N'Kai, the Daring continues to perform good service keeping supply routes open. Her sleek hull has proven a welcome sight to many beleaguered freighter captains in these dark times.



Endeavour class light cruiser Hand of Erebus. Seriously damaged during the Battle of Pelucidar, the Erebus had extensive engine repairs and was reassigned to convoy escort duties and policing the fringe systems of the Armageddon sector. Her captain, Javier Varesh, bears the scars of Pelucidar as does his ship. Those who have served on the Hand of Erebus speak of strange dreams of a smouldering rage and resentment of the retreat from Pelucidar that lingers within the ship itself. This ship has been responsible for several commendable actions of ruthless efficiency against unarmed xenos and crippled pirate vessels.

No comments at all? Not even insults? Fair enough! I really like my scratchbuilds but perhaps you guys don't - some suggestions on where I'm going wrong would be appreciated.


Here's the Terrorship squadron I've done for Da BossKillaz:




I've built them from an Imex Chemical Plant kit - this thing was a godsend for $25, I could fleet hordes of Ork ships with it! Which is pretty much what I intend to do

My inspiration for these ships came from watching the Reavers in Serenity, right down the reactions of the bridge crew and the Reaver's attacking style *snigger snigger*

I like the terrorships. Good job on them. But I might sugest some more details. They look like Green/Red orky monstrosities. (whiwh is a good thing). Just do something special with them, if you get what I mean.

love the I.N.S Darling

and awesome use of bioncle masks cool effigies of mork (or is it gork)

FM Ninja 048 wrote:love the I.N.S Darling

and awesome use of bioncle masks cool effigies of mork (or is it gork)

Everyone seems to love the Daring! It was my first really successful Imperial build, wanted to use up all those launch bays.

Busted on the bionicle heads! I found one in my bitz box and the rest is history - they're really handy considering how Orks love their vessels (and vehicles) to have faces. Oh it's definitely Mork... Or is it Gork? I think Mork may be more in keeping with Blood Axe philosophy.

Scrazza wrote:

I like the terrorships. Good job on them. But I might sugest some more details. They look like Green/Red orky monstrosities. (whiwh is a good thing). Just do something special with them, if you get what I mean.

Yes, mate, I think I know where you're coming from - they have been missing something. I think I'll paint the teef on the prows an off - yellow. I can add windows to make them more shiplike (right now they do just look like strange Ork totems) too. Probably bubonic brown or some other drab yellow tone so they aren't too bright.

Bit reluctant to do any dags or checkers but perhaps I should? Black and white areas of patterning maybe?

Here's some work in progress Ramships by the way, just to show you what's in the pipeline - the drills are some random screwheads I found on the street. I may try some painting ideas on these first, before I try them out on my kroozers.

I can just see the orks not giving enough power to the screw, and it gets stuck and their ship just spins around

brutal, absolutely brutal

Nice work ragsta , i love these bad mo fo's , you have a nice clean painting style, and its cool to see these models again , look forward to seeing more cool stuff .

Ha, I like the new ships, very orky. I've never played BFG, and never looked into the rules, but this blog got me excited about it. If I hadn't just bought bretonnian men at arms, I would dig into Battlefleet gothic with Dark Eldar as soon as I snapped my fingers.

It's been a while! My apologies for that - I have just finished a move to London and am now pretty settled in. Next week I should be able to bring all my hobby stuff down from Edinburgh - really looking forward to getting hold of it!


Thank you for all your comments - I am glad it's encouraging people to look at BFG! Your words are much appreciated


Thought you might like to see my merchant navy - all these ships came from GZG, which anyone who loves starships should look up! They have some really cool civvie ships.



I scratch built the grey and green one after an abortive attempt at making an Eradicator gun muzzle.

Can you see the Firefly? I might go back and redo its glowy bits to a blue colour instead. These ships need some windows and markings painted in but they look good enough for now I hope!

Wow these are ecellent I'm planning to do something similiar for the Ork scratch building competition (You should enter BTW)! What are you using as the main source for weapons? I'm also intrigued about where yu got the engine nozzles?

Thanks, Llamahead! I was inspired heavily by Ironhands and the excellent work on Easy E's scratchbuilding thread on Warseer. Looks like it's too late to join that competition even tho I would have liked to

The bulk of pieces used for my Orks come from one of the Imex Chemical Plant kits, including the engine nozzles. You can buy one from WarStore and eBay amongst other places. Google is your friend



I've based the whole fleet on this kit, check out all the pieces! Over 300 bits in one box and that was for £25 - the price of two Killkroozers from GW!! I'm using plasticard and pieces from my bitz box too.



Metal snips and brass wire for pinning the pieces, a selection of cutters and needle files for tidying them up. Just wanted to show you guys what I'm using so others can get an idea of how easy this is!

I'll have to look into getting some myself just got the first 2 ships done I'll bung them up here somewhere for people to heckle. I think your fine to enter the competition given it ends in 2012......

2012 huh? Sometimes I'm so stupid!

Thought I would show you guys some small Imperial scratchbuilds I did for escorts - 2 standard Swords but in the background there are 2 escort 'sloops.' Whatever, you get the idea!



Thoughts? They were fun to make but I dunno, not sure they're really my cup of tea.

I have been working on some Ork Ravager Attack Ships too! I'm trying to keep them close to the Reavers from Serenity:



Nearly finished, just need some panelling, rivets and a few more fins. Ideally I want racks of missiles sticking out of them but that can always be added later.

Oh yeah, and I have this in the pipeline too. Nothing special .....

Personally I quite like the sloops they have a very WW1 vibe. The Ravagers are great looking like a cross between a pulp rocket ship, a flying saucer and a pile of scrap! I'm also impressed by the final one I take it that it's a Space Hulk?

Any chance we could get a parts breakdown on the sloops? They fit really well with the Imperial aesthetic.

Llamahead - It's eventually going to be a Hammer class battlecruiser, my friend. I need to add more layers of plasticard armour plate and some brass etch mesh too. While I really like it so far its one of my unluckiest vessels - it keeps breaking! More nails required Thank you for your comments!

Arklite - I'm glad you guys like the sloops! The engines are smoke launchers from IG tanks with plasticard fins. The hull is rectangular plasticard tubing with BFG Imperial antennas along their length to break up the outline. The prows are more plasticard with petrol cans underneath (!). I cannibalised a 1:72 Warrior APC kit for the bridges and general detailing. Does that help?


SO I have made some progress on my Imperial fleet - currently working on 4 more cruisers, 3 of which will comprise my "Big Red One" squadron. I'll fluff them up so that they represent a squadron of Navy warships that features in Imperial propaganda for the masses. And red wunz go fasta too. Plus I might have been fed up with painting grey...



And I also managed to put the finishing touches to a large squadron of light cruisers! Incidentally, all my cruisers have names sooo....



Fine Chance, Foehammer, Molochian and His Grace. Plus two Cobras - I'm working on fleshing them out cos who doesn't love torpedoes?

Thanks for looking, hope the pics inspire you to scratchbuild and paint BFG!!

The new stuff looks cool and promising. Nicely done.

Some nice scratch-building going on here.

Love the ork fleet in particular

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your comments!

Da Boss Killaz favour the use of torpedoes - inspired no doubt by the Imperial fleets they try to emulate. Ravager escort ships are popular and there are usually several in any formation. Note the camouflage and flame graffiti on these particular ships - this sets them apart from the drab colours of other escort types and reflects the favour of their Kaptinz.



They're done and I'm pretty darn pleased with them! While watching Hart's War last night I finished applying flames, camo and battle damage. The flames I left unmarked by damage or washes to keep them vibrant - I didn't want this squadron to fade as much as my Ramships do.

Next up I'll try to pull together another squadron of Ramships - I really need to order some scale link brass mesh before I attempt to finish my Hammer class.