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Hi to everybody
It is quite busy subforum and although I am a big fan of warhammer as all of you
blog here will be about something absolutelly different

Trully speaking when I started this project after so many years of standart mini worshiping I felt....refreshed. Hope you will be as well

I always admired skyships and guys from Catalyst games created a whole game "Leviathans" , box filled with such splendid ships, map with sea, village:







It brought a lot of old good memories, I bet you had, about some other great works filled with skyships such as Laputa-castle in the sky, Last Exile, Porco Rosso, Stardust. (I hope you heard about it)))

all these steam dragons, clushing Empires, flying pirates of course:



I dont like psudorealistic setting of Leviathans world- dont care about England, France alternative history. It will be fantasy steampunkish world tributing to above mentioned sources.

It will be actually altetred Warhammer universe - era of industrial revolution came after Dark Ages of Fantasy Battles
A big dominating superpower - Republic versus dying magic, Kingdom of dwarves, Elves in reservation

Map:


BIG MAP:
http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii471/kirsan1980/DE2/guide-empire-map-full4.jpg?t=1318009102


What I will include:
-Small and Big skyships
-Evil Empire
-Flying Village of thunder traders
-Sky pirates!!!!



Part: Prologue

Here their standart ship:



What I like in their minis:
-they convertable -easy plastic to cut -very important thing
- glass stands

What I don't:
I hate boiles/pipes on the side - yep it looks scientific, but it is so unpractical - enemy will be hitting then, they look fragile
Relly on side skyship needs armour/heavy superarmour amd guns, many guns

I dont like design of the bottom -nondetailed, gives ship impression of casual sea ship levitated from ocean (maybe it is background). Imagine how many can be placed on bottom -again gunnnzzz, decks, radars et cetera

But again -deep respect to authors for actually existing models of flying ships

Part 1 Materials:

I already started exorcism of pipelines:


As working materials -I bought additional 1:1200 ships - Revell, MicroMax



So, will be updated very soon

If you have inspiring art, which can be put in what I am doing -please, share

[img]Near 50 looks, for severe WH40k forum, very well
lets continue after hard day of converting-

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So project #1 - sky dreadnought "Nymeria" - tilean federation border patrol ship
as I wrote -I dislike how sides and bottom made in original crousers ,so lets change:



Idea of something like this, side armor taken from russian tank BT:





So, with the help of greenstuff and polysterene:



I gonna use those guns..from Bismark I believe





Something like this for now

Project #2 - Village of lightening traders

Initially for base I glued severel lists of styrofoam:



several sets of small houses were bought:


need a lot of finishing:


That is it for now.
Again if you reently saw interesting art for steampunk/skyships -share )

It is great, thanks
As I understand it is orkish - can go to sky pirates style )

Thank you all for support!

Ok, let's continue construction: =|9)

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1.Nymeria - Tilean Federation border patrol dreadnought:

Bottom of the ship as I said earlier -is quite large space to be abandoned - I will put additional decks and bombarding guns - as skyship is an ideal weapon to show height supremacy:



Side shield testing:



and finally -upper deck with return of command tower from original ship:



That is it for now, and I have feeling that half of the work is done )

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2. Flying Pirate Mothership "SwarMa" (Fire Fishez clan)

Yep if you have pirate hunter you should have pirates )

For them idea will go completely aside -to area of Russian helicopters as we need something bulky "fish-like":



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3. "Baator" - Super heavy siege battlecruiser , class "SkyFortress" - or good buy my "Lave"

again -will start from complete eradication of pipes on the sides:



There should be guns batteries , many of them

Thanks man
We are only fans of steampunk here )))

Yep -dystopian wars -are cool for terrain in 1/1200 scale. I actually bought some
The only thing is irritating - how come in such small format they put such detailing -even frames or bricks

Thanks to everybody for support. Please send me mooore of art! )))
Let's continue our journey!

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1. " Nymeria " -tilean federation "Hunter" class dreadnought. Finished

how it was:



And how it became














Would you agree that my variant looks better )))

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2 . "Baator" superheavy battle-cruiser ,class "Skyfortress" , tilean federation

To the altered hull lets add some fire batteries :







Should give more armed and solid look )


3. SwarMa -sky pirates mothership or continous torture of the helicopter hull

"Landing mouth"



Cannon balls )





Hangar entrance



If you have any thoughts, moreover if you have any ideas, art etc -please dont keep inside. Prologed keeping of good thoughts provoke actual constipation -will say as MD !

Wow!!!!! Thanks a lot- super sky fortress!

Thanks - very cool art for abordage team)

Thanks. I actually thought about it- as we dont lnow power of the levitation engine- that mass of guns can be ok))

Thanks -actually will see in Baator

Ok, let's continue -I decided to greypaint everyting -for better perception , pathos!!! tons of pathos

Musical theme




it was this before:


aaaaaand:

Sky pirates : SwarMother

to LIamahead,illumini, Malika2 -thanks

Let's continue, this time with terrain:
I have an idea to make fluing city or at least village. Type and why this type of village can be flying -a big question -should it be some type of flying crystal (ala Laputa) or mechanic /physic based leviattion (ala Columbia)?
But for now I started from some big ship which spent almost 5 years on the shelf

Greet funny combo of two 1:350 ships:

http://imageshack.us/a/img545/4517/mbsq.jpg" border="0" />

should be some type of flying ancient titan, idea taken from Spice Hulk



So, let's take some damage:



then damage to the hull



instead of vulgar "modern" guns let's put protoss type super cannon:





Ok, painted versions:









Something like this for now )))

to malika2:

Thanks a lot!
Some of ships I recognize -and many new art. as well

Hunting skaven -great idea.
Yep I think how ships of other races could look -for elves -big flying tree or garden for example

Evil Empire - very technological one, just need to find something different in style then Tilea

In 1:1200 scale? It will be a gard task )

Thank you so much!!!!
It is so good -very inspiring art!

to Illumi
Yep, you are correct! )

to Malika
thanks for art -I specifically opened folder for such pictures

I love semicircle -will be great for skyport

U give superb ideas about background.

What about how ships of different races can look in steampunk era?

yep, something like treeship or craftworld for elves
like second ship for skaven -very pirate looking

I actually do not consider skavens as evil -rather revolutionary )

Thanks for art -I actually have miadzaki tank, nn assembled

Atreides ship looks really like Leviathan before destruction

small update -tough people from Mother Russia requested more destruction to Leviathan hull:

before:




more wounds:




more raw metal:





wires:



greenstuff runic






2.Terrain
Just got waterloo houses in 1:1200 for future flying terrain

I will. Transarctic is aaawesome!!!
I just ordered big number of buildings from waterloo. Will be working on city. Finishing Baator - truly big badass ship.
Khmri in the air - mmmm overshot imho. Cannot think of purpose- they are more graveyard creature

Regarding elves - found interesting link:
http://www.spartangames.co.uk/products/uncharted-seas/thaniras-elves

Ok, let's continue with order forces -this time - "Baator", conversion of heavy french cruiser:

Ok, this is original ship:



then we started from cleaning those silly tubes :



adding additional artillery towers





Then coverage and nice and funny marbles for actual towers:






Then -every good super heavy siege battlecruises, class "SkyFortress" MUST have siege lower deck guns, many of them!








upper deck for....hmmmmm.. MORE GUNS!






About to finish upper deck:


something heavy is coming

To Malika:

Yep, it is still Tilea, just their heavy

Regarding Kislev -currently it is quite small kingdom under protectorate of GTR. Like Belorus - "slavic" dictator and some "socializm". Dreams of glory but uncapable of anything bigger. there are tough independent traders /religious fracions - very nordic and stoic people

Evils in this world is GTR, kinda Evil-Order affiliation. Initially gloriously progressive nowdays tied in state capitalism, corruption, militarism, imperialism and immoral science. True evil of course is Chaos, but it is still closed in other realm

I was thinking about this classification:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

So gtr will be orderly evil, Tilea rather neutral orderly . Estalia is divided on northern territoriesjoined to Tilea as rightful heir claimed creation of Tilean- Estalian Federation. South- east is under republican control, west remains independent

It is so intense here -really hard to keep up.
And probably community is jst about differnt stuff -more towards WH40K


Ok. It finally got converted and painted

Ladies and gentlemen:

"Baator" - super heavy siege battlecruiser, class "SkyFortress"











and whole Tilean fleet (pretty much -all french fleet got disposed for convertions)











and at the end -I will share fan work -done about sky pirates, traders zeppelins and forces of order with Porco Rosso! (in russian > )









Hope you liked the way I went )

Thanks man! )

thanks
They actually not painted yet) I just highlighted grey for better perception of priming )

My friend -I somehow have exact answer on your question about orcs )))) Yep -that is karma


Lets introduce pirates - thgey are greenskins but other races present as well .Have you watched "Castle in the sky" or Porco Rosso - something like that = lot of fun and good opponent to state authority

Let me introduce "Fire fishezz " clan, biggest to the south of Tilea










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you can choose your favorite

1. Mothership "Swarma". Heavy, lot of stuff, general command post for pirate leaders







houses-houses-houses!






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2. "Barracuda" heavy dreaghnout, heavily armed and powered to confront any military ship!







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3. "Speed fishez" destroyers. for "Hit and run" tactic





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Airforce Carrier "FleetSharka"








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Good day!

Thanks man!