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Did some work on the Forbidden stars Ork and Eldar ships yesterday

Forbidden stars cruisers almost finished, here is the progress



And ordered some ships from shapeways, The barge was bigger than i expected and the cruisers smaller than expected, the only gripe is that they came without bases.

The barge looks a liitle small for a battleship or battle barge, but looks about right for a grand cruiser. The cruiser looks like it'll make an excellent light cruiser or strike cruiser.

They come without bases because Shapeways aren't a miniatures or gaming company. They're simply a manufacturer of 3D printed doodads and knick-knacks. To them, those things you bought are no different to a cutlery stand, a decorative napkin ring or anything else they sell.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
The barge looks a liitle small for a battleship or battle barge, but looks about right for a grand cruiser. The cruiser looks like it'll make an excellent light cruiser or strike cruiser.

They come without bases because Shapeways aren't a miniatures or gaming company. They're simply a manufacturer of 3D printed doodads and knick-knacks. To them, those things you bought are no different to a cutlery stand, a decorative napkin ring or anything else they sell.

I saw a picture on the net that it is comparable to a Space marine battle barge so that is what i am going to use it as.

Made another Scratch built BFG ship with leftovers and mediocre recasting. (sorry for the fuzzy picture)



And progress on the Shapeways Heresy Barge and cruiser.

Too much gaming lately
But still got some painting done, progress on the shapeways and forbidden stars ships for BFG
Sorry for the fuzzy pics

Finished my Scratch built BFG cruiser

Kewl! How'd you scratch build it? plastic card? greenstuff? odds n ends? Or all of the above?

 pancakeonions wrote:
Kewl! How'd you scratch build it? plastic card? greenstuff? odds n ends? Or all of the above?

Exactly

I use left over parts, sprues, greenstuff, and anything that i can use to make ships. the top of the last ship is from a 3rd party jet bike that came with 2 different lower halves, i used that for the top
of the ship.

Fixed the bases on the BFG ships and modified the chaos ships my Yamato 2199 and gundam musai can proxie as carrier ships so i turned my chaos ships into gun boats.
Als added some gubbins on the side of my Scratchbuilt ship bridge, so it doesn't looks so bare.

Started to paint the recently acquired Battlefleet Gothic ships.

Bought these in the weekend and going to use them as escorts

Progress on the BFG ships

I played Space Fleet last night, my first foray into 40K starship battles ever.

It was hilarious. Thankfully, the beer was plentiful. I'm eager to try out BFG (especially since I understand it's nothing like Space Fleet!)

The models were painted though, and they looked nice!

 pancakeonions wrote:
I played Space Fleet last night, my first foray into 40K starship battles ever.

It was hilarious. Thankfully, the beer was plentiful. I'm eager to try out BFG (especially since I understand it's nothing like Space Fleet!)

The models were painted though, and they looked nice!

Try out Battlefleet gothic armada, it is like that but slower

I definitely need to expand my BFG horizons! Space Fleet is no place to begin and end one's experience with those games!

My first battle of BFG in 10 years,700 point cruiser clash with a friend , threw a lot of lucky sixes after a few turns my imperial opponent ships were all crippled, so we stopped when that happened.




After its glorious victory the musai needed a new paint job

From the guy that i played BFG against last week i acquired some ships an incomplete Battlebarge and a bunch of Chaos cruisers. Those cruisers where made by a guy with no clue about the game most were unusable configurations, and i spilled blood for the chaos gods getting some stuff off.

BFG Chaos Ships progress



BFG Chaos and Space marine Battle Barge progress

Did some work on the space marine Battlebarge and made a shot of my current SM fleet

Current Space Marine Fleet



Current Chaos (only with one Japanese ship

Progress on the recently acquired BFG ships

Great thread!

You should check out the cheap star ship thread if you haven't already.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/689209.page

You're doing a great job selling me Forbidden Stars too...

How important is size/scale in BFG? I thought it was irrellevent since the ships are really just tiny dots in the center of the base? Is it just an aesteic issue?

pancakeonions wrote:I played Space Fleet last night, my first foray into 40K starship battles ever.

It was hilarious. Thankfully, the beer was plentiful. I'm eager to try out BFG (especially since I understand it's nothing like Space Fleet!)

The models were painted though, and they looked nice!

OMG there's more than one out there!

I just got Space Fleet off of ebay and spent way too much amassing funky old ships for it.

It is more an aesthetic thing as the base size determine battle ships, i just try to keep ships in the same size so the Forbidden stars battleships become cruisers and the escort class ships are about the same size so they are ok.

This is a bad time to get into BFG, but you have done well for yourself.

I am surprised you havent done a Tau fleet with the Trade Federation and assorted Japanese franchise ships. They would fit right in.

As for scratchbuild. Nids nids nids. Also make roks for your orks, rok heavy ork fleets can work, less ramming but good cheap capable firepower.

A request, can you place a ruler by the forbidden stars vessels, especially the eldar Void Stalker and the ork vessels. I might get a set to round out my eldar and ork fleets if the items are suitably scaled.

 Orlanth wrote:
This is a bad time to get into BFG, but you have done well for yourself.

I am surprised you havent done a Tau fleet with the Trade Federation and assorted Japanese franchise ships. They would fit right in.

As for scratchbuild. Nids nids nids. Also make roks for your orks, rok heavy ork fleets can work, less ramming but good cheap capable firepower.

A request, can you place a ruler by the forbidden stars vessels, especially the eldar Void Stalker and the ork vessels. I might get a set to round out my eldar and ork fleets if the items are suitably scaled.

I play Chaos and Imperium, Xenos have no place in my fleets!
I have so many Japanese ships i could just proxy them.

Ok i will make some pictures later.

Sorry forgot about the promised pictures here they are (oh and it is centrimeters)





And some Yamato ships based

Bought the new Macros frontier SDF/C-108 Kancole kit and put it together.







And while moving i found a disk with pictures from my home fleet


















My Flying Dutchman

That Macross vessel looks pretty cool. Where did you get it?

 horizon wrote:
That Macross vessel looks pretty cool. Where did you get it?

At Joshin here in Japan but internationally
maybe here?
http://www.1999.co.jp/10400588

Mine is mostly finished, some highlights and some work on the engines and its done

I love the flying Dutchman.

Hey can you take a pic of BFG next to Space Fleet? I'm trying to get an idea of how undersized the SF ships are.