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2020/07/20 16:50:52
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Mighty Vampire Count
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They look very cool
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I AM A MARINE PLAYER
"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
www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/528517.page
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2020/07/21 11:49:13
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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thanks.
I bit the bullet and simply stripped down my old bloodangels strike cruiser and donated its prow to this:
the second strike cruiser.
this is much better in my opinion but that may just be nostalgia for the old silhouette of a strikecruiser.
however I do feel this conversion banishes all the things about the original model and keeps all the best bits LOL!
I always felt the strike cruiser was a bit of a cop-out in that it was an unashamed rehash of the dauntless hull with a few tinkers here and there and a fancy new prow.
also whilst stripping the old bloodangels strikecruiser I took the opportunity to repaint the two thunderhawks that accompanied it to spaceshark colourscheme too, topping those up to four markers in the fleet now...
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2020/07/21 13:09:02
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Very clean, why arent you using the Eagle Dropships instead of the 3d printed models? (both are cool though)
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2020/07/21 13:34:09
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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Well. One, I already had the grimdarkbits th's to paint. Two I'm very very low on money at present and three, the eagle dropships are 14mm long! Freakin' Huge man! The grimdarkbits ones are much more sensibly sized at around 8/9mm long. (I think. I'll measure for sure and check)
However I'm unaware as to how big the fw th's were though. The pics I've seen do make them seem a little huge compared to the old metal fighters and bombers. Anyone know for sure?
I will probably get some eagle dropships at somepoint and use them to represent stormbirds alongside my th's. Also looking forward to getting my hands on some of your updated javelins with the wider wings... they'd be ideal for xiphon proxies methinks
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This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2020/07/21 13:39:42
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2020/07/21 13:39:28
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Hmm, I'd recommend converting the Eagles a bit to make them look like Stormbirds. As for the fighters, I'm also still waiting. Sadly enough Vanguard Miniatures never went full way (casting and releasing) with the fighters I've submitted. :(
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2020/07/21 13:43:59
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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Yeah they'd need a tweak or two...
Also re. Your fighters, I've no idea why that's the case with vanguard... I got some javelins from the first wave and then John removed them for some reason... A real shame as I personally thought they were the best fighter models in that scale I'd ever seen! They have all the design cues from all the old sci fi I remember from back in the day. Lovely minis. I've still some unpainted I believe so they may get done for this fleet, especially if the updated ones are not to be expected to be released now... :(
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2020/07/21 13:45:34
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche
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Funny I just noticed there were not fighters at Vanguard. It seems the only ordinence missing.
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2020/07/21 13:57:54
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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If you guys want them back, perhaps try to convince John through social media or the Tactical Command forum? I've done updated fleetscale versions of both the Javelin and Spiculum fighters.
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2020/07/21 19:27:59
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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Ah yes spiculum! They are the ones that really look like xiphons.
That's what I meant when I said "the javelins with wider wings"
The javelins are more like battlestar's vipers aren't they. They are great either way.
Alas I'm no Facebooker so the petition for ordnance will have to be up to others...
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2020/07/22 07:33:42
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Or just PM Moredakka, I think he also posts here. I just hope to be able to convince him those fighters are worth it.
But back to your stuff, what do you have planned next?
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2020/07/22 14:29:41
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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erm not sure to be honest but for now, some slightly better shots of stuff...
stations:
and the marine fleet in its +\- completed form... well for now anyhow...
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2020/07/23 07:39:11
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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That big station just get more and more impressive each time I see it!
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2020/07/23 09:04:23
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche
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Spectacular! What paint is that brownstone color you used for the station?
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2020/07/23 10:50:08
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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Easy.
Xv88 basecoat.
Wash with 50/50 agrax earthshade/nuln oil.
Xv88 drybrush.
Then successive drybrushing of xv88 with zandri dust added up to almost pure zandri dust...
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2020/07/31 07:13:15
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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an experiment with fighter craft ordnance to make a proxy for a marauder bomber:
vanguard javelin cut down and trimmed with a swithdeath tail between the engines.
not an excellent pic but bloody small and hard to capture with the phone...
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2020/07/31 07:28:54
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Holy crap...that's....that's...SO MUCH WINNING!!!
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2020/07/31 08:09:07
Subject: Re:OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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lols... they're good to represent stuff in a planetary landing scenario or just as alternative bombers...
i built them to go with these lightings:
that you may remember from earlier in the thread...
I was wondering if anyone knew of other thunderbolt and marauder ordnance 3rd party proxies that would be good for bfg scale?
or perhaps you should do some malika? mind you, based on the track record of getting ordnance casted by vanguard, you could end up waiting a while for it LOL!
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2020/07/31 09:07:00
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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You might appreciate these!
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2020/08/02 10:11:46
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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indeed!
in the meanwhile, a better shot
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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2020/08/05 09:23:11
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2020/08/05 09:23:30
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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been experimenting on kitbashing more fighter ordnance:
I have more imperial bombers than anything else so i figured i'd start by using these as a base.
by cutting off the engines and cockpit section and fliping it backwards, then grafting a turret from the lynx class destroyer you get this:
I painted them to look like the player one and player two ships from demonstar:
I did another in the merchant fleet colours but this time cut the 'engines' and 'nose' down a bit to make it look stubbier, like more of a shuttle type dealie, rather than a snub-fighter.
along side it is a ship that was originally supposed to represent the player ship from armalyte:
but it ended up looking more akin to one of these:
mining pods from gotg, so I figured I'd do it as another yellerun, and make it one of the mining-guild ships in jago's fleet.
also I used some gs to convert one of my last chaos swiftdeaths:
into the usp talon from tyrian:
quite enjoying this games into models thing I got going on here...
any suggestions?
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2020/08/05 10:16:45
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Hmm, how about a grimdark version of Homeworld?
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2020/08/05 11:42:44
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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homeworld?
if it weren't a game from the nineties I wont know it ... lol
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2020/08/05 12:32:11
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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The first game was released in 1999!
What about grimdark version of Gundam or Robotech stuff?
Another option could be Starcraft, or otherwise go Wing Commander?
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2020/08/05 13:07:28
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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yeah... I was thinking of ordnance scale stuff....
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2020/08/05 13:32:32
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Hmm, Gundam and Robotech have stuff that could be cool as ordnance. Same goes for Star Craft.
Lemme see if I can toss some ideas at you!
Starcraft:
Homeworld:
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2020/08/05 13:36:37
Subject: Re:OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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well you're not wrong... but I guess im after something a little more spritey and low-res LOL
nevermind
I think I'll tackle the aliens from debris32/3dastroblaster next:
ive already done the mines and the player ship after all
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2020/08/05 13:41:17
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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[MOD]
Villanous Scum
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Those are some cute looking fighters! You are really making me want to break out my own toy spaceships and get cracking on them. Got my nephew into ACTA so I guess its going to happen sooner rather than later!
Malika, as you have bought up homeworld perhaps you should make some ships! I would buy the hell out of that!
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2020/08/05 14:56:41
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Funny you should mention ships, I've been wanting to do grimdark Homeworld for a long time. Might have to do it independently since Vanguard Miniatures might not be interested.
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2020/08/06 08:32:55
Subject: Re:OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
chigwell, essex
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anyway...
got the debris32 xeno fighter done. again with the lynx turret as the foresection (for a bit of shape difference).
as you can see its not any specific one of the debris32 aliens but has the general flavour of them...
trickier to get the gold colour than you'd think.
would have been very easy to make it too lustrous with ruddier copper-golds.
That would have looked wrong.
Whereas the sprites have more of a cold bronze-gold look...
I achieved it with tinbitz mixed with retributor armour... in truth (looking at the sprites again) I probably could have gone a bit brighter, although the shots I've taken do make it seem darker than it is in RL. meh, whattayagonnado?
I added a bit of green to the weapons as this is a way of adding a bit more interest and also to reference the 'exhaust' colour they have in the game...
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2020/08/06 08:44:20
Subject: OSJC's [BFG] ships thread
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?
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Kinda curious to see what kinda conversions you could do based on my Sagaris bomber design.
The work you're doing now would be perfect for a game of Trenchrunnerz (which is basically a BFG scaled tribute to the old Bommerz over da Sulphur River game).
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