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Played around some more with the design of the Space Dock (needs a real name...), thanks Kernel Terror for the idea of the second dock layer.





Mounted it on an oil tank, makes for a nice steady base and makes sense thematically as the station's water/fuel/lubricant/memory RNA supply. Real work will have to wait till I'm home again next week (finally) but it's looking good.

Also played around with bits for a few minutes and came up with quite a passible transport.



(note the Gothic cruiser will be repainted)






It's a totally unneeded conversion, I just ordered a bunch of transports from Vanguard, but somehow very satisfying to find a bits combo that can make ships from a $6 sprue. When I get home I'll replace the tower with something a bit more substantial, I'm thinking lasgun barrels now.

Nothing too profound from this weekend.

Star Fort Bingham (it got a name) got a new central tower replacing the pill bottle.





Some new transports including a big mama.



I'm now out of the bits I use for engines. Resisting temptation to reorder.



MOving back home finally this week, can return to painting BFG ships.

I think tau grenades or dark elves crossbow clips would give a nice surface too...

Moved back last night. Hopefully will be able to return to painting soon.

In meantime the last of the Chemical Plant ships for a while.

One of the options in BFG is for a 'fire ship' a concept that existed from ancient times to the US Civil War of taking an old ship filling it with combustable material (later explosives) and sailing it right into the heart of the enemy.





The other was a Q-Ship, an ordinary-looking transport with hidden guns.

Small addition today, a new design for the Ork's Brute Ram Ships.



Simple converison but different enough I hope from the hammerhead transports.

Also threw in a simple orbital laser station.

Now that I'm home you'll see some bitz appearing finally. The ork ships will need a lot of greebles to make them look more ramshakle.


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 Viktor von Domm wrote:
I think tau grenades or dark elves crossbow clips would give a nice surface too...

Y'know Dark Elf quivers might make some nice fleet scale missile launchers. I think I ahve some somewhere.

also...maybe the paintjob will fix it but the valve wheel looks odd...out of place...

Something a bit more interesting tonight, the Space Fleet assembles.

Painting is still a WIP, but the models are just fantastic and look great even with basic slop'n'go paint.



After being out of the country for a month, then out of house another month it's nice to finally put them together along with my battlefield in a box asteroids and cheap starfield table cloth.



I think the table cloth will look better fully spread out on a large table.



I've been reading up on BFG and I think I have figured out what each ships will 'count' as. Some are easy, Cobra=Cobra, Firestorm=Firestorm, Emperor=Emperor, even the Dominator=Dominator, both have Nova cannons. Others are a bit harder.

I decided the Gothics won't count as Gothics because I want the side thingys to be launch bays. So they'll count as Mars cruisers.

The Imperial Superstar Destroyer probably won't join the game, but it's the closest I could find to Goodwin's awesome ships (and probably inspired them).



Still no idea what I'll do with Mr Huggsly, the ship with a drill in front and 2 massive claws. It's one of the really insane Space Fleet ships and BFG was a lot more 'realistic'. No room for space boats and come up, hug you and drill into your sides. Any ideas?

Dunno actually fireships have been used more recently than the American Civil War. Several were used in WW2 the St Nazaire Raid was the most famous and the various manned torpedoes as well

Brexit supply drop 1/3



Ramshakle games, a lot of cool figures I've had my eye on for a long time.

For some odd reason they sent me about 10 extra figures and missed one that actually ordered. Frankly I'm willing to call it even.

Did not realize how big the guy in the back would be. Might have to order some more.




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 Llamahead wrote:
Dunno actually fireships have been used more recently than the American Civil War. Several were used in WW2 the St Nazaire Raid was the most famous and the various manned torpedoes as well

yeah I did some reading up on it, I didn't know about the allies using them in WWII.

I should have remembered the Japanese 'manned torpedoes' after all I've seen them in the flesh both in Kyoto in Tokyo.

And Wikipedia asserts you could consider the Cole bombing as a modern take on the fire ship.


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Great service from Ramshakle. The extra figures were freebees they threw in to clear out an extra bin and they're going to send off the missing figure at no extra charge.

Nice clean casts too.

Yeah got my Trukks from them 3 great vehicles for the price of 1 GW 1. Why Yes Please.

Brexit supply drop 2/3 Vanguard miniatures



Nice clean casts and a lot cheaper than 3rd hand ebay ships.



Remember what I said about my transport conversions. yep. Totally pointless. I got 9 transports from Vanguard.

Lots of fun though.



Tankers/fire ships



Light Cruisers



Oh and greebling is done. Now for the painting.



I'm going on the theory that the 'shuttles' are Queen Mary sized intra-system ships that carry cargo and passengers. Huge by normal standards, tiny by BFG standards.

Some can even do short warp jumps, a few light years at best but lose more than half their cargo space for the warp drive, fuel and geller field.

More pipe transports underway, more Space Fleet stuff en route. Tomorrow I might even get to do some painting.

In the meantime I'm trying to figure out what to do for a battleship. The Super Star Destroyer is a bit too jarring (even with a big angel and a skull on it!) and I want something that fits with the rest of the fleet.

If only I had an idea.



What's that you say imaginary Jes Goodwin from 25 years ago?

Can you speak up?



Oh, yes, that certainly might work. But in order to do that I would need two plastic Gothic Battleship, hopefully for just $5.

Glad to know other people have an imgainary Jes speaking to them!

Man, have not seen those old pre-gothic ships since a looooooooooong time!

Some more progress on the Hammerhead cargo fleet.



I'm almost out of the bitz I use for it but every time I thought I was done I found a new use for some other useless bit.





It's been an interesting exercise that reminds me of Legos when I was a kid. I'd make fleets of fighters, battleships and everything in between and one time I set myself the goal of using every last block in my box. I don't know if I'll go quite that far this time, but it's been a fun project, as I bang together each ship I have to think about what this ship does, why it's built like that ('those were the bitz I had' is not an acceptable answer), etc.

Primed them today. Next up I have to open my paints for the first time in a month? Two?



The star fort is also feeling ready, there's still some flat surfaces but I think anything else will make it too busy.

Looking good ! I totally agree with leaving some flat areas as such, you should still be able to paint some road marks later on if you feel something is amiss...

It's the "I spend too much time on ebay supply drop!"



Up top we have Constellation Targeting ships, Galaxy Troop Ship, 2 Goliath Factory Ships, and a Castellion Shield ship from Space Fleet (though actually repurposed from an older line).

Then we have 2 Firestorms, an Emperor, an Iron Clad, a Gothic, an Annihilator and a Dominator.

There's also a mystery ship, the one with wings on the left. Anyone recognize it? It came in one of the ebay lots.

Along with the Vanguard ships I more than doubled my BFG collection and there's still some bits and bobs tricking in.

The only one I don't have is the Thunderbolt.



If anyone had one to spare PM me.

Cool, growing fleet looking good!

Bit by bit, getting there.

And still have more (MOAR!) coming.

So yeah I had an idea.



And I just got some new chemical kit parts.

And...







Finding that the little cyber claws from the go-cart servitors fit around the pipes really made this work. Imagine arms the size of the Empire State Building reaching down to tear off damaged chunks of a ship the size of Manhattan.





Probably paint in basic grey with some red.

Work on the rest of the fleet continues, give me a another few days.

Brilliant ! You know what would be cool ? It would be if this bay was somehow connectable to the star fort's lower layers :


Keep it up !

Inspiration hit in a particularly dull meeting and the Hammerhead fleet got 2 more transports.





And I officially used up the original supply of pipes

Good thing I bought another box worth

And reading through the BFG book and playing the Android game I see I will need blast markers.

Sure I COULD download the PDF and print them like a sane person. Or...





Green stuff + cut up dime store ships. The GS will be yellow/orange, the debries black and grey. Now I just need 20 more.

Really cool to see your collection of old space fleet stuff! Bfg is such a great game! Good job on ask the work so far, looking forward to more!

Great stuff given what you like if your after another Brexit supply drop Ground Zero Games or Brigade Models might be worth a look both are excellent!

 Llamahead wrote:
Great stuff given what you like if your after another Brexit supply drop Ground Zero Games or Brigade Models might be worth a look both are excellent!

They both have good stuff but then I found out about the old, old, old (like late 70s old) Starfleet Wars (one syllable from a lawsuit!) line.

http://www.mondayknight.com/Miniature%20Pages/GalacticKnights/GalacticKnightsShips.htm

They need to do some casting for me but look for another supply drop soon.

Zandris IV also has some neat ships.

http://z4miniatures.blogspot.com/2007/12/online-shop.html




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Oh yeah still have to take a shot of Brexit Supply Dump 3... Thanks for reminding me.

No trouble

Just won a little something on ebay

I now have the entire SF Imperial run. Since I have no interest in the Eldar or Tyranids that would mean the 'spending too much money' phase is complete, now for the 'why doesn't this look as good as the picture oh whatever it's painted OK?' phase.

Which reminds me, any interest in 4 plastic Eldar wraith ships?

Those ships need a layer or two of paint pronto KK.

And in other news.
Must...not... click... on those links with the homeworld analogs...

Run wallet! Run!

M.

Got more more colors and ink on them over the weekend, should be able to do a new photo shoot soon.

Looking at the prices on those mint in box ships made me dig up this.



Old BFG magazine.

First it depressed me because of how cheap I could have gotten them even in 'recent' times.

Then it depressed me because I realized that when this magazine came out Space Fleet was 10 years old. But this magazine is from 2001, 15 years ago. Somehow in 2001, 1991 seemed ancient, but in 2016, 2001 feels like last week.

I'm gonna go take my pills and watch some Matlock now.