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2017/10/02 04:32:07
Subject: Re:Farewell to Empire-Farewell to Spartan pg 9
The ESS Santicus Patrician is an ancient vessel of unknown lineage, modified and expanded many times over its long life until its swollen hull corresponds too no known class or type. The personal vessel of High Confessor Guaridano, it travels the sub sector seemingly at random arriving in Imperial systems without warning. Soon the four steeples begin broadcasting on all frequencies, overpowering ordinary vox traffic and proclaiming the good news of the High Confessor's arrival. The Patrician then takes up orbital station and shuttles filled with preachers, confessors, witch hunters and missionaries land to assess the state of the world's faith. Inevitably the shuttles soon take flight again, now filled with penitents pleading to confess their sins.
(Dystopian Wars Britannia helicarrier, rules-wise probably just a superheavy transport)
The source of the Al Impuror clan's wealth is a cluster of systems outside of Imperial rule whcih they gained the monopolistic charter to generations ago. Each year the fleet of fat treasure galleons sets out from the port of Bingham on a secretive route to these uncharted systems. Months later they return their hulls heavy with the wealth of a dozen worlds.
The flagship, Nai Dilli's unique double hull puzzles naval engineers who are not sure if it was the original design of the ship or a jerry-rigged mating of two treasure galleons. Had it been properly maintained the Nai Dilli might indeed be one of the most powerful fighting ships in the sector, but over the generations gun decks have been turned into banquet halls, torpedo bays into treasure vaults and, most scandalously, the lance turrets converted to instead project a planet-sized holo display in honor of the then-Patriarch's wedding. Today it would be hard-pressed to defend itself from even a moderately-aggressive attacker. Fortunately the captains of the other galleons have kept their vessels in fighting shape.
(Rogue Trader fleet, the big ship is another super heavy transport)
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2017/10/03 18:25:57
Subject: Farewell to Empire-Farewell to Spartan pg 9
Great stuff. I'll have to do the ottoman to battllefleet gothic conversion some day. Love the Ecclesiarchy ship's overall shape and outline - fits very well. The heavy lifter shuttle is great too, though I feel the control cabin should be mounted lower down.
I really like the idea behind Drop Fleet/Drop Zone, but not enough to force someone to play it with me, though if somebody took it up in the area I'd certainly jump in.
2017/10/04 09:18:01
Subject: Farewell to Empire-Farewell to Spartan pg 9
kestral wrote: Great stuff. I'll have to do the ottoman to battllefleet gothic conversion some day. Love the Ecclesiarchy ship's overall shape and outline - fits very well. The heavy lifter shuttle is great too, though I feel the control cabin should be mounted lower down.
I really like the idea behind Drop Fleet/Drop Zone, but not enough to force someone to play it with me, though if somebody took it up in the area I'd certainly jump in.
Thanks more painting to do of course, just tried out my new fine point sharpies for the portholes. Have to find a transfer for that big white space on the hull.
For the tank transporter I was trying to break up the familiar shape of Eagle 1 with the horse head type cockpit and the aggressively ugly UPS paint scheme. Still not happy with it, a ton of black ink might finish the job making it look like a worn out orbital shuttle.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Hmm...
Seemed like a good idea
Fit together nicely
But now I'm not so sure...
Thoughts?
I could always just green stuff a slightly convex bottom and put them on flying bases but I really liked the idea of having the only ship in BFG that could shoot up and down!
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2017/10/21 03:57:19
Subject: Re:Farewell to Empire-Farewell to Spartan pg 9
Love the chaos ships, super spooky, it's lucky there's no sound in space as i'd imagine those mega-chainsaws would be ultra loud. May i ask if their painting is finished? From the photos it looks like there's still some bare plastic. Also the Admiral of Anger reminds me of one of the fat future humans on the hover couches from Wall-E.
Really like the Santicus Patrician, very cool.
Mary Sue wrote: Perkustin is even more awesome than me!
2017/10/21 09:34:57
Subject: Farewell to Empire-Chaos Space Fleet pg 10
The Chaos fleet is looking great, though I feel chaos calls for MOAR INK. Great choices from Dystopian wars line there - the Blazing sun ship is indeed the pick of the litter. I'm not sure about the curved bottoms, especially given how hard it is to get greenstuff to cooperate at that scale. I always loved the downward jutting stuff look myself. Where are the little plastic spheres for orbital defense and such from?
2017/12/14 04:25:15
Subject: Farewell to Empire-Chaos Space Fleet pg 10
I have an old post on the round things, it's still my best buy in years.
A crazy junk store called American Science and Surplus has (among a million other crazy things) left over pieces from the TSR Buck Rogers board game. The one from the 80s. They still say Make in Hong Kong!
And you get, I am not kidding, 140 of them for $3.50. Which sounds like a lot till you realize you can get 960 fighters for $4.
This Christmas' big stupid project is taking shape...
Spoiler:
It's funny, Kyoto Secunda and her Clone Sister Kyoto Secunda Prime got a Barbie dollhouse for Christmas and promptly made a game involving My Little Pony, Wonder Woman and whomever else coming to visit Barbie and having a party.
Which is basically what I'd doing for my fleets.
Warhammer Dreamhouse
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2017/12/24 09:33:47
Subject: Re:Farewell to Empire-Chaos Space Fleet pg 10
ingtaer wrote: Good stuff! Nice to see the old epic Tzeentch flyers and that is one damn big station you have there. Do you have any pics of all your stuff together?
Group photos is on my list for this family free week
As for the fliers, they'll count as Idolator escorts and Fanatic light cruisers to flesh out the fleet. The Skull Cobras (Skobras) as Iconoclast gunboats. I've been thinking about fluff:
Spoiler:
"Gadzooks!" Abaddon D. Spoiler ejaculated loudly, the force of his oath peeling the paint from the bulwark wall. A team of slaves hurried to touch it up.
"Defeated again!" He drew his cursed daemon sword H'rdt'sp'll and hacked at the walls in rage. Kharn D. Betrayer looked on in admiration.
"Why can't I do anything right!" He wailed, much like a little girl.
"The problem m'lord" said Space Death Master DoomCannon FireBlood (formerly known as Grand Admiral Wesslick Morningstar before his defection in M38, Y643) "is escorts." He concluded.
"Escorts! Bah!" Abaddon spat, the acid in his saliva eating a small hole in the porthole's armorglass. A team of slaves rushed to patch it as Kharn D. Betrayer looked on in admiration. "Those little dinky ships?! I spit on them!" He ejaculated loudly, slaves rushed to patch the floor as his spit ate through the armored deck. "I want BIG SHIPS! The Bigger the Better! Did I ever tell you about my space ship the Planet-Blower-Upper?"
"M'lord" DoomCannon began with the infinite patience only a man who's spent 2000 years having the same conversation can muster, "escorts are essential to intercept enemy vessels so that they cannot take station behind us and destroy our engines, as happened the last 12 times."
"Begorah!" Abaddon ejaculated loudly, the force of his oath killing several slaves who had been patching the deck. Kharn D. Betrayer looked on in admiration. "Why don't we just shoot them with the rear guns?"
"We uh, don't have rear guns." DoomCannon confessed. "You'll have to ask Andy Chambers about that."
"Blimey!" Abaddon ejaculated loudly spearing a slave with his cursed daemon sword H'rdt'sp'll while dicing another slave with his lightning claws.
"The point being sir, we need escort ships if the Nasty Nine are ever to triumph over the hated foes of the Imperial Navy."
"Strewth!" Abaddon ejaculated loudly firing several mass-reactive explosive rounds into the slaves patching the damaged porthole. Kharn D. Betrayer looked on in admiration. "Fine! Go get some!"
"M'lord escorts are smaller than cruisers yes but they're still complex star ships we can't just pull them out of the ether."
"Crikey! How will we ever defeat the... Wait, say that part again."
"Well sir they may be smaller but they still need plasma reactors, geller fields and-"
"No, no, no, the other part."
"Pull them out of the ether?"
"Yes! Summon Arhiman and those guys with the hats!"
"Who? The sorcerers?"
"Yes! Them, the hat guys!" Abaddon D. Spoiler drew forth the Sacred Credit Card of Penultimate DeathDoom, "Prepare the Rite of Ee'Bhai!" he ejaculated loudly.
Soon...
"Well that was easy." Abaddon ejaculated softly.
Kharn nodded in approval. "Skobras" he said looking over the ships decorated with Gibraltar-sized skulls.
"There's no way that should have wor-" DoomCannon began.
At just that very moment the weakened and unrepaired deck and porthole gave away blasting them all into the cold depths of space.
The End
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2017/12/27 06:31:58
Subject: Farewell to Empire-Big Stupid Christmas Project pg 10
ingtaer wrote: Now, now Kid you know you arnt allowed to plagiarize official fluff and pass it off as your own.
One nice thing about getting some old chaos models is being reminded how crazy things were.
When I did the Nasty Nine I thought I was being way too crazy what with the mile long chainsaws and everything, but now that I've seen these I realize that I wasn't nearly way too crazy enough.
Someone's getting a battleship!
Oh and for ####'s sake! I must have had dozens of those damn Raven Wing feather things at one point or another and NOW that I think of a use for them...
2017/12/28 17:56:39
Subject: Re:Farewell to Empire-Big Stupid Christmas Project pg 10
++This is the Imperial Cruiser ISS Dahe, identify your self immediately++
++Dahe, this is the ESS Sister of Sanctity, transmitting codes now++
++Sister of Sanctity your codes are verified, good to have some company out here, we're looking for a missing convoy++
(UNINTELLIGIBLE STATIC)
++Um Sanctity, we're getting a lot of readings, those aren't Eccleciasticy ships by any chance?++
++Negative Dahe, I don't suppose those are Imperial Navy reinforcements?++
++I think we have a problem++
The Nasty Nine and the Sacrilegious Seventeen got their photo op tonight...
(some more paint and a gallon of ink still needed)
The Imperium also intercepted broadcasts about something called the Terrible Tenth...
But the handful of blurry picts were quickly rejected as a hoax since there's no way something that that could fly, much less fight.
Meanwhile in the ship yards, the Grand High Arch Shipwright started getting creative.
2017/12/29 17:49:11
Subject: Re:Farewell to Empire-Big Stupid Christmas Project pg 10
The Romulan pack has warbirds roughly in scale with BFG. The Federation pack, Galaxy Class ships roughly in scale with DFC, etc. Each set comes with 15 ships and 5 starbases, great for adding detail to larger stations maybe.
