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The lost STC which make none GW plastics a lot more attractive.....

Necromunda isn't ready to show off yet but I did some 2 quick scratch builds last night.

They look OK except for the prows that are much too small. Any ideas for something that would work? I might use the domes again.

OK those were bad.

Take 2!

Assembled my first sprue of Orlocks last night.

Overall a great kit if you're building it out of the box. The separate legs puzzled me but they fit in perfectly and the front and back halves of the models slip together nicely too.

The different arm joints are irking. I can see they were done to accommodate the shoulder pads (which look great) but they make arm swaps really hard.

GW also can't seem to decide to how big a human hand should be, so flagellent and even Catachan hands look tiny on them. Not a total deal breaker but another annoyance.

Heads also seem a little different, with the Cadian heads I used vanishing into the necks.

ANYWAY!

The Gang is called the Copz, the idea is they're the bully boys for the local factory boss/mine owner/land lord whoever. They keeps things calm and orderly and if things go south they scream for the planetary enforcers or even Imperial authorities.







I love the dinky little revolvers the sprue has, .38s and spiked billy clubs for everyone!



No one will ever notice his delicate womanly left hand (from a #$%^ing Catachan!) but it still bugs me.

Hopefully I'll get the second sprue done tomorrow.

And 5 more Copz.





Really love the drum clip guns, this guy looks like he's having fun.



I was able to manage one arm swap to make a lasgunner. I also love how the guy on the left turned out.



Grenadier and rifleman.

Despite my gripes these are great kits overall, can't wait to paint them.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

And double curse your non-standard shoulder joints!

This.

Pain in the backside.

Also, what happened to legs which mate to torsos on a set flat surface rather than having one bit with half a a torso and a third of one leg mating to another half torso and another loose 2/3 leg? Yeah yeah 'dynamic poses' 'models look better than ever' grumble grumble grognard

Copz look great

Would the bows of bathtub toy boats work upside down as prows?

Finished the last of the boxy transports (Battlefleet Cubist? Battlefleet Brutalist?).

I tried chopping off the fronts of some toy VTOLs I have but the fit wasn't exact. I think reusing the domes works, it reduces the amount of disparate parts.



Still need to add engines and maybe some more grubbings but overall quite happy.



I might add more domes to the sides to give it a bit more bulk.

That is looking pretty good. Nice feel to it.

How big is it, because I think the vents from a SM backpack would not look out of place as thrusters.

The Orlocks are crazy good bud, really awesome work.

Helmsman, what in the Emperor's name are those?
Transports sir, 2 heavy transports, a refinery ship and a heavy star galleon.
Yes but, what are they? They look like boxes with engines strapped to the back. Who makes ships like that?
According to Mechanicus records sir, Battlefleet Brutalist.





Some progress on the boxy transports, generally happy but they need, something. Graffiti, more ink, something. Any idea what?

And yes waited ages to use Battlefleet Brutalist. Next up Battlefleets Art Deco and Dutch Colonial.

Another silly, silly idea to do with the blocks.



An =I= shaped space station/dock/prison in deep space just a few AUs from a black hole. In the event of an incident, or incidence of an eventuality the gravity anchors blow and the whole thing falls into the black hole to be lost forever.

Tomorrow... painted Athena-class cruisers from Vanguard.

As some of you might seen the ships I commissioned through Vanguard are now up for retail!

http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/novan-fast-cruiser/

So seems a good time to show off my painted ones.



"You're in for a treat Master Inquisitor, a gathering rarely seen in this sector. No less than five Athena Primes gathered in one place!" Captain Wolfe gestured grandly out the ship's observation dome. "Five of the finest examples of Pre-Apostasy ship building still in service. We can barely build Athenas today, much less these beauties. Built by the master shipwrights of Gotlieb IV - before the incident of course - they were given to what the shipwrights saw as the five pillars of the Imperium."
"Of course" Inquisitor Minorus Ardor replied. He wondered what the 'incident' was. He made a mental note to look that up later.
"With 1.21 gigawatt flux capacitors, pure Troyus dilithium, phased plasma drives in the 40 watt range, blah, blah, blah, no one cares..."
Ardor tuned out the captain's blathering, noting that his servo skull was recording everything. Later he'd have scribes and savants prepare a report about what all of that meant. Maybe he'd even read it. But he was here for another reason.



"Captain it seems only one ship is in Battlefleet colors."
"Good eye Master Inquisitor, good eye. Yes you're looking at the Admiral Franco, pride of the fleet. Has the firepower of Mars-class battle cruiser, served the fleet for over 8000 years. She rarely sees action these days, far too valuable to risk, but if she did she'd give a good accounting of herself."



"And of course there's the mechanicus cruiser."
"Yes... a bit unfortunate that. They call it 141/Delta-13, a name about as romantic as the Mechanicus itself. It's been built, refit and experimented upon so many times you can barely make out the original lines. But it's a necessary evil, these days its crew are the only ones who can still maintain and repair the other ships of this class."



"Yes, sad. And that one?"
"Ah and interesting case that one. The HDMS Charlemagne, given to the Emperor, well to his Custodes at least. They accepted the gift by astropathic message and it has sat in our shipyards ever since. We maintain a skeleton crew and keep it battle-ready should the Custodes ever have need of it. But honestly, they never leave Holy Terra so... It does look pretty though."

So far so good. All 3 ships were in the hands of Imperial organizations permitted to maintain vessels of war. Though Ardor made a note to see if the captain's account of the Charlemagne was true. A fully armed warship sitting idle for millennia? It seemed unlikely to say the least.



"The Lady Agnesia, by contrast has seen plenty of AUs. Given to the Sub-Sector Governor it serves as transportation for him or his envoys as they cross the Sub-Sector on business."
"Good, I'm sure it has proven a worthy vessel. It seems well-protected."
The captain looked at the Inquisitor and frowned. He could see the knife under the silk. "It has a pair of broadsides, they are within the allowed armament for a civilian vessel."
"And a pair of launch bays."
"For passenger shuttles and such, yes."
"Of course. And the last ship?"



"The Silver Eye, given to the Navigator's Guild to serve as mobile training center and exploration vessel. They use it to examine new warp routes and such."
"Those turrets? Lances are they not?"
"Permitted given their mission."
"And two sets of launch bays?"
"Again they need to load and unload personnel quickly... They have no military use you understand."
"Unless the ship also carried fighters and bombers."
"But they would not be permitted to purchase such-"
"Unless they were travelling outside the Imperium no. I would be very interested in what the Navigators are carrying in their hangers. Set course for the Silver Eye, I would greatly like to pay it a visit."

Those blocks work just fine. The ships look fantastic. Great work sir.

We'll be moving back to the US this summer so in a bit of a rush to get some of these projects done before everything goes into boxes.



Got what will probably be the last Space Fleet Gothic ship I'll buy. But...



Oh NOES! It is bended! Maybe GW will send me another one?



Or I could just bend it back Ah lead, so easy to work with, so toxic. This one got some minor conversion so it could count as a Mars class.



2 Dorsal lances and a front nova cannon.



In an old trade I got an extra set of arms for a Tyrant cruiser (drill ship). Then I saw two armless Tyrants on ebay. Well what could I do? WHAT COULD I DO?

Now I have one more Tyrant... and one armless one



Some Russian transports, a company called Soul Dark. They got some additional minarets from the Vanguard ships.



Time allowing I also have the Inquisition station/dock/prison. Unless of course my girls get ahold of the blocks again to make My Little Ponies.

That station will be massive. Possibly mahoosive.

Did you order directly from soul dark? Are they safe to buy from?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That station will be massive. Possibly mahoosive.

Did you order directly from soul dark? Are they safe to buy from?

I got a tracking number, I got the package and so far no one's charged any Russian hookers (who I hear from the highest authority are the best in the world) to my card so um... yeah?

And we're back, trying to finish the more ambitious projects before everything goes into boxes. (Look for my garage sale coming later this week).

First off finished my second Hera class battleship. A simple kitbash that only requires three Space Fleet ships (out of print for 25 years) and a $60 Dropfleet Commander space station kit. Oh and a Ravenwing accessory sprue. Easy peasy.



But it does make me so happy. Safe to say no one, NO ONE, else has done this.



This leaves me with some extra engines, wonder what I can do with them.



Monitor? Light cruiser?



Speaking of things no one has done...

Where do you go from a battleship and a ginormous space station?



I think I saw one of these in a movie



The saucer city thing has an issue with warping, as the glue or greenstuff dried it bent upwards. Not sure if I have a solution to that other than tearing it out and making another one... Anyway the Leviathan needs some more gribbling and such but that's the basic idea.

I imagine it counts as 3 Mars Cruisers added together. IE launch 12 squads, 3 nova cannons, 6 weapon batteries.

Look forward to your garage sale!

Interesting looking new super batteship there, have you tried using a hairdryer to bend the plastic back?

The saucer is 4 pieces so it's really being pulled apart at that center seam, rather than bending.

I'll give it a look tonight.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That station will be massive. Possibly mahoosive.

Did you order directly from soul dark? Are they safe to buy from?

I got a tracking number, I got the package and so far no one's charged any Russian hookers (who I hear from the highest authority are the best in the world) to my card so um... yeah?

Thanks. I saw they were selling recasts of the FW BFG escorts, and I've had some experiences in the past that make me wary of that kind of thing.

I've seen that ship somewhere. I think the faction were called the 3rd Request or similar.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
I've seen that ship somewhere. I think the faction were called the 3rd Request or similar.

M.

It will have a special vulnerability to ramming!




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And the garage sale has begun...

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/755630.page#9945930

Something people might find useful, size comparisons of the Space Fleet ships.

I'll add more soonish.

Is the Vanguard cruiser the one that looks like a Space Fleet cruiser, or is that the light cruiser? How do the Helios cruisers compare?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Is the Vanguard cruiser the one that looks like a Space Fleet cruiser, or is that the light cruiser? How do the Helios cruisers compare?

It's the light cruiser.

The fast cruiser, is 3.5" same as BFG cruisers.

The Helios is 4-5" I'll add it to the update

State of the painting desk, May 7, 2018





A bunch of Gothic Battleships (nee Athena Class Carrier) and a kit bashed battleship (Hera Class, counts as Emperor).

Plus Souldark transports, Vanguard, Firestorm Armada.


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Not a model but I did update an old story - The Long Fall of Vost Dhan.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/711894.page

The space boats are super tiny... I wouldn't enjoy painting them... but I could stand to practice live torture.

I like the color scheme you choose for them.

Love these little fellas, can easily understand your obsession.

So yeah, not a model but some original art from Dark Future I won on ebay.



Never played the game but the Dark Future books are some of my favorites, full of satire and dark humor with characters like President Oliver North. The fact the dude has the Kyo from Kyoto on his shirt is just gravy.

(don't ask what I paid!)

State of the painting table May 22, 2018



Getting there, still not sure about the towers and whether or not I should further gild the lily.



Uncharted Seas Shroud Mages converting to an Ork cruiser.



Dystopian Wars airship, just lovely



Finally got the Ottoman battleship, and some Epic Thunderhawks to serve as escorts.



Firestorm Armada Synicate ships (with their great art deco looks)



And the finished battleship.

Whew

Back to work.