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Captain on the bridge. Almost. For now on a cork of wine
Warboss with head from Spellcrow

That new head really changes the look and feel of the black reach warboss. Looks like the gun arm is different too? That hand is massive.

 Syro_ wrote:
Looks like the gun arm is different too? That hand is massive.

I don't know. That's a secondhand mini. I bought it assembled and painted. I spread it into pieces, washed and glued it again. I do not know what the previous owner changed but I only changed the head.

Small update.
It's time to give a name to the ship. I'm just wondering if the board is too big.

New thing for a ship's bow. I have no idea what it could be for, but it looks good
Submarines had a net cutter on the bow, but this is not an U-Boot.

it's a ship-scale choppa!

 ZoBo wrote:
it's a ship-scale choppa!

Sounds good

I made a catch (crane) for the bomb. It's just a dummy, because the bomb is magnetized and attached directly to the hull. Magnet simultaneously holds the chain.

My god, scratch building level 100. such great stuff here.

So many bolted on armor plates. Ork players know it takes a lot of hard work to make something look slapped together.

Great job- ramming speed!

The crane for the bomb load is terrific, the obvious sort of place you'd find a grot, tinkering!

Thanks. Positive response is the best motivation
@Meer_Cat: I have a lot of figures for this project but only orks, no grots. But I like this idea

Recent progress. I tested the paining scheme. I do one or two models a year, so every time I have to learn painting almost from scratch

This gets more mental every time I check in! Props to you OP, love it :-) nice job on the hazard stripes too - and I suck at hazard stripes, so very jealous here

Thanks Skinflint!

I would like to finally finish construction and start painting but it can't be done. I still find some details that I've forgotten about and which I need to finish. For example, flakk. I had no concept how to build ammo magazines so I put it aside. And I forgot about it
I have found and finished it now.
I made magazines from toy car wheels and a styrene strip.

Just wow dude, this is going to be incredible!!

Ridiculously beautiful as always! Great looking paint style as well.

I do think that the name on the ship is a little large though, seems to detract from all the other details in that area, it would probably look great on a large display base though if that was something you were planning?

Are you going to give the ship a big mean looking anchor? A big grabby thing for docking or boarding could look awesome if you have any space left on this beast!

Phenomenal attention to detail bro!

Mega stuff as always!

I realy enjoy this thread

What a fantastic build on the quad AAA! I'm printing a copy of that picture off to use as a guide for my own attempt to build something like that!

That quad gun is amazing. You captured a real WWII battleship feel to it. Can’t wait to see how this thing finally ends up.

 Commander Cain wrote:

I do think that the name on the ship is a little large though, seems to detract from all the other details in that area, it would probably look great on a large display base though if that was something you were planning?

You're right. It's too big

 Commander Cain wrote:

Are you going to give the ship a big mean looking anchor? A big grabby thing for docking or boarding could look awesome if you have any space left on this beast!

Aye aye, sir!

Heretic Tom, karimbuseer, stoned_astartes, Meer_Cat, faultie and Frodeck: thanks. But as I wrote, when I started building this: inspiration was the existing model produced by Kromlech. Google can show you how it looks.

Next cannon is ready.
A piece of an old VHS camera as a base, pen, some old bits and polystyrene sheets.

Good stuff as always, I love how your guns all look like they could actually function in real life, adds an extra bit of realism!

Excellent build! 3 inch sub-chaser, yessiree!

Hi!
Construction works are going to the end. I hope that in the next post I will show you the whole ship assembled and primed.
In the meantime, I made railings for the main deck. I waited with this to the end, because I was afraid that they would break when manipulating the model during construction. I also prepare places for the assembly of turrets. One of the photos with railings shows the launcher base. Last one is base for newest cannon. The assumption is that all possible elements can be painted separately and attached after painting.

Continuing awesome build- love the Sea Sparrow missile launcher I can see on the foredeck now!

I always love looking in on this thread; that's some dedication building this monster!

It seems that after half a year I managed to finish the construction. The photos are not the best but model is so big that photographing it is a challenge
In the pictures there is everything except the bridge (it's too heavy to attach it with blue tack).

Really amazing work. This is epic.

Absolutely super cool!

That's pretty fething fantastic.