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It's not often that I get to go to the FLGS to show off my latest work, and even then I don't often bring it all out. So why not put it up on the internet as I go, for all of the masses to stare at and comment upon? Hopefully continually updating this and seeing the opinions of others will motivate me to keep on working, rather than crash and burn out.

My current love in both gaming and modeling and painting is BFG. 'Sound and Fury' is indeed what these flying cathedrals are capable of, and all of them are amazing models with plenty of detail to satisfy and many conversion opportunities to those that look for them.

First up is the first ship I’ve completed, a Repulsive class Grand Cruiser for my Iron Warriors chaos fleet. I'm pretty proud of how it turned out, especially the blasted hazard stripes.




Also, being interested in all the fleets BFG has to offer, I was trying out making Tyranids out of 40k bits, and I think it's going well, though I'm using about as much sculpting putty as I am bits for things like weapons. Completed a few days was my first Cruiser, built mostly as a gunship. C&C welcome, after all, I’m looking to get better!







After that came the Carnifex Hive Ship, she's going to be loaded with Bio-Plasma and some Launch Bays for AC support. Currently it's only the body done, with some Catachan death flowers stuck in the rear sockets to be the Launch Bays, I think they fit in nicely with the rest of the Nid stuff.





Current state of the hobby is before you. A few days after GW's Bizarre Bazaar, and I got myself more than a few extras to add to my fleet. With that In mind, I started to try and go back to what was supposed to be my original fleet, the Tau.


Currently trying a new technique for priming. Since it's getting into winter and I live in a barracks room, spray priming is pretty much out of the question. After reading the article on WeeToySoldiers though, I thought it sounded pretty neat, and went to go grab myself a little jug of the gesso stuff. I'm probably going to be buying myself a bigger jug soon. Thinned out a little and brushed on lightly, the stuff goes on amazingly, not obscuring any detail and putting on that first coat that will hold the tooth for the rest of the paint to follow.

I was using the white liquitex acrylic gesso with a few drops of GW regal blue added, turned out pretty nicely in my opinion, and if I was doing a scheme similar to Horizon's, all that I think I would need is the white paint. As it is, the rest of the cruisers and escorts will get primed up, them a darker spray of airbrushed Vallejo Blue Angel Blue will go on before detail work comes up.



And a final shot, one of my already primed Protectors, getting its second coat of paint. This one will be a Distant Darkness special.

Awesome stuff, man! I especially like your bio-ships.

Thank you! I find Bio-Ships are nice if I want to take a break and convert a bit. It seems one of the secrets of turning 40k Tyranids to BFG bugs is to simply reverse the carapace!

The work day is over now, so I can get to work on getting further along in my project. Other than the BFG blog I have on Port Maw however, I think this will be my only other one, don't quite feel like working too much to show this stuff off. Dakka is the best site anyways.

Oooooooo somebody's got the workings of a nice Tau fleet, wouldn't mind one of those meself

The IW ship is quite nice, though I note that in scale those are the biggest hazards . I really dig the bioships, particularly the hivefex, quite a nice start. And the Tau I look forward to as well.

Also, you're making me miss playing with my BFG fleet I made last summer. What a good game, and so fun to paint up.

- Salvage

Boss_Salvage wrote:Oooooooo somebody's got the workings of a nice Tau fleet, wouldn't mind one of those meself

The IW ship is quite nice, though I note that in scale those are the biggest hazards . I really dig the bioships, particularly the hivefex, quite a nice start. And the Tau I look forward to as well.

Also, you're making me miss playing with my BFG fleet I made last summer. What a good game, and so fun to paint up.

- Salvage

And that's just the FW stuff you're looking at. I have about 5 more Hero class ships awaiting construction with some explorers as well, as well as a bunch that was just primed.

Also, an update...pink, just because I could:



Patriotic, innit it?

Just a tiny update, finished priming the last six(!) cruisers, using a neutral grey after playing around with the colored stuff. Up front is one of the Specialist games tau ships, a little defender going about in a test sceme that the metal ships of my Tau fleet will echo.

Doing some kitbashing at the moment, this is actually me using the extra parts for something apocalyptic. It ain't dakka, but it's gunna be big and loud, can you guess what it is?

Looted deffstrike?

Which reminds me, my chaos lads still need one of those nukes ...

- Salvage

Looks like the makings of a pulsa rocket...

The Dreadnote wrote:Looks like the makings of a pulsa rocket...

And the makings of a Pulsa Rokkit it is! Made some progress with it too.

Initial lengthening with sprue support beams.


Side panels installed here.



Covering up the blank cavity, this is also going to get covered again by orky plating.






Making support beams on the underside to later cover with plating, to keep it from being flat.