BFG - Dauntless Light Cruisers

A bit more progress in my slow and steady battlefleet gothic project with the completion of these two Dauntless class light cruisers.

I have to say I'm quite enjoying my little space adventure and am looking forward to completing my sword and firestorm frigates now. I've taken a few comparison pics so you can see how small my most recent ships are against a cruiser and capital ship!


I think I'll have to go back and added some more detail to my battlecruisers as they're looking a little stale compared to my more recent ships. Now I just need to talk someone into having a game!

Cobra Destroyers for BFG

My hobby output over the last 6 months has been pretty shabby to be honest. My entry to the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge wasn’t very inspiring although I did manage to post two submissions. My first was pretty good in that it consisted of a wide variety of bits and bobs that I’d been working on and I posted that on this blog a while ago. However the below was my 2^nd (and last) submission for this years challenge - a few GW Battlefleet Gothic ships.

My exploration of BFG started about 10 years ago when I lived in the UK and attended a weekly club (the Pennine Raiders!!!), where we ran a mini campaign. BFG had always been on my to do list so I dived in feet first and bought a full Imperial Navy fleet. However it’s taken me the last 10 years to actually paint them and I’m rather ashamed to admit that most of them have never been on active deployment defending the Imperium from marauding Orks, terrible Tyranids or mind blowingly moronic GW management (who decide to abolish specialist games and then try and resurrect it in the vain hope that they can con a load of new gamers out of their hard earned whilst stopping the older die hards from promoting and improving the game in a not for profit manner to a the aforementioned load of new gamers!).

Anyway….

 These boys are to support my existing Imperial Navy squadron and will provide essential flank protection against those pesky Chaos raiders, which some of you may remember we're one of my submissions from last year's analogue hobbies challenge. 

I've included a picture of one of my previously completed battlecruisers for reference. Weirdly I don't even play BFG anymore but I do enjoy the minis and fluff that goes with it. Hopefully GW doesn't destroy it in their never-ending quest for profit over content!

Next up will be my Firestorm Frigates and Dauntless Light Cruisers

Finally I’ve managed to organise my paint table!

Like many of you I have kids, unruly curious energetic kids who are the love of my life, apple of my eye and also a very focused tornado of destruction in our home. So to ensure that our home stays relatively tidy and peaceful I paint at an old writing desk that my wife acquired for me many moons ago. This allows me to hide my painting activity in a veneer of oldie worldie furniturieness!

However this does mean that my storage of paints required to complete my miniature masterpieces is limited by the fabric of space time contained within this carbon based wonder.

And so I bought a paint rack!

……Vallejo

……MDF

…….Pretty nifty don’t ya think?