BFG Transports

You know when you've completed a plastic model and the pesky manufacturer provides you with oodles of extra's that you don't use, well I decided to use some. Yes this is another take on my building something from nothing insanity.

As I was recently painting up my BFG ships I thought it might be fun to have some transports as objectives, a quick trawl through the t'interweb for inspiration resulted in me gleefully diving into my bits box looking for old bits of sprue to kit bash together.

So what we have here are parts from GW's Tau, Space Marines and Imperial Guard Range cobbled together to create what I think are perfectly acceptable transports for BFG. I did manage to squeeze a few left over weapons batteries and comms towers in there too to keep the scale right and overall I'm quite happy with how they've turned out.

Here's a shot with my recently completed Frigates to show scale, I'll add them to the group shot once I get round to taking one.

Oooh, Spaceships

So I’ve just managed to get finished the final batch of ships for my Battlefleet Gothic Imperial Fleet. These little babies are the Sword and Firestorm frigates, nice little models with plenty of character.

The Sword is armed with a weapons battery (think naval broadside) whilst the firestorm has a forward firing lance, easily enough to handle those pesky chaos raiders.

 
As I said this finishes off my BFG fleet however I do need to go back and do some more detailing on the bigger models, that’s the curse I guess of painting stuff over a ten year period. You end up getting better and need to redo stuff!

So once I’ve touched up the older stuff I’ll do a group shot, then it’ll be time to get out the space sheet and play a few games of space warfare!

More recycling - but not hobby related

Its amazing what you can pull together from junk you find lying about. This workbench took me about 3 hours to build and cost me $5 in total. All the materials were either left in the garage by the previous owners when we bought the house or sourced from the junk pile at my kids school. The only thing I had to buy were the nails. I guess this is vaguely hobby related as I can now crack on with boarding the garage and turning half of it into a gaming room. My garage is currently a disaster area with things strewn everywhere, however this workbench is the start of a general tidy up that should result in a rumpus/gaming room! I already have a pool table, just need a dart board and games console!

And yes it is very tall however I am 6ft 2" so ti means I can work on things without getting a bad back