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!

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