[BFG] Pre-heresy marine heavy frigate wip.

[Cneo]

It's really nice!

[Gun_wun]

Nice work on those ships.  Even better is to build, and cast them.  I want to learn to cast you inspire me that it can be done.  Now what I really want is that killbursta tank.  That is beyond beautiful, I want it!!!!!!

[Blindhorizon]

Pictures!!!!
The base's have not arrived from hoard o bits yet so just stemmed. Some green stuff modifications to one of my favorite legions.



















Camera makes it look like crap but oh well.

Thanks for lookin,
Blind-

[horizon]

Hey,
looks good.

Some tips:
Highlight the edges some more. Make the ship more 'pop'.
Make the lightning more striking. the white is good, but could be thinner. Use some thinned icy blue colour along the edges.

But otherwise good colour selection and nicely executed on your own great vessels!

[Malika]

AVE DOMINUS NOX!

Looking good man! I'm not 100% sure on those red turrets and such, kind of reminds me of the 2nd edition era of 40k in which GW seemed to love to paint the weapons red. 

[horizon]

Hey,
due me winning GC13 I got some of these vessels kindly offered by blindhorizon. Here are some comparison shots with the forgeworld strike cruiser and the games workshop strike cruiser.







Blind Horizon's vessel is clearly to big to be a mere frigate! We are talking a vessel that is from tip to end 1mm longer then the FW version. Where the FW one has most mass at the back, blind's vessel is more balanced between prow and back.
I think they are identical.

So he build a ship that in my opinion should get stats that are equivalent to a strike cruiser. But that is something for general discussion.

Bit on the casting quality: it is his first ship and I must say I am impressed. The pieces fit with ease and flash wise it is not worse or better then what I got from Forgeworld. The most brittle piece appears to be the top engine, but that was also the case with the Emissaries from FW.

[Blindhorizon]

Wow, Horizon first off i must say thank you so much for the critique and pictures. It should be known that i just recently became the owner of some BFG ships, i purchased 2 imperial cruisers from games workshop so i had an idea of the scale of what i needed to work with to do a cruiser. I said frigate because i was going off of the size between the dauntless light and the frigates from a regular imperial navy fleet. I really had no idea i was within 1mm (which is impressive) of a strike cruiser.

I'm glad the quality of the cast is upto the standards of FW, that is a big bonus for what i have learned from the resin addict forums. http://www.resinaddict.com/forum/index.php plug for a fantastic community. The top engine was cast wrong, that was a product of my inexperience casting as this is my first cast. I actually created a new body mold and fixed all of the engine issues. I will be using the new hulls for my production mold, all detail will be preserved in the new mold. I will also be reworking the nose of the ship to add more detail and fix some lines issues. At one point i was ready to start casting it to see how it would turn out, and now i want to make changes for the better.

Again thanks for your critique.
Blind-

[Cneo]

I`m another happy owner of the new frigate.

I agree with Horizon. The quality of the cast is awesome and I've nothing more to say but congratulate Blindhorizon.

[connahr]

mmmm, i was planning on doing a space marine flett at some point

where can i get these frigates and how much?

[horizon]

Contact the one who build it, aka blindhorizon, the thread starter.

[horizon]

So, I finally painted blindhorizon's vessels:

[marell le fou]

Ununsual painting job. I like it.

Maybe one thing. You used the same colour for lights on the front and reactors on back.

[horizon]

Thanks!

[Geep]

I agree with Marell- unusual colours, though well done. I imagine they stand out excellently against a black space background.

[Blindhorizon]

Cool! I hadn't noticed you got them done, looks good!