[BFG] Pre-heresy marine heavy frigate wip.

[Stormwind]

This is really equisite work and shows how much patience you have.

[Blindhorizon]

Thanks for the kind words, i'm glad you guys like. I have an update




Added weapon supports to the top and bottom of bombardment batteries.




Here are the new aircraft hangar bays i redesigned as the last ones where to clunky and i got a lot of feedback on them not being a fit for the ship. C&C very welcome on this, the item has not detail yet it's the shape I would like C&C on.




Small batteries added to the flat open spaces on the hull to give this beast a few more teeth to bite with.


Extra pic.

C&C welcome people this ship is almost completed.

And what am i working on here? Any guesses?





Thanks,
Blind-

[Islacrusez]

An admech cruiser? Looks like a ship's spine, looks about the right height for imperial, and the gap between the two batteries would make it admech, or just a funky imperial ship?


I absolutely love the spine above the engines. As for recent changes, the small turrets around the bridge have done wonders.

I have a question about the new launch bays - will you have the openings in the front/rear facing bits, in the side, or in all three?


Also, I kinda want one of there, despite not actually having a marine fleet. Hum.

[Blindhorizon]

Good guess, that is the center of a cruiser, i started work on recently. Funky pre heresy cruiser?

I too like the spine myself it will be a major feature of this current fleet of ships i am working on.

The new launch bays will open facing straight out.

I will be casting these up.

Got another quick update, just finished the prototype lance battery.





And this is the artwork i did that i am working off of. The rear of the ship isn't completely but i would like to have a catholic style church as the rear section that is missing.



Thanks for looking, C&C welcome.
Blind-

[Islacrusez]

Make the barrels on that lance battery longer; you know you want to 

[Armiger84]

Eyeballing it, that's going to be a pretty hefty cruiser (assuming those sockets are sized to fit standard imperial batteries), with enough mass to either be a grand cruiser or a battleship or something in a similar mass range.

I like the turret as-is.  Most of the BFG turrets are relatively stubby, but given the scale they're still pretty huge with plenty of barrel length.  It's mostly a matter of aesthetics and whether it looks good on the turret.


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[Blindhorizon]

Those sockets dont fit the standard weapon pieces, the ones i custom made are considerably smaller, that piece is about 3cm in length.

[Blindhorizon]

Update!!!










Lance turret with lance siding for ship. I believe it is done i'm still deciding if i'm going to add a little more.




Just finished off the forward communication array with antenna.

C&C welcome, i'll keep you posted on updates.
Blind-

[Islacrusez]

Daaaamn this is looking fine. Both the frigate with the new weapon panel, and the cruiser. I want to be as good as you =[

[Malika]

Really love what you're doing here! How how putting up a photo of this ship next to the official models? really curious to see how they'll compare.

[Blindhorizon]

Daaaamn this is looking fine. Both the frigate with the new weapon panel, and the cruiser. I want to be as good as you =[

Thanks man, it really just took practice, you should see some of the crap i made before this... and still make it .

Really love what you're doing here! How how putting up a photo of this ship next to the official models? really curious to see how they'll compare.

I don't own any of the official BFG miniatures, but coming off this list.

http://www.star-ranger.com/Scale.htm#BFG

This ship comes in at 62mm between, a frigate and a dauntless light cruiser. This is why i call it a heavy frigate.

Blind-

[Malika]

Well you should show us the crap you made before then!

As for owning BFG models, my bad...I confused you with Horizon (is that also his username here?), he used to convert some pretty gnarly BFG models!

[Blindhorizon]

Well you should show us the crap you made before then!

As for owning BFG models, my bad...I confused you with Horizon (is that also his username here?), he used to convert some pretty gnarly BFG models!

Ha yes we are easily confused in name, his name is Blackhorizon on here.

[Malika]

You see, even more confusion now!

But erm, do you also have pictures of your 'old crap', very curious to see how you've developed as a scratchbuilder!

Are you planning on casting this ship?

[Blindhorizon]

The piece's are sitting in the first mold half as we speak, tomorrow i will mold the other half. This is one of the first items i scratch built. this is an Epic scale ork kilbursta tank. I don't have many other pictures of stuff i've worked on. i moved recently and tossed a bunch of failed scratch builds









I have sculpted some items as well, i'll post a link to my painting thread where you can see conversions and sculpting i've done.

http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?t=21210

Blind-