Battlefleet Gothic 18

These updates are certainly going up repidly at the moment aren't they?

Only a quick post this time though, as promised I got a pic of the entire BFG Nurgle fleet.

I actually got quite a few pictures of the entire fleet, unfortunately they all turned out crap.

This is the best I was able to achieve so it'll have to do. I wouldn't normally bother putting it up but I did promise to get a fleet shot up this weekend...

And the final fleet roster now that all the ships are done:

Overall thoughts is that I rather enjoyed putting the fleet together. The fact 80% of them were second hand eBay buys which I rebuilt and repainted makes it even more satisfying. I can officially say this is the first army/force I have ever finished...now all I need is for Si to build some ships and I may get to play a game with the Nurgle fleet...

There will probably be one more BFG post on RD in the near future as I hope to knock out the transport ships over the Xmas break.

Hell Blades of Nurgle 3

Painting has begun.

Very, very work in progress.

Must admit i'm not liking the stripes as much as I thought I would. Still need to do a lot including the flesh, adding lots of washes, adding rust to the engine and all that is after I paint a lot of other bits and bobs (including the cockpit of course).

Looted Wagons 4

Here is the second of the Looted Wagons I did for the Bell of Lost Souls article (Part One now up here)

Like the first wagon the hull on this one was extensively rebuilt but this time the Boom Gun is in a turret and the secondary weapons are in sponsons.

Third one should be up in a couple of days.

Recalcitrant Daze – Eight Months In And I'm Surprisingly Painting.

It seems doing a blog was the right decision. Now so much of my time isn’t being wasted I have time to do the things I like (convert models) and even things I don’t like (painting models).

Month Eight seems to of been a productive one; it has seen the Looted Wagons finished for the Bell of Lost Souls articles and the article itself written (it is in the queue to go on the site). My Hell Blades which has sat for some time waiting to be finished are now done and undercoated ready for painting to begin this coming weekend and the last of the BFG Nurgle fleet have been painted. While the Killa Kan mob are not finished yet I still think the month was overall a productive one.

Over the next couple of days I will post up pictures of the two remaining Looted Wagons, get the entire Nurgle fleet out for some pictures and followed by a PIP update on the Hell Blades.

Obviously I can’t just work on one project so as well as painting the Blades I’ll see if I can finish off the Kans.

This month we of course have Christmas. Due to having holiday left over I’ll have two weeks off from work and I have tentative plans at the moment to finish off a ‘big’ project – either the Weirdboy Battle Tower or the War Altar of Nurgle. I am undecided at the moment which one...

The Tower...

...or the Altar?

Looted Wagons 3

Two posts in one night? Surely not...

As mentioned on RD I recently finished three Looted Wagons for an article for Bell of Lost Souls. The article is now done and has been submitted, the article (in three parts) will appear on the site in some time in the future but as I am looking to sell on the wagons ASAP I thought I would put some pictures of the finished Wagons now.

Rather than putting all three in one post I am going to do a post for each one.

First up Wagon No. 1.

Engine detail.

Removeable weapons & other details not glued in place for ease of painting.

As you can see I went for a 'Destroyer Tank Hunter' vibe for this one - much like an earlier Looted Wagon I did for myself.

Unlike my own Ork vehicles I built this (and the other two) with a style which will let it fit in with GW Ork vehicles. I used GW Ork weapons and glyphs as well as keeping the distressing of the panels to the minimum.

In the next two weeks the three wagons will go on eBay, unless someone makes an offer in the meantime for any of them. Looted Wagon No. 2 should be up tomorrow.

Battlefleet Gothic 17

Well the Renegade Marine ships are done now, I think. I may go back and do more but I doubt it...they are in no way a piece of artwork but they are good enough.

Big guys:

And the two squadrons of little guys:

And the Renegade Marine fleet lined up:

At the weekend I will get the entire fleet out for some group shots, could do with finding something black to put them on really.

These aren't the last ships I have to do though, next up will be the transport ships I picked up as a job lot off ebay a while back:

They will have a pretty basic scheme though, nothing Nurgley, just plain old Imperial transports.

Battlefleet Gothic 16

Well I am back from a weekend away and to the amazement of all I have spent my first evening back with brush in hand.

Before I left for the weekend I finished the building work on the BFG Renegade Marine ships.

I decided I just didn't like the one type of Escort ships, they just seemed to bulked up for an escort. So to reduce their mass a bit I snipped off the bits on the side...

Example of one of them before I started cutting:

I decided to try and get all the Marine ships painted at the same time, so here is the current state:

Still fair amount to do on them, basically just the base colours and the first Devlan Mud wash have been done.

Fingers crossed I might get them finished tomorrow...