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Engage the enemy more closely!; or "full speed ahead and Damn the torpedoes!"
Topic Started: 29 Jan 2010, 07:19 PM (2,219 Views)
Mortare	17 Mar 2010, 12:06 AM Post #41
Lieutenant Posts: 2,525 Group: Comrade Member #178 Joined: October 13, 2007	Just looked through your work so far. A man after my own heart, I am a big gothic fan and of big fleets. I have big marine and chaos fleets along the same idea as your own- they look good together and can pick small parts for gaming. The latest pic of your fleet looks really nice and they look very coherent. As a suggestion perhaps do a few ships with either slight differences in scheme (different squadrons/worlds of construction/repairs etc) or a small number as a separate fleet, such as a detachment from another fleet (maybe even just a cruiser and a squadron of escorts). These help keep your interst and add to the flavour of the fleet. Supposed to be running a BFG intro game at my club tomorrow so there may be some keen bandwagon jumping this weekend!



crassius47	17 Mar 2010, 12:40 AM Post #42
Captain Posts: 3,963 Group: Comrade Member #189 Joined: October 16, 2007	love the look of all the fleet together, really nice, crisp painting and i think that is the biggest collection of BFG stuff i've ever seen, good work sir



# Marovian	17 Mar 2010, 04:37 PM Post #43
High Lord Admiral of the Imperial Fleet Posts: 10,763 Group: Super Admin Member #72 Joined: September 24, 2007	I will not give in, I have too many projects on the go as it is. And cookies won't tempt me. Not even if they are double choc chip. runs off to download the BFG rules



Mortare	18 Mar 2010, 10:34 PM Post #44
Lieutenant Posts: 2,525 Group: Comrade Member #178 Joined: October 13, 2007	Thanks to the inspiration from your log I played a brief intro game with a new guy at the club last night (the only guy to show up too!) so maybe some more gaming on the horizon for me- thanks!



☺Dave38x	18 Mar 2010, 11:09 PM Post #45
DubDubDubDubDub Posts: 13,949 Group: Honour Guard Member #252 Joined: November 28, 2007	fantastic fleet mate, why are you using a retribution class battleship? they are rather lame compared to the emperor and the apocalypse Excellent scratchbuilt part mate, ive found that BFG imperial models are incredibly easy to scratchbuild parts for, because the masters were such dodgy models to start with, giving a lot of leeway for slight innaccuracies.



Apex Predator	2 Apr 2010, 12:04 PM Post #46
Warrant Officer First Class Posts: 567 Group: Comrade Member #1,082 Joined: May 4, 2009	Thanks for your comments everyone, all the praise has really helped when the monotony almost became too much Well I'm back from Finland and this is what greeted me when we went out for the Husky ride I think in the whole time there I saw 150 people in total! Fantastic country although their traditional drink tastes like licking my own foot.... And now for an update! I present to you the flagship of Battlefleet Novus the Victrix. (I cant remember what translator I used but is said that this was the Latin translation for Victory. I have just checked again and apparently it translates as victress. I cant call it the Victoria or Laurus though so we stick with Victrix) As for choosing this type of ship when there are better available, I love the look of the ship with all the gun batteries and I got it as part of the bulk deal when I acquired all the rest. In addition I guess that like the Royal Navy at the outbreak of WW2 I just cant shake my faith in the big guns of the fleet. I'm sure game wise I will suffer but then I'm also sure that I will be getting great satisfaction from yelling "port batteries, fire!" and then "load the torpedoes...." I'm quite happy with how the engine block turned out and the glow of the plasma drives And a small family shot Now for the moment I am drawing a halt to my BFG project. It was my intention to do a quick project and assemble and paint my residual ships and then concentrate on my Orks for 40k. Well we are now in April and I could quite happily carry on doing BFG for the next 6 months, so for now I will put it to rest (although I will tinker from time to time) and go green for the rest of 2010



☺Dave38x	2 Apr 2010, 02:01 PM Post #47
DubDubDubDubDub Posts: 13,949 Group: Honour Guard Member #252 Joined: November 28, 2007	looking good, you missed 10 engines though... lots more plasma glow to do yet



Rictus	2 Apr 2010, 03:44 PM Post #48
Sociopathic Tendencies Posts: 5,010 Group: Comrade Member #16 Joined: September 19, 2007	The ships look great and the full fleet must be an awesome sight. Any chance we can have some pics of them with a clean background so they are shown off better?



Apex Predator	2 Apr 2010, 04:40 PM Post #49
Warrant Officer First Class Posts: 567 Group: Comrade Member #1,082 Joined: May 4, 2009	I plan on doing some more professional shots when I have taken the time to name and number them and I will be doing something like a review of the fleet when I get the chance with all of the ships grouped into squadrons. At the moment though I do not have the facilities to take better uncluttered photos, there seem to be a lot of people having a peek at this log though so I will do what I can as soon as possible.



Apex Predator	6 Sep 2010, 08:52 PM Post #50
Warrant Officer First Class Posts: 567 Group: Comrade Member #1,082 Joined: May 4, 2009	Having seen DaCone start a BFG fleet I thought it was about time to waste an evening and name all ships in Fleet Alpha. So I present to you; Review of the fleet; Part the first. Force A; Luna Io Deimos Phobos Europa (should have been included in group photo) Force B Imperator Mucro (Emperors Sword) Imperator Vires (Emperors might) Force C Aries Libra Capricorn Saggitarius Force D Bellum Levitas Force E Buteo Circus Falcon Pandion Viper Aquila Squadron Elanus Squadron Copperhead Squadron Force Vulkan Toledo Panthera And finally the flagship Victrix So that is Fleet Alpha, I still have most of my old fleet to revamp and recommission (Fleet Bravo)which will be done at some point. C&C welcome



Ciaphas Cain	6 Sep 2010, 10:21 PM Post #51
Warrant Officer Second Class Posts: 367 Group: Comrade Member #375 Joined: March 6, 2008	Magnificent! Cheers CC PS: Have you considered printed labels for the ships names?



gropius	7 Sep 2010, 09:56 AM Post #52
Warrant Officer Second Class Posts: 217 Group: Comrade Member #1,216 Joined: June 24, 2009	That is quite the fleet. Very impressive. Paint scheme looks abit like a Blanche painting, which is a plus, too.



DaCone2	8 Sep 2010, 07:58 PM Post #53
Second Lieutenant Posts: 1,406 Group: Comrade Member #60 Joined: September 23, 2007	They look very nice indeed! How many pts are there?



☺Grizz	9 Sep 2010, 07:03 AM Post #54
Gribbly Monster Posts: 2,462 Group: Honour Guard Member #146 Joined: October 8, 2007	That plasma effect on the Retribution's engine is really quite something. Think I'll have to set aside some time to see about getting a similar effect on my own one at somepoint soon! Can't wait to see more!



Apex Predator	11 Sep 2010, 11:47 PM Post #55
Warrant Officer First Class Posts: 567 Group: Comrade Member #1,082 Joined: May 4, 2009	DaCone; There are well over 2500 pts in the recently painted fleet and about the same in the fleet I'm currently repainting. Grizz; At the moment I'm in the process of updating my old fleet so photos soon!



☺Dave38x	12 Sep 2010, 12:49 AM Post #56
DubDubDubDubDub Posts: 13,949 Group: Honour Guard Member #252 Joined: November 28, 2007	Beautiful work mate, Just a suggestion that looks very cool and makes the game quicker to play - paint the arc markers on the base, just little dots around the rim denoting the arcs. Makes lining up shots far easier, provided you get the arcs laid out accurately of course, if you twist them a little bit you can cheat quite badly lol



gun drone 3.0	12 Sep 2010, 05:10 AM Post #57
Lieutenant Posts: 2,289 Group: Comrade Member #1,241 Joined: July 16, 2009	Only Dave would know this



Apex Predator	26 Sep 2010, 03:55 PM Post #58
Warrant Officer First Class Posts: 567 Group: Comrade Member #1,082 Joined: May 4, 2009	Unfortunately I do not have a gaming circle at the moment so my fleets are just for display. However if I do get the chance I will game with these on a moment notice So, updates! These are the repaints of my original fleet which can be found earlier in the log but I will include a couple of comparison pics as well. Escorts Before After Before After Cruisers Before After And finally fleet shots! Crikey I have a lot of ships........ Now in the best case scenario I would progress this log further by assembling and painting the battle barges, Ork fleet and Chaos fleet I have. Unfortunately real life rubbish is going to take over for the foreseeable future so god only knows when i will get round to them. I may even have to sell them But for now I have finished my Imperial Fleet! only taken me 10 years lol



☺Sheep	26 Sep 2010, 09:47 PM Post #59
Captain Posts: 4,001 Group: Honour Guard Member #24 Joined: September 20, 2007	You really need a black carpet, then you could play BFG apocalypse The fleet looks great all together like that, and the SM barges really stand out from the rest of the fleet.



# Marovian	27 Sep 2010, 05:40 AM Post #60
High Lord Admiral of the Imperial Fleet Posts: 10,763 Group: Super Admin Member #72 Joined: September 24, 2007	That is one mighty impressive fleet, and a nice coherent colour scheme as well.



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