AuthorTurbidious for - Doublebasefanatic, Italianmoose , Horizonmcr Hello all admirals,
With the advent of 3d printing Battlefleet Gothic has had a new influx of players. To help get players into the game easier Doublebasefanatic, Italianmoose , Horizonmcr have created a new starter pack. This is a great little one stop shop created by the guys to provide an easy access into BFG. Its a great effort by them. Click read more for the pack and description.
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AuthorTurbidious
Hi folks,
Over the past few years I have had the chance to be part of and develop a really great community on Instagram and Facebook. It has been great getting to know various awesome people in the community and I have been fortunate to work with some awesome hobbyists. As part of that and not exclusively restricted to battlefleet gothic content I started a live interview series called the Tabletop tour. I started it as part of an informal series of chats with various hobbyists around the world and it is has now grown to be in its fourth series, a fifth is confirmed and me having chatted to people across five continents and over 20 countries. The community has grown a bit and this has been due in a large part to the accessibility of 3D printing nowadays.
It has really helped the Battlefleet Gothic scene but one of the main questions that has arisen in the community has been about the general size of the ships. So as a collector who has all but a few of the ships made and painted I took it upon myself to get some measurements for all the ships. I am fortunate to own a pretty sizable Battlefleet Gothic collection. Consequently, I am regularly asked on my Instagram account where I obtain my ships now that Battlefleet Gothic is out of production. Quite a number of my fleets were purchased before the game went out of production but others (like my Dark Eldar Fleet) were purchased from places I highlight below.
I recently recorded a short video for my Instagram followers too, which can be viewed on my account (@turbidious), discussing this topic but I thought putting pen to paper would also help. We have had a number of new officers joining the facebook page ranks and I suspect there will be more due to the new Brace for Impact Podcast being released. That is sure to pick the interest of numerous potential future admirals. So below are the places I keep an eye out for ships, welcome to my drydocks: Every so often on the Facebook pages and also on my Instagram I will see a question around how to build chaos cruisers to meet the correct class.
While the Imperial ships have several obvious configurations the Chaos ones are not so easy to work out from just the drawing in the rule books. I have never overly worried about the physical model for my chaos ships being 100% accurate (especially with the murder, slaughter and carnage classes) but there are those that like to be accurate. So below are the assembly guidelines for each of the standard Chaos cruisers from the original books. I hope it helps: I always thought that the Kroot would also have smaller ships than just the one huge warsphere that the original game produced (same with the demiurg too, but that for another article).
Then my thoughts were confirmed with the Blackstone Fortress box game release. Within that box set there are ship cards and there is a Kroot vessel in that you can use. However, I felt it looked a little too clean, to refined to be an actual Kroot ship. On Instagram I received a message which also suggested that this particular Kroot has modifications, so it would stand to reason they would have a different ship or a modified one (thanks @ironbeak_mercenaries). So I set about making my own version. As battlefleet gothic is an out of production game (at the moment) I have quite often purchased second hand ships from various sources.
Due to this, quite often the ships are already painted. Sometimes they are painted well and I feel bad to remove the paint, but then sometimes the ships are lathered in paint and need a bath. So how to remove the paint? |
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