Battlefleet Gothic: Nurgle fleet #1 - Posessed battleship 'Coprus Est'

The centrepiece of my fleet, and a formidable weapon. This model was converted by Oli Wigham and painted by me.

Underside, Port

Underside, starboard

Battlefleet Gothic: Tau fleet #1 - Citadel Explorer Class battleship (and escorts)

One of the centrepieces of my Tau fleet for Battlefleet Gothic (yes, yet another project, fortunately over half complete)

Overhead oblique with escorts

There are three magnetised hardpoints on the upper hull, three Orca (or similar) escorts can be attached here, then moved to their own magnetised flying bases for combat.

Side view with escorts

the three Orca escorts can go their own way

Side

Rear oblique

Overhead

Overhead

Front view

underside

There it is

Firestorm Armada: Tarakian flotilla addendum and Syndicate Battleship

Some new additions from Salute for this 'was finished' project - Spartan have released frigates for the Tarakians, so I'll be sorting these out at some point.

The Tarl class frigates sit next to a painted cruiser from my flotilla

Also purchased, something I've been after for some time - A Syndicate Phantom class Battleship.

No doubt they will get painted sometime this century. :/

Dystopian Wars: Kingdom of Britannia vs Republique of France 1000pts

Concentrate all firepower
on that dreadnought!

Our plucky contestants; the largely undefeated Charles - once again fielding his largely undefeated KoB fleet. The relative newbie Dunc, in his very third game, but fielding for the first time his freshly-painted RoF force.

Look, Mum!
Skimming cruisers!

1000points each means both field dreadnoughts, but no air power other than the obligatory 10 tiny tiny flyers. Both KoB are CAPs, whereas RoF field a Torpedo bomber flight and a CAP.

The objective is to destroy core fleet. And they're off! Minimal terrain covers the Britannian right flank, but the French have a plan to skim over it. This plan is quickly abandoned when the heavy Brit left flank open fire.

Magenta mkI rear view

Here come the Ecuyers

Dunc is eager to try his heat lances and manoeuvres his heavy hitters toward Charlie's dreadnought and battleship.

A fierce exchange of fire over the first three turns bag a cruiser and three frigates for Britannia, but a more impressive four destroyers, a cruiser and a frigate fall under the French onslaught. There's serious damage to the Magenta mkII and the Ecuyers though.

Inexorably, they draw closer

Turn four and things start to get nasty. Two KoB cruisers attempt to board a RoF cruiser, and with a swift exchange of cards are repelled! Meanwhile a line of KoB frigates unleash 20 dice on the Magenta mkI.
The French are feeling the pressure as the Majesty class unleashes 25 dice on the beleaguered Magenta mkII, which miraculously survives on 1HP. This proves extremely fortunate on the next turn when it delivers a critical with its redoubtable heat lance! An unfortunate boarding attempt is easily massacred by the dreadnought's CAP, however.

Massed French

Damage abounds, but the
RoF fleet is holding up.

Dangerous boats

Magenta mkI
takes heavy damage

Th KoB frigates completing
their pincer movement

A final round or two of firing saw two French cruisers down and a KoB frigate but the hour was late. A largely disabled KoB dread (7 damage and two half AD counters) faced a ready-to sink pocket battleship and a RoF dread with one hit, so there was still life in the battle, but a marginal KoB victory was declared as he was much closer to the objective.

All parties had jolly good fun, hands were shaken and North duly faced.

I think there will be more painting of DW models in the near future.

Firestorm Armada: Tarakian flotilla

The Tarakian ships are finally finished. I'll let the pictures do the talking.

I painted the engines using Fluorescent blue paint, highlighted with white, then turquoise ink

Close up of the Battleship bridge

Front bridge and weapon array detail

Here it comes

I should perhaps touch up the bronze colour here. It does sort of give a lighting effect though.

Another front view. The prongs were drybrushed with pearlescent green.

Battleship approaching.

Top detail.

Ganak class battleship

Engines. I used white POSCA marker, dotted to simulate aenergy

And there it is, your classic side view.

Here's the underside

Here's one of the Sulan cruisers. The white lines were POSCA again. The fluo orange design at the front was white POSCA on brown, overpainted with the semi-translucent fluorescent orange.

More detail of the same ship

And a view from the other side

The main weapon array. After drybrushing pearlescent green, I used a metallic green POSCA to touch things up, then a Staedtler pigment liner to detail.

I deliberately made the cruisers look as though they'd been fighting/travelling for some time.

There are subtle differences on each cruiser - panels, patterns

From the other side, facing away

And another of that ship

Classic pose.

Here's the third example

Some lovely detail on these ships.

Markings clearly visible on the forward fins

Outgoing!

Incoming!

I used the Staedtler pigment marker to add markings. Simple boxes and dots.

I added markings to the front of the orange side stripe and behind the bridge on the battleship

The flotilla approaches

Overhead view

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That was my first foray into Firestorm Armada, but I have some RSN ships to work on, and a small Marauder force. They will probably be coming after I've done some work on my Covenant of Antarctica forces for Dystopian Wars, though.