Battlefleet Gothic - Imperial Fleet Project

And for something completely different, not an Epic topic again.

I seem to have a thing for dead game systems;   Epic, Halo: Ground Command, Battlefleet Gothic...

Battlefleet Gothic is something I've been wanting to get into for a while (about as long as Epic, maybe more) but never got around to;
- other hobby priorities
- another dead system with no one to play
- rumours of 'new battlefleet gothic' pending from specialist games 

As part of my Black Templars project i put together a model for a Strike Cruiser which was published on Thingiverse. A fellow model artist on thingi then published a series of excellent modular models for several other BFG ships (mainly Imperial but a few others as well... and i'm hoping pensively for Chaos ships in the not-too-distant)... which prompted me to start printing out ships.

Printing commenced on what i'll call a 'Marines'-centric collection (for a fluffy project), which then expanded/developed into a more general Imperial collection. Anyway, i now have the basis for an playable Imperial fleet. yhay! 

These show the full fleet, excluding the strike cruiser (as i only have one large base). All the ships are 3D printed and I've used x-wing bases (for the time being) as they clip together nicely. If I switch to round stands (probably will for rules) I'll probably still use the x-wing sticks.

Although the files for the ships contained a dozen or less parts I found that for the smaller ships it was easier to print the 'full ship' (also provided in the files). As usual the printer loses detail, but after printing out a couple of test pieces i decided I could live with it.

Some Frigates; 3 Sword Frigates and 1 Firestorm Frigate. I have always dug the look of the Sword Frigates. The Firestorm Frigate was more a "let's try something different" than a strategic list inclusion.

Next some Cobra Class Destroyers. I like the shape of these little ships too, they look zippy.

These ones are my stl models. Two Gladius Class Frigates. Generally a 'Marines' list include if my sources are correct. 

Two Mars Class Battle Cruisers. The Cruisers and Battle Cruisers are much the same both having two weapons bays per side. From what i can work out the Battle Cruisers just get extra top-deck (dorsal) guns as well (in terms of model anyway). 

Three Lunar Class Cruisers. I may have the wrong 'prow spike' on for Lunars... though this could be written off as a fleet segmentum quirk.

The fleet's flagship, a Retribution Class Battleship. three weapons bays per side, guns on top and on the wings. It's a pretty chunky model (compared to the others anyway); in metal it would a brick of a thing.

The Retribution next to a Cobra as a size comparison. The Cobra is about as long as the Retribution's wing guns. 

Just finished off the last of the painting today. I guess it's been about 4 months since i started the project with just dribs and drabs of work here and there.

And this means I now need a larger box. 

And, of course digging up players will be difficult, though I know that one of my Epic compatriots also BFG's on occasion. Rumour also has it that they sometimes have BFG session in Newcastle - will keep an ear open for that.


[Later] It occurred to me that i've printed but totally forgotten about the 'boarding craft' that launch from the Mars ships.

Until next time...