Ridcully's random blog of Sci fi.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Having started one for fantasy, I decided I might as do one for my Science fiction stuff. This will involve stuff from Battlefleet Gothic, Infinity and Call to arms:Star fleet.
Now for my Battlefleet Gothic vessels:
The Retribution Battleship "Ascension"
The Apocalypse Class Battleship "Britannic" I don't know why, but for some reason the Apocalypse hull reminds me of the Olympic class ocean liners. I really liked assembling this ship, and unlike all the others bar the plastic cruisers, it actually sits perfectly on it's stand!
The Exorcist class Grand Cruiser "Ark Imperial" I have had it for over a year, it's taken this long to get to this stage. It was originally going to be Vengeance class, but after I lost on of the upper plates I decided it would be an Exorcist and that this would go better with the Britanic. So Fluff wise she was a Vengeance class for her first two centuries of service, until she was crippled by the chaos Battleship "Iron Eternal" of the Iron Warriors legion at the battle of Chaxis. After this she was refitted with launch bays and after a century of nothing but convoy protection, restored he honor at the battle of Marxister IV, under the command of Captain Alexandrus Wooster (Ancestor of Solar Admiral Bertrand Wooster) where she led the repulsion of a chaos attack led by the "Iron Eternal" which she crippled before her old foe was able to escape. Since then she has been kept in the active fleet, valued by the Woosters and perceived as a sort of good luck charm and it is tradition that every Wooster should serve upon her before any other commision.
A fire storm squadron.
and my Domaru Butai for Infinity.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Here's an update on the "Britannic" and "Ark Imperial"

Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

[RunepriestRidcully]

The day after my exam last week the Star trek call to arms federation fleet finally arrived, and so here is it so far:





Not sure what to do on them now as I'm not feeling that confident about painting names and numbers on them, any thoughts on anything else?

[GomezAddams]

I'm sure theres a company that does transfers for them or for ships in a similar scale if I remember correctly. Worse case scenario you could either print your own or just have them written on the base.

[RunepriestRidcully]

I know mongoose do the transfers, but they only have a class names on them, unless they are different to the picture. I tried a black wash on one of the frigates, but it did not work, yet I am not sure wherever I need to do more for on them in that respect.

[Ben]

On mine I black lined the panel gaps I'd accidentally gone over, but I highlighted my ships all the way up to white.

The transfers aren't just the class names, and do cover everything in the fleet box (there are eight frigate names, all 12 of the Constitution class cruisers, etc). It doesn't cover the NCL, NCA or NCF, but covers every other ship class with at least two nmes (one of the names is always the class name, so for the Prometheus class there is the Prometheus and Deadalus).

I better start my own Star Trek plog.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Well I have been busyish with my ships, and so here they are so far:
My texas class cruisers, the Ajax, witch is awaiting highlights, inking and naming whilst the Adament is needs a fair bit done to it.
My first Bismark class Battlecruiser, the Tenken, flagship of the 7th fleet in all but name and awaiting inking and name writing. (If anyone knows a generator for federation ship registration number, could I have a link? Don't want to run the risk of giving it a number and then finding out it belongs to another ship).
My Wolverine fast cruiser, the Lightning, same status as the Tenken painting wise, it's captain Emanuel Smith is the oldest serving captain in starfleet, and is at the moment focussed on hunting down the traitor Ex Captain Gellard Hatterson of 7h fleet, one of many captains to have served under the old warhorse.
The Tenken and Wolverine together.
The Burke class frigates Typhoon and Tempest
The Typhoon and Tempest again.
One of the Ramius frigates I got, the only one I have assembled so far. Whilst I like this class, I am thinking of converting the other one to be the Harbringer, the infamous heavily modified ship of the traitor Hatterson.
Am going to start work on the Dreadnought before doing any more painting, and may right up some more fluff for the them, some of which may be captains logs.

[Hushrong]

Great stuff. The more I see those Star Trek ship the more I want to get some Federation ones to make a Terran Empire fleet.

Keep it up bud!

[RunepriestRidcully]

Hers is some fluff for my federation fleet, the 7th fleet (not sure how big star fleet is, but it must presumably be large just to protect trade between federation worlds.)
Based towards the galactic south, the 7th fleet is seen as a warlike and savage element is starfleet.
This is for several reasons, and not entirely unjustified. Stationed across the southern border of the federation, the 7th's duties are more focused on protection, though exploratory missions into the south eastern void are launched. This area has, throughout it's inhabitation, seen serious trouble with piracy and contact with alien races that diplomacy just failed with, the most recent and horrific being the fleets of chitinous star insects, termed "Kracken".
There has also been skirmishes with almost every power in this region, especially around the resource rich Vulcan cluster, 5 systems that contain numerous planets, moons and asteroid fields rich in the material used and needed by virtually all the powers. The recent discovery of Dilethieum on Hesputeus IV has seen mining companies send expeditions to establish mines, though already piracy upon the first shipments has resulted in the stationing of a squadron of fast cruisers in orbit.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Pics of my latest stuff, including a romulan Squadron box:


The dreadnought shall be the U.S.S TITANIC NCC 1912, not sure on the name for the constitution, but it's back story is that it has had an unlucky past, involving deaths in construction and the destruction of the bridge in her first engagement among others, am thinking Agamemnon or Dutchman.



I have not inked her yet, but what do you think? do the lines on the nacelles look okay?



Does the ink look okay? I am not sure at the moment.
Also does anyone know of any naming conventions for Romulan ship names?

[RunepriestRidcully]

So more of the ships are painted, most just need names and numbers added and then they will be done Also got the Romulans done as well.


The Lunar (Frigate) and Tenken (Battlecruiser)


The Dante (Strike Cruiser)

The Walsingham (Battle Frigate)

The Ajax (Light Cruiser)


The Lightning (Fast Cruiser)

The Australia (Battlecruiser, uncompleted)

The Castamere (Heavy cruiser, uncompleted) Named so due the amout of time and skin it took in building it, and the amount of times it fell apart for no reason.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Finished the ships of the Federation reinforcements box plus a Ramius frigate.









The dreadnought is the "Zanka No Tachi", the Battlecruiser the "Sakura", the New heavy cruiser the "Baretheon", the new light cruiser the "King's landing" and the war destroyer is the "Hierakonpolis".

[precinctomega]

Lovely work. I'm no Star Trek expert but they make me want to grab my phaser and shout "All hands to battle stations!"

R.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Thanks, I've still a got a fair bit to paint from my original fleet box so they may get done at the weekend.

[neko]

If you want to have a closer look at Mongoose's transfer sheet offering, I haven't started cutting mine up yet, and I suspect we'll be running into each other sooner of later if we both play 40K and ACTA in Reading

Are you going to the ACTA tourny Eclectic Games are holding?

[RunepriestRidcully]

Yep I am, will be posting pics of my Constitutions and redone Texas class ships soon, can't seem to make my mind up on the list for it :P It does seem there will be a fair few federation players there :P That would be good, must admit I'm not keen on transfers after GW's and trying to get them on my Thousand sons.
Will post pics of my Slaaneshi vessels and my imperial cobras tomorrow.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Got back from warfare, this is my haul:

I was happy with it all, and then I found out that the Kearsage has the wrong engines, and my blister of "ramius's" is in fact one ramius and one burke hull, and only 4 engines.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Well, mongoose responded quickly, and I got replacement parts yesterday which I am painting.
but who is this that just decloaked off the starboard bow?

I got the Metal romulan squadron box months ago, but only just got round to painting them, when I found the romulan squadron box in resin for £10, so got that, so far I have painted the two picturered, the rest are taking a bit more work to get ready due to resin blobs and holes and such, not enough to be a real problem, but enough to be a pain, especially when I don't have tons of time.
The call to arms tournament at eclectic never took place today, no one else turned up, despite a couple of people apparently confirming with the store they would be attending during the week just gone.
EDIT: Not sure wherever or not these guys need highlights, or wherever I should just use the wash/ink now and call them done as they would look rather dark and sneaky.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Been ages since I last posted anything, but here are my two latest ships, in need of washing and inking though:

My second Wolverine class ship, the Sirius, any opinions on the color scheme?


A Lexington class command heavy cruiser

My romulans so far


And something I did when I was 12/13 and am hoping to repair and finish properly.

[Poseidal]

Did the Star Trek models in this line stick to the pre TNG style/time period?