BFG Progress

Worked on the BFG fleet last night. Over the weekend I worked on my BFG fleet, I got my Brute Ramships all primed and got my Kill Kroozer and Terror Ship painted. I thought I needed some more detail on those two so last night I went ahead and added some more detail to them with checks on the tail of the Terror ship. I added a white stripe to the underside of the bow of the Kill Kroozer to have dags or more checks. The ships are almost solid colors with metallic weapons and launch bays. The Terror ship is red, the Kill Kroozer is blue. I think the capital ships will be solid colors like this and my escorts will be more metallic with color highlights.

Naming the fleet:
In nautical lore it's bad luck to have an unnamed ship, so I wll be naming my ships.
Flagship - Hulk - will be named the "Waaagh!mato"
I am thinking of orkifying some other ship names for my fleet:
SS Minnow, Nautilus, Orca, Red October, Argo, Octopus,
Also orky words:
Dakka, Zap, Boom, Waaagh!, Grim, Gork, Mork
Ideas:
Jolly Waaagh!ger
Noah's Ork
No, Siriusly

Minor work

So I'm still working on this stuff. What's on deck:
1.) Plague Wing - may be changed to Sons of Mortarion, thinking of changing up composition. Still modeling the basics, HQ, troops and such. Waiting on some Cadian flamer backpacks to mix into the rest (skull+crossbones=awesome).
1a.) Modling daemon prince, attached right leg yesterday, left leg going on tonight then going to greenstuff the holes and seal it better.
1b.) Rhino needs more greenstuff work, TBD.
1c.) Need another rhino.
2.) Battlefleet Gothic - Started painting my Ork BFG fleet. I like the look so-far, but the limited pallette is not quite right, i think i'll add in some more orky looks tonight, checks, dags, etc.
3.) Aeronautica Imperialis - I'm hooked and I haven't played on game yet. I'm trying to get some fellow gamers to place an order with me to Forgeworld and have the order shipped to one place so we can save on shipping. No luck yet, if I don't hear from them by 7/4 I'll place my order without them.

2 months

eek.
I am now two months without playing. as such I am two months without progress on painting. I've got a unit of Stormboyz assembled on my computer desk, waiting for a coat of primer. I have a Nob mostly built there two with a partial power klaw in my box-'o'-goodies. need to get more plastic glue.

also still want to build a Word Bearers army.
and a BFG fleet.

time is minimal.

reading Ender's Game. super cool book.

waiting for my 60Gb HDD's to be shipped from NH so I can load XP on one and Linux in the other. When I get the 160Gb back from Maritza I'll use it as a data disk. (mp3s, files, etc.)

progress, or lack thereof...

so since my last few posts i'v made absolutely nil progress. in my defense I'm getting married in a month and am kind of swamped between both jobs as well. haven't played in three weeks also.

however...

in other news, i'm still thinking a badass army of word bearers would suit me well. lower model count than my orks. and still fun to play with using a daemon bomb.

in other, other news, i'm also reconsidering a Battlefleet Gothic fleet to support my army(ies). an ork fleet would be fitting for me, but also a Chaos fleet would go well with my new army. the orks would have more bits to work with for custom ships. dunno at this point, not sure if there are any players. I've emailed Rudy and Chuck from Sunshine to see if they'd be interested but they both have issues with taking up a whole new game. i don't see the difference in taking up a whole new game (whose rule books are completely free online) vs. taking up a new army which require a purchase of more models (more models are required for a 40k army as opposed to a similar point level of BFG) and a new rulebook for the new army. a 40k army would take more time to build, convert and paint than a BFG fleet. the system is different to that of 40k, but yet it still shares quite a few similarities that someone coming from 40k to it would not be completely lost.

i don't know, i guess you can lead a horse to water.