Lonkelo kitbashes a fleet
Starting on the Medium ships and one Large ship
I think that almost twenty years ago I got my hands on an airplane model kit. I can’t remember what kind of plane it was and if I ever finished it. All that remains are some bits in my bitsbox, of which I always thought they’d be useful for kitbashing a space fleet.
Their time has come! I’ve used them mostly together with special weapons bits from Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard/Astra Militarum sprues and some bits from some Tamiya German SD.KFZ.250/3 Greifs. (I wanted to use these for an IG army that I never really got round to building…).
These are my medium ships. As you can see I used IG grenade launchers (or whatever their called in 40k, never really played it..) for the main hull and other weapons for the engines.
I still have to decide which will be my frigates and which will be the destroyers. I’ve also got one more set of the ‘wings’ used for these. So I might build one more medium ship.
The big guy in the two pictures above is obviously the Large ship. I started off imagining it as a Carrier, but size wise it seems closer to a Battleship. I still want to fill up some gaps to finish it and am pondering whether I should add some more bits and bobs.
Nice don’t forget they will be transporting all vehicles to move troops/store’s up and down to planets @lonkelo
I haven’t come across anything in the Billion Sun ruleset about landing on planets, but it is interesting to keep in mind! I think that the Battleship at least would be too large for something like that. Not sure about the Mediums. I might relegate that task to individual landing ships that launch from these ships?
like the marine assault carriers yes?
Exactly!
Nice.
2022-11-01 Your project has been visited by the unofficial Hobby Hangout. Huzza!
Ah, the main structure bits on the carrier came from the Empire vs Orcs starter set for WHFB from back in the day (back in my day in my timescale anyways). They were supposed to go on the card board tower ruins that came with it, but somehow I forgot to use them I think? So @avernos wasn’t far off with Mordheim 😉 Also, yes. I tried to find a branching out stem for my fighters/bombers, but couldn’t get my hands on them. I used paperclips instead and figured I’d just use the middle of the base, as @avernos says.… Read more »