Hi guys, I just thought I'd share my latest project with you all - an Imperial light cruiser design for Battlefleet Gothic.

This project was inspired by the lack of a model to represent the Voss light cruiser variants (Endeavour, Endurance and Defiant) and following some encouragement from some BFG fans I decided to take it on. The resulting design is a multi-part resin kit that can be used to represent any Imperial light cruiser pattern.

A massive thanks goes out to Vaaish (over on Resin Addict) who, in addition to giving a lot of persuasion for me to start the project in the first place, provided some amazing concept art and constant top quality feedback. He'll be painting up a couple of casts and I'll be sure to share pictures of them here when he's done!

So here are some pictures of the process, including concept art, work in progress shots and final pictures of the resulting resin casts configured as two options.







Whilst I'm very happy with how the project turned out, I'm also glad to see the end of it! I'm now looking forward to getting back to some 28mm modelling and my Tau mecha project.

That is ridiculously impressive. Easily up to par with the Forgeworld stuff! I sure hope you've considered doing some Tau stuff, you're becoming one of the best sculptors on the net.

How long did the sculpting take? And do you plan everything out before you start or do you add bits and details as ideas come to mind along the way?

Cheers

Thanks mate, I am planning to get back to some Tau scratchbuilding soon, but I'm about to have a couple of months away from the modelling desk first

This project took about four months from start to finish, but probably could have been a little quicker if not being designed for easy casting. It's mostly planned out from the start (although the weapons battery modules were devised on the fly). I drew an initial sketch but luckily my friend Vaaish is a way better artist and refined it a bit It really helps to have some decent art from which to base a design. I would point you to my thread on Port Maw but the site is down at the moment. You can read the full project log over at www.resinaddict.com/forum/ but you would have to register there before you can read it.

Thanks for the comments!

Pretty awesome looking Cruiser... Think I have to play little more BFG in the not so distant future *puts on Captains-hat*

Apart from the lovely sculpted Nose parts, I love the weapons battery section, a lot detail to paint... Also like the hidden tiny turrets. Double thumbs-up!

Hmmm...any chance these fellas will be available to the public? one of my buddies plays an Imperial Fleet...

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- Tael.

Whoops! My bad! Well, luckily I'm at my LGS and it has rockin' high-speed net, so I can actually LOOK at the pictures now!

*loads*

...Anyways, now that I've seen them...

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Thanks for the comments guys.


Who said you have to actually play BFG in order to enjoy the models? I haven't played a game in years

When I first started the project I thought it would be pretty quick and easy. All you have to do is chop up and glue lots of little bits of styrene. Oh how wrong I was! All of those bits of fiddly detail take ages to do so I'm really glad that people appreciate them!

Just a quick update to share pictures of the Zeus Light Cruiser as painted by good Resin Addict friend Vaaish. His beautiful paint work has for me personally provided a fantastic end to the project which overall has turned out quite well. Now I need to pull my finger out and paint some of my own!



By the way, Vaaish has a great little tutorial on how he paints his BFG ships over on the Two Lands Creative blog.

Vaaish has a deft hand when it comes to such small models. Great paint work over the details of the cruiser. The double emblazoned stripe effect is particularly nuts to think about achieving.

- Tael.