Battlefleet Gothic: Revised - The Additional Ships Compendium 2.0

So I haven't had alot of time for actual physical hobbying lately. Have a bunch of WIP stuff to share, and I am stripping a whole bunch of tanks, a dreadnought and a bunch of BFG.

While doing that I have had time to work on a very unique and special project: The Additional Ships Compendium 2.0 for BFG:R

What is BFG:R (Battlefleet Gothic: Revised) you ask? It is a community driven effort to balance and update the ships and fleets of BFG, as well as consolidate all the Official and really popular Unofficial designs.

The main site for that is Afterimagedan's Starship Combat Blog, but majority of development has occurred on the BFG Specialist Games forum.

Screen from the ASC 2.0

What I am working on is the additional ships compendium 2.0. The original ASC was a rough document that just managed to gather all the extra and cool designs out there from Fanatic, BFG and Warp Rift magazines. My ASC 2.0 is trying to dress that up and update it to be compatible with the great BFG:R project, as well as be more comprehensive of the fluff and potential for ship classes.

I am working on it on the BFG Specialist Games forum currently, getting inputs from any and all interested.
Here is the main dev thread. Each race has its own dev thread on the main discussion page (Thus far Imperial Navy, Chaos and Space Marines).

Screen from ASC 2.0. Imperial Navy is all that I currently have in the draft. Every few days I am upping a new draft with the progress I have made.

The draft document is here (via dropbox). It is also on my downloads page for future reference. And you can always get to the forums via my Fanatic Specialist Games Portal.

If interested, pop over to the forum and help out! BFG is still an awesome game, and these projects make it even better IMOHO. There are plenty of proxy suggestions out there, especially from firestorm armada. Shapeways and other 3d printing sites have cool models too, and there are model companies like Helios that just make cool spaceships for any game that work really well.

Planned Holiday Project

Well the holidays are coming up and I plan on using them wisely here in Japan by building and painting terrain and my army. I made more progress on the terrain from my previous post before going underway, but have been on hiatus since leaving my home.

So the plan is to place a large FW order here shortly. Mostly heresy variant marines, but I am also going to get some heavy mortars for my Genswick, as well as some more green stuff so I can continue assembling them. So look forward for more to come on that.

To splash up some of my influx I am going to use some items from Chapter House Studios, such as the spartan helmets and combi-weapons (Mk III Iron Armour Sternguard Vets with Combi-Meltas anyone?)

I should have ample time to get a large chunk done as I will be working very light days and have less things to occupy myself with in Japan (other than X-Box).

I will probably post again tomorrow, but I have to head out for now.

Hobby: What I am up to

POLL RELATED POST:

So I thought I'd let you guys know what I am working on between school work and actually playing:

Aeronautica Imperialis
Unpainted: 1 & ½ thunderbolts, 2 Vultures

Battlefleet Gothic:
Unpainted: 6 falcions, 3 firestorms, 1 & ½ escort carriers

Blood Bowl:
Unpainted: 3 ogres built and primed
Unprimed: 1 ogre built
Required: 1 ogre, Snotlings (guardsmen double for them right now)

40K:
Armoured Company:
Unpainted: Baneblade, Vanquisher, Conqueror, Battletank
Unbuilt: Marcharius Vanquisher
Uncompleted: 2 Conqueror, 1 Vanquisher, 3 Demolishers, 2 Battletanks
Needed to be stripped and repainted: Thunderbolt Flyer

Blood Angels: These guys were stripped last fall to be completely redone
Unpainted: 59 marines, 5 Terminators, 1 Furioso Dreadnought
To be touched up: Librarian, Rhino, Moriar the Chosen, 1 Baal Predator
To be repainted: 1 Assault Marine, 1 Rhino, 1 Vindicator, 1 Land Raider, 1 Landspeeder
Unbuilt: Terminator Captain conversion, 4 marine conversions (all from Marneus Calgar and Honour guard)

Imperial Guard
Unpainted: Chimera, Armageddon Pattern Basilisk, 51 Guardsmen (including stormtroopers and other metal models), 5 heavy weapon bases, 5 Grey Knight Terminators

Brettonians
Unpainted: 16 peasant bowmen, 4 defensive stakes, 2 damsels, 1 trebuchet and crew, 2 pegasus knights, 9 knights errant, 5 knights, 5 questing knights, 2 hero knights
To repaint: Lord on Hippogryph

Misc:
2 Orks, 1 Dwarf slayer

PROJECTS:
Knight Scratch Build
Blood Angels Revamp
Snotling conversions
Terminator Captain Conversion
Creed Commissar Conversion

So yeah, thats alot to do. Wish me luck.

WHERE WOULD YOU START? Poll over there --->

Aeronautica Imperialis 0 (0%)
Battlefleet Gothic 2 (11%)
Blood Bowl 2 (11%)
Armoured Company 1 (5%)
Blood Angels 4 (23%)
Imperial Guard 2 (11%)
Brettonians 0 (0%)
Painting anything 1 (5%)
Conversions 2 (11%)
Repainting 1 (5%)
Superheavies 2 (11%)
Touching up things 0 (0%)

Knight Project Update

Just a quick update on the Knight I am going to build. Can't wait to find this baby in BWB. Found a critical component which will also be used to scale the rest of the model to.

Knight Project

So reading Mechanicum has inspired me to undertake a project. Though still in the planning phases, I am going to scratchbuild a Knight.

So I need some things first.

1) As much fluff as I can get on these things. Orders, Weapons loadouts, Famous Riders/Battles, etc. etc

2) Models

3) A Plan

Where you can help:

FLUFF

I have an idea of what I am going to use to build this beast. Defiler parts are key. There will be some Space Marine Dreanought parts and some Sentinel/Pentinent Engine parts in there as well. Maybe so Leman Russ or Wraithlord parts.

The plan is to just get a defiler kit to start off and the sprues from the SM Dread I know I will need, plus someother stuff.

I want to avoid plasticard like the Plauge. Never looks good to me and is hard to work with. Frankenstiening Plastic is better in my opinion.