Space Marine Fleet

 I recently sold some Oldhammer stuff on eBay and used some of the proceeds to purchase a 3D printed Space Marine Fleet for Battlefleet Gothic.

These are some early painting shots

I bought 32mm MDF bases from my favourite supplier on eBay and some 3mm acrylic rods from Amazon for a few quid. It worked out quite easy to build the bases with the magnets I already had. The real hardship was trying to get the tiny magnets to glue onto the rod and not my fingers!

These are to be painted up in the same scheme as my Dust Wolves Space Marines.

Battle Fleet

The Imperial Guard cannot always just walk over to the warzone. The most common option is to have the Imperial Navy smash their way into the system and deliver the sledgehammer that is the Guard in person.

I have a sizeable BFG Imperial Fleet.

Two battleships, 14 cruisers, dozen or so escorts.

I am currently looking to paint up a few Sword Frigates, a Cruiser and a Battleship (along with an auxiliary vessel). Methinks I will play a little with some basecoats and dry brushing and see what happens.

Into the Fray!

Welcome to what will probably be an infrequent and occasional blog about my wargaming hobby through the years. I started 'back in the day' (how I hate that phrase uttered by 10 year olds as if they were referring to something that happened back in their family ancestry!) with Advanced Space Crusade from Woolworths (remember Woolworths?) This progressed very quickly into Warhammer 40K with a Space Marine army (Dark Templars, my own chapter and no, not the excellent one that used to be found on the internet, mine predated that but did not have as much love or forethought). This led naturally into a very large Imperial Guard army which is still growing and getting out of control. Along the way I picked up and enjoyed Necromunda, various Warhammer box sets which resulted in a huge Bretonnian army (but no real games!) and some Battle Fleet Gothic as well. In my more senior years I have been enjoying getting back into the hobby by finally learning how to paint in more than one single step. This is a good way for me to relax at the end of the day even though I cannot remember the last real games I played of any of these systems! In fact my senior gaming habit has spiralled a little out of control with a large collection of XWing miniatures even though again I have not really even played a proper game at all.