A little bit of nostalgia - BattleFleet Gothic (upd. 3.08.2015)

[Father Primus]

Our community suddenly remembered about loads of BFG ships, storaged for years in the depths of our private collections...

This collective impetus even motivated me to repaint 8 starter cruisers (with some conversions). And if my motivation doesn't run out, we'll see some fleet reinforcement!  

Dishonored heretics and separatists



Stalwart defenders of the Imperium

[Suber]

Wooo! Beautiful! You can never go wrong with BFG

[von Lucky]

Nice painting.

[sean_68333]

I really like the chaos head used for the ships prow.  Very nice detail.  These look great.

[warburton]

They look great! Really nice  

I would be interested to know your techniques and colours used if you are inclined to go into any detail

[Father Primus]

They look great! Really nice  

I would be interested to know your techniques and colours used if you are inclined to go into any detail

Thanks! 

Main difference between imperial and chaos ships: imperial cruisers don't have a lot of plain surfaces - so they could be easily painted using drybrush. First imperials were coated with black spray, and then with dark brown spray. After that - heavy drybrush with some kind of Vallejo Olive Drab (color of WWII american greatcoats). Then much lighter drybrush with Iraqi Sand (one of my favourite colors ever ). Finished with light drybrush of Pale Sand - just to highlight the external details.

Drybrush on chaos cruisers gives dirty result - so I used another method. It's also easy, but requires some experience. After basecoating cruisers with black primer (and 15-20 min. to dry), I took medium grey spray and gave them some "very light touches". In effect it highlighted the edges and gave additional shape to plain surfaces. Then I used Adeptus Battlegrey to highlight the center of the prow and the control towers.

Metal parts were first painted with some kind of Vallejo blue-grey (bottle is so old, that the title is unreadable...), and edges highlighted with white (+ a small dot of the same blue-grey). Finishing touch for pseudo-metal (in fact, I can't call it a real NMM) is a watered down Burnt Umber to create shadows/reflections - use it carefully, and only on a non-highlighted parts.

For the "gold" I use a mix of Yanden Darksun with Burnt Umber, highlighted by Flat Yellow. Then I just paint some white (with a tiny amount of Flat Yellow) dots on the extreme edges - in case with flat surfaces, like a prow railing, I place these dots on the intersections.

It took about 4 hours to paint chaos ships, and about 2,5 hours for imperials.

[OSHIROmodels]

They've turned out great and I really like the effect on the Chaos ships, it almost looks like they are alive and writhing 

cheers

James

[warburton]

Thanks! 

Main difference between imperial and chaos ships: imperial cruisers don't have a lot of plain surfaces - so they could be easily painted using drybrush. First imperials were coated with black spray, and then with dark brown spray. After that - heavy drybrush with some kind of Vallejo Olive Drab (color of WWII american greatcoats). Then much lighter drybrush with Iraqi Sand (one of my favourite colors ever ). Finished with light drybrush of Pale Sand - just to highlight the external details.

Drybrush on chaos cruisers gives dirty result - so I used another method. It's also easy, but requires some experience. After basecoating cruisers with black primer (and 15-20 min. to dry), I took medium grey spray and gave them some "very light touches". In effect it highlighted the edges and gave additional shape to plain surfaces. Then I used Adeptus Battlegrey to highlight the center of the prow and the control towers.

Metal parts were first painted with some kind of Vallejo blue-grey (bottle is so old, that the title is unreadable...), and edges highlighted with white (+ a small dot of the same blue-grey). Finishing touch for pseudo-metal (in fact, I can't call it a real NMM) is a watered down Burnt Umber to create shadows/reflections - use it carefully, and only on a non-highlighted parts.

For the "gold" I use a mix of Yanden Darksun with Burnt Umber, highlighted by Flat Yellow. Then I just paint some white (with a tiny amount of Flat Yellow) dots on the extreme edges - in case with flat surfaces, like a prow railing, I place these dots on the intersections.

It took about 4 hours to paint chaos ships, and about 2,5 hours for imperials.

Thanks! Will have to give some of these techniques a try

[The_Beast]

Wooo! Beautiful! You can never go wrong with BFG

Oh, yes, what he said!

Doug

[Father Primus]

Imperial reinforcements have arrived!
Brettonian' helmet decorations make perfect statues for BFG ships.



Unfortunately, I decided not to waste my time on the Photoshop courses in the university
So now I have to study this useful programme on my own...

[The_Beast]

Да, это правда!

Doug