Or maybe I’m just a hobby masochist – I wanted to do a conversion! Yes, I am aware that Heavy Fuel Transports are available from Forge World, however they are a bit bigger and I just didn’t like the look of them. Don’t ask me why I just feel that they are! I recently picked some up and since there’s only really two base models, I decided to make a third one: a fuel transport. The now out of production BFG Imperial freighters are in my opinion some of the most characterful ships available for Battlefleet Gothic. Fortunately for him he stumbled across a glut of GW strike cruiser models for a very keen price somewhere online!

It has turned out quite nicely and in an amusing twist it turns out that Vaaish prefers the look of the conversion kit on the GW model rather than the FW one like he had originally planned to outfit his fleet with. Much of the build process was chronicled in the Resin Addict Forum and yesterday I finally moulded up and cast the finished pieces. So the plan was to make a new prow and side fins that could be used with either the FW or the GW Strike Cruiser models. He much preferred the FW Grey Knights Strike Cruiser, not to mention that oddly enough the FW model is half the price of the GW one! The problem with the GK SC is that it has the GK style curved prow and side fins, preventing it from fitting in to the rest of the Space Marine naval aesthetic. The premise was that he wasn’t a big fan of the GW Space Marine Strike Cruiser design.

It’s something that Vaaish approached me with early this year. This is a project I’ve had on the workbench for far too long. I trust everybody had a Merry Christmas! Accompanying the festive break for me is a fortnight of holidays, which has given me some time to get stuck in and finish some projects! The first task is to knock over my pending BFG projects so that I can get back to some 28mm modelling (which I’m really starting to miss).

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