Ramilies Star Fort Part III

Posted on 3 Jul 2011 by in Battlefleet Gothic, Work in Progress

OK so after a lot of agitation and frustration I finally got my Ramilies assembled. Honestly it was more hassle in its worth and I’m left with a far less than perfect model. In order to get the four quadrants to align what I ended up doing was to glue two quadrants to a single pier and then place the single flat edge down on a belt dander until it was somewhat flat. This was performed for the opposite side quadrants too and then the whole lot glued together after adjusting fitment to the final two piers with a knife.

The centre towers and upper halls went on easily enough, but some sanding of the halls was required to fit them in between parts of the quadrants.

The next step will be painting and honestly I feel that to be a little daunting. I’ll probably paint it in the same base colour as the rest of my fleet (a sandy colour) so it will end up very similar to the one on the FW site. The pier roofs I will paint black. For the main colouring I figure I’ll break out my new dual action airbrush (it’s only a cheapie no-name so don’t get too excited) to make things quicker. Probably undercoat black. Basecoat brown, main coat tan and then a brown wash brushed on. Finish up with a tan drybrush and then a light bone drybrush. The big trick will be easily painting the roofs without getting the dark paint on adjacent areas…

Anyway I won’t be getting around to painting for a while so in the meantime enjoy some pics of the assembled Ramilies!

4 Responses to “Ramilies Star Fort Part III”

  1. Commissar-Krad Says:
    July 5th, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    Are you gonna put a bunch of antennas in the bottom as well?

  2. Mangozac Says:
    July 5th, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    No for a couple of reasons:
    1. It’s a fiddly job and would need a LOT of antenna masts to do properly.
    2. Painting all off those antennae would be a pain!

  3. Commissar-Krad Says:
    July 8th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    True enough. Between my brother and I both having Imperial fleets I’ve got plenty of antennas. But yeah, it’s gonna be a real paint to paint, and not very noticeable. I’ve been considering placing mine on a taller stand. I always thought the models look more imposing higher up.

  4. Mangozac Says:
    July 8th, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    Certainly wouldn’t be hard to use a taller stand – simply snap off the built-in one and drill a new hole. Personally I prefer my ships on shorter stands as they can look a bit spindly up in the air ;)

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