Check out the amazing job Vaaish has done painting up a pair of Zeus Prows for his Armageddon class Battlecruisers. Fantastic work!

Armageddon class Battlecruiser painted by Vaaish

You can see more pictures in the Resin Addict Forum

One of my other modelling interests is Battlefleet Gothic – I just love the space ship designs (much as I love most designs 40k)! So having a decent sized Imperial fleet of my own, I of course have an Apocalypse Battleship.

The Apocalypse is an ancient design hailing from the Voss Forge World, as evidenced by its distinctively shaped prow design. What I wanted to represent in my fleet is a number of cruisers constructed at the “Zeus” shipyards, so I set about designing my own custom prow that shared many of the design elements that makes the Voss prow so awesome.

So here are a couple of pics of the Zeus prow development process. I began the project quite a while ago (before I had developed my scratchbuilding skills as far as they are today) and it started off with a styrene frame, over which the armour plating and details were sculpted in greenstuff:

The project got put on hold for a while until recently when I made a mould of the prow and cast a few copies in resin. Seeing them in grey resin I could see a lot about the design that I wasn’t too keen on, so I decided to update it and came up with this:

At this stage I decided to bite the bullet and do three versions on the one sprue (for maximum casting efficiency): two with torpedo tubes and one with a Nova cannon. It would be easier to fill in torpedo tubes not used rather than the other way around

Finally I had some results I was happy with! So I produced a new mould and began casting my new prows:

The next step is to get painting! Much against the advice of Vaaish I’m thinking of doing a striped pattern…