So I'm the new one.
I feel that after some reading and research, I should start my time in the clinic with a project log. Again, I apologize in advance for my sometimes crappy English, I am no native speaker.
Mangozac's splendid Zeus ships brought me here and lured me into the world of resin casting. So I thought it would be just fine to try something similar to begin with. I love Battlefleet Gothic, the rules are fine, the ships are fine, most players are nice guys. In my opinion, it's one of the games GW did really, really well. One thing I noticed when I started playing again a few months ago is that you cannot have enough escorts, while you usually have waaaay too much cruisers.
In particular, I was seriously missing some Sword frigates for my Imperial fleet (I have only three of the little weapons-battery-packed buggers), and some escort carriers for my Wolf Pack. In general, my Wolf Pack was a bit short of typical ramshackle escorts that don't look like neat recruits from the Imperial or Renegade dockyards.
So I decided to give it a try and make three things:
1 - a variant or equivalent of the Sword frigate, but with an older looking hull design and a Voss style prow
2 - an escort carrier
3 - a random escort piece with mixed weapons to fill in various roles ina Wolf Pack fleet
A big agenda for someone whose styrene craftmanship so far didn't produce anything else than a 40K Chimera-to-Salamander conversion, a few simple conversions and scratch-builds, and nothing at all in such a small scale like a BFG ship. Also, I have never cast resin before, nor made moulds for it.
Anyway, once I've sorted out how to best uplad pictures here, I'll try to keep this log up to date. If all falls apart, my bad. I'm confident that with all the advice and experienced addics around, I'll at least learn something in the process. And maybe get some useable results.
Now on to the design board (or rather the lousy sketchpad i keep in ma pocket), I'll try to sketch up what I want to do.