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BROTHERS OF THE MARK THE FLEET The brutal, hungry core of a fleet fallen to the ruinous powers. So, I last worked on my little fleet back in June, when I painted up a test cruiser. I had planned to churn through the remaining over-a-dozen ships, before being entirely swallowed up by the 2024 Call to Arms! Glad I was, too. That was delightful, and gave me some distance to rework the fleet when I came back to it... Like a week and a half ago. I, uh... May have painted a lot of space boats very quickly. The unholy glory. I've warmed up the scheme, and added a gradient between the back and front, do not try and explain what the points of a boat are called, and settled on a pure blue light and simple, but seemingly effective method to make the turrets visible via drybrushing. I think they look quite fetching, and it's a VERY quick and easy scheme. The current count is 6 frigates, 2 light cruisers, 3 cruisers, and a grand cruiser completed, with 6 more frigates, 3 heavy cruisers, a grand cruiser and battleship to go! You'll note that isn't a legal fleet, not even close, but it's more of a mix-and-match platter for assembling smaller fleets. I'm going to get more basic cruisers to bulk it out for eventually showing up as some 3,000 points worth of chaos nonsense. Squadrons Spiteborn and Voidhound. Light Cruisers Godmaw and Sagitar. Cruisers Intolerable, Fate's Claw, and Hanged Man. Grand Cruiser Spite & Ruin. I should have a chance to play these pretty things soon, in a 'let's see if I like this tabletop game' try-out session that, perhaps, should have come before I fell head-first into painting a dozen of 'em, with another dozen in the works. So it goes. I saw the fighter-bay glow...

BROTHERS OF THE MARK SLAUGHTER CLASS CRUISER - ROLL THE BONES Festooned with lance and gun batteries, ready to roam the flanks and prey on the weak and vulnerable. After years of yearning, I've finally started work on my first BFG fleet! It turns out the local BFG community is surprisingly large and active, and possesses a number of very eager 3D printers, happy to print whole fleets for the coast of materials just to help a newcomer like myself get started. This is my test ship, and will likely see some tweaking, but the general scheme is something I've wanted to try at BFG scale for a while now. Off-bone over dark browns and blacks, spots of bright purple-blue (which isn't SUPER visible in these shots due to the lighting), all brought together via drybrushing. Detail on the engines, and undercarriage. I should probably do a little more pre-spray cleaning up of the print next time. The lore for this fleet is still coming together, and will be a blog post soon, but the general outline is that of an unaligned daemon of a scale somewhere beneath your Vashtor-level major players getting its claws into a marine chapter, cursing them to a foul parody of eternal life through necromantic warpcraft, reducing them to shambling husks within their plate, faceless and mad, obeying the voice of their new master where it sits, inhabiting the body of their Chapter Master. Add in the corrupted chapter serfs and mortal cultists they've gathered over the centuries and you have a decent little raiding fleet, ready to cause some havoc! I jumped in head-first on this. At the price on offer I couldn't resist getting a little under 3,000 points worth of Chaos ships done, all now waiting on my desk alongside... So many other things I need to finish. But hey, at $51 AUD, some dice, tokens, and custom nameplates included, I'm gonna say it was worth it. I'm sure I'll eventually convert some marines, too, but that's somewhere in the future. I'm in so, so much trouble.