At the very end of our Twelve days of Christmas blog series, we previewed some early work-in-progress shots of the British Royal Navy spaceships. I’ve been working on these for the last 2-3 weeks, and the initial batch are pretty much finished and ready for prototyping now, so we thought we’d show you how they’ve developed.
Some of the detailing has altered (the engines in particular) and there’s more in the way of very small detail greeblies to come. The very large (light blue) turrets will be separate parts, the smaller mounts (green) will be cast as part of the hulls. Other than the battleship, all of the hulls will be one piece.
Churchill class Battleship
Inflexible class Battlecruiser
County class Heavy Cruiser and Town class Light Cruiser
Destroyer, Frigate and Corvette
There are still more models to be done – a dreadnought, carrier and fighters, plus maybe some other smaller craft.
Hi Tony
Wow they are very nice project ” finally the possibility for canadian ship:) and commonwealth ship ”
If i could made a input . will British been close friend of of Oness i personally find those British ship too bricky…
I would give them lateral panel like AmRep ship ….
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Or i would simply go back to the Fisher prototype with wing which personally rock
But its only a a input ….
Please prettty please do the russian next
I haven’t abandoned the Fisher, I just haven’t finished it yet ! It will be retaining the finned/winged style (some of the smaller ones have fins as well).
Oh, wow… for the first time in the ten years I’ve been a Brigade customer, I just now noticed that there were no British starships. Holy cow.
These look great, Tony! I think the blockiness fits well with the blockiness of their German allies. I do second Renaud’s call for Russians, though!
There will be Russians, although not for a little while. I have some ideas in mind ..
How do the BB abd BC compare in size?
From the size of the turets it looks like the BC is longer than the BB, is that the case?
Andy
The BC is about 10mm longer that the BB, although quite a bit less massive.
They look amazing. Will there be background fluff for the ONESS?
Any ideas for naming conventions for the destroyers, corvettes, frigates, carriers, dreadnoughts and fighters?
Given Britain’s past naming conventions, you could have the Inflexible, Invaluable, Inflammable, Inimitable, Indubitable, Inpossible, and the Buttercup.
Also Indefatigable and Indomitable.
Monarch Class carriers.
‘Type’ class destroyers i.e. current RN have Type 45 destroyers and all starting with same letter (Daring, Dauntless, Diamond, Dragon, Duncan & Defender)
Fighters – Got to resurrect Hurricane, Typhoon and Tornado.
I was going for traditional Royal Navy naming conventions – the ‘Lost Fleet’ series has lots of ideas for that (as has any pre-1945 edition of Janes’ !).
Similarly, for the fighters I was going to resurrect ‘classic’ British fighter names.
When are you accepting pre-orders? 🙂
The target release date is Salute, so we’ll be taking orders in advance for the show once we have the models in hand and are happy that they all cast !
Very nice indeed, blocky but they do not look as if they have been made with Lego so I think you have hit the balance nicely.
Dare we hope for a Salute release?
That’s the plan – they’ll be off to the printers in the next couple of weeks, so we ought to be able to make master moulds pretty soon. That also gives us plenty of time to fix any issues that arise.
Wow, these look great! I’d love to see a ‘through-deck cruiser’ variant for some fighter capability.
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