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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Darkmage on October 12, 2002, 01:49:58 am

Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Darkmage on October 12, 2002, 01:49:58 am: ok, I've been wanting to see this for a while. i might be able to make some models for it but not too many. I was thinking about warhammer 40k and i decided to look at the games workshop website. it turns out that they have now got a LOT of fighter/bomber miniatures for the various warhammer 40k races.... I was wondering if anyone would be interested in making them? we could make all of the capships from battlefleet Gothic as well...... suggestions?
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Nico on October 12, 2002, 04:27:47 am: unfortunaletly, save for a few like myself, it seems the BFG ship designs aren't very popular around here :(
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Post by: karajorma on October 12, 2002, 04:36:04 am: Some of us don`t know what they look like. Got any pics?
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 12, 2002, 06:02:59 am: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
unfortunaletly, save for a few like myself, it seems the BFG ship designs aren't very popular around here :(

That's shocking. I never played BFG, but I bought a small Imperial fleet and painted them up in blue with white and gold prows and they looked bee-yootiful.

This idea gets my vote :nod:
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Riven on October 12, 2002, 07:09:23 am: how the hell do you plan to get the same amount of detail as on a BFG ship? They are so intricate. Plus to be to scale wont they all have to be upwards of Sath size? If it works then in could be cool but you can bet GW would sue your ass off. They probably have a game like it in development too.
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Post by: Apothess on October 12, 2002, 01:00:04 pm: Ok i would like to see this happen but i know for a fact Games workshop would close you down, there was a homeworld mod in dev, but GW closed them down. As for it not being popular i aven't got a clue why that is i think the ships are brillant i love the gothic look on the imperial the Eldar ships well remind me of Minbari but i know the Vivendi Universal Games International have the rights for the computer games and i have heard that there servral games in the pipeline so one of them might b Battlefleet Gothic, certinaly hope so!
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 12, 2002, 04:30:43 pm: *Points to name* Guess which GW game I play! :D

And modelling the BFG ships? You have GOT to be joking! Those things are HUGE! Cruisers are upwards of about 50km long!
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Apothess on October 12, 2002, 04:37:13 pm: YES a fellow member of Chaos!!:D
There would be one prob making a mod, not enough fighters and bombers unless you desgin your own.
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Shrike on October 12, 2002, 05:18:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Killfrenzy
*Points to name* Guess which GW game I play! :D

And modelling the BFG ships? You have GOT to be joking! Those things are HUGE! Cruisers are upwards of about 50km long!
If by 'upwards of 50km' you mean '3km', then you're right. ;)
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Killfrenzy on October 12, 2002, 05:20:51 pm: No - those cruisers are AT LEAST 50km long. They've got giant CATHEDRALS as bridges for crying out loud!
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Shrike on October 12, 2002, 05:25:16 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Killfrenzy
No - those cruisers are AT LEAST 50km long. They've got giant CATHEDRALS as bridges for crying out loud!
Nope. The pretty much official size for them is 3 km. The 30 km lengths from the Warpstorm stories were stated by the author to be typos.
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Darkmage on October 12, 2002, 07:54:38 pm: actually GW will NOT shut you down if you comply with their legal policy. i've checked out their legal department's site. as for pics:
http://www.games-workshop.com/40kuniverse/battlefleetgothic/fleets.htm#
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/ - the ULTIMATE games workshop collectibles. these include THUNDERHAWK gunship models. which can be used in tabletop 40k....they also have fighters for eldar and orks..
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_Imperialarmour.asp

http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_lightn.asp
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_lightnst.asp
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_mara.asp
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_marad.asp
The IMPERIUM

http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_bommer.asp
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_orkfb.asp -ORKS

http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_vampire.asp
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_nightwing.asp -Craftworld Eldar
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_raven.asp
http://forgeworld.games-workshop.com/fw_razorwing.asp - Dark Eldar

btw these are just a start, there are TONS in full color from tons of angles.
these pics are MAINLY ALL fighters... as you can see there will not be a problem in that regard, BTW there is a third eldar fighter which both eldar and dark eldar use.
Title: Oh yeah baby!
Post by: Star Dragon on October 13, 2002, 12:12:49 am: I didn't like the game, but I have always loved the detail and designs of the Eldar ships in WH40K... If I could only model.. :(

But that's ok being a visionary is just as important as the guy who mixes the paoti for me to smoke (hence provides said vision)
:nod: (I don't smoke anything just j/k)
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Post by: Apothess on October 13, 2002, 05:01:53 am: Ok theres enough ships and stations i for one would like to see this happen i would love to fly along a Emperor class battleship! should maybe do a poll and c whos interested?
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 13, 2002, 05:42:24 am: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
Nope. The pretty much official size for them is 3 km

Since when?:wtf:
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Nico on October 13, 2002, 07:32:54 am: bah, it depends, an ork rock is huge, as is a spacehulk ( hence the name ). An average imperial ship is not 50 km, but is not 3 km either :p. don't have the time to serach right now anyway.
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Post by: Killfrenzy on October 13, 2002, 02:50:33 pm: The ships are nearer 50 than they are 3.......

I think the whole WH40k universe is actually totally unrealistic anyways........
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Post by: Nico on October 13, 2002, 04:29:11 pm: no kidding!
realism isn't the point, if you didn't notice.
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Killfrenzy on October 14, 2002, 06:50:24 am: Ah yes, but memory and poly count is! :D
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Mr Carrot on October 14, 2002, 10:49:39 am: the medium ships are upwards of 50km long easy.

This is coming from the only actual lengths i could find, from inquisitor (olde book) and Eye of Terror.

The gothic manual implies they are MASSIVE but no measurments are given.
Title: Warhammer 40,000 Mod idea.
Post by: Killfrenzy on October 14, 2002, 03:17:48 pm: The Battlefleet Gothic ships are HUGE and over the top - like most stuff from WH40k....