Battlefield Gothic scale?

[greyseer]

I'm thinking of building a smallish Hive fleet and getting some local friends into BFG. But while I've seen plenty of Imperial stuff on eBay, I don't see a lot of Tyranid ships. To top it off, I don't like most of the aesthetic designs I've seen of Tyranid BFG vessels.

So I was thinking of kitbashing my own from existing 40k models, as I've seen done elsewhere. But I have no idea of the scale to use when building.

How long, on average, are some of the largest Tyranid vessels? How about the most common? Do they use standard sizes for flight bases? I'd really like to gauge the feasibility of this project before I buy some of the Imperial stuff off eBay to build an opposing fleet.

Any guidance, including good online community links, would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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[pom611]

Iv gotta tyranid fleet somewhere in my game in groom I'll find it and post some pics for you.

Back when Gw sold the models the only tyranid ship that wasn't a kit bash was the hive ship you could bye other ships but the cruiser for instance was just warrior bits converted to look like a ship.

[pom611]

Not shoure if this will work, pro boards wouldn't let me upload the photo for some reason


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[seahawk]

Check out Dan's blog here: afterimagedan.blogspot.com/

He entirely converted up a Hive fleet, only really needing to sculpt the hive ships. Everything else is from Tyranid plastics.

Just do a google image search for battlefleet gothic tyranids. There will be plenty of examples there of converted hive ships (mostly out of carnifex bits).

Only hive ships use the large clear base; everything else is on the small ones.

A good rule of thumb is the hive ship would be a good 5-6" or so, cruisers probably 2.5-3", and escorts 1-1.5" long.

[emoge]

The models are surprisingly big, some of the battleships are 7" long! The larger cruisers are 5.5 with smaller ones down around 3". I had only seen pictures for the longest time until I finally ran into someone with them, they're much bigger than I expected and it gave me a much better scope on how to build my own kitbashed ones. Seahawks scales are good though, wouldn't go smaller than what he said. As well as there's a few youtube videos with scales too, I used those a lot but not home to find a link for them.