Captain Ruthius stood
powerfully at the bridge of the Grand Arbiter. The sprawling dockyards of Sparius Partius were arrayed for miles
beneath him, layer upon layer of harbours, hangars, docking clamps and lifting cranes. It might look disorganised, but could refit any standard pattern ship
in the Imperial Navy in a matter of days, and a few non-standard patterns to boot! The Grand Arbiter had taken heavy damage to her port
broadside array, but Ruthius was fully confident in the colossal workbenches of Sparius
Partius to rectify this situation and send him swiftly back out, ready to
bring fire anew to the darkness of the void.
Meanwhile in the 21st Century, I have assembled a mighty replica of the great dockyards of Sparius Partius, using a toolbox organiser from Poundland (because I'm classy). When turned upside down the lid has a pretty good fit, only the smallest of antenna are capable of slipping into another niche, but not out of the box, so I'm very happy. One Great British Pound well spent! 
All my spare parts are here: Clockwise and starting from the outside from top-left, we have: an extra-large compartment for hulls (2.5 Imperial Cruisers) and bridges; Eldar parts, Imperial antennae, Chaos antennae, Chaos launch bays, Imperial launch bays, (I have so many launch bays it's irritating), Imperial weapon batteries, Imperial lance arrays, Imperial turrets, Chaos turrets. Moving inside, in a counter-clockwise direction now: Chaos lances (only a lonely pair), Chaos weapon batteries and Imperial prow parts (all Nova Cannon but one).
And hey, I found out today that the pointy-prow-bit-on-an-Imperial-cruiser-which-isn't-a-nova-cannon is actually supposed to represent a Power Ram. Who knew! Now I don't feel quite so bad about most of my ships missing anything on the prow at all...
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