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More exaltation!

Beautiful! Alpha Legion are a firm favourite of mine.

Nice work!

Please tell us how you made your Stormraven!
I hate the chicken halk GW released, but yours is how i imagined it!

I guess I could write together a tutorial if you guys want one, I'll dig up some pics from the construction.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:I guess I could write together a tutorial if you guys want one, I'll dig up some pics from the construction.

Of course we want one!

And, of course, thanks!

Alrighty! By popular demand (well, due to the suggestion of BloodGenisis and the happy howls of Alpharius) I'll try to make a tutorial for my Gunship variant.

Material:
one Valkyrie Plastic Kit (GW)
1mm & 2mm Plasticard
Plastic rod and tubing. 1 to 5mm diameter.
Extensive Bitbox
Assorted Hobbytools etc.

I would like to warn you that this build was not pre-planned in a certain direction, this was a prototype-build where the design litterally grew into shape as it was being built. this lead to that there was a few stop-gap measures involved and that I did not solve some things as smoothly
as I with hindsight realised that I could have done. (damn you hindsight!) In any case I will try to explain as good as I can, I am sure that there are people out there who might improve upon the basic prototype design presented here.

Assemble the Valkyrie main fusilage without the slide doors or the 'front plate' that serves as the attachment for the cockpit, the rear door is intended as the vehicles forward assultramp.
As a basic structure for the hull build a 'box' from the 2mm plasticard with an exterior crossection measurement matches the valkyrie's cargobay interior measurements (yes you will attach it by sliding a piece of the former into the latter).
Needless to say this 'box' needs to be stable, I did this by adding 5mm square plasticard rods to support the box, but you do it however you'd like. Just make sure it is stable. Lenght is down to personal taste, just lay out the assembled 'nose' and wings and measure a pleasing distance. Remember that the rear of the wing is the end of the fusilage.

(somehow I feel I should build an entirely new one and take step by step pictures)

Take the two tailbooms and cut them at their second 'segment' from the front (the front being the thick end) to separate the part you need (wing docking points) from the part that you need for something else later on.
Place a horizontal cut just above and in line with the wing insertion slot, you want the wing to line up with the hull and since the tailboom has a slight tilt to it the upper part needs to be removed.

Now, assemble the basic hull with the Valkyrie cargobay, add the landinggear to the cargobay. Once dry you need to get ready to fix the wings to the hull, I am sure there are people who would want the wings removable but I would NOT reccomend this, the fusilage will be quite heavy in the end and when not on a flyingstand it will divide most of it's weight on the wingtips. it will need inventive reinforcment to hold. before you fix on the wings you have to make sure that the wingtip and 'nose' landinggear line up, I used a small pile of plasticard sheets so I could easily add or subtract a millimetre here and there to make it perfectly level and also being stable enough. once it's level enough for your taste slap on the wings.





As you can see above you use the sliding doors to effectively 'elongate' the basic hull texture up to the engines. the engines are rotated slightly so that the flat side is directed inwards and hidden as much as possible by the wing.
The canard wings are in my case parts cut from the Drop Pod kit because I had two to spare but they could easily be scratchbuilt from plasticard.

Moving on to the cockpit, this is a bit tricky since I do not have pictures of -how- I made the cuts, just how it turned out. but you should be able to make it out from the pics.



Essentially you cut the cockpit sides (before assembly) with a slight angle so it will sit nicely on the hull, then take the bottom pieces and assemble them as usual, flip the piece around backwards and then cut the top cockpit piece to fit.
Use the two leftover pieces of the tailbooms and fix them to the hull as on the pictures to provide assembly points for the tail rudders and to double as secondary airintakes for the main engine.

Scrounge through your bitz box for two Rhino APC side doors (or steal them from a friend or equivalent source). add a 1mm strip of plasticard along one side of the door and it will fit snugly into the side door slots. or you could scratchbuild it from plasticard quite easily.
Don't worry that the bottom part of it sticks out where the hull tilts inwards, this is soon to be adressed.


Take the Valkyrie's front plate for the main hull and stick it to the back of the hull, it will overlap slightly but don't worry, it's supposed to.


Add a strip of 1mm plasticard on top of the cut tailboom parts that fixes the wings to the hull, and produce a plate in a suitable shape from 2mm plasticard for the nose deck, shape is up to personal taste but this is how I did it.


Add the Flightstand dockingpoint here. I have also added a fan unit from the plastic Vindicator kit as a vertical thruster.


You need a primary engine exhaust, either you build one from scratch or find a suitable bit somewhere. I used the Drop Pod Thruster because, again, I had a spare one from a massacred pod. Assemble in a suitable fashion.
Also do Not assemble the tailrudders as on the picture, this was revised later and is a thing I will get back to.


The hull need to line up with the 'valkyrie parts' so the following additions needs to be made with 2mm plasticard, I am sorry but I do not have the measurements. you have the basic hull lines to follow though so it should not be all that complicated.
A slanting plate on each side and a bottom hull one as per pictures.




End Part One.

am i wrong or i see this pic in another tread too!? this is one of your old work!

No this is correct, I posted these in an old thread while I built the damn thing, they are here again to help visualise the construction stages of the tutorial.

On another note I just managed to sync my phone to my laptop via my Wlan and get those pwetty (highly subjective I know) pics of what I did a few weeks ago with my dark mechanicum army.

WIP of the Archmagos Venatos (that a; needs some additional detail and cables and b; will be run as a Daemon Prince with Mark of Tzeentch and Bolt of Change. hence the gun)





So, this is a combat strider that my fevered mind produced over a late afternoon running on tar-like coffe and superglue fumes to the Tunes of Electric Six's "Danger! High Voltage.". (Defiler with Havoc Launcher)






Second Defiler that is still only halfway done, (Reaper autocannon, Twinlinked Heavy Flamer)

I dont know what those things are but they are freakin sweet!

If you read the little texts you'd know it is a Deamon Prince and two Defilers in a slightly non-standard appearance.

Your army is... amazing. All of the conversions are extremely creative and well pulled off.

holy crwap! That was so awesome I made a new word

Coooooool......

All three look really (really) great, though the second one may need a little more...stuff around the hip joint, as it looks a little flimsy as it is.

@STC_LogisEngine: now we mension your old tread......what happend to the ordinatus!? it was a nice project, to bad it burns under the eresy attack!

Wow, thats some great crazy stuff, cant wait for progress!

I really like the standing up defiler, that's a piece of art.

It looks like some sort of chaos knight titan.

Thanks guys.

@FantasyBob
oh dear, Yes.. the Ordinatus Engine.. My pwettypwetty.. *ahem* yes, well you know.. started out all nice like this..



Then you know *THAT* kind of happened...



And now it's like this, in a paper box in a cellar somewhere. It's really not a priority project. maybe like number something something after my Alpha legion & dark mechanicum projects, eldar army that needs to recive those last dregs of paint to make it ready and
then there's that Black Templar army that needs re-painting. somewhere after this comes the trimmed-and-ready-for-rebuilding-ordinatus.

Currently living in storage-box 13C-2.

some cool lookin machines you have here!

How the heck did that happen?

Ah eh.. it involves an induction-stove, a party, a drunk friend or three and dear old Murphyand his law.
purely accidental of course but yeah.. a tad annoying.

WOW! That stinks

Everything looks great so far!! Keep up the good work

so how is the legion?

Thank you for the inspiration to do my own Alpha Legion

these are awesome

a great tutorial indeed

can we hope for a tutorial on that melta-carbine that is too good to ignore

Perhaps I can whip up something, the melta-carbine isn't that hard to do.

On another note I guess there is no point in denying it any longer, sure Mark Bredford have said they will do it 'eventually' but with the recent releases form Forge World it suddenly does not feel all that far off.
Imperial Armour: The Great Crusade inches closer..

That is EPIC!

I so want some for my Night Lords, But have to wait for my shrunk parts and a new one to arrive

Yeah, I have been waiting a little too long now in my humble opinion with that Forge World order. (still waiting for the mark IV Corvus Assult squad to appear)
Luckily I have been diverting some of my meagre resources each month so sometime soon (yeah, assult squad) there will be that long awaited resin extravaganza.. the problem is Mark Bredford also promised us Resin Terminators..

Crusade Era Terminators... that will be trouble!

Can't wait to see more from you too though!