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I hope you like it, its made of cardboard, an a little plastic. 99% GW bits free

The beggining; i downloaded some sheets, saw then for a minute, throw them and built it as i pleased


The main body. NEVER throw away that little toys of your childhood. nor those old notebooks. They are a gold mine!


The glorious reactors, made with a cardboard tube and some GW empty paint bottles






colour, colour... grey rules, but black is so charismatic... (and it covers the flaws)




Finally i chose spacewolves grey, the sons of fenris would not have forgave me if i hadnt


Dont be mean, you will hurt his inners! XDDDD


¿Will it break if i shake it?... (luckily it didnt)





Tadaaa! it looks far better than what it is really XDDDD



Answering the ¿could it be better built? question.. Yeah, no doubt, with more time, materials, tools, skill etc it could be much better, but i wanted a thunderhawk (or something identifiable as one) without spending almost 600€ and spending less than 20€, and i think i got it ^^

Glory to the cardboard and my cutter...

Dude, thats pretty flippn' awesome for cardboard!
I love the look of the cockpit windows and the landing gear especially. Pretty sweet.

Well done!

Man that's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has inspired me to make my own, although if you you could post some steps on how you did it, as unfortunately I don't have the modelling ability to do that from scratch

Sweet use of the paint pots, that looks amazing.

That's REALLY convincing Darius! I like how you've used some bendy drinking-straws for the landing gears. This shows allot of skill - Well done man!

BTW, the rest of your Sphess Puppies look awesome. Does the freezing-cold of Fenris appeal to you folks in sunny Spain?

Thanks for the nice words. ^^

Does the freezing-cold of Fenris appeal to you folks in sunny Spain?

we may loose a tourist for this, but... here we have cold too. XDDD in fact, in the north of spain (where i live) we stand the cold very well; I use to wear short shirts with 0-5º celsius

(i know is not too much compared to the worst winters in the far north, but we try our best) XDDD

Darius wrote:we may loose a tourist for this, but... here we have cold too. XDDD in fact, in the north of spain (where i live) we stand the cold very well

Then I must appolagize for my naivity, sir!

Darius wrote:I use to wear short shirts with 0-5º celsius

It's sounds like you must be a true Fenrisian! That means that I must be a true Codex Sphess Mahren - You're not going to get me wearing a short shirt in that temperature! At least a few long-sleeved layers would suffice...

well, i have to admit that i cant stand the heat as well as the cold XDDD

Im going to second a request for a guide on how you did this, and a bill of material would be great too. Very impressive work, and if I can summon the patience for this it could save me a whole lot of money. Besides, my Paladins would love to pimp around the galaxy in a beast like that. Again, excellent job man.

ACOJONANTE tio, felicidades!

(AWESOME dude, congrats!) lol

Really good effort

That's awesome. It looks great and the paint job is awesome too.

It looks awesome enough for me. I'd be gitty to see that on the other side of the table. Nice work dude.

You sir, are a talented dude. I like your real life size 40k weapons more, but that's a really nice Thunderhawk.

Im glad you liked it, i used the same technique for the thunderhawk, for the warhound and for the weapons ^^

Love the model, perhaps some templates with measure

xD and here we have temps that go to -2ºC, when is that cold, I put something [i]light[i] above my short sleeved t-shirt as well xD

ok, ok, see, im gonna open a new topic to put there all the templates i have collected during some time, but i must tell you that i didnt use them to make any of my models, nor the titan, nor the thunderhawk, nor any rhino....

here is the link...

(as soon as i upload them)

done, here you are. ^^

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/264236.page#1095137

Gracias os doy a vuesa merced.

Wow! I didn't realize how big it was until I saw the pic of the old school rhino next to it!

Very nice work... nice to see one post of inception to completion... it's like watching LOST as a marathon on DVD instead of waiting each week to see what happens

Really good work, I'm amazed that it cost so little. That thing is huge!

So outta curiosity, is 40k very popular in Spain....I am currently in Spain but have yet to found a store near my current location.
2nd that is a very nice scratch built for the price, I have friend that would kill for something that nice for so cheap.....

yea, 40k is very popular... where do you live?

Oh you European boys need to come to Canada and experience our winters ^ ^ Particularly where I use to live up in Nunavut. -5c and still in t-shirts

But on the model kudos and it looks great, I want to build one now.

Love it

Darius wrote:yea, 40k is very popular... where do you live?

Well living is not quite the full answer. I am currently passing through for 30 days of work in Spain. I am currently in Rota. Enjoying the sun and some of the beach... I am normally from TN.

Golga wrote:Oh you European boys need to come to Canada and experience our winters ^ ^ Particularly where I use to live up in Nunavut. -5c and still in t-shirts

But on the model kudos and it looks great, I want to build one now.

Prince George is weird , the dry air makes it very hard to feel cold lol.
It was -50c last time i was there and i wasnt wearing much ( samething i wear when its around 10c )

"You will never know what real cold is till you try to build a bone and dragon-skin tipi nude under the worst Fenrisian snowstorm with wolves chewing your butt!
XDDDDD

And Canada is... full of canadiense people and wolverine!

Sorry my boots stay on terra with the emporor not planning on visiting other worlds yet.