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I had a thread in the P/M section about ideas for this, now that I am working on the thing I am moving it here to show my progress. Right now I have the body started, and am focusing on making the interior space. I want to make the top of the cargo bay mostly removable so I am working on making the troop benches and making them modular so they can be removed to make room for extra equipment. The main body is made out of a heavy weight etching paper with a cardboard skeleton made out of a lego box. They use really nice cardboard for their boxes. The pictures of the cardboard one are model for the original idea.

You saw Avatar, didnt you.

Its a good Idea, though you will need to make some sensible rules for it.

I like it.

I love this idea, you beat me to it. great start! What about hinging the back for a cargo ramp?

I am going to make the back door hinged like the Valk. I now have the side doors on and made it so they can slide open and closed like it also. I am next working on fitting in the door weapon mounts from the Valk model onto this thing and making all the troop benches in the interior. Each one seats 4 to a side, and there will be 2 benches in the large center space and one in each other section for a total capacity of 40 models so far. I might squeeze some more space out of the sides. I want to make them removable so cargo can be placed inside instead. I am thinking about making rules for being able to carry pallets of explosives that can be air dropped like a bomb but take up troop capacity. The only armament will probably be heavy bolters in door mounts and possibly some rockets/missiles on the wings at least on this version. I am thinking of around a 13 AV all around, and 3 structure points since it is so large.

That is soooo based on Avatar, which is a good thing, because that is a damn good film. I love the look of it so far and can't wait to see it done.

AV 13 all round on a super heavy flyer is quite over powered, the thunder hawk only got 12,13,10. so that's a big no no to have AV 13 all round.


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Looking good so far

I'll be watching this one
keep up the good work

Nice idea.
It will be interesting to see it finished and play tested.

have you used plasticard before? its brilliant for doing projects like this as there is such a huge range of thicknesses and its really strong.

to me it looks more like somthing from halo but i like it