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Alright everyone i have yet another conversion idea up my sleeve and i already have the pieces to start putting one together. I will be taking a Standard Vendetta/Valkyrie Model and placing a leman russ turret or a predator turret underneath the front part of the nose and either using/or attaching a Punisher Gatling turret to it to represent a Heavy Gunship much like the United States A-10 Warthog. Also in place of the rocket pods and/or lascannons i will be placing two engines from some spare model aircraft that i will be using to say that the added engines allow it to carry the extra weight and heavier cannon. The hull mounted Heavy Bolter can be easily converted onto either the Lascannon or Multilaser andi can use the door gunners with some conversions as plasma cannon side sponsers (in the sense to "represent the A-10's missiles).

Now for the rules spectrum of this due to it is a flyer it will be more visible to the enemy but if anyone has any complaints on the gun being up so high no need to worry. When mesuring it because of the turret being underneath the hull of the valkyrie it is roughly the same height as a turret would be on a standard tank give or take a few centimeters. Also i will be using the statistics of a Leman Russ Punisher for this model. Overall i think this will be a cool idea and legal in both fun and GT tournaments. Tell me what you guys think and thanks for reading mates!

Picture of an A-10 Warthog:


Picture of an A-10 Warthog Cannon:

sounds like it might make a good count's as vulture more than a valk since it doesn't have a troop compartment. if someone doesn't want to use the IA rules, you can just count it as a valk.

I am doing the same thing with a P-61 Black Widow

Sorry, but what is the rules question?


If you're just asking whether the conversion will be acceptable, that's up to your opponent. There are no rules in the current edition of Warhammer 40K that cover conversions.

Sorry forgot to add that in the original post. I wanted to know if possible that if i had to that Imperial Armor rules are usable in GT tournaments or not? I know they are legal within reason at my local gaming store just wanted to know if this would work for a GT tournament.

You would have to check the relevant GT rules packet.