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boss

The OSL looks really good. Dont get yourself down, its a bitch to get right and you are definitely on the right path!

Thanks guys. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with how the OSL has come out, I'm just aware that there are much better practitioners of the art out there

I managed to base Tychus and mostly base his mate last night, but ran out of time for pictures. I'll try and get something posted up soon.




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Cross posted from the Showcase forum. Tychus and friend finished and based!









Now to choose the next victims for the brushingness

They're looking very cool, really loving the shiny orange visors.

Can't believe i've missed so many awesome updates on this thread!

Glad I found it again, all your models are fethin' amezin'! Not to mention 1'000'000% inspirational!

Keep it coming mate!

Incredible work, terran is clearly op... once i was wondering about tyranid zerg but that would be too many models for my poor greenstuffing to handle

I know you have not posted on this for a while, but I have been looking around and your Goliath conversion is the inspiration for my Battlemech conversions. I wanted to say thank you, and that your marines are amazing. Thank you for being an awesome inspiration for people like me =)

LordRogalDorn wrote:I know you have not posted on this for a while, but I have been looking around and your Goliath conversion is the inspiration for my Battlemech conversions. I wanted to say thank you, and that your marines are amazing. Thank you for being an awesome inspiration for people like me =)

Quite heartfelt, LRD, but still a bad case of thread necromancy. In the future, PM would be better.

Welcome to Dakka, btw!

Cheers,
Rawson

This thread is full of win! I do love me some SC! well done to you! +1

Ahhh... the smell of trimmed plastic... so good!

After 6 months off for a ridiculously extended house sale/purchase I'm back in the saddle (well the mancave at least). New house and new work area and new plans for a gaming room (that will probably take another year or so to realise, but I can dream).

So I have abased myself at the altar of the mighty E-Bay and have picked up the following kits for a reasonable price:

Defiler
Stormraven
Valkyrie
Whirlwind
Sentinel

In the immortal words of Rolf Harris - can you tell what it is yet? Hopefully at least 3 new SC2 themed units will emerge from this pile 'o bits to be added to the Terranwing arsenal (possibly never to actually be used, but hey).

Guesses on on a postcard

A Valkyrie (SC version)?

Make it transform!

Alas Valkyries aren't in SC2, but I do have a ground assault Viking already

Whoops, got mixed up on my terminology. I meant Vikings, the transforming ones.

Some more updatitude, and I've had a bit of time (in between stopping the Reapers) to do some initial construction and dry fitting. Still waiting for a couple of the kits to turn up so progress is slow to begin with.

Here is the new man-cave, destined to be my home from... erm, in... home until we can get the garage converted.:


As no-one has really tried to guess that much I may as well ruin the suspense.

First up, and probably the most easily realised, is the Banshee ground attack craft:




I will try and recess the cockpit in a bit to smooth out the forward profile, but I rather like how it looks already. This will count as another land speeder to go with the Diamondback, but this one will be a Typhoon... obviously

Next steps are to try and find some appropriate looking ducted fans to provide lift. The tail assembly will be coming from the Stormraven. I will more than likely be trimming the fuselage down a bit to slim the whole thing down, but I will awat the stormraven to get the hull properly aligned.

Next up is the Odin!



Yeah, ok, so I've only really got a leg sorted but its a start! I am planning on bulking this guy out a lot with the Stormraven hull to make it beefy enough for it to count as a Land Raider Helios in stompy robot form. I've been keen to join the defiler-as-other-stompy-robot club and this eems like an ideal opportunity I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of poseability in the legs, but then I reckon I've been spoiled by the newer Sentinel legs

I've gone for the Helios as the armament is pretty similar to the Odin in purpose. A couple of twin linked AT cannon and an over the shoulder artillery launcher. I will be reforming the Whirlwind launcher to look more like artillery cannon, rather than missiles. The only slightly weird thing will be the transport capability. Its also not actually that useful as a transport for the Deathwing with a capacity of just 3, but that might allow me to do some Spectres to go with my Ghosts

Glad you're back, I liked your stuff a lot.

^couldnt have said it any better

Glad to see that your picking the project back up, you make some really inspirational work.

Thanks guys.

Unfortunately last week was a bit of a bust modelling wise. I had to go to London with work for a few days and the rest of the time just seemed to evaporate. Also Royal Mail seems hell bent on denying me access to my stormraven bits :( Need to phone them up and see where in the system my parcels have been stuck.

Anyway as some solace, rather than doing great and grand things, I made a hatch... Its something at least...







Well, the Odin's nuke needs to hide somewhere when its not being launched

At least we know your still going!

hey, its still a cool looking hatch though

Nice space! You might want to replace that lightbulb with a daylight bulb though. The conversion is looking good too!

Thanks. The main bulb is rubbish, but I now have 2 pretty good work lights closer to the desk. Added together its something approximating daylight... kinda... but as I spend more time modelling than painting its a bit academic at this point.

After a truly horrible week or so at work the Easter break was very welcome. Spent most of it walking up in Glencoe (another stretch of the West highland Way ticked off) but just had a nice solid chunk of time to play with the plastic

And so this is progress on the Banshee. Its turning out to be rather larger than a normal land speeder, but I don't care Theoretically I could also run it as a Vulture for my Guard.

As well as all the other kits I've had to source some additional random gubbins, primarily involving large Warmachine bases to do clever (maybe) things with.

This is the first time I've been able to sit down with the Stormraven kit and see what I can scavenge. And I am rather happy so far! Here is the new tail assembly for the Banshee:



Unfortunately for me the tail is really thick plastic. Thankfully its not particularly hard plastic so I was able to drill and carve out the gaps relatively easily, it just took time and effort I'll probably try and use the stanchions as supports and put some kind of rotor on there as well.

Here was my main clever idea though. I ran through every kit and as many after market sellers as I could find, ubt no-one seems to like doing ducted fan assemblies. I guess they are a bit finnicky and lots of thin parts probably don't cast up that easily. So I picked up some Warmachine bases to use as fan housings. The largest ones work nicely for this particular creation, but you could also use the slightly smaller ones for more actual land-speeder sized things.



I've added some small aerofoils that I'll shape a bit more when I'm closer to finishing the thing.

The other main bit of work I did today was to ceate a recess in the underside of the forward fuselage to fit the cockpit canopy. I messed up the other side a bit, but nothing a bit of GS and a dark colour scheme can't hide



There is a bit of a gap at the top of the canopy to fill as well, but again I'll wait until the thing is closer to completion to decide on a solution.

So the following 3 pictures show the thing dry fitted at this stage:







The Chimera turret will be used as a housing for the top gubbins for connecting the fans to the fuselage. It also helps break up the top a bit more as it is currently a bit sparse. I'll probably trim the rear of the forward fuselage a bit to help tie it into the tail section better and then will need to do something in Plasticard to fill the gap, but it shouln't be too difficult.

Still happy with how its all going. All comments and criticism welcome before I start gluing it all together irreversably

wow this is an odd configuration of parts, but its working so well, i may need to try this in the future

I was wondering where you would go with this one, and I really like the direction you are heading in. Using those bases was brilliant. I can't wait to see the finished project.

As always,thanks for the encouragement

The bits on this one are even more random than normal, given the wide variety of parts available from the kits I've got. I'm also extremely happy about how easy the thing is to fit together, so far at least. I have yet to finish the fuselage fitting at the join. Still quite a large and oddly shaped gap, but it is closing slowly.

Last night and today I managed to get a bit more work done on the Banshee and I'm really happy with the results.

I got the top gubbins sorted with a Chimera hatch, Sentinel engine stacks and some Marine tank bits:







I also moved forward with the fans. I think I've sorted a way to fix them on securely by using the Stormraven tail aerofoil.





Its designed to look like all the worky gubbins pass through the aerofoil, rather than needing a big engine in the centre of the fan. I will try and bulk up the upper surface a bit with something round on both sides.

I will be inserting a plastic tube through the fuselage to fit the fans to. I might also try magnetising the fans a) to allow funky swivelling shenanigans and partly to allow for easy storage

I've also got the landing gear sorted out, so all I really need to do now is to close up the sides of the fuselage and fill any remaining gaps. I think I will leave the fans as clear, to make it look like they are actualy spinning, rather than having snap-shot stationary blades. But I might also try to slot in some clear plastic. Still pondering that one

Not to hijack the thread, but we have a ducted fan assembly in the works

I know you do, but you've had that in the works for at least a year at this point and I ran out of patience (That and the awesome nose cannon that you don't seem to have released either!!1!11)

Also it is a bit big for my purposes here. Are you planning on doing a range of sizes?

Fair point, you got me there! The Valk kit was started way back in 2010, so it's been much more than a year

We're getting a couple of modellers on board and they need projects, so I guess getting a couple of variations on the valk could be a good starter for them.

Love the tail on your conversion, very commanche-esque!

I was thinking commanche when I was doing it, in between the hand cramps and the trying not to slip and eviscerate myself with the modelling knife!

Also if you're looking for other variations on the Valkyrie, have you seen the air assets from Mass Effect 3? There are some nice gunship and aerospace fighter concepts in there.