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Hello,
I have been given a fun assignment, a friend who is one of my favorite people to trade with got a FW renegades army a bit ago and finally opened the boxes, (he gets armys and then turns them to get more BA stuff), in side he had some valks, renegades, chimeras, baneblade and a vulture with FW parts on the valks. Now me, I saw something I wanted to paint as I have not painted a plane kit since the 80s, it was one of the Valks. Funny thing was I noticed that they seem to have the engine parts exposed to the elements as well as casual ork fire, this seems strange to me as it is a CAS/Trans plane, so I am thinking of building low profile engine covers for it, and wondered what others thought? I have a pic in progress of the plane below.

Regards,
Carl

I worry that engine covers could make them look too bulky.

Hello,
Thank you for the prompt response, I was wondering on that, it think it is just the old soldier in me that makes me not want to have the engines gooey bits uncovered. I might try to do very close fitting ones, just to cover the wiring and fuel delivery modules. I also think it might be best that Aniken Skywalker does not see what we did with his pod racer engines. Thanks!

Regards,
Carl

If you can get it close fitting enough it should look good. Maybe Vacuum form a sheet of lexan or plasticard stock over a PVC pipe using a heat gun or a few minutes in an oven, or bend some thin metal??? it cant possibly be any more bulkier than it currently is could it?

I had the same opinion.

I made up covers for mine.
I heated* up some sheet plasticard and shaped it around a broom handle (1" diameter), trimmed them to size and glued them in place.


*Hair dryer. It was 0.25mm Evergreen sheet styrene (010).