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So I figured the Orcs need to loot their aircraft from some where sooooooo I built what i built. Orc players I just looted an Orc vehicle hahaha for the Imperium.


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The Mk 86 "Attack Sabre" entered service with the Yaisdra IX PDF Air Force joining the 1st Fighter Wing's 94th Fighter Squadron and became the primary jet fighter used by the Imperial forces before the introduction of Lightnings by the Krieg Marine Expeditionary Unit during the Yaisdra IX insurgency and invasion. While earlier straight-winged jets such as the Mk 80 and Mk 84 initially achieved air victories, when the swept wing Orc Dakka jets and Bommers were introduced in the beginning of the conflict they immediately outperformed all current Imperial PDF aircraft. In response, three squadrons of Mk 86s were rushed to the front line. Early variants of the Mk 86 could not out turn, but they could out dive the Dakka jets and although the Dakka jet was superior to the early Mk 86 models in ceiling, acceleration, rate of climb and zoom. The introduction of the Mk 86-b in later months made the two aircraft more closely matched, with many combat-experienced pilots claiming a marginal superiority for the Mk 86-b.

Wow this is really cool!!!

I had thought of something like this, but man, you executed this VERY well.

A clean paint job and a bit of conversions and this works well for Imperials!!!

Nicely done!

That's superb.

Really nice!

Is that scratch built, or is it a heavy de-orkifying conversion?

edit: also, cool story, pretty creative.

Reverse-looting?!

Nice work, looks great. Reminds me of the F-86 Sabre, I take it that was the intention with the name you chose?

I approve!

I did the same thing with reverse-looting the Bommer kit but made it a counts-as Avenger. It's in one of the links in my sig.

very very well done. good background too

Thanks guys. Yeah the F86 Sabre was the main inspiration. The de orcing was not too hard but pretty lengthy. In the end I think I got what I wanted. The Mk 86-b is already in the works so hopefully I can post it up too soon. The main idea for this also came from the fact that I play my krieg guard and I wanted another guard army that played different and felt like they were untrained or sub standard compared to my Krieg so I went with the Orc codex for PDF guard.

I might have to steal this idea. Any plans to put a de-orking guide up?

@ Happygrunt if enough of you show an interest or request on this thread i wouldnt mind putting one up on my blog. I plan on doing th ewhole PDF in de orcy equipment so if it helps you all out. Just let me know guys if you want a guide

Coming Soon! I decided

see more details at http://22ndvrrr.blogspot.com/

Love the reverse-looted aspect.

I wonder if anyone's ever reverse-looted any truks to restore them back to what they were before the orks got them.

Nowlan im in the process i will post pics soon

 Nowlan wrote:
Love the reverse-looted aspect.

I wonder if anyone's ever reverse-looted any truks to restore them back to what they were before the orks got them.

http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/06/troop-transport-truck-tutorial-part-two.html

Neat looking conversion, OP. Not a fan of the bright silver paint scheme, but that's a great reverse-looting!

Nice and I love the tip o' the hat to the history of the early years of the jet fighter era.

Valete.

JohnS

Jordan its based on googling F-86 Sabre pics in bare metal silver sheets

 Nowlan wrote:
Love the reverse-looted aspect.

I wonder if anyone's ever reverse-looted any truks to restore them back to what they were before the orks got them.

No I really don't see the point in returning someone's house back to normal and a quarter of a tank to fighting shape .

 chris13f wrote:
Jordan its based on googling F-86 Sabre pics in bare metal silver sheets

I'm aware, I'm just saying that I don't care for bright silver color schemes.

Great job at turning a Dakka Jet into an Imperial Jet Fighter. And a sweet paint job.

I must do something similar, that is gorgeous.

I suppose it would have been stretching things just a tad too far to have actually used the "Hat in the ring" emblem.

Shade1313 I really wanted too(add the hat in the ring), so for my flyboss dakkajet i think i may just for you

 chris13f wrote:
Shade1313 I really wanted too(add the hat in the ring), so for my flyboss dakkajet i think i may just for you

While I was never at Langly, you just can't say things like "1st Fighter Wing's 94th Fighter Squadron" to a 20 year F-15 maintainer and not have him sit up and take notice.

I do love the conversion, and clearly need to do some more looking at the kit, to see if I can make a tie in between me and my dad by converting a "Mk 84" (during his career he worked on a bunch of airframes, including the F-84) in colors reminiscent of the 53rd FS, which was one of my favorite assignments.

Shade that is very very cool! I did some rough drafts for making a rusty Mk84 for the history of my army. I would love to work together and see where we get.

Very nice work!

What was involved in the de-orkifying, other than replacing the crew?

 Hedgehog wrote:
Very nice work!

What was involved in the de-orkifying, other than replacing the crew?

I've been looking at it, on and off, and comparing it to pictures of the Ork Bomma, and what I've got so far is clean up work to the surfaces (removal of the crude leading edge plates riveted on the wings and vert/horizontal stabilizers), omitting the pipes from the engine, cleaning up the engine intake at the nose, leaving off the crude "Orky" landing skid and other bits from the belly.

First Engagement with the 9-24th Krieg Navy Engineers

Chris, this is really cool. I'm subbing this thread. I like what you've done, and you have some cool ideas. We can be friends, even though you're a FISTer(I'm assuming your 13 Foxtrot is your MOS?) .

Really, really nice! Subscribed!!

Simply great.Well done.