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Hey as the title says needing help with building my forge world vulture. Not got any instructions with it and as its my first one at a loss where to start any advice/tips would be a great help as couldn't find any videos on how to build one.

Email FW and they'll probably send one out to you.

I've emailed them about sending me one but from what I've read there instructions can be pretty useless anyway

The instructions are essentially useless. The good news is that it only fits together one way. The bad news is that you'll likely have to straighten many of the parts and in the case of mine totally scrap the canopy frame and scratch build a new one to get it to fit. Oh, and I hope you have a razor saw handy,

What? I didn't find their instructions useless at all...

In any case, the Vulture's not that complicated, just use other pictures online for reference.

What are you trying to figure out? I still have a set of instructions and can scan them for you, but all it shows is some pictures of the assembled model and you can get those on FW's website. It should be pretty straightforward though, it doesn't have very many parts and if you have a picture of the finished model it's very obvious where everything goes.

helotaxi wrote:
The instructions are essentially useless. The good news is that it only fits together one way. The bad news is that you'll likely have to straighten many of the parts and in the case of mine totally scrap the canopy frame and scratch build a new one to get it to fit. Oh, and I hope you have a razor saw handy,

Thankfully that won't be a problem, since the new Vulture kit uses parts (including the canopy glass and frame) from the Valkyrie. My old all-resin Vulture had some problems, but all of my newer ones have gone together without any problems at all.

Yeah you should not have to many issues with the new half plastic half resin one.
I had a bit of an issue with the wings fitting onto the engine but apart from that it was smooth to build. Well as smooth as forgeworld gets.

Just make sure the weapons are in exactly the same place on each wing and have some green stuff handy.

 Peregrine wrote:
What are you trying to figure out? I still have a set of instructions and can scan them for you, but all it shows is some pictures of the assembled model and you can get those on FW's website. It should be pretty straightforward though, it doesn't have very many parts and if you have a picture of the finished model it's very obvious where everything goes.

helotaxi wrote:
The instructions are essentially useless. The good news is that it only fits together one way. The bad news is that you'll likely have to straighten many of the parts and in the case of mine totally scrap the canopy frame and scratch build a new one to get it to fit. Oh, and I hope you have a razor saw handy,

Thankfully that won't be a problem, since the new Vulture kit uses parts (including the canopy glass and frame) from the Valkyrie. My old all-resin Vulture had some problems, but all of my newer ones have gone together without any problems at all.

I'm curious, did prices go down after they switched from full-resin to part-resign?

Also you may want to place some weights in the front cockpit before putting in the plastic to help balance it, it's extremely back heavy on a flying stand.

Pins may be necessary in the flying stand even if you do that.

Cheers for the advice so far any tools I will need for it that are a must?

For my Stormblade, I absolutely had to have a razor saw, a set of metal files, some Liquid Green Stuff, some Green Stuff and a set of clippers to take off all the flash :3

Mine is one of the original all resin models and like I said, razor saw was a must. I'm happy to hear that the new kit is better sorted.

I'm curious, did prices go down after they switched from full-resin to part-resign?

Sorry, no clue. I got my resin Vulture on ebay after they were already OOP, so I don't know what the original price was.

And here's the instruction sheet.

 Enigwolf wrote:

I'm curious, did prices go down after they switched from full-resin to part-resign?

This is kind of a hard question to answer.

As of right now? The price went down by 5 GBP compared to the 2006 catalog price from FW.
In 2011/2012 however, the Vulture was 57 GBP rather than 60 GBP...so the price has gone back up at some point.
The weapon prices have seemingly gone down though.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Enigwolf wrote:

I'm curious, did prices go down after they switched from full-resin to part-resign?

This is kind of a hard question to answer.

As of right now? The price went down by 5 GBP compared to the 2006 catalog price from FW.
In 2011/2012 however, the Vulture was 57 GBP rather than 60 GBP...so the price has gone back up at some point.
The weapon prices have seemingly gone down though.

Interesting. Thanks!