Saw this plane in Poundland (uk) the other day and I thought it could make a Fighta for my ever expanding Ork apoc army.



So I started to rip it apart...

It comes apart nice and easy..



I decided to make it a mono wing jet. Took out the prop and made a basic turbine.

Then I put in a cut down plastic tube for the jet exhaust and cut down the canopy.


THats all so far. Needs the wings bent up a bit , some armour plates, guns a bigger control surfaces. bombs and one or two rivets.



Wadya think any ideas?

great so far! and a great find too.
i'd suggest metal plates on the sides
and wings. you know, Ork it up!

looks good! you great some great sized toys in those stores. I've got a converted hovercraft chimera, cost 1.99 plus a few spares to 40K it up

Paintjob will do a lot no doubt.

I would also reccomend trying to dig up a better pilot. Never liked the Gorkamorka vehicle crews. Minor I know!

I like it! It reminds me of the origional ork Fightas. Oh, and the fact that it cost you $1 is awesome!

Looks great. It just needs from big shootas mounted on its nose and some bombs and missiles on pylons under the wings.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Paintjob will do a lot no doubt.

I would also reccomend trying to dig up a better pilot. Never liked the Gorkamorka vehicle crews. Minor I know!

I just put him in for scale. I'm going to put a more uptodate ork in , probably with a scarf blowing in the wind . The cockpit will have to been done next as the body will have to be sealed up.

looks kl i like it it looks so sexy i want to make lov to it um....

i like the way this is going.
looking forward to seeing it completed

Me too! Lucky find there as well, it even looks like a good size. Make sure when your painting it, a bomba HAS to have a flame job. I think its a rule or something

Flame or Teeth on the front? Hmmm I was thinking of a black/white check pattern , I remember a ww2 thunderbolt model with a pattern around its nose.

Like this
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But red , cos red ones ....

I never would've thought I'd see that thing again

Here's mine, sorry for the bad pic.

Anung Un Rama wrote: I never would've thought I'd see that thing again

Here's mine, sorry for the bad pic.

They sell them in Germany too! I see you went for the monoplane too.

yours is sexy to um...

Great idea have to scan around there sometime soon. Of course I hope your going the sensible logical orky route both flames and teef.

vodski wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote: I never would've thought I'd see that thing again

Here's mine, sorry for the bad pic.

They sell them in Germany too! I see you went for the monoplane too.

Actually, I didn't buy one. It was left by a little kid at my parents' store once and after he didn't came back to the store after a week I decided to salvage it.

hey showw us some pics when its done
its looking good

Heres an update on the WIP.

Found an ork in my spares box , GS'ed him some goggles and a scarf. Then made him a cockpit which , ( fingers crossed ) , should fit it nicely.


I'm going to use the stubbers and rockets for big shootas and bombs. I will have to magnatize the bombs so I can remove them once they are dropped and miss there target.


I've also put big shootas in the nose,


Added some plates to the rear of the jet exhaust and made a bigger rudder.


The work goes ever on!

Great little project. Good job mate!

Keep this up; this is one of the only Ork vehicles I have ever seen that is any good!

Looks great so far

it could enhanced by bits of random metal(of different texture) and ork glyphs

but i bet it will look great with a paint job

This is a great project. Very inspirational.

is that thing for sail? ill buy it, i LOVE it!!

amazing work! keep it up,

Moar armor panels! Great start, though! The execution on this conversion is looking really solid. There are a lot of toy-to-fighta conversions out there that I've seen that just look like toys with orkabitz stuck to them, but I'm confident that it will look truly Orky when you're done with it.

SamG123 wrote:Looks great so far

it could enhanced by bits of random metal(of different texture) and ork glyphs

but i bet it will look great with a paint job

Oh its all on its way eventually. Then I might buy another if it turns out o.k.

What's the name/model number of that toy?

They make perfect FightaBombas (well, your sure is nice!) and the price is right, though I'd have to eBay them as I'm in the US.

Thanks!

If people don't know where to get them I could put some on ebay on "buy it now" and give the item numbers so you can on them , at cost price.
The omly thing I dont like is that its made from quite soft plastic , and not easy to glue to. I put the plasticard on with poly cement which is ok , and the rudder on with superglue and the jet exhaust with "no nails". Its a bit of trial and error as to which will be best.

burb1996 wrote:I like it! It reminds me of the origional ork Fightas. Oh, and the fact that it cost you $1 is awesome!

it cost him £1, ignorant colonial!


no offence!

Dollar , Pound , theres not much difference nowadays.

vodski wrote:If people don't know where to get them I could put some on ebay on "buy it now" and give the item numbers so you can on them , at cost price.
The omly thing I dont like is that its made from quite soft plastic , and not easy to glue to. I put the plasticard on with poly cement which is ok , and the rudder on with superglue and the jet exhaust with "no nails". Its a bit of trial and error as to which will be best.

I'm gonna pop into my local poundland this weekend and see if i can get a couple !

I love it, to start with when i saw your post i was doubtful, i i think when its all painted it will rock. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the encouragement everyone. Its slow progress, work , kids , playing in bands and sleeping just seem to get in the way. And big up the v dub posse in the area!

The work continues a bit faster than usual . I've got a little hobby shed , where I do my thing. My wife has got a shed where she keeps stuff to sell on ebay. She always takes care to lock her shed , you can never be to carefull. So on saturday morning she was taking the kids swiming . She popped her head into my hobby shed to remind me to put up a shelf for here . When she finished she closed the door to my shed , and locked it!. So I was locked in for over two hours untill she came back. This meant I couldn't put up the shelf or go to town to pick up a mic for the nights gig. But it did mean I could work on my fighta. So I added more panels and bits , then rivets and more rivets and some rivets.





And I could take no more so I've primed it and started undercoating. I think it might work.

What a great littel find, nice work all and all so far, I had my doubts in the beginning but I think you have pulled it off quite well. keep us posted.

Its looking great! Ive only just noticed your V Dub comment!

What do you drive?

Oh yeah red goes faster

http://www.mk5gti.co.uk

Used to have a 74 camper. A wonderfull pile of rust I loved dearly. Went on a few vanfests and had a great time . Can't beat the Dub community.

Very nice, it looks great.

I love what you're doing but, for a Fighta... you're way too small.
Would probably be better as a custom Deffkopta.

Looks GREAT, though.


Eric

I'm quite happy with the size. I always liked the german early jet , the Komet which was very small. Just an engine with wings.

OMG it looks amazing, love the metal plates and glyphs, much more orky and also it looks great painted

BTW what intrument do you play in your band?

That truly is a work of art you have there.

Excellent work; really like how you've worked this up from the stock toy. Looking forward to seeing it completed in all its glory.

AJC

SamG123 wrote:OMG it looks amazing, love the metal plates and glyphs, much more orky and also it looks great painted

BTW what intrument do you play in your band?

Well I play guitar and sing in a pub rock band ( myspace.com/the_stand_rock ) and bass in a contempory irish folk band ( look for " peel your own spuds" on you tube and myspace ).

"The Stand?"
Sorry for the OT, but I can't help it.

When I was in high School in the 80's, some of my classmates had a top 40 band called "The Stand."

Weird.


Anyway, just to reiterate, I really DO like the looks of it. It's making me think I should buy a toy at a garage sale this summer and LOOT it.

Eric

Looks great, man - can't wait to see more paint on it!

Great, you can hardly see the original toy!

Randomly bolted on metal panels... yeah!
Makes it seem patched up. Real Orky IMHO...

Azmo

Thats a pretty sweet bomba.
And Im sure your wife "accidentally" locked you in there.

KingCracker wrote:Thats a pretty sweet bomba.
And Im sure your wife "accidentally" locked you in there.

Don't go there. Mistakes were made , now is not the time for finger pointing or recriminations. I just wish she'd stop laughing about it so much.
The painting continues , I'm making slow progress . It was looking ok , then I black washed it and it looked rubbish , so I,m wrestling with it at the moment.

Heres the latest...




I think I'm almost done

vodski wrote:If people don't know where to get them I could put some on ebay on "buy it now" and give the item numbers so you can on them , at cost price.

Hey!

I'd like to take you up on this very generous offer, if you're still willing!

We don't have to use eBay either, as I'm OK with the 'honor system' (and PayPal, I suppose) to carry the day.

Let me know!

And thanks!

this is very inspirational! i didn't realise how effective cheap toys would be for ork armies! great looking model,keep going!

NEEDS MORE DAKKA

Aurog wrote:NEEDS MORE DAKKA

I think its got all the dakka the rules allow. Sad I know but it would only miss anyway. I would like a kamikazi crashing rule though.

CANT EVA HAVE ENUFF DAKKA

Most importantly: I like it.
Second most importantly: I was wrong re: Deffkopta. it's too big for that.

Now, those aside. I only have 2 problems with it. First, I think your dags would look better black & white than red (looks orangish) and yellow.

Second: it's too clean.

I'd love to see oil leaks from panels near the "worky bits," & a lot of chipping and scarring on the entire thing (especially the added panels). There should be plenty of metal showing through the paint jobs.

Oh... and I'd like to see more color diversity in your added panels, too. Like they were taken from various SM or IG tanks and the like.

Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:Most importantly: I like it.
Second most importantly: I was wrong re: Deffkopta. it's too big for that.

Now, those aside. I only have 2 problems with it. First, I think your dags would look better black & white than red (looks orangish) and yellow.

Second: it's too clean.

I'd love to see oil leaks from panels near the "worky bits," & a lot of chipping and scarring on the entire thing (especially the added panels). There should be plenty of metal showing through the paint jobs.

Oh... and I'd like to see more color diversity in your added panels, too. Like they were taken from various SM or IG tanks and the like.

Eric

I wanted yellow/red to be more speed freak , I've got lots of goff boys with black and white . Yeh at the moment its got the fresh off the forecourt look , and I usually add UM blue and tau colours to panels to needle my fellow players . Also smoke trails from the guns and jet engine , leaks from mechanikal parts , I'm all over it. So one more painting session. I think I'll start on the base first though. With the base done I can use it in a game " as is " and grunge it up " as and when". Cheers for the comments.

I think thats superb. I too was doubtful at first but it worked a treat.

Theres a poundland ( and poundworld) in Newcastle, I reckon I may investigate this.

That conversion is so effective... brilliant work.

Awesome piece of work, this is what I love about orcs!

I really like the conversion, however, I'm not a fan of the paint scheme. I know, it's the traditional ork colors, I just like the more realistic, dark and gritty orks.

You use the colors of your most common opponents in an effort to get under their skin?

Why that's atrocious. How very Orky of you.

I heartily approve. : )

Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:You use the colors of your most common opponents in an effort to get under their skin?

Why that's atrocious. How very Orky of you.

I heartily approve. : )

Eric

But of course! The first move of the battle is in the mind.

I've been seeing tha avatar for months now , and for the first time I realized who it is . C'mon do the "truffle shuffle".

This idea is now so blatantly stolen. Hope you dont mind.

I sourced the toys in Poundland, checked them out and will buy at least three on next stock delivery.

Orlanth wrote:This idea is now so blatantly stolen. Hope you dont mind.

I sourced the toys in Poundland, checked them out and will buy at least three on next stock delivery.

The great thing about ideas is that , you may steal it ,but i still have it. I'm getting together some to send to the states for some dakkites. I hope to see all of your efforts here in the future.

vodski wrote:I've been seeing tha avatar for months now , and for the first time I realized who it is . C'mon do the "truffle shuffle".

Now, I wouldn't be going OT like this if it wasn't the Thread's author who brought it up...

I used to have an animated .gif of it as my avatar on Bartertown.

I watched the moving again, late last year. I found it amazingly funny that, though MANY people know and love the "Truffle Shuffle," it only lasted for about 2 seconds in the movie.

Eric

This is a great job. Your work makes it look like a GW or FW model kit that has been painted up - a great conversion. Very good paint scheme too. Yeah, I want to take a week's vacation and build this and some stompas and about 300 boyz to go with them.

dietrich wrote:This is a great job. Your work makes it look like a GW or FW model kit that has been painted up - a great conversion. Very good paint scheme too. Yeah, I want to take a week's vacation and build this and some stompas and about 300 boyz to go with them.

300 Boyz! Good luck with that then. I just painted up 80 boyz , hard work, and I used the easyist paint scheme. I've just got this plane to finish, a stomper and 8 gaunts to make into gargoyles and I've painted everything! Just in time for the new IG codex to be released , bugger. New superheavys , valks , new leman russes. Will it ever end!

Great paintjob. I don't know if this is what you were going for, but the colors are very Rogue Trader-era orks rather than current ork colors.

Well I should learn to use the camera correctly. The picture is more orangey than the real thing. And I've recently given it a wash with the gw red wash ( can't remember the name ). I've also made it dirtier and battle worn . But I know what you mean. The colours were inspired by George Dellapina's army. He uses yellow as the main colour and blue and red on his markings. Which are painted nice and bright.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ifelix.net/gamingblog/wp-content/img_0309_2_bc01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ifelix.net/gamingblog/%3Fcat%3D124&usg=__uQVarn82AvZUU6KeB43uHiAiwJY=&h=524&w=450&sz=64&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=Xx4Rxti8GVGONM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgeorge%2Bdellapina%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4PBEA_en-GBGB286GB287%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

I believe the link is broken because i see the address and not the pic :(

Sorry try the un google version.
http://www.ifelix.net/gamingblog/?cat=124

randomfrog wrote:I really like the conversion, however, I'm not a fan of the paint scheme. I know, it's the traditional ork colors, I just like the more realistic, dark and gritty orks.

realistic? they are green killing machines that are distantly related to mushrooms :|

nice bomma though

I can take no more , and give no more time . So I declare "finished" on this one.

Heres are the last pics. First the base.



On the board.


And the final paint up. Still looks a touch more orange than in real life.




Hope you like it. If you find his toy in the poundshop and "do it up" , then please post your results. I would imagine that you dakkites could do a much more inventive job than me. Although I did think of having a grot parachute half way to the base , or hanging from a fueling hose where the pilot had taken off a bit to eagerly. But these ideas never got off the ground ( pardon the pun ). Cheers Mike

Its official, I bloody love it!

Well done old man

most awesome

That is cool. Now get another one and get a whole squad done!

It looks great, even with the skin cancer colour scheme. As with others, I might have to regard Poundland as a mecca for items other than anti-perspirant.

I was leery in the beginning but you've really pulled it off and it looks great!

thalor

That's just freaking awesome!!
Well done

How did you make those long flying stands ( the long sticks where the plane sits on)

Really great work - great to follow along from the concept to the final model. What's next?

AJC

Love it.
Very Orky.

That is totally awesome.

Uriels_Flame wrote:That is cool. Now get another one and get a whole squad done!

You first. I'm going to see if it does a job on the field of play. Then I've got to find some more of them.

floppy wrote:That's just freaking awesome!!
Well done

How did you make those long flying stands ( the long sticks where the plane sits on)

I work as an alarm engineer , so I get around factories and shops a lot. I was working in a womens clothes shop in crickhowell . ( thats Wales , england ). A place called Pips ,( big up nuff respect to the pips posse, ay!). In the back store room they had hat stands for displaying 4 hats at a time. A plastic base with 4 perspex rods and a discs on the ends . The lightbulb lit above my head and I asked if I could have a spare as a stand for my sons plane. They said ok as long as I put a sheep on the scenic base. Does a grot count as a sheep?

AJC: Whats next. Well I've got a stompa to do next , something nice and simple , box standard.

Anti Mag: Skin cancer colour scheme? If I remenber correctly , its what the advertising graphic designers refer to as a," blood and vomit" colour scheme.

Thanks to all for the positive and constructive comments.

OMG your a genius i love it the paint job, i love the grot on the base and i love it genrally.

Congrats to you

I really like the scheme; it definitely works, and it looks great on that stand. I meant no offence with the previous comment!

So... who's up for true scale Aeronautica Imperialis?

Absolutely fantastic! Perfect 'character' to it.

it looks awsome i like it much more than the FW version

If anyone in the UK can find say three of these in a Poundland (!), your modeling brother in the USA would be very grateful!

We could work out a trade or, as always, a cash transaction.

Please help if you can!

well i hav seen some simmilar stuff in a poundland near me what do you hav for trade

It is sweet. Great job. I looked around a poundshop, but didn't find any planes!! But no worries, I have enough Deffkopta's to keep me going!

I had my doubts at first but now it looks amazing!