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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
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/P47.750pix.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File47.750pix.jpg&usg=__rBbMdn-EqLvB8BBiYvIh8Ut9sqQ=&h=435&w=750&sz=39&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=nBf7t8PKjegogM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=141&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dp47%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

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.