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That is correct, for my orks, I scratch built a Trukk/Half-trakk but this time i am going to go really nuts and make a full grown (well for Apocalypes and such) Fighta Bomma from a few spare bits and a lot of plasti-card and wot-nots! I present for you all the basic concept of the Sn-87(Coz the concpets 1-86 all crashed, or blew up!) "Snukka Dive Bomma!

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At least that is the basic design concept, whether it looks exactly like that or something else is all based on how the inner Big Mek in me decides to take things! But at least i will make it look different, and it will not be a simple 1/48scale model kit bash as I have not the cash to get a model aircraft for such a project.

have you looked at klaus blog here? he made a flyer once that has on some parts some sharded features... i like the concept... the bent wing thing will look really good! the nose looks cool...what i would built up a bit more is the bottom (?) as there seemingly nothing happens... at least a turret like the flying fortresses of WWII would be nice to add...or baybe two...as there is never enough dakka^^

one hint... for the engine exhausts i have collected this for my own uses one far away day:

the shape and the details make it for me very jet like looking...

also those caps for dishwashingbottles shown here have lots of possibilities for your cause:



with this you definatly take the major amount of thread following on my acount^^

cheers, vik

Oh I do intend to simply use that as the basis of the machine, as i said, I doubt the plane will stay exactly as drawn, and then that flying machine will make my Orks a true terror on the battle tables!

have you seen those pics? do you see some use in them?

also i used something like this for the mainbody of the engines for my airship:


turned into this:

Oh I am sure i will find something to bulk out the belly sections!

Playing this song as I work on the Fighta Bomma;

that is quite fitting in my book too^^

Made the Bulkheads first from thick stock
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Then lined them up on a sheet of thinner plastic, and added spars for rigidity.
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? well do you create a sort of innner skeleton? for your bomma, or what am i seeing here?

Inner skeleton, here with qa Deathstrike missile.

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Now with a IG soldier for a size reference.
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Getting trimmed down, and I am going to add panels to the sides as well.
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ok, i see now this is going to be a big model...what was the deatstrike missle for? will this be a feature of the bomma? or something else brewing in your mind?^^

That is a IG codex weapon
D3+3inch radius for the blast, making the template 8-12inches across, and the full strength against anything it has under that template!

Yes, the Snuka will be a full sized fighta-dive-Bomma

This model will likely be nearly 2ft long! the nose and tail have yet to go on! I may make holes for the wings, which will have tubes for them to slide into the fuselage sections

Here are the progress pics so far for today
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This looks promising in an orky kinda way ;D

Sevenups wrote:This looks promising in an orky kinda way ;D

Because it is a totally Orky kind of plane,,,well, soon to be plane

well i find that rather difficult to comment at this time...seeing how painstackenly you assembled the perun from scratch so to speak and then comparing your work with the "snukka"...i see that the concept is quite a challenging thing to make real, for now it looks pretty crude...wich is of course ork trademark number one...so i have to rest my feet to wait for further developments as this is merely the begining of a very interresting voyage...

and you as our tour guide will show us the way^^

cheers, vik

looks rather big... but is orky. WAAAAAAAAGH


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sorry...

Viktor von Domm wrote:well i find that rather difficult to comment at this time...seeing how painstackenly you assembled the perun from scratch so to speak and then comparing your work with the "snukka"...i see that the concept is quite a challenging thing to make real, for now it looks pretty crude...wich is of course ork trademark number one...so i have to rest my feet to wait for further developments as this is merely the begining of a very interresting voyage...

and you as our tour guide will show us the way^^

cheers, vik

I am literally applying bitz together as if I were an Ork Big Mek for this one as opposed to the Adeptus Mechanicus who painstakingly worked on every nut and bolt, made by hand! Oh yeah, the orky plane will also have rivets! The Snukka is to truly have that ramshackly feel to it that many Ork constructs have, but it holds together just because Orks believe it will!

tough n' orky wrote:looks rather big... but is orky. WAAAAAAAAGH



sorry...

Of course, it';s a fighta bomma, not a fighta.


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Oh and there4 is plenty of Dakka bitz planned for this plane, I have spare Big Shootas and loota weapopns for it!

i command thee to use square rivets for this here...this would look stunning even more^^

as for big mek style on building... i think this suits the model... if you catch the spirit it should look like then the easiest (kind of^^) way is to built it like how the faction would do it...so don´t forget to eat a squigg now and then^^

Burp! wot didja say?

I had been out, so did not get new work done on it today, sad I know. But I may do some work as I watch some of the last parts of Lexx. Got ideas and some caps for the engine afta-burnas!

ahh....when no work is being done but the mind cruises around the project then that is no time wasted at all^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:ahh....when no work is being done but the mind cruises around the project then that is no time wasted at all^^

These things percolate in my head like a fever until i get them out!

i guess that goes with the creative hobby...it is nothing like being a king or policemen... being creative you don´t get free time... you´re always on shift ...always you have to wear the helmet...

Or a beanie hat with propeller

You going for a solid hull construction, or will there be some interior details available ?

hmmm that would be a nice addition....at least the cockpit and the turrets...that would be nice...some grotz behind some big dakka

windshields are optional with grotz anyway^^

mayhaps have the glass broken and have an ork poking out or have one on top...

monkeytroll wrote:Or a beanie hat with propeller

You going for a solid hull construction, or will there be some interior details available ?

Sadly, I have not enoughdecent bitz to make a good interior, I was going to use solid plastic painted blue for the windshields.

Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm that would be a nice addition....at least the cockpit and the turrets...that would be nice...some grotz behind some big dakka

windshields are optional with grotz anyway^^

Oh I wish I could make that decent interior, I make have the turret set up to swivel though. At least then I would have some moving parts!

tough n' orky wrote:mayhaps have the glass broken and have an ork poking out or have one on top...

I may make a hapless rigger trying not to get sent flying away hanging on for his life.

No worries, that's a good option for a faster build anyway I was just wondering if the spacers were going to help represent interior partions is all

ok i see... no bitz no innards...sad but true...but we do create like hollywood...all front...sometimes i have to say this mantra to myself... it doesn´t have to work... merely just look as if^^...

monkeytroll wrote:No worries, that's a good option for a faster build anyway I was just wondering if the spacers were going to help represent interior partions is all

Had I some cocpit ;like bitz, I would definitely have made a sloppy Ork like one for sure.

Viktor von Domm wrote:ok i see... no bitz no innards...sad but true...but we do create like hollywood...all front...sometimes i have to say this mantra to myself... it doesn´t have to work... merely just look as if^^...

Yes. it just has to look like it will work, that is how the orks do it.



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This Fighat Bomma is shaping up at last! the central fuselage is looking better!
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Mounting for the Turret
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How I plan to make it a three engine beasty!
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Nose and tail starting to shape up there
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This Fighat Bomma is shaping up at last! the central fuselage is looking better!
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Mounting for the Turret
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How I plan to make it a three engine beasty!
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Nose and tail starting to shape up there
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