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I'm currently working on a Xmas present for a friend of mine, a Stormtalon Gunship with a much needed conversion work and a Salamander inspired colour scheme. As Xmas is approaching fast I put all my other project on hold, only a week to deliver this baby!

My main complains with the standard Stormtalon kit are the big, bulky weapons and that stupid looking frontal landing gear so I decided to move thinks around, extend the wings to make this bird look like... a bird and to move the missiles pods under the extended wings. If I had the time I would also extended the tail a bit

After many hours of cutting and gluing stuff the end result is this:








I put more pictures from more angles on my blog, here

For the colour scheme I decided to try out something different than the standard Salamanders scheme and today I did some practice runs:




The Talon is now primed and ready for painting, tomorrow is going to be a very long day!

Today I was able to complete the fire patterns on the hull! Took me all day but it was worth it i think. It's not 100% perfect but this is the first time I try something like this so I'm quite happy



What do you think of it?

Just a coat of satin varnish and for today the work is complete!

Looks amazing! How on earth did you achieve that effect?

Really nice paint job there. Much more interesting then flat green!

@Elnibbus; thank you! I followed this amazing tutorial by Buypainted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6TlMIYXWw
I did it first on a flat surface (a sheet of plasticard) as a test run

@Zwan1One: thank you!

That is amazing looking. Really digging the green flames. Consider me subbed.

Garion, thanks for the link dude- I really want to paint something in Fire Hawks colours now...

@Snrub: thank you! I appreciate the feedback

@Elnibbus: you are welcome! The orginal red/orange combination will go pretty well with the Fire Dragons.. or with their tank

I got many questions about how I painted the flames so I decided put a step-by-step on my blog: link

will it also get red/yellow flames?

i love the conversion and im on the fence for the paintjob (not because it doenst look good but i dont know how it will look when its done) so post more progress pictures when available

@DijnsK: I'm not planning to add more flames. My idea was to use the flames to convey the Salamander theme (green color and fire)

I'm currently working on the techmarine pilot even if it will be mostly hidden by the canopy

Hi guys,
tonight I could only work on the Techmarine so here it is:




Nothing fancy, just a quick zenithal work and some metallic details. Tomorow I will complete him with gold and shadows.

I was asked to take some better pictures of the flames, so here they are:













While taking this pictures I spotted some mistake that I need to fix or maybe hide under a decal lol

Wow! You have some serious skill with an airbrush, this is going to be one good Christmas present!

@Commander Cain: thank you! I really just started to use an airbrush, you could see where I made some mistakes on the model lol

I'm wondering if it will be worth to make a smaller stencil and go over the existing flames with an additional layer of smaller ones.

What do you guys think?

i love the wing conversion i have never seen this before and i will probably end up stealing it.

Also the Paint looks amazing and i love the effect.

Thanks for sharing

Ooh, lovely paintjob, really unique and full of character. Can you test the smaller flames on the pice of card you used at the start to see how it looks? (and post the results

And the conversion rocks, looks so much better like this...

This looks pretty cool. Additionally your use of teardrop shaped flames is also reminiscent of scales on many parts of the model, which is fitting for the Salamanders theme.

@NoQuestionzAsked: steal away
I learned so much from the online comunnity so the least I can do was share back what I can

@Ruglud: sure, I would do that! I'm not sure I will use the small flames on the model but I would give them a go on that test piece of plasticard I did in the beginning

@Mephistoles1: thank you! I think that this tecnique could be adapted to "paint" actual scales. I would try to do so if I have to paint a land raider or a rhino

This is looking really good

Whenever I try to do this my paints always spatter too much - Guess I do not have them thin enough

@SilverMK2: it could be that or the pressure is too high


After some experimentations I found the correct color mix to bring back the green and still maintain the highlighting effect of the yellow layer.

This is the obligatory "before and after" shoot using the two engine/wing assemblies:



And this is the main body of the talon:



I used a mix of around 4:1 of Vallejo Game Color Fluo Green and Vallejo Gloss Medium heavily thinned

Now I just need to wait for this first coat to dry before do the same on the underside

What do you think?

Looks pretty damn cool to me

I will have a look at the pressure but I am only using about 15 PSI as it is

I love this, awesome job!

@SilverMK2: Thank you! I drop down to around 10 PSI when I have to be this close to the model

@Wolfsblood: Thank you!

Project complete and shipped to my friend!













I posted more picture on my blog here and a little video on my YouTube channel here

Any C&C very welcome!

Not only does the model look cool but the colour scheme rocks.

Excellent. Very cool man I must say my polish friend form Buypainted has some nit ideas doesn't he

Whoa now, hold your Hormagaunts! That isn't finished yet...you haven't painted the cockpit framing.

However it's a very minor quibble over an otherwise excellent model. I quite like Stormtalon "as is" but this looks absolutely great!

Great job!

The airbrushing and the hazard strips are really good dude. I would however, say that some washing would bee needed on the metallic areas.

Looks freaking awesome!

@shingouki: thank you!

@Brovatar: that man is insanely awesome

@Squigsquasher: yeah I know, I wanted to do it but i runned out out time. I must have delivered the gift today so I couldn't do it :(

@Elnibbus: i did some but I could not do a second application for lack of time

@Zwan1One: thank you!

That is vert nice indeed.