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What are you basing your stormbird design off of?

Maybe the new Forgeworld one?

I am so glad I found this again STC. Your marine looks stellar, almost Blanche.

I have always been jealous of people who avoid black and instead use blues or browns with greys to make black. I will be following your Stormbird as I wish to build my own soon.

Squuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeee!

He's back, and he brought the awesome!

Nice to see you back in action STC. Excellent progress.

Indeed, the Stormbird will lean quite heavily on the Sokar pattern Stormbird currently in the works over at FW, it will also use it's rules.
I somehow feel that FW won't produce a model for the Warhawk VI Stormbird as it is a damn slight larger than the Sokar and would probably end up at manta-size and I for one do not wish to try to build something -that- big.

The Sokar is described as a late model developed by the Indonysic Block during the Unification wars on Terra from the older and larger Warhawk and Nephoros patterns and was the precursor system that the smaller and nimbler Thunderhawk was designed from.

However it will also take a lot of ques from the Storm Eagle gunship when it comes to hull and enginedesign. Again, I will attempt a modular build here aswell since I am aiming for a fully detailed interior to keep painting it feasible.

"attempt" being the operative word...




Sokar pattern stormbird assault lander for reference.

Good luck! I shall see what I can steal for my Warhawk.

P.S. How did you do the harnesses?

They are looted from the SM Drop Pod kit.

Great to see you back STC, will gladly be watching how these two brilliant vehicles go.

Update time!


Yes, the build goes on and on and it's taking shape nicely. The problems with these kinds of projects is that you are building without a map, or rather, creating, revising and revising the map over and over again as you build the darn thing.
So it takes its' sweet time I'll tell you that.

Pictures!

the top floor is taking shape.



Interior is more or less done, it's just fixing up the corners and tidying things up and then it's off to the primer!







Made some additions for a better powerplant, the original is to puny.




Such gatling, very dakka.





Closing up the top.




Well, here's where we are now.

Looking good!

Looking damn impressive, incredible, awesome and suitably over the top - I love it!

Yeah... what he said!

That looks fantastic! I love what you are doing with the main weapon.

Yup, that's coming up a treat. Love the interior detailing.

That interior is awesome, are you going to add lighting or a removable top so people can see all the work you put into it?

Thats a beast! Really awesome build!

Thank you all, glad you like it.

I will not add any lighting, I don't have the supplies to do the electrical wiring and so on but the top will be removable and I intend to make as many hatches as possible openable and add machinery details inside.

For now I plan on adding two sponsons, each with a single heavy bolter on the sides of the top part.
A bit like in the malcador defender but with a wider sweep-angle, modelling-wise it'll be a standing tube within the margins of the hull so it will (hopefully) resemble the depressed sidesponson on the malcador tank.

like this.

I have NO clue what that thing is or if there's rules for it. But my Iron Warriors want it!

That is looking really great! love the design you've manufactured and the interior is brilliant :-)

@Kepora: It's a more astartes-friendly version of the Stormlord Super-heavy tank, sure my version looses the platform where 20 grunts can stand shooting (transports 40) but I felt that as a heavy assault transport meant to spearhead an armoured thrust into a trenchline or city, protection was paramount.

Also, this one will be used for battles on the Horus Heresy setting so it has more options like being equipped with armored ceramite for melta-immunity or a flareshield to blunt incomming fire (flareshield dongrades all ranged from the fron by -1 str, -2 str if they have some form of blast or template.)

Since it has the assault vehicle rules I thought it needed a proper forward assault-ramp so that the Cataphractii can embark in style.


Original stormlord for reference:

Ahhh, alright. I'm familiar with the Stormlord - your take's just a big departure from it, so that explains it.

I am extremely jealous of your scratch building skills!

Thank you, it's a lot of work but it's really really fun. It's also much easier when you build your own thing rather than copying an existing design because it's so much harder for people to recognize all the small mistakes and somewhat bigger screw-ups.


On a side note: me and a friend is going to start up a small 500pts Heresy Era Zone Mortalis / Suicide Squads thingy and I really want to get to grips with the Mk II and III models and go for an early-crusade era style with volkites wich rather don't fit with the theme for my alpha legion (high-tech, Mk IV - VI ) and so on but I can't decide on a legion.

I am bouncing back and forth between the I, IV, VIII and IX Legions (dark angels, iron warriors, nightlords & raven guard) but I can't make up my damn mind.

Suggestions? Ideas? Pros & Cons?

Raven Guard, obviously!

In fact, I thought you were already there with the Sons of Corax?!?

I made a couple of models of various units, tactical, mor deythan, breacher etc. for a similar thing for the dropsite massacre campaign, now we are looking at a more coherent force.

Pffah, forget the birds - the IVth Legion's the only one ever worth considering.

Will you be scratch building the terrain as well?

Raven Guard are somewhat underrepresented, so I say go for them! They'd also contrast nicely with the AL both in fluff and aesthetic terms (there's plenty of scope to make them really ragtag and gritty, especially post-Dropside).

Your raven guard are gorgeous. Do it!

Everyone wants ravens.... oh well...

@Malika2: I am not sure, probably some of it. I have been meaning to learn how to cast things in resin with silicone molds and this might be a good oppurtunity. scratchbuilding terrain in plasticard is quite expensive and doing repetetive patterns gets old quite fast but if one could build wall-segments and then cast a bunch of them things would indeed be better. At any rate, nothing passes my desk without being converted at least a little.