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nooooo.... not a dread that reminds me now as charles x xavier....noooo....!!!!!!!!

and the defiler bit looks very good in the middle...just please with no dread body there!....pretty please?

Well while working on the attack bike and its escort I had an idea of the tempest chicken feet, no not buffalo wing sauce , but the actual talons. Remember I wanted this to be able to be used as a land speeder, storm talon, or a storm raven, or storm eagle (thought don't know their rules). So while using the sentinel legs I decided to use more drop pod bits, namely the straps that are to hold marines in place.

Here is a landed tempest chicken supporting its own weight.

And a front shot of it walking


And since it must carry a dreadnought to be a storm raven.

And profile of it picking up the unit in a combat zone

Lastly a picture of it flying with gear up.

Front

Side

The jets pivot, but need a little poster tack to hold them in place. They also still need some work.
The lights on either side of the cockpit swivel together to spotlight enemy targets.
The flamer under the cockpit is magnetized on, other options to come later.
Wingtip missiles are just poster tacked on for now, but will probably get glued.

Can anyone think of additions I need, besides the egg shaped compartment for the servo skulls that will be attached to the back?

Good work. I can't think of any additions at the moment, but I'll be sure to let you know if I do...

That's cool! I like how the pose where it is about to catch the mech looks realistic!

@Dr. H, thanks, below is the last addition I think it will have.
@Dave, glad it came out that way, I was hoping, but my plans don't always turn out okay.

Well, now it can be a storm raven because attached is the troop carrying department. It can fit more than ten servo skulls, but they wind up a bit scrambled .

This addition already came preprinted as well .

Hopefully my pun didn't lay an egg .........'cricket noise' thanks everybody, I'm here all week

Here Allllllll week?...................so, i should come back next week then? :-)

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Here Allllllll week?...................so, i should come back next week then? :-)

For you I'll come back then as well. No other place will have me after all. Hey I haven't been over I your thread with these jokes.....road trip!!!

^ Lol don't you dare! I can just as easily turn your lovely innocent thread into debauched lunacy too ya'know

You, your slaanesh craziness, and TEMPTRESS chickens.......not a good combination. I will leave your thread in the same shape I found it. I need to take a shower after typing that last line anyway.

Make sure to wash behind your ears?! that's where depravity starts to grow!

So the bare jets that are on the second tempest chicken needed some detailing. I had asked before and people though putting the wire mesh on it was a good option,but how to finish off the bottom of it? Well I had bought these servo skull spotlights from the fortress of redemption thinking I could use them in my army, but the skulls are ogryn sized, so no fitting in. Well, nothing a knife can't fix.

Jet exhaust was made using a 3/4 in circle cutter then cutting the center of that out with a 9/16 to fit the spotlight.

These will be the bottom or business end of the VTOL system.
The top will look something like this

Thinking of making a propeller system for inside, I've kept track of Viks progress, and have an idea from everyone's suggestions, especially our own Dr. H.

You are a master with the circle cutters!

So I really should measure better , one side of the smooth jet has a larger opening, 3/4" inside diameter, but it turned out for the best in my opinion.
The exhausts fit inside the ring which gave it another layer. And if there's anything we ogres have in abundance it's layers.

Here's the intake vents, I need to make some ultra small rivets.

I also worked on the troop bay in case people didn't like the egg idea.

I was inspired by bill Murray in "what about bob", I can only imagine the servo skulls turning to each other and blurting in binary "I'm flyyyyyying"

Combat drop.

Looks good. Sounds good. Look forward to the results.


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Oh yeah, I'm not entirely sold on the egg. I was envisioning many smaller eggs, like one per skull... but work with what you got.

That's just great, no more, no less!

The drop-rail is fantastic!


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Good thing you got your A/C fixed..this is some miserable, humid ass-nasty weather.

Dr H wrote:Looks good. Sounds good. Look forward to the results.


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Oh yeah, I'm not entirely sold on the egg. I was envisioning many smaller eggs, like one per skull... but work with what you got.

If I could find a scale egg carton this would be perfect

SelvaggioSaky wrote:That's just great, no more, no less!

Simplicity is what the imperium should be about. The emperor could care less about the menials, so give them the barest of support, and tanks should be minimalist if as well. Who needs seat belts when we figure your not going to be around long anyways

dsteingass wrote:The drop-rail is fantastic!

Just worked out that way, originally was just a landspeeder, now I'm thinking about making a thunder chicken transporter, or just the thunder chicken itself with space for 30 servo skulls, and. Big gun on top .

I second the big gun idea

cool looking stuff theo
comming together quite nicely

@bama, thanks. The thunder chicken deluxe will have to wait until I have enough of a force together.....basically forever.

While the kids played hide and seek I started thinking about the assault skulls. They needed to be bulked up a bit from basic servo skulls, but do I really need to have full assault troops?

Here's the initial idea. I'm not sold on it yet, but it still needs mechandrite arms and a few mechandrites coming out of the waist to go to the base as legs/supports.

I'm going to use this chest plate for all of them, and use the dark angels emblem for wings similar to the blood angels wings on the sanguinary guard.

The jump packs are the retro thrusters from a drop pod with the searchlight back as the top, and dark angel emblem wings.

I wanted the thrusters to look overpowered just like the marine packs, just slightly smaller. Also thinking of trying a double jet pack.

One of the arm spots will probably house. Bolt pistol or plasma pistol an the other arm have a c.c. Mechandrite.

lol thats great man would have to see the whole thing mocked up before i give final judgement but looking good so far
for your super thunder chicken i recommend getting a bucket of kfc to help you along you know for "inspiration"

That thing looks kinda cool, but for assualt servo skulls I think it's too much. I would imagine something more like the Culexus assassin heads. The skull is there but there's sort of a disk build around the back of it. That's where the engine and laser and other stuff would go... come to mention it, the laser should be in the eye.

Those skull carriers look super cool, too. I'd go with the matching set of engines, to put my to cents in there.

Also, what's going on with that four wheeled thing in the background? If it's already been posted, just let me know and I'll go looking for it.

 The Good Green wrote:
That thing looks kinda cool, but for assualt servo skulls I think it's too much. I would imagine something more like the Culexus assassin heads. The skull is there but there's sort of a disk build around the back of it. That's where the engine and laser and other stuff would go... come to mention it, the laser should be in the eye.

Those skull carriers look super cool, too. I'd go with the matching set of engines, to put my to cents in there.

Also, what's going on with that four wheeled thing in the background? If it's already been posted, just let me know and I'll go looking for it.

The four wheeled thing is the start of the attack bike. There are some two wheeled versions also on the previous page or two. I just got inspired to finish off the tempest chickens.

Hopefully tomorrow night will be productive as the daytime will be spent over at the grandparents again. I need to make a supply run for plastic rod and square tube soon, as I'm almost out. Also ordered more bits to make more bikes and stuff, just waiting now.

Oo oo, you could make one or two like seriously beefed up manhacks (from HL2), that could be cool.

the tempest chicken with those big claws looks wicked... that is a winning ticket for sure!... the fans and all other details are coming currently with ease from your sleave that is making me dizzy^^

as for the assault marine...hmm... you stated you wanted an overpowered jumppack... ok...but i have to tell you my friend that the DA wings look punny and give and air of fat fairy....:



which i think shows what i think of that idea... com´on... go plastic card on this... you know you can do that!

oh and i forgot... those harnessed servoskulls remind me of the ghost arc of the necrons... that has a ton of style mate!

Wow.....and LDD didn't even post that!

It does worry me sometimes the pictures and videos you saved, not that you have them, but that I think about saving hem for later use, and my wife finding them

i don´t save´em... jsut chucking them out to you

Vik your gonna hav to work harder to tempt me than whispering sweet nothing's and posting your pic in my thread .

Got back from grandparents, five trash cans full and they also have greed to get rid of he old magazines. I took maybe a Quarter of what they had stacked. They were in the plastic magazine holders, which fit 8-10 magazines each. I took them to my wife's school to recycle them, I had 46 of those bins that were full and a couple handfuls of loose magazines , at least there's some future in getting I'd of 40 year old cooking magazines. Their basemen is over 3000 sq. ft., four months in and I've got a dent started. I don't even want to start on the Christmas wall they have 20+ wreaths, each with its own container, unfortunately none are in them.

First assault servitor. What can I make for the waist section? Maybe just a collar and exposed mechandrites?


Hopefully get some hobby time later tonight.

Maybe just a collar and exposed mechandrites?

totally that...! this is what i picutre these already... they wont look nice at all but will command respect with each fibre (i just recognized the old handflamer on the shoulder...hmmm.....not sure about that....)

and wow... your grands seem to be quite some hoarders... well i suppose you collct stuff all the more readily when you have a house of your own and never indended to leave that... (moveing...)

and... that´s still not me... ´m not that belly gifted... not that hairy...unfortunatly... and i have early on decided that purple, pink and lilac will never be part of ANY attire i will be adorn myself with...not even over my dead body

and if you pick on me again with such stuff... i will tell you of my adventures in new vegas

what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, even if its a digital Vegas.

I had a bolt pistol for the shoulder, but I dropped it and can't find it. I might get rid of the hand flamer, and put a bolt pistol there if I can find a spare, otherwise he might get a grenade launcher since he can't toss anything. One of the squad will have to get a melta gun or flamer.