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Are those engines resin or plastic? If they're plastic, they're amazingly detailed!

Weird - this says that someone has responded to the post but there is nothing...


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And there it is - bug fixed lol. The engines were scratchbuilt and resin cast from what I can tell. They're not too bad detail wise but they could be better. They are a bit rough so I'm doing some tidying up as I can.

Wow I missed nearly all these posts! Great work as usual. That zepplin was fantastic, and the 'nids have a great look. I really prefer that sorta natural insect look instead of the general GW schemes.

I cant handle awesomeness of this magnitude.

Lemmingspawn wrote:Here come the final pictures of the Valkalloon!

WTF??????!!! That is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen!!!! Well done sir, Love it!

Dammit. Waiting for photobucket to stop with the maintenance. I got some cool updates today...

Upload to dakkadakka?

Yeah - I probably could do that too... PB is ready now - so here are some updates now

Anyways - here are my updates. I've got a fair bit of work done on the Tbird, the most time consuming of which is the scratchbuilding of the wing mounted lascannons. I love how they look now, I wasn't going to do this but Maerlyn has actually challenged me to do them right and now I'm very glad I didn't say no, they are definitely starting to look the business. I'm sure you'll be very happy with the progress I've had on it Christo

I like smilies too much

PICS!

Rebuilt Cabin:


Progress on the Lascannons:


Mostly done:


Undercarriage upgrades:



General Repairs:



Replacement Cannon:


I'm not totally happy with the way that the cannon has turned out but it is too destructive to do some of the repairs that are necessary. Maerlyn has given me some other ideas of how to do it but I need to think through the logistics - it's may be too overwhelming...

The only real way to do it would be to totally remove the top compartment and redo it but - phew - that's a big job. Lets consider the ideas of other methods...

COuld always make it build into a LR Battlecannon and have that supported with a heavy duty bipod?

Very nice work on the lascannons. It's tricky to get the proportions right on them when scratchbuilding 'em. I tried a few years ago for my Thunderbolt scratchbuild prototype and I gave up and just went with spare SM lascannons. Great stuff.

I now see what you mean about the detail on the engines. While it looks decent from a distance, close up, it's kinda ugly.

Yeah but I'll weather the hell out of it and that will make them look better

Ok - So I am much happier with this now that I decided to take the plunge. I just ripped out the original gun and built it closer to the forgeworld design. It's hard to do without a selection of tubing that is that size but I worked it out so it's much prettier now. I've also finished adding the extra details to the lascannons and a few other bits and pieces. I also added some extra panelling to the model but the problem is I talked myself out of using 1mm and settled for 0.75mm instead. I know its only a 1/4 of a mm difference but I wish I'd stuck with my original plans. Anyway - it's still looks nice

Turbolaser attachment:


Battlecannon:


Lascannons:


Panelling:


WIP Side sponson twin linked Heavy Bolters:

Here is the hawk riveted and started on the paint. The past 2 days have been spent mostly with an airbrush and tape...





Because of a lack of forethought the forward twin linked HB assemblies are only on a horizontal swivel, not the vertical as well as I originally had. In the original design the guns were too far forward, so I had to remove them and glue them in place, so at least they move side to side...

Well, they move at least!

Ok, well after this I think I'll just start a new thread for each job I do... this is getting confusing with all this random stuff jammed in here

Here are the final pics for the Thunderhawk. The only things I'll be finishing are the lenses, they need some final work, and glossing the lenses and canopy. And then THAT'S IT! This was a flipping HUGE job that took me a bit longer than I anticipated, but I know that's mostly due to all the delays I experienced in the middle of it.

But now it's DONE!














Now those of you with keen modeling eyes will see the couple of shortcuts and liberties I took with this model, so don't sweat it - it's staying like that!

This is pretty much finished unless I get the command to correct something all I need to do are the couple of final touches but they are so minimal I'm counting these as the finished product - while these were being taken the final coat of matt varnish is drying.

A little after the fact, but I love that Valkalloon!

That was a fun one to put together a pain to paint the balloon though...

I could only imagine.