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Hey everyone i've been thinking and planning my blackhawk project for my IG, but then it occured to me if i used say normal ig they would not fit with my DKOK army thats also in progress , so i was wondering does anyone hve any head uggestions for the pilots and troops sitting on the edge of the blackhawk to make them look mor dkok ?

if i didnt make sencee just say haha i hav a tendancy to do so
anyhoo ill post pics as soon as i get some cash to splash on this project haha

all the best
Wolf

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also iforgot toask what scale would be appropiate for a balckhawk for GW ig, to keep it all in proportion.

I'd say for making normal IG DKoK, GS and PigIron are your friends

thats exactly what i was going to suggest. pigiron make some really awesome heads that would fit with your IG army

do you think these heads would suite them best ? http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd_2_window.htm
i was thinking of making them into a kind of DKOK storm troopers and all in all make it into a diorama of the choppers flying overheads with the miniguns rattling away killing off Orks
and also i was thinking of the blackhawk been scaled of 1/35 or is taht too big do you recon ?

I think the scale depends, death korp might get away with 1/48 scale models as they are fairly small themselves, however if you use cadians or plastics combined with other metal heads i think you will be better off with 1/35, will look a better scale to the models in my opinion anyway.

While 1/48 is probably as close as you will get to 28mm scale (though 1/56th is almost a perfect match but look tiny when you put them next to anything but historical figures), i think the nature and of 40k and the fact everything seems a bit chunky and over sized 1/35 models are always a good starting point.

Cadian heads for the pilot and co pilot would look pretty cool, they look a bit top gun anyway, and if they're behind a screen then they don't need the gas masks/rebreathers that the DKoK dudes wear.

what is a blackhawk

this is a blackhawk http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GBfficial&hs=gSl&resnum=0&q=blackhawk&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi its coming along nicely actully im just trying to fidn a camera that has decent photo taking capabilities !

Technically, you should be buying Valkyries...

i know what a blackhawk is. i was inquiring what you would use it for.

Hes making a diorama with a 20th century scale model and 40th century figures.

haha well im jut getting photos of it, the chopper is mostly built just gptta wait for these heads to start finishing off these troops.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Technically, you should be buying Valkyries...

If everyone followed this logic, there wouldn't be a whole lot of converting in the model world, now would there?

Hope to see some pics soon... I think if you put enough effort into '40king' up the 'Hawk this project should work well.

pcon426 wrote:i know what a blackhawk is. i was inquiring what you would use it for.

Now you didn't, you very specifically asked "what is a blackhawk". Though since you lacked any punctuation, it might have been a wierdly worded rhetorical statement I suppose.

How are you planning on integrating the Cadians with your DC? I am thinking the PI heads and GS will work, especially if you extend the bottom of the Cadian frock coats down, leaving their armor on the outside of the jacket, as if they put it on over top.

Still, John might have a point that it will be very difficult to keep the Blackhawk Down look AND the Death Corps look too. A Valk' being down with the appropriate themes would be plenty cool in my book

if you want to know what its looking like atm then follow this here link for the updated pics

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/223353.page#466077