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oh there is nothing underneath it.

That Thunderhawk is looking mighty impressive, can't wait to see it finished

The T-bolt is great and the Thunderhawk looks headed in the right direction as well. Nice work!

Do you do commissions? At some point I'd like to have a few orky flyers done up this way. Just curious...

great job..They look great better than GW..

so cool



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so damn cool

When I finish my titan, I am definitely going to have to give this a try. Good Work!

I'm borrowing a camera so these photos are a bit poor (Iphone), but I had to take a pre-paint photo. I'll have some grey-coated photos up on Thursday or Friday. I think everything is done. A few hundred rivets and some bits for detail it should paint up nice.

All great, but the engines are pathetically undersized. In my opinion, you should rethink them.

Skinnattittar wrote:All great, but the engines are pathetically undersized. In my opinion, you should rethink them.

I have to agree... everything looks incredible, one of the best scratch builds I've seen period. But it does need beefed up engines, the valk ones don't cut it imo.

firebat wrote:

Skinnattittar wrote:All great, but the engines are pathetically undersized. In my opinion, you should rethink them.

I have to agree... everything looks incredible, one of the best scratch builds I've seen period. But it does need beefed up engines, the valk ones don't cut it imo.

I spent quite a while trying to come up with a better idea, and I decided the detail level of the valk engine compensated for it's size when compared to using plasticard tubing with no detail. I'm hoping that the final paint scheme will minimize the draw of the eye to the engine and it will be less noticeable. Once I prime it I'll put up more pics and see if it looks as bad. I wish it were an easy fix :(

you could just add another few valk engines...or similar

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you could use valk engines as inner turnbines with large tubes around them.

I think you should lay off the rivets, to many and it'll look more guard or something than SM.

person person wrote:I think you should lay off the rivets, to many and it'll look more guard or something than SM.

The rivets are actually just in the spots the FW thunderhawk has them: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/thunder1.htm so I'm not too worried. You also have to remember this plane is more than twice the length of a landraider and has a wingspan more than 2 landraiders wide too, so those rivets are VERY spread out.

I like that idea of an extra set of valkyrie engines underneith the wing. Wish I'd thought of that earlier!

Course, SM and IG vehicles both come from the same place, so it's not exactly such different construction, besides that instead of purely tropospheric conditions, a Thunderhawk has a thicker and different material hide to cope with the vacuum of space and the heat of splashdown. So, it can have plenty of rivets, but they would still be sparingly, as such a fun loving craft needs the best enclosement it can get. . But still, nice work so far.

I still think you have enough rivets as is, maybe just a little more.

You have officially grabbed my brain and said "WAKE THE FETH UP DAMMIT!".

I will proceed with dem plasticard plans.

Best thing for Thawk engines is to get a star wars podracer and pull the engines off that. they are perfect.

I primed the 'bird and took some more pictures. I'll get to work painting it when I have some time.






I plan to paint the bottom and front faces black and bleeding the colour onto the sides to simulate burning from reentry, what do you think? A black belly so to speak.

Man looking good!!!

The engines do look a tad better now, like you said.

I'm stoked on this!

It is AWESOME, but I still think you should at least get another pair of valk. engines.

Skinnattittar wrote:All great, but the engines are pathetically undersized. In my opinion, you should rethink them.

I'm just throwing this out there, but one of the best engines I've seen for a scratch built thunderhawk come from models/toys of Anakin Skywalkers racing pod from SW EP 1.

You might be able to find some discount toys or what not. Just be sure to check size/scale of course.

Jayden63 wrote:

Skinnattittar wrote:All great, but the engines are pathetically undersized. In my opinion, you should rethink them.

I'm just throwing this out there, but one of the best engines I've seen for a scratch built thunderhawk come from models/toys of Anakin Skywalkers racing pod from SW EP 1.

You might be able to find some discount toys or what not. Just be sure to check size/scale of course.

Those engines are almost the perfect size, but I could only find them for around $25 and wasn't prepared to spend that much on a bit.

Very nice! Primed grey it's really hard to tell it's been scratchbuilt.

I finally found some time to finish off the thunderhawk. I'd babble on about it but pictures speak louder than words:




The painting isn't the best but it's done, and I'm far more proud of the modelling anyway. I took a leap of faith and dull coated the model (the first of my marines) and it doesn't stick out that much from them, but I think I actually like the more varnished look.

PS. Yes the engines are little, but there's 3 of them and it's 40 000 years from now

AWESOME!!! Do you have any rules for the T-Hawk yet?

sweet

person person wrote:AWESOME!!! Do you have any rules for the T-Hawk yet?

They're in the Apocalypse rule supplement for 40k, no need to make up my own. Thanks guys for the comments.

WAIT, you can also download IA ones in the FW downloads.