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Front looks way too big, it does not look like it could fly. I think it is way too out of proportion to fit.

Melissia wrote:Maybe it's the angle, but it looks like it's missing one half of its tail.

I agree, I think much of this criticism could be blamed on the poor angle of the model

Going by first impression I voted "pretty bad". That...thing is supposed to fly and transport troops and a Dread? It is a small box with the aerodynamics of a brick. At least the Valkyrie/Vendetta has the dimensions of a recognizable aircraft.

We're only getting one angle on it from this pic, so I think there's too little info to go on for an accurate poll.
I mean, so many of the more recent kits haven't been all that photogenic, but then turn out to be pretty darn good in person.

Again, hard to say much from this perspective on it, but it does look like it's going to have a smaller footprint than the valkyrie...

I just can't wait for them to release it to get a more complete view.

A-P wrote: Going by first impression I voted "pretty bad". That...thing is supposed to fly and transport troops and a Dread? It is a small box with the aerodynamics of a brick. At least the Valkyrie/Vendetta has the dimensions of a recognizable aircraft.

How fast exactly are you expecting this aircraft to fly? This is a short ranged transport...I think for its utilitarian use and purpose, the deminsions look alright. I imagine it would see lots of fire directed at it from the ground, so why wouldnt it look like a brick? Its built for defense.

It's kawaii imho

i wonder if the turrent will fit a razorback......

All the kit bashes out there look a lot better than this.

I can see it being the fact that costs less than a Valk and a Landraider combined that will be its only saving grace. The kit bashed one looks a lot more like how I envision these, or any, Space Marine planes.

Weird angle, but looks ace. I'd probably buy two or three.

EmpBobo wrote: I must admit I wish it looked more like the flyer on the back of Hunt for Volodorus.

Those are, or are supposed to anyway, Thunderhawks, modified somewhat to accomadate the White Scars bikes.

I'm sorry but that thing is truly fugly. I think I'd direct all my fire at it just to get it off the table.

Ok so it doesn't have to be aerodynamic from the standpoint of anti-gravity tech and so on...but lets be fair its a model and it would have been nice if it looked a bit more sleek.

@ reds8n: They look pretty sweet as thunder hawks as well

Grief_Bringer wrote:I'm sorry but that thing is truly fugly. I think I'd direct all my fire at it just to get it off the table.

Ok so it doesn't have to be aerodynamic from the standpoint of anti-gravity tech and so on...but lets be fair its a model and it would have been nice if it looked a bit more sleek.

For me, you summed it up nicely there.

Asherian Command wrote:http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jonsullivanart.com/images/hunt-for-voldorius-copy_03.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jonsullivanart.com/hunt-for-voldorius-copy.html&h=478&w=1763&sz=265&tbnid=liEpMSOKLTOwqM:&tbnh=41&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHunt%2Bfor%2BVoldorius&zoom=1&q=Hunt+for+Voldorius&hl=en&usg=__n6tDyvxBC6jQL2eRmAf4VOsEK3A=&sa=X&ei=FkfcTMqDFeaJnAfEwbkX&ved=0CCMQ9QEwAQ

heres the pic everyone wants.

That thunderhawk looks good. That should be the stormraven.


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This, IMO, looks soo much better:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/154621-storm-raven%20redesign.html

And here's an interesting point:
look at 2500kgm3's post:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/327480.page

It looks pretty bad, to me. Granted, it's still salvageable, but as a straight out-of-box model, I wouldn't play it. It'd need to go through a good amount of fixing/modding before I felt comfortable playing it on the table.

That is, if I were a SM player. Being an Ork player, I can't wait to loot the feth out of this kit and make me some Fighta-Bombas.

Same here. I'm either cutting the las-turret off, or buying a razorback and swapping the lascannons, doing what 2500kgm3 is doing, or just bulking it out to look less tall & skinny to more tall & fat- bigger, but then will probably look better too.

Element206 wrote:
How fast exactly are you expecting this aircraft to fly? This is a short ranged transport...I think for its utilitarian use and purpose, the deminsions look alright. I imagine it would see lots of fire directed at it from the ground, so why wouldnt it look like a brick? Its built for defense.

What`s the purpose of this defense speech ? I stated my opinion and you have yours. Fast or slow, it is still supposed to fly and my Suspension of Disbelief can only go so far. YMMV.

Not bad. Paint it something other than blood for the blood god marines and I'd like it more.

I might buy one for my chaos army, to be honest. I sincerely hope it isn't over 50$. This doesn't seem worth the standard 57.75 for land raiders and the like.

I'm definitely gonna get one- It's just the model'sterribly out of proportion. I'm gonna change that.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Not bad. Paint it something other than blood for the blood god marines and I'd like it more.

I might buy one for my chaos army, to be honest. I sincerely hope it isn't over 50$. This doesn't seem worth the standard 57.75 for land raiders and the like.

I can see that. it is not that good. But either way I am going to buy it on Amazon from now on. Ever since my store manager tried to get me into chaos daemons

Asherian Command wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Not bad. Paint it something other than blood for the blood god marines and I'd like it more.

I might buy one for my chaos army, to be honest. I sincerely hope it isn't over 50$. This doesn't seem worth the standard 57.75 for land raiders and the like.

I can see that. it is not that good. But either way I am going to buy it on Amazon from now on. Ever since my store manager tried to get me into chaos daemons

"Do you need anything? Glue, paint, Chaos daemons...?"
"no thanks, I'm just getting this tactical squad..."
"They have new models!"
"No thanks, just getting some marines..."
"but-"
"Okay i'll buy your ing daemons!!!"
"Okay- now would you be interested in- hey!...where'd he go?"

Good god, it's horrendous.

shrike wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Not bad. Paint it something other than blood for the blood god marines and I'd like it more.

I might buy one for my chaos army, to be honest. I sincerely hope it isn't over 50$. This doesn't seem worth the standard 57.75 for land raiders and the like.

I can see that. it is not that good. But either way I am going to buy it on Amazon from now on. Ever since my store manager tried to get me into chaos daemons

"Do you need anything? Glue, paint, Chaos daemons...?"
"no thanks, I'm just getting this tactical squad..."
"They have new models!"
"No thanks, just getting some marines..."
"but-"
"Okay i'll buy your ing daemons!!!"
"Okay- now would you be interested in- hey!...where'd he go?"

Thats actually how it happened. And I refuse to go to GW anymore due to that. This was in chicago and in the bunker, ugh they were so stupid. I literally wanted to crush his daemon princes.

One word.

Chibi-hawk

Looks like the bastard love-child of a Thunderhawk and a Valkyrie.

The Green Git wrote:Looks like the bastard love-child of a Thunderhawk and a Valkyrie.

More like a land speeder and a rhino had a baby and made this thing....

The only mistake that they made was in their choice of bird. This is the Storm Pelican!

Beaks for the Beakie God!


I can't wait to paint one gray with a yellow crew compartment.

This is very bad. Everything about this "aircraft" - drag, weight distribution, lift and thrust - is arranged to make it smash its nose into the ground. And for such a blocky aircraft, it has pitiful cargo space.

Alex, you wanna tell that to a Deff-Copta or Fighta-Bomber?

I'm going to quote Mythos from a Dark Eldar thread as I think he may have intended it for here. Nonetheless, his analogy is largely correct IMO.

aka_mythos wrote:I think its obvious GW was trying to bring in elements of this sort of heavy lift helicopter...

hence the large over hanging rear beyond the crew cabin...but they obviously fail.

The complaint that people just built theirs from a Land Raider and a Valkyrie has just been put to bed this piece of gak looks like one of the worst conversions I have ever seen. Others on this site and at my gaming group are a lot, lot better. GW: fething idiots

Worst GW model since the Multi-Muscle Flipper-Feet Minotaurs and the Pumbagore (and at least the Minotaurs can be salvaged with a decent paintjob). I mean... what were they thinking? It's awful.

I was really looking forward to the Stormraven - our own mini-Thunderhawk. But this is just... gah. Pathetic effort.