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Khorne Flakes wrote:
I say again that the engines must be dropped and that the wings must be extended some how Thx for doing the tut btw!

This I agree with.

Are the front/rear ramps and side doors compatible with the Rhino rear ramp and Rhino side doors?

Land Raider doors and ramp I guess, as the Storm Raven is basically a Land Raider without tracks but with wings.

It only comes with GK symbols not weapon upgrades. also the back of the box has one painted in a GK color scheme.

Yeah, i knew about the back of the box.


Symbols? Like Inquisitorial I's and the Book with a Sword through it?

Where are the Hurricane bolters?

Also, for modeling purposes are the side doors the same size as land raider doors? Could you put any chapter specfic forge world LR doors on the sides? That'd be great.

Grey Templar wrote:Yeah, i knew about the back of the box.


Symbols? Like Inquisitorial I's and the Book with a Sword through it?

Look on the doors and wings. There are the symbols.

I still don't think it looks like a SM vehicle.

But I've decided with the right modifications it would make a really bad-ass garbage scow. I like to imagine a rag-tag crew of misfits in carapace armour crewing the thing, as it flies over battlefields of the 41st millennium and uses a chunkier magna grapple to steal other people's wrecks for salvage.

I just looks so ungainly on a flying base.

JOHIRA wrote:I still don't think it looks like a SM vehicle.

I think it does, a bit.

They went for "Mini-Thunderhawk" - and missed!

But, it was at least a foul tip...

Ckilleen wrote:It only comes with GK symbols not weapon upgrades. also the back of the box has one painted in a GK color scheme.

We don't know that the Grey Knight variant actually has "unique" weapon upgrades.

Psycannon is likely, but at the same time...You can get bolter rounds for the standard Heavy Bolters that would have the same effect.

I built a Stormraven last Friday night. Front drop ramp is from the Land Raider. Side doors are Rhino sized I believe. Hurricane bolters are a replacement option for the side doors. There are 4 BA badges and 4 GK badges on the sprue for decorating the model.

It's a beautiful model of a terrible vehicle design.

BrassScorpion wrote:I built a Stormraven last Friday night. Front drop ramp is from the Land Raider. Side doors are Rhino sized I believe. Hurricane bolters are a replacement option for the side doors. There are 4 BA badges and 4 GK badges on the sprue for decorating the model.

another thing that surprised me is that the hurricane bolters have a VERY limited arc of fire for sponsons. they can only turn about 30 degrees from the midline which surprised me when i saw the model firsthand this weekend.

At first I hated the stormraven, but now I really like it

Alpharius wrote:
They went for "Mini-Thunderhawk" - and missed!

But, it was at least a foul tip...

I've just had a thought. Could this be the plastic Thunderhawk that has oft been rumoured? Early sketches/designs could easily have been misleading.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I just looks so ungainly on a flying base.

Silly Billy, when you sit on a flying base you are both ungainly and in dire need of some help.





Bleh, I have a conversion all planned out and an alternative name, but I can't remember it. It had a fat insectoid name to it, something starting with CA but I can't remember the rest.

i know that there is inquisitor parts for it like the sword and book to put on to replace the blood angels symbols

OMG it looks really squashed but at the same time kinda cool

I think it looks cool,despite what people say.

My memory is a bit hazy but can this be used by normal SM armies?

On the one I saw this weekend it looked like you CANNOT remove the wings for storage/transport. Can anyone confirm?

If true that would be really annoying and drive me towards a backwards valk.

I actually saw the model in my FLGS yesterday, it's a lot chunkier in the flesh, which helps a lot ( I really didn't like it based on the early pics), plus I don't think the red paint job is helping it.

I think modelling the landing gear closed would also sharpen it up. Either that or forget the flying stand and model it at a 45 degree angle about to crash into the deck (a la Aliens).

And that modelling blog says that the spigot is the same size as a Leman Russ. Now I'm tempted to make a true mini-thunderhawk with a bloody big cannon on top...

Thanks for all the great photos. I was one of the individuals who really liked the first few leaked pictures of the model....but since then, the more I see the less I like about it. There is no doubt they still are a greast acquisition for any BA player and I plan to have at least 2 in my army. The firepower and transport capacity are incredible for Space Marines!

Can't wait to use this to help make my Deathwatch ultra-killy

What's wrong with the Skaven Hell Pit Abomination? It's awesome....In a very grotesque, fleshy sort of way.....

Kid_Kyoto wrote:On the one I saw this weekend it looked like you CANNOT remove the wings for storage/transport. Can anyone confirm?

If true that would be really annoying and drive me towards a backwards valk.

Yeah that was my impression as well. It seemed the wings and engine assembly glue down to the top of the hull and end up with other pieces, like the intake, gluing down over them. I do think with some simple modifications and leaving off some of the silly bits from the top you could have a magnetized setup. The interlocking between the top hull and the wings and the components onto the top of the wings are little raised edges that fit to the underside of the component that gets glued down.

aka_mythos wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:On the one I saw this weekend it looked like you CANNOT remove the wings for storage/transport. Can anyone confirm?

If true that would be really annoying and drive me towards a backwards valk.

Yeah that was my impression as well. It seemed the wings and engine assembly glue down to the top of the hull and end up with other pieces, like the intake, gluing down over them. I do think with some simple modifications and leaving off some of the silly bits from the top you could have a magnetized setup. The interlocking between the top hull and the wings and the components onto the top of the wings are little raised edges that fit to the underside of the component that gets glued down.

Cripes, it's like GW learned absolutely nothing from the Valk.

aka_mythos wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:On the one I saw this weekend it looked like you CANNOT remove the wings for storage/transport. Can anyone confirm?

If true that would be really annoying and drive me towards a backwards valk.

Yeah that was my impression as well. It seemed the wings and engine assembly glue down to the top of the hull and end up with other pieces, like the intake, gluing down over them. I do think with some simple modifications and leaving off some of the silly bits from the top you could have a magnetized setup. The interlocking between the top hull and the wings and the components onto the top of the wings are little raised edges that fit to the underside of the component that gets glued down.

the closest you can come to this is to not glue the top of the hull to the bottom but that doesn't save you any storage space unfortunately. the wings are glued on top of the top hull as opposed to the valk where they get slotted into holes.

why is it all the blood angels that get the cool stuff why is it never ultramarines


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BrassScorpion wrote:I built a Stormraven last Friday night. Front drop ramp is from the Land Raider. Side doors are Rhino sized I believe. Hurricane bolters are a replacement option for the side doors. There are 4 BA badges and 4 GK badges on the sprue for decorating the model.

do you know what transport capacity it is

Read the Codex?