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Howdy all,

so I started getting back into 40k and bought a few items. Stormravens made me pretty excited when I learned about them, so the first conversion for my BA was to be a stormraven... and this is how it turned out







Now I know "fluffwise" the dread hatch is supposed to be in the back. However, I had absolutally NO bitz and just a Valk kit... the bits on the valk now I took from my friends "trash" bitz box. I used everything from the valk kit excluding the pilots sprue. I used a bunch of sponson land raider bitz (for the tail/back to my cockpit). I wanted it to look more "fighter" like. The center I used some plasticboard (my friend says its the same as plasticard, which I doubt :( ) along with 3 back hatches for razorbacks to build my dreadnought holding area. The two side areas with the holes will be where I mount 1 Assault Cannon per side when I get them (will count as twin-linked). On the nose I mounted a multi-melta bit I got from a purchase I made... I only had 1, but will tell people its twin linked (I also think it looks better honestly). The hold in the middle magnetizes thedread in. Only problem is its a little too small to fit 'em with his arms on... so I figure when he gets dropped off I'll put his arms on.

So for my first time using plasti-card-board-whatever I think it turned out OK. Wasn't as "fluid" as I would have liked, and the dread hatch was a little too small, but painted up I think it'll turn out to look rather nice! From the pics you cannot really tell, but I used dark elves skull-with-wings icons from their shields for some details, I wanted it to have blood angels icons but this was the closest I could find that was cheap (I used all my Death co. ones already lol)

C&C is always welcome, I'm thinking of building a second eventually. Maybe not the same style, but I'm happy with my first attempt!

Total cost: $40 for the model (online), $3 for the sign to steal the plasti-card from, $0 for the bitz (all taken from friends) = $43. Much less than the average Stormraven convert I've seen online!

Well done.

A Black Ram wrote:Well done.

Thanks I did as well as I could with what i had lol

Nice gunship, can you provide a tutorial on how you did it?

Looks good to me. My only advice, manage those cables on the floor.....

Damn PC is doubleposting today @_@

Valkyrie wrote:Nice gunship, can you provide a tutorial on how you did it?

Um,it's a Valkyrie with a box of platiscard on it.

Looks..okay. The edges of the platicard are a little ragged.

Samus_aran115 wrote:

Valkyrie wrote:Nice gunship, can you provide a tutorial on how you did it?

Um,it's a Valkyrie with a box of platiscard on it.

Looks..okay. The edges of the platicard are a little ragged.

Thanks... that was sort of the point lol. I don't like all the blocky converts I see online, i didn't have $100 to throw at models to build one, and I'm not a master with plasticard (and I got the cheap stuff)... I'm pretty proud of what i did with what I had. A $43 conversion with a valk, some bitz from a friend, and a little bit of plastic I think its pretty ok! Yeah, it could have been better (easily) and it looks a little sloppy, but a file and some paint and it'll come together nice I'm hoping.

Thanks for all the comments so far! if anyone has a suggestion on how to improve this model, lemme know. I don't intend on basecoating until I can get my hands on some assault cannon bitz anyway