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WOW! That is just plain GENIUS use of bitz! I especially love the use of those bases for the airfoils!!

@Warmill - May I say that I LOVE your stuff, Very creative and useful stuff, but your pricing system is confusing...and it alientates potential buyers like me.

the PUP itself is priced reasonably, but how does adding a walkway around the PUP justify doubling the price?

If a walkway is worth the same as the PUP, then you should give a better price to encourage more orders,
But your exponential pricing system makes me feel like I am paying more for less.

Ta.

I did some more on the Banshee tonight, including setting up some GS to magnetize the fans, gluing the main fuselage together and fitting a bit of tube to stick a big ass metal spike into to use as a flying stand, but my man-cave is now filled with glue fumes and I need to get to bed, so no pics just now

When everything has dried (and ventilated) I'll get some more pics.

Next up is to get the fan mounts fitted securely and get some sides on the thing. Shouldn't take much longer to complete. Maybe get it finished off at the weekend. Then I need to paint it of course (that and the rest of the army)

So thats the fan mounts almost complete. Just waiting on some GS drying for one side so I can fit the magnet.

Again I'm really chuffed at how this thing is coming together. I'd be lying if I said this is how I originally envisioned it, but it is almost evolving on its own now as we come to the final stretch.

Anyway, on with the pics...

Stuff added yesterday and today include magnet mount points on the fan units, Axles in case I ever want to model individual fan blades, A support system for the Banhsee as a whole and to secure the wings to the fuselage and some rear landing gear. Apologies for the angle, but it was the only way to get pictures without it collapsing sideways











(I'm secretly in love with the way the fan mounts pivot... Yaay for big round magnets )

Stuff left to do obviously includes gettin the other side sorted out and the big gaping holes in the fuselage stopped up I might also try and fit in another set of hardpoints somewhere in case I want to use it as a Vulture at any point... 4x large blasts? oh, yes please

thats looking really shnazzy!

Great stuff. That's coming together very nicely, and excellent use of bases there.

Definitely not my bag but credit where credit is due good sir. You are a conversion nut and I salute you.

SWEET JESUS !!!!! this thread if full of amazing stuff, love your conversions great use and strange combinations of races and equipment , will be watching this with close interest.

Thanks guys. Always nice to get encouragement in my psychosis

@ lone dirty dog - Its amazing, the GW range has basically every shape and texture known to man. You can pretty much pick up a pre-formed part that will fit nicely, or at least fit well with a bit of trimming and plasticard or GS.

This is cross posted from the P&M forum as a permanant record.

So the little beggar is finally finished!

The Banshee class close support VTOL (counts-as Land Speeder Typhoon). It ended up being a bit bigger than strictly necessary, but the bits went together so well I couldn't bear to try and trim it down any. Includes parts from the Valkyrie and Stormraven kits along with some trimmed down Warmachine bases for the ducted fans. The fans and the nose turret are mobile and removable using magnets. The next challenge is to get the base to keep the thing stable









I also magnetised up the nose a bit more on the off-chance the 51st Dunedin Division need some air support in the shape of a Vulture Gunship







And with some options







The left hand lascannon is a bit wonky, so I might go back and fiddle with the magnet placement a tad, but otherwise its good

Now to get it primed!

Nice looking beast you have their great idea, mind you not sure about the turret though ruins the flow a little IMO but over all looks great.

With four rocket pods looks even meaner

dsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn that is an amazing looking plane!!!!

Awesome, except for the ghost.

You could use the cadian body with the scout legs/arms/sniper and the head you currently have


Or take a bunch of Vindicare and call it a day, but that's the easy way

Flinty wrote:So the little beggar is finally finished!

The Banshee class close support VTOL (counts-as Land Speeder Typhoon). It ended up being a bit bigger than strictly necessary, but the bits went together so well I couldn't bear to try and trim it down any. Includes parts from the Valkyrie and Stormraven kits along with some trimmed down Warmachine bases for the ducted fans. The fans and the nose turret are mobile and removable using magnets. The next challenge is to get the base to keep the thing stable

Great work, Flinty! I love it when people come up with sweet "counts-as" stuff that really a) makes sense and b) looks awesome!

Any chance you'll actually add the fanblades? I remember you mentioning it earlier, but now I can't find it...

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Thanks, as always!

@lone dirty dog - It does look rather mean (if a little front heavy) with all the roclet pods added Also its not a turret. Its a housing for worky gubbinz with a couple of exhausts com,ing out of it. It helps hide the join where the chop shop has done its work on the chassis

@Bobthehero - Yeah, the Ghosts are the furthest away from the source material. The sniper scouts are hard to fiddle with though as the torso , arms and rifles all come together in various unhelpful parts. I might get around to doing some Spectres that could ue your suggestion, though. Also I think Nova came out ok. Doing her hair was fun

@Rawson - On reflection I think I will paint it up and call it a day. It would be more of a fiddle to add in now and I don't think I would ever be able to make them robust, so I'll just need to be careful with where I put my fingers

Flinty, it's wonderful to see you back at work on one of the best themed armies here on Dakka. You have taken one of the world's most recognizable games and translated it almost perfectly into 40k. The new Banshee is just fantastic, BTW. Honestly, some of this has inspired me to do some doodles for a Protoss force, possibly as GK or Deathwing. I look forward to seeing your next update.

Out of interest: How many points does your current force stand at?

Just a small update with my objective deployables pretty much done. The RFAC is finished, but Flaming Betty needs a tank job. In the game its yellow, but I don't like yellow that much, so I am considering alternatives



After I get them finished its back to base-coating the Banshee


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@ odd one out - Thanks always gratifying to see that other people like my randomness as much as I do.

Protoss are a tricky one as their main foot soldiers don't have guns, so that kinda rules out GKs. An elite Eldar force with lots of wraithguard and wraithlords? Zealots as howling banshees and immortals and suchlike as the wraith units?

The force can now be bumped up to 2,000 I think. Certainly 1850 with ease. Its come rather a long way from the "oh I want to make Ogryn alternatives" that I stated with

Just checked. Almost 2500 points and a rather full Force Org, although that does include a Land Raider variant and a stormraven

And some more painted updatitude! Maybe I'm ill or something...

More work on the yellow:




And a solid base coat over most of the Banshee:

did i tell you i love that banshee, well i love that banshee.. and if you didnt hear that, i LOVE THAT BANSHEE!!!

Did I hear something about a Banshee? No? Oh well

All the grey has now been badab blacked up a bit giving it a slightly darker, less even tone. Now to drybrush the poo out of it to get the kind of dusty matt look that apaches always tend to pick up.

Also I finished both objective markers (I'm even realtively happy about the yellow):

More, truly amazing representations with GW bitz!
I think you made the right choice with the yellow! - But now you should weather the yellow paint a bit more like it is in the game, scratches and chips and such

Holy gak!
I haven't seen this in a while. Its gotten so much cooler XD

@dsteingass - Oh man, I finally get a yellow I like and you want me to chip it all up... no fair

@Ash - heh, thanks. Its taken longer than I'd have liked, but house moves are irritating things...

LOL..It's hard, I know

The painting of the Banshee continues. I got my colouring order a bit wrong in that I did the blue before drybrushing the grey, so I had to go over the blue again, oh well its a simple colour to work with

The grey is supposed to make it look all dusty like apaches always seem to be. I've added some wash dribbles to make it look like pooling water has cleaned some of the dust off. I will be going over mechanical areas a bit later with a more oily wash.





Some simple weathering on the wings supposed to look like minor debris abrasion while scooting about the sky. If anyone has any other great ideas I'm happy to try them out





Its getting there.Maybe another couple of hours to get the main painting sorted and then as much detail fiddling as I can be bothered to do

Also the pilot needs a name and/or a callsign. I was thinking of "Boomer" as the Vulture version will most definately be making loud bangs, but answers on a postcard and you never know, perhaps your suggestion will get painted next to the cockpit

you never sease to amaze, this banshee is looking amazing!

So I names that could be fun, Hotdog, Starscream, Helo, or Apollo.
Its really coming along. The paint really makes it look more proportional and pop more. Looking really good

Cater to the fanverse.
Kazansky -SC1 Wraith hero, called the best Wraith pilot in the Dominion.
Vane - SC1 Wraith pilot, simple life philosophy involving beer and a right hook.
Dyre - famous Viking pilot from SC: Frontlines.
Foehammer - Yeah, yeah, she's not in SC, but why not?

^=1 to foehammer

Could always go with the classic "Reaper".

@odd one out - Good idea. I'm doing other SC2 characters, why not a Banshee.

Foehammer does have a certain ring to it.

I'm also getting murmerings from a long forgotten, really bad film where the overwatch sniper was called God

"We need support!"

"This is God, support incoming."

Some Bill Paxton flashbacks *shudder*