Forge World's Voss Pattern Lightning Strike Fighter

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**Ouze**

A single image in the ongoing HH thread for a new kit that's not part of the HH at all? Dakka, I am disappoint. It's so pretty.

Following the Saint-Saen Crusade’s liberation of twelve worlds in the Segmentum Obscurus, STC patterns were recovered for an air superiority fighter, smaller and more agile than the iconic Thunderbolt. The Lightning has since been disseminated to other worlds with strong ties to the Imperial Navy – notably Bakka and Hydraphur – and production has recently begun within the Segmentum Solar, resulting in the Voss Pattern Lightning Strike Fighter.

The ‘Strike’ variant of the Lightning is equipped with a potent armament of six Hellstrike missiles as well as its twin-linked lascannon, fulfilling a dedicated ground attack role. Designed by Daren Parrwood, the Voss Pattern Lightning Strike Fighter is a detailed multi-part resin kit, supplied with a twin-linked lascannon and six Hellstrike missiles. This model is fielded using the rules for the Lightning, which can be found in Imperial Armour Aeronautica.This model is available to pre-order now for despatch from the 4th of January.

BUY MY BOOK! BUY MY BOOK! er, OUR PLANE

**Pacific**

Wow, FW do it again - that is how you make a 40k-style aircraft. Looks brutal but at the same time doesn't provoke the reaction of 'you expect us to imagine that flying haha?' (see: the previous bunch of GW flyers!)

Price tag is twice what it should be, but I guess it's aimed at a customer base already softened up by the price of a complete 40k army these days so might not appear too unreasonable!

**Kilkrazy**

The wings need to be swept back on the leading edge to avoid the Imperial "brick" look. The rest of it is pretty good.

**Harriticus**

The original Lightning looks better imo, this pretty much looks like a Thunderbolt fuselage with Lightning wings/tails attached. That being said it still kicks the pants off the crap lego-toy animal vehicles GW is coming out with. And that all that much more expensive.

In any regard I do like how FW is expanding flyers more, albeit slowly. Airpower is one of the great neglected areas of 40k which makes little sense in an advanced technology sci-fi total setting.

**Laughing Man**

I assume it's supposed to fly backwards?

**Kroothawk**

Already discussed here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/495557.page