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WOW that is one mad looking machine indeed, the overall look is great but the tail looks a little funny, not sure if it is just the angle of the photo though.

But the rest is spot on the thrusters are great, I gather they move to allow vertical take off, and the missile armoury is ass kicking, although if you made it look like they raise up out of the main body that would have been cool.

But that would have been way to much hard work, I could have not got this far if I was building it, hell I would not have even got the design

Great job what is the intended colour scheme

Thanks LDD. The transition on the tail is a little abrupt, but I can't bothered to do a fancy GS smoothing. The booms are also a bit close, but I am following the original design, so I have a get out of jail free card The missile launchers will be magnetized, but I'm not up for articulating the things as well

Colour scheme will be the standard Raynor's Raiders blue and grey like the previous painted models.

This is awe-inspiring...I need to get back to work on learning my GS skillz! Great work here, I am learning a lot, thank you.

Cross posted from P&M board:

So having briefly surfaced from new-dad-dom I noticed that the Dark Angels update had landed. I'm still awaiting the Codex, but I noticed the new Land speeder variant and thought I could play.

I already had the following done as a Diamondback for my Starcraft inspired Terranwing and it kinda shared the aesthetic with the external suspensor/propulsion pods:



So I ran with it and whomped up a new plasma turret using Stormraven bits:







I'm not sure what the size of the new Speeder variant is, but it can't be that much bigger (surely). If its any good I might even do a second Diamondback to run as a normal AC/MM speeder.

Amusingly, I'm pretty sure that my Banshee can easily be modified to be one of the new DAngle flyers (especially with the TLLC mounts:

Already a better model than the GW released one and the GW released one hasn't even been released yet! (or was it out on Saturday?)

Heh. It was on the new releases section so I had assumed they had been out for a while

I am absolutely loving this thread! Great work!

Looking awesome!

your going to have to make some of the Terran buildings and maybe a Protoss pylon for scenery!

I just took some glances at every page, and you did a very good job man Kinda wonder who would win though. A Terran Space Marine or an Imperium Space marine

Thanks guys. The project is on a bit of a hiatus while I deal with new child syndrome

Who would win... an Imperial Marine is the equivalent of 100 lesser troops and can single handedly overcome huge adversity to achieve impossible goals. Terran marines have an average life span of 9 seconds in combat... good job it only takes 25s to train them

They do have armor piercing spikes tho, it says their gun is made to pierce their power armor.

Then you have other description of stuff, such as the C10 rifle that can destroy a siege tank from the inside.

had to post this one here seeing as you (and heart of the swarm with a special sceen) made me make this



the rediculess part is i said long way back that mine where expensive well i think this one cost more but atleast i can make 5 instead of 2 now

Hmm... looks a bit dusty in here... its amazing how little time you end up with when you have a baby

Anyway, finally started sneaking a bit more time to paint and decided to work on my Vulture bikes. The idea is that the riders are a bit more individualistic than some of the other troops, hence the difference in bike markings, helmets and clothes. The bases are the ruined urban set from Atenocites. Really nice pieces and they tie into the road/transition basing of the rest of the force. I was going to try and do some of my own ruined road bike bases, but then I saw these and decided that I would cheat

The posing will be finalised when the painting is sorted out

Always good to see life. Any spider mines to go with them planned?

I did do a spider mine back when I made the vultures... I had almost forgotten the little thing. I'll therefore lift one of the bikes off the base a bit more and get the little guy in there

On the Diamondback, What did you use to cover the windows?

The central bit is an IG tank track guard while the rest is just plasticard trimmed to fit and with some triangulated bits to get around corners. I modified the "door" bits of the hull to simplify the shape a bit.