Blackadder's attempt to construct a FW Thunderhawk

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**mxwllmdr**

HAHAHAHA, I said I was just kidding Black....

LOL

**mxwllmdr**

Cool. But I did not know you had a warlord thread. I will have to look that up......

**mxwllmdr**

Thanks for the link, Black. I think I found that thread a couple months back but it was dormant....

Very glad to see it active.....

**mxwllmdr**

I get it. Bad @&&, Black. how heavy will it be though? And I assume you are gonna need three......

**mxwllmdr**

Closer to 25 meters. What do you say, Black? How far off am I?

**mxwllmdr**

Oh, I wasn't too far off. About 25 ft off. I have never been able to do that whole scale conversion stuff....

**mxwllmdr**

That wasn't at all boring.....

Very informative.

Thank you.....

**mxwllmdr**

Yeah, I guestimated, too. But that's why we ask Black......

he knows these sort of things.........

**mxwllmdr**

I do the same thing, Black. severql projects at once to engage myself differently from day to day.....

**mxwllmdr**

Now thats pretty. Nice image...

**mxwllmdr**

Yes, that is the Epic Storbird. I happen to like that one a lot. I also like the idea of the XMen's Stormbird being adapted to be a 40K Stormbird.....

**mxwllmdr**

Black, remember to keep your mind fresh...

That need is why people like you and I have more than one project at once.......

**mxwllmdr**

I have always liked the idea of the Marauder and the Stompa or Great Gargant.....

I like Lucius Emperors too and think that would be the next logical step in your builds.....

**mxwllmdr**

Very glad to hear I was not the only one to love the ball turret idea. Still very nice work, Black.

**mxwllmdr**

Must say I am very happy with the ball turrets, Black. And I agree that the nose ramp is better than the original. Nicely done. And thank you for ripping me back into this part of myself as well. I needed to come back here for my mental well being.

**mxwllmdr**

She does. Thank you.

**mxwllmdr**

Should have made mine capable of being elevated. Hell, I made four had plenty of oppurtunity. Maybe on the next one.

**mxwllmdr**

I need to pour over the sections on the ball turrets again. I will be doing them in a tank later. Very well done. No problems should be had wiring this beauty.

**mxwllmdr**

The_Blackadder wrote:
hk1x1 wrote:
I've probably said this before, but this is absolutely stunning work and the finished version looks beautiful .

Also well done for persevering and getting it finished, 6 years is a long time to work on any project,
I'm hoping it wont take me quite so long to finish some of mine, but you never know .

Well six years is a bit misleading for in that time I finished my Warhound, built and painted my Warlord, built Lucius pattern armour for two resin Reavers (not finished), built a Landkreuzer from scratch (again not finished), painted an entire Tyranid army, built and painted two Tyranid bio-titans, painted and partially assembled two Chaos Warhounds and a Lucius FW Warhound and dozens of other small 40K projects too numerous to mention individually. that and pursued all my other hobbies so six years isn't all that long considering I wasn't that motivated to begin with to build a Thunderhawk Ha!

Would you be so kind as to point me toward said Lucie Pattern Reaver armours?

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Ha, it auto corrected Lucius..... how apropo.

**mxwllmdr**

Black, do you own a heat gun?

**mxwllmdr**

Never really been a fan of those dual bolted anyway....

Looked flimsy to me....

**mxwllmdr**

Hardwired to the thawk? Like a weapons servitude in a warhound?

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Or, hey, just put a shroud around them at the waist like a roller coaster seat restraint only more "robust"....

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Thinking something like a dalek wheelchair...lol...

**mxwllmdr**

Well done, Black. I need to learn to paint eventually.

**mxwllmdr**

Thumbtacks? Genius....

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Thumbtacks? Genius....

And I already told ya, don't use me as an example. I suck at this hobby.

**mxwllmdr**

Lol. Aren't all marines derelict in some way or another?

**mxwllmdr**

I'll take it. Better than anything I could do.

**mxwllmdr**

I would not use jump jets in a set of robes. Fortunately, that is a dilemma I will likely never face.