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I needed a shuttle or lander for a Rogue Trader era scenario I'm planning. After a quick search around the net, I didn't find much I liked so I set about converting my own.





This is still a WiP, with weather and a few more details to go. It is primarily intended to be terrain, but I managed to add a few bits to the underside of the hull to accommodate a large flying stand.

More pics and details on construction and painting on my blog...

Mighty impressive!

This looks awesome.
Any WiP pictures or a list of the parts and how you built it?

Wow, that's ace.

Looks great, Runabouts were always such an underrated ship in Star Trek, and of course they come from the darkest series in the franchise, so there is already a grimeyness about them.

Wow! That's awesome! Great job!

As for pieces; I recognise the terminator teleport homer thingy, a Rhino door, and a leman russ turret (either the battle cannon, or the ignores cover (eradicator?) one).
I see a lascannon, too. But not 100% sure where it's from. RB/pred or HWT from guard are my bets.
...Having said that, you're probably wondering about the core/majority of it. With which, I couldn't help you...

The lascannon is from a HWT with out a doubt.


The red fuel tanks look they are from the Land Raider Hellstorm cannon

Spectacular stuff. It's a lot of fun to look at it and find familiar bits.

Thanks, guys!

The bits are from a pile of kits and these pics show MOST of them...





The main thing I tried to do was break up the silhouette of the original craft...



When I assembled the kit, it took a but of cutting and sanding, but I placed the wings on backwards so they swept forward instead of back. I left off the sensor pod and used part of the hull to give the cockpit a more armored appearance (again with some sanding required for a good fit). The rest were just leftovers from the bits box:

Half of a las-cannon from a land raider, a space marine homing beacon (from the scout kit?), two rhino doors, part of a leman russ cannon (but like Zambro, I have no idea which kit it was from), a hatch from an Imperial vehicle on the top, a light strip from the rogue trader era rhino kit, an Imperial Eagle, fuel tanks from a helstorm cannon, a few spare hatches (no idea), half a dozen handles repurposed as a ladder, and some tile plasticard. I also magnetized the flying stand plate from a valkyrie so I could represent the craft flying (I'll show pics of that on my blog in the future).

Again, the main thing was to remove as many bits that gave away the 1:72 scale (mainly the doors - covered by rhino doors), add some bits that are obvious 40k pieces to echo recognizable 40k tech (again the rhino doors, etc.), and make the craft less symmetrical. I was never really into Deep Space Nine so it wasn't too hard for me to be able to overcome my suspension of disbelief (oh, look the millennium falcon with a rhino door).

Hope that helps!