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Aerials. on!

Love the geometry and look of this! Really menacing shape! awesome skills buddy!

Very reminiscent of Shuttle Tydyrium (obviously missing the central wing on top). So, with in mind, the base should be a forest with little teddy bears beating up Space Marines

MagosBiff90 wrote:Love the geometry and look of this! Really menacing shape! awesome skills buddy!

Thanks mate. Your skills are pretty impressive, so appreciate that!

Ruglud wrote:Very reminiscent of Shuttle Tydyrium (obviously missing the central wing on top). So, with in mind, the base should be a forest with little teddy bears beating up Space Marines

Oh now there's a thought I do have sentinels spare that I could use and have a blasted, ruined tree as a fight stand. Kewl!

Hehe do a sentinel with trees either side. 2 logs swinging and a crushed sentinel cab!!!

Or a sentinel about to go between the trees and fall over a giant rope trip wire hahaha!!!

Could be a comedy sentinel squadron, "The Lucky 13's"


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Gah, maybe its the 5 cups of coffee, but my brain is going daft with sentinel ideas.... Last one for a while I promise!!

A line of logs on the ground with a sentinel wobbling/ moonwalking/ sliding/ toppling along the top of the logs, trying not to fall on its backside...

I'm actually thinking about the tripwire idea, with ratlings although I regret getting rid of those halfling cooks now

Hahaha, ratlings beating the snot out of people with pots and frying pans would have been so funny

Too true. Grots also tempting.

I was looking in my box of stuff and noticed Hey - it came with an extra window. Cool.
Where's the fight stem?
oh, nuts.

So first up a shot of the undercarriage:


Aside from some gs filling on the inside edges of the wing to the fuselage, and the rims of the engine intakes, I think it's done. So, on to the base! The question remains, if I do the Star Wars theme: IG Sentinel or Renegade? Ratlings or Grot-woks? There will probably be 2 of these bases (1 for the Valk), if that's a factor in your decision making


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Are you going to make a canopy of some sort for it?

Just looks so odd to me hun xxx

Canopy done but not attached. To be done post paint. Sorry you're not a fan Dee.

I like.. put some primer on it and it'll seem more complete without all the variouse part colors.

Good point. It'll look much more cohesive with a single color of primer on it.

Fair play chaps I shall try to get a coat on it this weekend.

As a diversion, a wee librarian for Miss Dee:

Those may not be final legs though, if she wants biker mode!

Also, I've added a load of New stuff, including classic chaos and csm, to my trade thread:


Go on, help a brother out!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/422382.page#3774590



Link would help

Also found more bits for exorcist 3 - hurrah!

That avenger strike fight is one of the best scratches i have seen around. Props, and well done.

Thanks mate, it's not a true scratch though, just one of my demented kitbashes but then that's how I roll. I keep seeing flaws and inconsistencies, and keep re-gsing bits! But having a primer deadline should force me to stop tweaking it... maybe

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Thanks mate, it's not a true scratch though, just one of my demented kitbashes but then that's how I roll. I keep seeing flaws and inconsistencies, and keep re-gsing bits! But having a primer deadline should force me to stop tweaking it... maybe

You suffer from creator syndrome. You made it, so you see its flaws. Unless it is horribly obvious, which to me i cant see any, it is ok. Just prime it sooner than later because too much tweaking will doom it, at least in my case.

 cormadepanda wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Thanks mate, it's not a true scratch though, just one of my demented kitbashes but then that's how I roll. I keep seeing flaws and inconsistencies, and keep re-gsing bits! But having a primer deadline should force me to stop tweaking it... maybe

You suffer from creator syndrome. You made it, so you see its flaws. Unless it is horribly obvious, which to me i cant see any, it is ok. Just prime it sooner than later because too much tweaking will doom it, at least in my case.

Too true - & Sig'd!

So, here we go - sorry about the delay, frenzied marking:


I'm still not happy about the portside wing on the inside edge of the engine. Might have to redo that. Otherwise, pretty content. And, yes, the canopy's still not on. Going to nip to FLGS today and get plastic glue (yuck).

And the undercarriage (fnar)


Mostly, as I say, very pleased. Might even paint it

Onto other matters. Wonderful wife got me these oddities:

I don't know exactly what to do with them, but it'll be... something. Maybe I'll run a contest for who can use a strip most inventively? What do y'all think?

Gradually trimming down my collection to SoB and GKs pretty much exclusively. A good choice, I think. The IG are pretty much gone now apart from my Valk and enough Kasrkin to give me vet support if I so desire. Stormtroopers FTW, and so forth. There's a whole bunch of classic chaos and csm in my trade thread over here amongst other things, though.

Lastly, for your consideration, I'm thinking about what to do with these guys:

I was considering turning them into Daemonhosts, have various daemonic limbs emerging from them etc. Thoughts?

Cheers, and thanks for your continuing support, C&C and mutterings,
graven

hey graven... a big congratz for finishing the build of this flyer... truly a league of it´s own...! now primed it looks one giant leap further along completion.

I am too thinking of the base... there two major path this flyer could get a themed base...

one: avenging angel... meaning the flyer is meant to avenge something of their own... so about to strike down hard on evil incarnate of a demonic army of your choice...

or...

two: protecting hen () ...meaning it is flying directly over a small squad or other troop something of your own army to protect them...like a giant mother hen that shields it´s offspring with their wings...can you imagine this like me?...probably with evasive fire and lots of blast effects to practise OSL...

either way I would include big plumes of smoke to hide as much as you can of the stand of the base...


as for the last shown possible models...what about new penitent engines? these could also be the sinner pilots?...

Splendid work! Really Cool

Good work on the flyer.
The little details work well and with it all one colour, looks like it came out of a kit.

Great work on the flyer graven. Nicely done. Looks really tight now that it's primed a solid color.

Yes it does look alot better primed xx

The flyer looks ace all in a unified color, but will look even better painted(nudge nudge, and I will say more later if the brushes don't get a moe on ). Seriously this will be a big motivator for you if you take it from concept to build to paint to actually fielding it.

Are those crucified people big enough to be the front of a penitent engine maybe?

Excellent.. primed and ready to paint.

All kitbashes look better when primed. GREAT work!

 Briancj wrote:
All kitbashes look better when made by Graven, GREAT work!

Fixed that for ya dude!

You see now it looks like a bought one, only better.

Well gosh folks I'm touched.

Viktor von Domm wrote:hey graven... a big congratz for finishing the build of this flyer... truly a league of it´s own...! now primed it looks one giant leap further along completion.

I am too thinking of the base... there two major path this flyer could get a themed base...

one: avenging angel... meaning the flyer is meant to avenge something of their own... so about to strike down hard on evil incarnate of a demonic army of your choice...

or...

two: protecting hen () ...meaning it is flying directly over a small squad or other troop something of your own army to protect them...like a giant mother hen that shields it´s offspring with their wings...can you imagine this like me?...probably with evasive fire and lots of blast effects to practise OSL...

either way I would include big plumes of smoke to hide as much as you can of the stand of the base...


as for the last shown possible models...what about new penitent engines? these could also be the sinner pilots?...

I like the vengeance idea, but also the protection. I'm now considering a SoB shrine being assaulted, possibly by orks, with the Avenger defending. Another idea is to turn the stand into some kind of Tyranid weapon maybe?

MagosBiff90 wrote:Splendid work! Really Cool

Thanks matey!

Dr H wrote:Good work on the flyer.
The little details work well and with it all one colour, looks like it came out of a kit.

Too kind. I'm pleased with the detailing too. I have to say the next step is the debate over what colour to do it - probably a heavily weathered white with turquoise and brass accents, like the Order of the Tear themselves.

Gitsplitta wrote:Great work on the flyer graven. Nicely done. Looks really tight now that it's primed a solid color.

Thanks man, still not sold on that wing though!

Miss Dee wrote:Yes it does look alot better primed xx

Phew! Glad you're sold on it. BTW I have bits bagged up to send you, sorry they've not gone out to you yet.

Theophony wrote:The flyer looks ace all in a unified color, but will look even better painted(nudge nudge, and I will say more later if the brushes don't get a moe on ). Seriously this will be a big motivator for you if you take it from concept to build to paint to actually fielding it.

Are those crucified people big enough to be the front of a penitent engine maybe?

Thanks bud. Another vote for penitent engines! I have 2, but could certainly use for one. I'm also considering servitor strapped to Valkyrie and as an alternative to servo skulls for Hereticus =][=

Solar_lion wrote:Excellent.. primed and ready to paint.

Subtle man, subtle.

Briancj wrote:All kitbashes look better when primed. GREAT work!

High praise from a flyer lord

nerdfest09 wrote:

 Briancj wrote:
All kitbashes look better when made by Graven, GREAT work!

Fixed that for ya dude!

Too kind mate. Just wish my painting could do it justice. Ah well.

Camkierhi wrote:You see now it looks like a bought one, only better.

I'm really pleased folk think so. And for half the cost (and let's face it, building a FW would probably have taken a month anyway).