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I am back after a hiatus. As before, I will build the storm talon out of paper. The model is not of my own design The download can be found over at Zealot. http://www.zealot.com/ It is made by newobmij and further modified slightly by terrinecold. So far the model is well made and I am starting with the engine pods first. There will be some further modifications by me which will give the model some strength and a few more details. So here are the first photos of the build. Enjoy and see you all next posting.

This model so far is build friendly. It also has the possibility for further enhancements. There are some tricks to the trade that you have think about in this build. Case in point, is the cowling for the nacelles. It has a very narrow strip to hold it in place. See the photos and you will see how to overcome this shortcoming. Enjoy and see you all the next posting.

Posted is one sheet of the plans

Here is the next batch of photos on the build. The cowling portion of the engine nacelle had lines on them that threw of the visual, so I repainted them by hand using a cadmium yellow. To maintain the correct circle aspect of the engine nacelle, I made an inner ring support for the cowling. A smaller diameter of the fan diagram was used and a thin strip of black card stock was used. The black card stock eliminated the need for painting. Now for the fan cone, I hate using those pesky tabs and re-did the cone by using a paper stick and wrapping a thin strip of paper around the the tip. With my dremmel, I sanded the cone to shape. If you use the drill. be sure to insert it in flush with the collar. If it sticks too far out, it will break apart, and do use low speed as well. Enjoy and see you all soon with more on the Talon.

Here is the next batch of photos and the result of the carved intake cone. For the exhaust, I did the retainer ring and used the socket to help in the installation. The louvers are laminated on top of each other and the first base piece is curved to fit on the exhaust. Enjoy and see you all next posting.

I forgot to put a raised ring near the end of the exhaust like on the GW model but I am pleased how the engine pylon came out but that is a little further up the line. The hinges are not the same as the GW model, which are indented. I took some liberty with that part. I decided to start with the engine pylons, because when I get to the fuselage, I will do a full re-make of the interior and add some more stuff to it. I will go to town with that portion of the build.

I have a tendency to take something simple and well made, then go all out to make it difficult. So far I have not even reached the fuselage stage and the externals are somewhat getting out of hand with all the detailing. But this procedure will help others to build up a better model and teach them how to enhance the model. All of this, is from my olden days of scratch building out of styrene before I found paper. The procedures are almost the same. I am also posting this thread on other sites as well, Dakkadakka and Resin Illuminati. Still up on the drawing board, is this same Talon in a manned walker version.

Using the reference from the GW model I added a few more greebles and raised surfaces.

So on with the next batch of photos. The wings are a little too flimsy so I do what I do best, LAMINATE, LAMINATE. Because I changed the property of the original design, I have to insert it into the engine pods to maintain integrity. I forgot to compensate for this and the wings are slightly shorter than called for. If you laminate them, add an extension to go into the slot. Talking about the slot, Make that cut when it is flat. Once the model is three dimensional, you have to be extra careful in cutting the slot out. I also had to make some internal support for the wing slots. Enjoy and see you all next posting. I have a bunch of photos to edit for your enjoyment

In continuation with the build, Here is another technique for the missile pylons. The front and back were laminated heavily, especially the front. The reason for the heavy lamination, is so the it can be drilled and the front will not collapse or get destroyed by the drill bit. I started the drill with the smallest drill and drilled again two more times with increased size of the drill bit. If you start with the larger drill bit, it will tend to move and destroy the part. With the smaller hole, the larger bits will have a guide to drill on. For the front edge of the pylons, I wrapped a black card strip and then I rolled a white strip around it. This will give it a deeper depth like on the GW version. Enjoy and I will see you soon with more stuff and techniques.

Now to continue with the build. At the present I have started with the fuselage from the back to the front. There is some minor fit issues but I will see how to overcome them. Here I started with the rear of the missile pylon. Too many pesky tabs so I just laminated to the thickness. Instead of hand painting the part, I wrapped a thin strip of black card stock and I am going to leave it black. The vents are too close in this part to be able to properly cut them out so I just raised the surface with thin panels.

Looks very nice so. Interested in seeing the final product

Surprisingly credible... I'm also very intrigued to see how this goes

steinerp wrote:Looks very nice so. Interested in seeing the final product

Flashman wrote:Surprisingly credible... I'm also very intrigued to see how this goes

Thanks for the comments guys and I am glad that your interest is pique. It is remarkable what con be done with paper. The imperial and Chaos models are the easiest to build because of their boxy nature. The Tau come next and the Eldars are a challenge. Enjoy the build and here is the next batch of photos on the build. The construction of the nose gun bucket and the beginning of the barrels and the landing skids.

The talon is coming out pretty good. I am now looking at the making of the cockpit. In the mean time, here is the next batch of photos. Continuation of the Gattling and the landing gears. This is one version of making the gattling.

After photo number 76, I will re-do the captions the same way I did with the chariot thread. In the meantime, here are the next set of photos for your enjoyment. The first one is where the model is at the moment. Enjoy and see you all next posting.

More photos. I have about 150 in the photo series and they need to be edited and captioned first. Here are some mix match photos of the gun tub, landing gear and the gattling gun.

Interesting work. keep it up!

 Decio wrote:
Interesting work. keep it up!

Stick around Decio, more to come;

More on the Talon build thread. Finishing off one of the Gattlings. This is one version of construction and I used a template to hold the barrels together in the construction. There is a little knob at the end of the barrel assembly which is inserted into the receiver. I do not like this method but the second version coming up. I like much better. Sorry about the lettering captions. After 76 the photos will have captions in their own dialogue box.

So here are some photos of the other version of the Gattling as well as the Landing gears and the new captions box. As mentioned earlier, it was a bit hard to read in the darker background.

Of all the design for this project, the only one I could not use, were the vector thruster. I went and made my own and slightly modifying the ones from GW. The base attachment points came out rather well. But that is for another posting.

The second version of the Gattling is finished and both units are attached to the gun bucket. The pads for the landing gears are finished and painted.

Good to see your work again. I love seeing your paper builds, very entertaining. Keep it up

 monkeytroll wrote:
Good to see your work again. I love seeing your paper builds, very entertaining. Keep it up

Thanks for the welcome back. I am back home and I am done with overseas contracts. I will be shortly a full pensioner (I like that word better than our "retired".) I have to finish off the drop ship in my other thread , which is the reason I made a separate thread for the Storm Talon. Enjoy and see you all soon with more updates.

And here are some more updates and photos of the Talon. As mentioned in the captions, I did not laminate the tail, because it would have been a bit tail heavy and cause a stress point at the joint with the main body. The tail ailerons, I did laminate to thickness. Remember to save the circle that was cut out of the gun tub, it will now come in handy and make a good stop for the swivel tube later on. Enjoy and see you all after I edit a bunch of photos to come.

continuation of the build thread. I should have started with the front before I did this section, but the results are adequate. The captions are self explanatory. Enjoy and see you all soon with more.

More photos for your enjoyment. Everything looks fine up till now. Later on, I found that the center body had no tolerance for the cabin to fit. The center pylon was laminated to give the structure strength, Unfortunately, I did this section first. Next time I will do the cabin first and then work the center section around it. More photos to come. The Talon is now finished but it will take a few more postings until I get to the final showing. Enjoy and see you all around the forums.

Now to continue with the build project, here is the next batch of photos for your enjoyment.
For the engine connectors I tried two versions. This is the first construction. There is another, which I liked and is the one I used in the model. This connection had a small hole to connect them, the other version was much larger and stronger, but you will see that later on.

I still have to do a few details before it is completely done. I am working on the hinged canopy in the open position and those missiles. I may also add more armaments, like hard points on the wings foe a bomb load and wing tip las cannons. But those are for another posting. Enjoy and see you all postings.

Now on with the construction. Here are some photos that show the fit problem. I definitely did not want to scratch the Talon at this point but adapted to the new situation.

And now, for more updates on the model. BTW, it is finished and will have a bomb array hard point, but that is for later. Enjoy and see you all around the forums.

Looking good! Did that side panel actually rip, or was it a panel layer popping off?

 monkeytroll wrote:
Looking good! Did that side panel actually rip, or was it a panel layer popping off?

As mentioned in earlier post. I should have started with the front , instead of the rear. One of the side front panels connecting to the cabin was damaged in the fitting phase. Not to worry, i fixed it somewhat later on and is not as visible. The Talon is finished but I still have to catch up on the photo editing.


So the build continues and here are more photos for your enjoyment.

hey silveroxide... good to see you back here... and with some very good looking work too!!!