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Okay here is something different. These are pics of my Unlooted Valkyrie. Back when the plastic Valkyrie came out, I bought one and looted it up for some Ork Apocalypse games. Recently however, I decided I wanted to start up an Imperial Guard army. The Looted Valkyrie counts as fightabomma, was just begging for someone to restore it. It took a lot of work, because I had covered it in glue.

So for those who cringe whenever someone loots a machine spirit, think of this project so you will feel better.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-14732-17521_Unlooted%20Valkyrie.html

It looks like it never happened.

That's crazy. Great restoration. I know 15 guys who'd have just bought a second one.

Thats unreal.....well done sir *golfclap*

That's amazing!

Did you use plastic glue aswell? 'cause if you did........hail the omnissah!

And you managed to get the original crew back into the cockpit?! Promote this man to fabricator-general immediately!

Matrim wrote:That's amazing!

Did you use plastic glue aswell? 'cause if you did........hail the omnissah!

Only on a few parts. I had to plasticard the middle of the tail because it I used plasticglue on it. Basically I took that piece out, sanded the glue off, and then attached a piece of plasitcard to it. I drilled some new rivet holes, turned the piece upside down and glued it properly into place. There are several other plasticard pieces on the model as well where I had to do similar repairs.

Snarky wrote:And you managed to get the original crew back into the cockpit?! Promote this man to fabricator-general immediately!

So can I be a Big Mek and a Fabricator General?
Yes I got the original crew back into it. I had to make a few modifications to the crew. The original hands from the pilots were used with the grots. Since I didn't have arms anymore for the crew, I had to use other imperial guard bitz. I used a pointing finger commissar arm and positioned it so it was pressing a button. I also used some gunner arms. The only thing about them was that the elbows were sticking out and I had to cut them down just a bit to get the canopy to fit on.

@Ralin Givens, poipo32, MightyGodzilla: Thanks for the comments! I got just as much joy out of fixing it as I did destroying it!

Here are some more pics of what it used too look like:

Here it is as a jump pack for a stompa:




I used it to accessorize a battlewagon to make it look like the space winnebago from Space Balls.

They both look great and nice restoration, but I kind of like the ork one better haha

Fantastic!!!

Though i Really love the Orky Winnebago variant!!! Very nicely done restoration!

On top of that, i love the paint job on the IG version! very cool!

Great job!

Wow. I stand in awe of your restorative skills!

And I love the Winnebago. =]

I liked it looted. Change it back.

The paint job is very nice, and nicely un-looted

Well done sir, VERY good conversions!

It looks like you never looted it. BTW it looks very nice.

I wouldn't have believed it if i hadn't seen the pics!
you did a fantastic job!

I am in awe. This man wins all the awards and all the women.

You wouldn't happen to have WIP pics would you?

Cant even tell it was looted lol Looks very nice.

I really love the paint job, how did you get that effect? Looks like its tie dyed!

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Ramshackle_Curtis wrote:I really love the paint job, how did you get that effect? Looks like its tie dyed!

Thanks for the comments! As for the camo pattern, I made it using some stencils that I bought from hobby lobby. Here is a link to the exact same stencils I used:

http://www.iwata-medea.com/index.php/artool/freehand_texture_fx

There are tons of them, but the image below is the one I used.

Happygrunt wrote:
I am in awe. This man wins all the awards and all the women.

You wouldn't happen to have WIP pics would you?

I have only a few. This project was done within a day while the wife was at work. She really liked my looted stuff so she was pissed when I even suggested unlooting it. Here is a shot of all the missiles and stuff that I had ripped off of it. So from this you can see that it was even more looted that what was shown before.



The next two shots are of it with most of the stuff pulled off and after its first soak in a bucket of bluewolf.





You can see the armour plates in that last pic and the glue on them. I scraped it off as best as I could, but it was scuffed up pretty bad. I used the yellow and black caution decal to cover up the damage.