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I haven't seen the scale of the storm-talon, was wondering if it would fit over the front of the stormraven to create a less flat looking cockpit? Wanted to find out opinions as I've been bitten by a space hulk modeling bug and possibly wanted to try my hand at extending a stormraven and adding a less thunderhawkish nose.

So crazy it just might work....

Yeah, if you go ahead with it share your WIP shots.

Measuring the hull width across the cockpit area with the canopies off, the Raven is about an inch wider than the Talon, if that helps.

If you're talking the actual glass canopy, the Talon's will leave about a quarter inch gap on each side at the front on the Raven because it tapers while the Raven is pretty much square.

I saw someone on another site Photoshop up an example. I'm not sure how far they got with it, but the idea looks awesome. Though I think the Talon front would be a bit smaller judging from size of the marine pilot.

Dear lord! That is glorious!

Stormtalon front is a bit big in that image, but I think I can preserve the ramp and have the underslung turret make sense. Even being out of the ramp's way so it could lower.

I actually look forward to trying this and seeing how the two fit together.

The cockpit is the only really good part of the model IMHO.

...I wonder if this train of thought could lead to a beautiful fire raptor conversion...

I think it's a bit too small, but with some work, it'll look sweet

This needs to work. 80s Lego looking cockpit screen has got to go.