http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net I did the Valkyrie and Land Raider conversion similar to a few I have seen posted online.

I know a couple of obvious problems: I want to do the cockpit differently next time, it's a little small. I want to move the engine turbines around and I definitely need to work on the seams by the cockpit and engines. However, or a first attempt I think it's pretty good?

I want to put it up on E-bay to finance my next version. I already have some great ideas. How much do you think I could get for it? (Looking for experienced sellers)

Lastly: I know there are no grapple arms for a dread. Here's the deal: It's the friggin 41st millennium. I bet they will have figured magnetic grapples or force fields to hold that sort of thing so yea.






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I say, BRAVO!!!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707617.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707617.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707618.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707618.page GMT
Where are you thinking of moving the turbines? I feel like they'd make more sense mounted under the wings, but the hurricane bolters won't allow that, nor will the slight angle of the wings, themselves...

Oh well. I still give it two big thumbs up!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707626.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707626.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707923.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707923.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707959.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1707959.page GMT Then I put all the crap into a pile and started building up what I thought would be a decent aircraft one piece at a time. I used the pictures cited below as references, but I think that mine took on it's own life as soon as I started gluing plastic together.

I used this guys work as references:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/286057.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/287616.page

And this picture I found online: http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9136/stormraven2.jpg]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1708349.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/302812/1708349.page GMT LR upper deck and engine. Gives it a really nice bulk and a better Space Marine "feel" than I've been able to manage.
But...
[] The fins and engines are all wrong. They look too much like random placement. Mostly because the two fins behind the engines make no sense at all and seem just stuck on. Neither one has has a control surface facing aft, one is attached to the boom and the other sticks straight up![/ ] I agree with you that the cockpit needs to look more an integral part of the model. Fool about with some plasti-card and see if you can fair it in a bit just so it looks smoother. I'd fill in the gaps between the sides of the Land Raider hull. Otherwise it looks too unfinished. Greenstuff is probably easiest.

Flip the barrels on the Assault Cannons so that the bar is on the bottom, it's 30 seconds with a saw that will pay off big.

Also, lose the Smoke Launchers. The Stormraven, sadly, doesn't have them.


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