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Post by Empirespy on Apr 20, 2011 16:46:57 GMT -5
Awesome army, love the 'cherry bomb' detail on the valk.
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Post by Yeti's Yell on Apr 21, 2011 9:02:32 GMT -5
Hats off to Chung and Snyder!!!!
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 21, 2011 10:20:29 GMT -5
Shostak, you mean this set, right? www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440336a&prodId=prod40007aAwesome army, love the 'cherry bomb' detail on the valk. Hats off to Chung and Snyder!!!! Thank you, empirespy and Yeti. I had a lot of fun painting the Vendetta, and my Vulture kit just arrived today, so I will probably be diving in to assembling it soon. It's going to be a labor of love, because I will be dedicating the names of the Vulture's crew to aviators I've known who have passed away (my friend's father who was US Air Force in Vietnam who suddenly passed away from a heart attack in 2002, and a member of my original 40K gaming group who became a US Naval Aviator and was killed in a flight deck landing accident in 1998). I hope I can do them justice by making the kit look good... |
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Post by Walrus on Apr 21, 2011 10:34:49 GMT -5
It will be brilliant Trooper, have faith.
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Post by Yeti's Yell on Apr 21, 2011 11:06:55 GMT -5
It will be brilliant Trooper, have faith. Agreed. It is starting inspired and that is all you need. So is the Vulture kit the add-on for the plastic kit? Both my Vendetta and Vulture kits are original Forge World kits that I still haven't built and I hvae to make custom flying bases for them... which is a pain. |
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 21, 2011 16:09:54 GMT -5
The new Vulture kit is a hybrid resin/plastic kit. It uses the Valkyrie wings, landing claws, tail booms, and pilot/canopy pieces (and rocket pods if you equip it with them), but the rest (fuselage, engines, and ailerons/stabilizers) is resin. I looked through the kit this morning when it arrived, and it is a pretty hefty piece of resin--fortunately it comes with a routed out bit that accepts the new Valkyrie flight stand.
But yeah, I'm going to name the Vulture "Azrael" after the AC-130 that my friend's dad served on, prior to him being switched over to B-52s towards the end of the war. There's actually a decal on the FW Valkyrie/Vendetta of a winged skeleton holding an hourglass which is quite similar to the art that decorated the AC-130, Azrael, which was a Grim Reaper with a mini-gun, and I'm going to put it on the Vulture. I'm going to be equipping my Vulture with TL Punisher cannons, to mimic the loadout of the AC-130.
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Post by Walrus on Apr 22, 2011 0:03:20 GMT -5
It would be really cool if you applied the decal, then free handed a minigun over the hourglass or something similar...
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Post by Fire For Effect on Apr 22, 2011 1:49:56 GMT -5
I think that was the set I meant, and I love the Valkyrie. I love the nose are more than anything really, but I always think it brings out the best in those sorts of kits. I guess I just have a soft spot for the old pinup style noseart really, but pilots always seemed so flashy in the movies that just flat out camo doesn't seem to work...
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Post by fianoglach on Apr 22, 2011 5:48:27 GMT -5
Lovely matt finish on the detta!
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 22, 2011 12:26:30 GMT -5
It would be really cool if you applied the decal, then free handed a minigun over the hourglass or something similar... Hmmm... I could try it, but I'm afraid that I would screw up the decal if I did.  Really cool idea though, Walrus!  I think that was the set I meant, and I love the Valkyrie. I love the nose are more than anything really, but I always think it brings out the best in those sorts of kits. I guess I just have a soft spot for the old pinup style noseart really, but pilots always seemed so flashy in the movies that just flat out camo doesn't seem to work... I'd like to try and do some more nose art on my upcoming Valkyries, but I'm not sure if there's enough room on the fuselage for me to attempt to try it. I've seen others do it well here on the IGMB, but I'm not convinced that I could pull it off... Lovely matt finish on the detta! Thanks! I used Krylon matte finish to do the final sealing. Krylon crystal clear gloss was used to provide a surface for the decals to go down on, then I hit them with another coat of the gloss to seal the decals, and then matte finish over the whole lot. |
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Post by Walrus on Apr 22, 2011 22:22:02 GMT -5
Because the Imperial Navy puts that many credits into awesome paint jobs it can put in a few more to make sure it doesn't get scratched!
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 23, 2011 9:29:16 GMT -5
Because the Imperial Navy puts that many credits into awesome paint jobs it can put in a few more to make sure it doesn't get scratched! *Blushes* Thank you, Walrus. Yeah, when I was painting the model I was actually having problems with "rub" on certain points of it, and had to do constant touch ups, so I did an extra good job of varnishing it to hopefully prevent any future problems. |
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Post by Walrus on Apr 23, 2011 9:37:52 GMT -5
Rub? How so?
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 23, 2011 9:49:58 GMT -5
Areas around corners on the model would have the paint rub off when I was handling the model. Particularly the metallic bits under the leading edge of the wing root.
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Post by Walrus on Apr 23, 2011 9:54:34 GMT -5
Ahh right... Evil paint not staying in it's rightful place.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 23, 2011 17:34:38 GMT -5
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Post by Sil on Apr 24, 2011 23:43:59 GMT -5
Damn mate, all this stuff is stunning, good job
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Post by Walrus on Apr 25, 2011 0:10:44 GMT -5
Brilliant, lots if dakka ;D
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Post by The Hawk! on Apr 25, 2011 3:37:31 GMT -5
once again trooper, you dont fail to impress, i'm looking forward to seeing this badboy painted up  |
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 25, 2011 14:23:17 GMT -5
Damn mate, all this stuff is stunning, good job Brilliant, lots if dakka ;D once again trooper, you dont fail to impress, i'm looking forward to seeing this badboy painted up Thanks, Sil, Walrus, and davidb0802! I'm hoping to be able to get more white primer tomorrow and get the TL Punisher cannon configuration primed. Parts to make an alternate loadout with quad multiple rocket pods are on their way, according to a message that I got from eBay today. |
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Post by Gabriel Lupus on Apr 25, 2011 15:50:34 GMT -5
Punisher cannons on a Vulture is simply genius. It's rapidly becoming a basis for where to start my airborne Guard...
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 25, 2011 16:20:30 GMT -5
Yeah, the TL Punishers look really cool, and well... They're twin-linked. I think the quad rocket pod loadout is going to look really awesome as well... |
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Post by Fire For Effect on Apr 25, 2011 20:35:29 GMT -5
Oh, the Vulture is the one thing I've always wanted to buy from Forge World, but could just never bring myself to buy... why is it so expensive...
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Post by Walrus on Apr 26, 2011 1:10:01 GMT -5
Are vultures bs3 or 4?
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Apr 26, 2011 10:05:36 GMT -5
FFE: You should totally get one. The kit is awesome. One of the easiest to assemble FW kits I've ever gotten. Walrus: I believe it is BS 3. Hence why TL on the Punishers is pretty nifty.  |
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Really cool idea though, Walrus! 
