Valkyries and Vendettas

[wulfric]

I'm starting to build my flyers, and I've been thinking about how best to go about it. I have plenty of 3mm magnets so I'm intending to magnetise all the hard points - swappable rockets and pods, swappable lascannon and multilaser. That's the easy part.

Part two is to make it convertible to a Vendetta.I'm guessing somebody has thought about this, and I'm hopeful there is a simple solution. Bear in mind I will want three of these eventually, so nothing too complex. What's the easy way of making an underwing twin linked lascannon? I was considering using spare razorback turrets, but that's quite ugly, and the guns are inverted.

Finally - colour schemes. I'm thinking of going for a plain metal finish with the panels round the cockpit in anti-glare green. Bright tail (probably red or a checkerboard) and black invasion stripes on the wings. Very much influenced by P38 Lightning and P51 Mustang schenes. Has anyone tried this?







Cheers,
Colin

[dangerrod]

Good idea

For my Vendetta, i used the Stormaravens Lascannons glued together. I looked at heaps of different Lascannons and these seemed to be the simplist way to do it. They fit really well together.

Scroll down for my Vendetta -
www.commissar.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=picpost&action=display&thread=15109&page=2

As for the colour scheme, a silver finish Vendetta may look a little Grey Knights or it could look awesome. Only one way to find out!

Danger Rod

[RedCuffs]

I wanted the same thing. A Valk that could re-role as a V-Dett as soon as my undecisive and fickle mind would demand it.

To create the 3xTL Lascannons I got 6 TL lascannons for a dreadnought, stuck another Lascannon onto each one and then stuck one under each wing.
This was for a squadron of 3.
Hardest part was re-aligning the muzzles.





You know when you spend a lot of time, effort and money on something because you know that the end result will be utterly outstanding ...



well I didn't think this was. Disappointed to say the least. And out of pocket !!!

Still I have another squadron of Valk/V-Dett to build.
They'll have modified cabins that will hopefully make them appear more ... assaulty ... not quite so ... like a bus.
Anyway, this is how the TL Lascannons will be fitted to them.




Looks a lot more aggressive i think, but that's just me. Reminds me of another aircraft but I can't think which one.

[optimat]

My thought on lascannons (that I eventually decided against so have no pictures to help) was use the 'stand' from HWT guns to make an under-wing bracket, with magnet in the middle point. Twin linked lascannons from the HWT sprue attached together and magnet on! The same magnet point can be used for the Hellstrike and MMP!

Will sit low, but you could halve the stand legs if you wanted to.

[emptyhat]

Actually I quite like the dreadnought, underslung ones. I'm not that sure about the colour scheme though but that is just personal taste.

[wulfric]

I have started with the Vendetta I picked up at a bring and buy for a tenner. I don't like the lascannons as this guy did them - they're half lascannon and half autocannon, but they were fitted very securely! It'll do as a test-bed for the paint scheme before I build my own; I can make my mistakes here, and if it's that bad, I can turn it into scenery. It was completely undercoated in black, across the canopy as well, so I bought a spare from a bits seller online to replace it.

Here's the basic model after a coat of silver spray...



I thought that I would pop the cockpit off now. Okay, I see why he painted across the canopy - none of the cockpit pieces were fitted! Never mind, I can scratchbuild something into there and make the replacement canopy tinted to hide the difference!



Next thing is to get some base colours on, just to block out where I want things. Red tail, red intakes, drab anti-glare round the cockpit. I am still debating invasion stripes on the wings...



As suggested above, it does look a little Grey Knight, but I think that the nose art will break that a bit...

[dangerrod]

Starting to look good

Can't believe there was no cockpit! Lazy git!

Danger Rod

[wulfric]

Invasion stripes in place...



And just in case...

[RedCuffs]

I don't usually comment on other peoples work, just in case I say the wrong thing.
But that looks bloody good.
And I wasn't sure about the invasion stripes when you mentioned them.
But they look bloody good mate.
I see a mixture of late 1940's and early 1950's there.

The model has got enough red though.
If you want to put a bit of red on the wing tips then I'd suggest cutting a bit of red out of the tail section.
Or else the red will become too dominant.

[Jackal-0311]

Awesome work. Can you school me on your hydra?

[wulfric]

The Hydra? Easy peasy.

Buy a Hobbyboss 1/48 scale KV from ebay - a quick search brings up plenty of them at about £10-12 / $16-18. I have KV2 because that way I can use them with the turret as a Ragnarok, but if you're just after making a Hydra, get a KV1 and use the turret on some sort of fortification.

Buy the guns from Ramshackle Games - www.ramshacklegames.co.uk/ - he's on vacation until next month, but they're cheap and easy. I made a turret ring from plastic card so that it all fitted together, but that's basically it!

[Burt Hoovis]

So I was just getting ready to put together my first Valk/Vendetta and I started looking around here for any tips before I mess something up. I didn't realize that in order to make the vendetta gunship that you have to scrounge around for the bits to do so.
Before I start...
Is the only difference between the two ships the 3 Lascannons and 30 points? Or are there differences in the models beyond the weapon load out?

Are the sponsons worth doing if I intend on this being my armor killer?

[Sgt. Rock]

The lascannons are the primary difference, yeah. Also, Forge World makes a nifty conversion kit, if you've got the scratch to lay down on it.

If you've got the points to spare, the sponsons are nice; they can help soak Weapon Destroyed results, and once you've popped the tanks and any infantry with a 2+ save, you then have a better option against infantry. And remember that while you can only fire four weapons at full BS on a flyer, you can still snap shot the rest.

However, that's only if you've got the points to spare. Personally, I'm disinclined to put them on there; seems like those points could be better put to use elsewhere, and since that Vendetta is going to be Public Enemy No. 1 for your opponent, I'd imagine you'd want to keep it cheap.

[kharneth]

What would be the purpose of taking a Valkyrie instead of a Vendetta?

Is there any way to justify taking a Valkyrie with the missile pods?

[Sgt. Rock]

Valks with missile pods provide vicious anti-infantry firepower, especially against lightly armored hordes (orks, gaunts, other IG.) Same price as a Vendetta, and perhaps not as useful point-for-point, but they're pretty good at gouging great holes in infantry formations.

[kharneth]

So I take it an army with sufficient anti-armor and anti-air firepower could benefit from a missile pod valkyrie instead of a vendetta? I'd love to find a way to make this fit!

[Sergeant CJ]

Pardon the slight thread resurrection, but how do people play with the sponson bolters
given that they're modeled to swing out, do you count them as having a forward firing arc too?

[Trickstick]

They can swing out pretty far, they can see a good deal in front of the model. I play them like russ sponsons, in that they can fire at targets in front as long as they are not too close to the model. If I remember correctly, they have an arc that goes slightly past the 12 o'clock position.

[Sergeant CJ]

Good, that's how I'd been playing with them
just wanted to check others did too!