New Stormraven using only one valkyrie!

[Forteller]

Well ladies and gents i spent 9 hours down in the local hobby shoppe and i came up with one badass stormraven using only ONE valkyrie box! My goal was to do a stormraven as close to the source material the

least amount of cash invested.Takes a bit of effort but the end result is fun and definetly worth it!

 

Twin lascannon multimelta variation, has clamps in the back for the dreads which dont need magnets and just slide the dreadnought in place.

 

If ya need any details on how i came to do it please respond and i ll will explain ;)

 

P.S.: No green stuff,no styrofoam,just good old cutting and glueing.

 

P.P.S.: Sorry for the picture quality i ll try to get some better ones.

 

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[Lestat]

Looks good. The Dread fits in well. My only quibble would be that the body of the Hawk seems too small to fit 12 Marines in - but then again, I still havn't worked out how you are supposed to fit 10 into a Rhino :)

 

Any chance of a tutorial going up some time?

[Forteller]

I ll try one later today or early tommorow,kinda bushed from modelling all day today ;) Keep in mind i ll try to make it step by step but pictures is kinda hard on the step by step,some imagination and my guiding and i think you ll be making your own in no time.... :)

[Forteller]

Well here goes,its from the top of my head so no flaming please :)

Use your imagination where my explaining seems to stop,you ll see it come along.

 

A) For starters build the tail "sticks",engines, hull (which is basically front back floor roof and the little doors,NOTHING else), and the wings,but just assemble em.

 

:) Flip the hull so the ramp faces the front, turn the tail sticks to the side and put them on the

spot when the first vertical line appears on the side walls of the valkyrie's hull.

 

C) Cut off the bit of the edges of the wings with a saw so they stick to the hull and flip them as the

pictures suggest. Glue them so they start off as the same time as the tail "fins".

 

D) Glue the connecting part of the back wings EXACTLY after the roof ends,in the back side of our hull.

right BENEATH the tail "fins" ( This is so the back of the cockpit,for which we use the back of the

original cockpit has something to rest on and look natural)

 

E) Glue the engines where ya see them on the pics,not on the hull,on the wing a bit further away from the hull

on top of the wings however.

 

F) On this attempt, i cut off the cockpit to create my own,i cut the back off, where the second chair was located,kept the first frontal one and severely SEVERELY lowered it to the extent ya think the cockpit is inside the hull. (Warning THIS IS EASILY THE HARDEST PART OF THE WHOLE PROCCESS,YOU WILL FRACK IT UP, its understandable) you connect it to the original back of the cockpit which goes in the same place

as it is shown in the instructions,only instead ya flip it and pull it a bit further back.

 

G) Glue the tail wings by using the tail wings, the shorter ones put them vertically and the longer ones horizontally by forming a 90% degrees angle between them.

 

Few pointers:

 

A) dont be afraid to use any leftovers which are a lot to cover any exposed areas, this requires

just some creativity and imagination and gives the aircraft a more natural look.

 

:P Ofcourse weapon placement is easy, btw buy two valks with a friend of yours

and have one use the "Barrel missiles" and the other use the regular ones so ya each get 4.

( If strapped just use the original missiles of the valk)

 

C) I have made a little trick with the base placement. In the area where you connect the base to the plane.

Instead of just putting it normally, i put a little "pillow" for the back part of the place where the base rests on.This forces it to sit on an angle instead of being straight, which gives it a totally new higher angle and

makes it look MUCH MUCH cooler.

 

D) use the "clamps" from what i understand is the landing gear to make sort of two coat hangars

for the dreadnought which ya glue in the back of the vehicle and use them to slide the dreadnought in place without any use of magnets

 

E) Dont be afraid to cut things with a saw or a cutter where it seems unnatural,the paint will fix the rest.

 

Well basically thats it,dunno if i am forgetting something.

 

If ya need clarification on ANYTHING or more details please dont be afraid to ask, i ' d love to help

others make the same thing and not waste terrible amounts of cash on it :) I actually built two myself.

 

Cheers

[Forteller]

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There now painted!

[Justicar Valius]

Looks good. The Dread fits in well. My only quibble would be that the body of the Hawk seems too small to fit 12 Marines in - but then again, I still havn't worked out how you are supposed to fit 10 into a Rhino

 

Any chance of a tutorial going up some time?

3 on one bench, 3 on the other, 3 standing up and the Serg sitting next to the driver.

 

Love this, much better than the other pure Valk one I've seen on the net.

[Tybrus]

really love it, just wish some step by step pictures where around. If anyone else builds one can you post some step by steps for those of us not as gifted as the above creater.

 

Thanks....

[Kay]

Looks good. The Dread fits in well. My only quibble would be that the body of the Hawk seems too small to fit 12 Marines in - but then again, I still havn't worked out how you are supposed to fit 10 into a Rhino :P

 

Any chance of a tutorial going up some time?

 

 

you try to fit 8 terminators in a Land Raider hull...

 

OnTopic

Nice work on the stormraven, but i always imagined the Dread being carried underneath the stormraven, not on its back...

But now that i think of it, i see a problem when landing in my idea... xD

[Koyote]

I love your design. However, it appears that you used pieces from 2 Valkyrie kits. The flat piece that you placed on top of the tail sticks on either side of the cock pit are cut from the piece that normally serves as the cockpit's floor and underside of the Valkyrie's nose. Consequently, each Valkyrie kit only includes one such piece.

 

I only mention this because as I build my own Stormraven, following your design, it took me a while to figure this out. Accordingly, I just wanted to give the next guy a heads up.