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Lamenters Storm Raven


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I finally finished my Storm Raven conversion for my Lamenters army. My mission was to improve the look of the model. In my opinion the dorsal turret and vent, and nose-mounted weapons give the GW model a really odd-looking silhouette - something which I sought to change. After cutting out the middle section of the top plate and reversing it, applying a new turret based on the Forgeworld Razorback lascannon one, plasticard-ing over the nose weapon mount, and re-mounting the twin-linked multi-meltas; I have produced the following:

 

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab87/mercury82_photos/Lamenters/DSCF1241.jpg?t=1298749490

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab87/mercury82_photos/Lamenters/DSCF1239.jpg?t=1298749528

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab87/mercury82_photos/Lamenters/DSCF1236.jpg?t=1298749528

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab87/mercury82_photos/Lamenters/DSCF1242.jpg?t=1298749603

 

The conversion is far from perfect - a superglue explosion made a complete mess of the model during construction and I have struggled a little to hide the evidence of this. Nonetheless, I am very happy with the appearance of the model (a definite improvement on the GW one, IMO) and my paint scheme.

 

C&C welcome as usual.

 

- Mercury

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I love what you did with the multi meltas. They look way better where they are with yours. No matter whose model it is though, I dont like the top turret. I assembled mine with stanard turret, and I have seen a lot of really good conversions. In my mind the top turret would look way better if it was chin mounted, except then the front ramp is in the way.
I love what you did with the top of the model - to me that's the worst part of the design (I don't mind the nose mounted weapons). When you say you cut out the middle section of the top plate and reversed it what do you mean exactly? I don't see the small ridge of plastic that frames the vent and turrent assembly, did you cut the ridge away or turn that cut out section upside down (I assumed by reversed you meant front to back but did you mean upside down?).

@ Red Fury: below is the top-down image you requested. As you can see, I have not filled the hole, merely repositioned it.

 

Since Captain Psycho was also asking, I will try to use the Storm Raven sprue images to show how I did it.

 

First I cut the top section along the red lines in the image to remove the section with the turret mount. I then rotated this piece (front to back) 180 degrees and stuck it back onto the model, to give the piece seen in the right hand image. I filled the regions circled in red with plasticard, and cut/filed off the ridge within the red oblong.

 

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab87/mercury82_photos/Lamenters/stormravensprue.jpg?t=1298793575

 

http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab87/mercury82_photos/Lamenters/DSCF1243.jpg?t=1298793575

The force is strong with this one.

 

Thanks for the explanation mercury. The only downside I can see is that you've decreased the range of the turret mounted weapon by maybe 1" - 1 1/2" but this is such a massive improvement I have to wonder why it wasn't designed this way to begin with.

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