The 597th & 14th ( armoured ) Valhallans...

[rtmonkeyboy]

I'm going down the route of a Mig-15/Focke-Wulf Ta 183 "Huckebein" (Raven) hybrid….

[Rhaivaen]

I thought some time ago about doing the same, but, hmz,

Atm i am not sure, as Forgeworld stopped with the multilaser.
I love the "new" Lightning fighter's looks, but I am sorely tempted in converting this model to.
Cool sideshots:


(^actually not a focke wulf, but a messerschmitt.)


(^actually not a focke wulf, but a messerschmitt.)

[SDKFZ]

Did a Huckebein/imperial fighter conversion long ago. It works rather well.
If you like i can post some pics.

[rtmonkeyboy]

A quick dump & run of the two Mig-18 Molniya's...
















The next two photos may shock longtime followers of mine...

[nitromors]

Love the plane and pilot really cracking job, space pup turned out well too

[Minigiant]

Those conversions are great! Digging the Lightning so much

[SDKFZ]

Thats good use of an ork aircraft Looks very 50ies to me. Love the pilot.
How come space wolves ?

[Rhaivaen]

Was looking good until I hit that damn space-pup-primadonna.. ;})

[rtmonkeyboy]

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys! The wolves are comming along nicely, serving as a mind break from the tanks... But the urge to "tank it" again is upon me, mainly because we now have a new indipendant games shop in my home town who loves the KV-2 turret I've come up with! (They were banned from my local GW due to a not 100% rule that was introduced!?) So there will be 3 more of those (also 3 Ryza swap turrets) & 2 more squads of infantry in chimeras... The look will shift to ww2 soviets based on the back cover of the new Ciaphas Kain book... I'm wrestling with wether the tanks should be plain green or light & dark green splinter based on Mig-3 cammo!? There will also be a shodowsword & 2 macharius'.
There will be more painting I promise... Honest, no, really there will!!!

[I-Paint!]

Great conversions and scratchbuilding of the fighters and the tanks. Looking forward to see more of them painted

[Captain Brown]

rtmonkeyboy,

Nice conversions of the aircraft.

Cheers,

CB

[rtmonkeyboy]

Eerrr... I may have bought 3 of these to convert into counts as sentinels...





and I'm liking the paint job on this a lot...

[SDKFZ]

Thats a cool little stuart. If Inso can do it, so can you

[rtmonkeyboy]

Cheers SDKFZ, thats high praise indeed...
I've been inspired by these...




it's interesting to note the first two examples are separated by 70+ years!?

[SDKFZ]

Hahaha, yepp. There are some years between the Vickers and the Wiesel

[rtmonkeyboy]

Someone asked if I could post a how to on my Ragnarock Russ, so I'll post these progress picks now & add explanations later when I get time...










continued in next post...

[rtmonkeyboy]

and the finished tank compared to a stock russ...






Hope that helps...

[SDKFZ]

Cool conversion, looking very good.

[Captain Brown]

rtmonkeyboy,

You do get a much lower profile. Looks like it was designed that way.

Cheers,

CB

[rtmonkeyboy]

So there I was with the last tank finished, can of Russian green spray paint in hand, and my mate says "you could do with a couple of Hellhounds..."
I agreed, but after making 20+ chimera chassis I couldn't face another 2! And then the tread head next to us muttered the fateful words "crocodile!"
Photos next week, then the painting begins... honest!