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Post by RandyTheRenegade on Mar 29, 2010 23:04:41 GMT -6
I've made it known before that I loathe the GW Gyrocopter model entirely. And I complain frequently that if 40K Deathcoptas can have plastic models then us Dwarfs can too. But unfortunately that is not the case. So would any of you happen to have some conversion ideas? I'm just looking for something simple yet still visually pleasing. I asked the guys over at Bugman's Brewery and they answered with an interesting idea of using a 40K Sentinel Model. That seems like a good idea to me but I'm still looking for other inspiration. What have you guys got? www.bugmansbrewery.com/topic/28461-gyrocopter-conversions/ there's the link to my thread at the Brewery
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Post by rangerdave on Mar 30, 2010 4:59:12 GMT -6
I've seen a really cool hot air balloon type conversion.
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Post by zao77s on Mar 30, 2010 10:36:31 GMT -6
David long has one that is faily simple. He made a bomber plane. He took the propeller blades and used two of them as wings attached to the hull of the ship. I am doing the same for Bubba's army that I am working on.
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Post by tagloro on Mar 30, 2010 18:44:54 GMT -6
I like Daves idea. I would suggest it most humbly my lord Goldrek
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Post by jessegarrett on Mar 30, 2010 22:26:33 GMT -6
I would just glue a dwarf on a horse
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Post by gregharris on Apr 1, 2010 10:58:07 GMT -6
David long has one that is faily simple. He made a bomber plane. He took the propeller blades and used two of them as wings attached to the hull of the ship. I am doing the same for Bubba's army that I am working on. Propellers go on the front of the plane, etc. Things on the top are called rotors. They form a rotor disk while in motion that can be tilted to move the aircraft, Amateurs!
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Post by davidthebowman on Apr 1, 2010 11:08:24 GMT -6
I took the old Steam Tank model and cut it down, put an old Squat pilot (smoking a cigar) in top hatch, took two of the Gyro rotors and put them out to the sides (like the Focke-Wulf Fw 61) and bam I have one hell of a gyro-copter. I call it my flying steamtank and use it as a Great Taurus for my Chaos Dwarfs, you know the REAL Dwarfs.
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Post by zao77s on Apr 1, 2010 11:50:35 GMT -6
Propellers go on the front of the plane, etc. Things on the top are called rotors. They form a rotor disk while in motion that can be tilted to move the aircraft, Amateurs! Sorry Mr. Lockheed!
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Post by EricL on May 1, 2010 0:57:50 GMT -6
I've made it known before that I loathe the GW Gyrocopter model entirely. . . What is the most loathsome feature(s) of the official model per your specs? Me, . . . I hate that the blades break off so easily. Here are a couple of random ideas. You don't need rotors. You need a disk of plastic cut from that very tough clear plastic that nearly everything you might buy at a big box store comes encased in. The clear fake disk (that they put on top of the real disks) from a bulk pack of blank CDRs or DVDs might work also. The idea is to model the blades spinning. Christmas ornaments make good zeppelin, dirigible, or balloon 'hulls' (gasbags). I have a box of ornaments I bought when they marked them down last Christmas sitting in the garage. They are spherical and made of hard plastic. They are already a flat black finish! right out of the box. I have no idea what 'designer' tree decor they were supposed to be for but I was figuring to turn them into moons and planets for Battlefleet Gothic someday. But one of those would make a decent little balloon for a dwarf.
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