Unfortunately my thunderhawk crashed! All wingparts have broken off. I will need to re glue them. I think i will be magnetizing all wings and the tail section. This is the last picture of the thunderhawk when it was in one piece. 
Posts Tagged ‘scratch build’
Thunderhawk setback
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Thunderhawk
Saturday, December 19th, 2009I have started with the construction of a Space Marine thunderhawk. In these pictures you can see the work on the front prow. I will be adding comments and pictures as work progresses. I have stated work on the cockpit. I used bits of a landspeeder to use as seats. The marines will be added later. The entire model will be made from plastic card with exception of the engines.
30-12-2009:
I have closed up the front of the hull. I now need to paint the interior of the cockpit. I have started with the external plates to give extra detail to the machine. I am using old “extra armor” upgrades to create the side doors.
01-02-2010:
I have started detailing the outside. Using toothpicks for a grid. I have made the dark angels chapter symbol to stick to the front.
Meerdere projecten
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Meerdere projecten tegelijkertijd heb ik u draaien. Buiten het schilderen van 5 Deathwing squads, ben ik ook bezig met de lightning en de titan. Ik probeer de Deathwing voor 13 December af te krijgen, en de titan moet 22 November klaar zijn. Druk druk druk. dus. Tevens ben ik begonnen met een nieuwe scratch build. Ik probeer een thunderhawk te bouwen. Ik heb via www.kunstofshop.nl voldoende Polystyreen (plastic card) gekocht om het model 3 maal te bouwen. Ik ben nu alle onderdelen aan het uitknippen om de hoofdcabine te maken. Foto’s komen vanzelf op de site.
Lightning Exhaust
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
In my last post i mentioned making round engines. That failed. I have made square ones instead.
I have altered the lightning a little, and i have added 2 exhausts. The picture are very bad quality. The exhaust i have added are made from ” lasdoppen” i do not know the English term for it, but the components are normally used to connect electrical wires. They needed a little work to fit but they look pretty good. I also added an autocannon. I think i will start painting it soon.
Lightning II project
Sunday, June 28th, 2009I have continued the lightning project. I have constructed the Fuselage (from rather thick cardboard (5 mm) and already i have attached the wings. The wings are details with 1 mm thick cardboard peaces to look like an eagle.
If you look at the slide show you can see i added a canopy and an air intake. Unfortunately the air-intake does not fit very well. I will try to fix this later on with a filler of some sort. The fighter is rather small also in comparison with the Valkyrie i bought recently. I am currently working on the engines, but this proves rather difficult. It needs to be round, thats not easy with cardboard. At the moment i am using a steel pipe to press the model in shape!
Lightning
Monday, March 30th, 2009
These are the first steps for building my own lightning fighter for future Apocalypse games. I downloaded the plans from the zealot website. I also found an active thread on the forum of someone also building the same model. I hope to learn from his examples. I will be placing new posts as i make some progress. The first step is glueing the printouts from the plans to cardboard.
Modeling Necron objectives
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
For a competition i am hosting, you can win points by modeling a few objectives. Two of the objectives are made from bits i got of an “Imperial sector”. The other one, an obelisk i build from scratch. The obelisk was made from plastic card. First i drew the the obelisk on the plastic card. And cut it out with a pair of scissors. You can see here i drew the picture horizontal, i suggest you draw it diagonally. The obelisk will get higher this way. The sides are approximately 1,5 cm and the height is approximately 5 cm. If you are going to do this aim for a height of 7 cm.
The folding lines i scoured with a knife. and then i folded the obelisk together. It seemed my cuts in the plastic where to deep. The plastic card broke in the lines, and i still had several loose parts. When gluing it together it became a bit messy. A little filing and greensuff should be able to correct most holes. 
Now for the basing of the model. This was relative easy. just a little superglue and some sand. I added a loose scarab to guard the obelisk. You can also see my other two smaller objectives. A Necron warrior slumped against a wall, and a lamp post with a pile of skulls. (not too visible in this picture).
The next step is basecoating. 
Now for the real painting. I dry brushed the base with a custom color Grey. The obelisk was painted a dark color green, and the edges i highlighted with jade green. I added some transfers from the Necron transfer sheet, and i was done. The other objectives where a little more work due to the different colors i used. (pictures of the finished objectives will follow shortly 
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space marine drop pod
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Building plans.
I got the idea and building plans for my version of a space marine drop pod from this website.
And i used the plans from this site. I found outlater that there is a How to that came with it…. I should have gotten that sooner….
Construction
I decided to make the model from plastic card and plastic girders. Although the next one will be made of cardboard. I got the card from a local hobby shop Because i did not read the instructions i went ahead and started to build.
I started with the rib sections. I cut out the shapes as they are present in the manual. Because the plastic cards are only 0.5 mm thick i had to create “fill” threw with square tubing. This made the rib sections a total of 6 mm and with the decoration 7 mm. This caused problems later on though. It should have been 5.0 mm.
In picture 2 and 3 I was a little further. The ribs were placed on the bottom, and the top module was placed.
Closing up the structure proved rather difficult. There were two mayor problems. One measurements, The ribs where 2 mm thicker than in the plans. Nothing fitted properly. Two, I was not able to make the sides from one piece. This meant I had to make small strips to hold every thing together.
When the model was finally closed up I needed to cover the sides with an extra piece of plastic for structure. I was able to make it from one plastic card piece, but as you can see in later pictures., it is not ideal.
Now it was time to add fluff. I just added stuff from my bit-box. The exhaust was made from a bit of garden hose coupling I had lying around. Otherwise it would have made it from some pvc pipe.
Painting
Yes well not my best area of expertise, but I think I managed quite al right.. I painted the drop pod in space marine blue. I still want to do some detailing, but I think these pictures will give you a good idea of what the end result looks like.
On the picture you can also see a tactical squad, and a hill I made. The hill is now in use at our Warhammer club in Lelystad.
And recently There was a model released by Citadel miniatures of a drop pod. They ask about 50 Euro’s for the miniature.
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