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Stormtalon

PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:42 pm
by korsarro
as you all know i am pretty rubbish at painting so for this model i am going to add pictures on to the site whilst i am painting the model.

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:21 pm
by korsarro
after the spray skull white and then given some areas chaos black

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:09 pm
by korsarro
going over the chaos black with boltgun metal

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:04 am
by korsarro
used mechrite red undercoat and blood red to go over some areas to give it a white scar feel

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:47 am
by korsarro
i dry brushed the metal with chainmail and touched up the odd bit of white now all that needs to be done is draw in the lines tomorrow with a fine pen (cheating i know)

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:41 am
by Herne
Looking good Andy - all u need is the whitescars emblem on it. I know u aint fantastic with the freehand - but if u like i can show u how to use transfers so they don't look 'stuck on' using some matt varnish - let me know. Get some more pics up when u've 'coloured in' with yer pen, spescially the upper hull. Can't wait for mine to arrive!

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:38 am
by mattjgilbert
It looks a lot smaller than I thought it was after seeing it in WD. It's quite a compact vehicle actually and looks like it's painted up nicely too.

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:18 pm
by korsarro
@ herne i will bring it down tonight and we can go through the stickers as you know i ent very good at all lol. @matt it isnt amazingly big but it is a nice little helper on the battle field but i have had 2 games with it first game took out about 140pts before it died second game took out a 2 landraiders but as klueless said as we were having a game it will just be sitting their gaining advantage of the +1 bs

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:34 pm
by Herne
Thats the only disparity in the rules I see - Here is a superfast flyer, that can turn up as an escort, but once on table you are likely to sit back at a distance sitting still with it just for the +1BS, taking away any other tactical uses for it. It's like those also ran units in some other codex's - Guard sentinnels spring to mind. Great little unit, but tends to get forgotten in favour of better choices like Vendettas, hellhounds etc. Think as a flyer it's great, but shame it got the hovermode rule. Seems like a stationary gun platform rather than the supporting gunship it's meant to be, particularly when you can arm it with range 48 and range 60 weapons.

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:42 pm
by mattjgilbert
A gun platform that can swoop on to an objective in the last turn though?

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:45 pm
by Herne
mattjgilbert wrote:A gun platform that can swoop on to an objective in the last turn though?

There is that - but then 2 or 3 landspeeders have more chance of doing that, and are easier to hide in the meantime, so it's not a new option. Not that I'm knicking the talon however - happen to love the models and their rules overall, have ordered two to accompany my storm eagle, just a shame the rule will lead to a nippy flyer sitting still a lot. Would rather have seen it swooping about carrying firepower where support is needed, rather than sitting there being a floating leman russ with less armour.

Re: Stormtalon

PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:37 pm
by ZhatanTheBlack
i sooo need to paint my orky jets to blow all those pesky marine flyers up with ........