Sunday 5 June 2016

Dark Angels - Ravenwing Knights

So to treat myself for finishing the Ravenwing I surprisingly did not jump back onto the nids. Instead I made up the rest of the Ravenwing Command Squad/Knights and some mates.


I even magnetised the Standard bearer, mainly for ease of transport but I suppose I could swap another arm in for options.


Here's what I made with my ebay bike. It needed some serious shaving in the seat to make the Knight sit comfortably.


I also needed a fair few Purity Seals on the frotn wheel arch to tidy it up. Also I had to put a small plastic disc sliced from sprue into a gap in the exhaust on both sides, you can just see the different coloured plastic where it fit.


This is a Knight made from Dark Vengeance bikers and Plasma Pistols. These are Space Wolves varieties, those are supposed to be wolves on top but look more like lions to me


I went with the Power Maul, just so I'd have more of the picks for future conversions. The top of the Plasma Pistols where they join where the Bolters where, is a bit ugly but we'll see when it's painted.


The Plasma Pistols work really well and are pretty much the exact same size as the Knights Talons.


With options like this for Ravenwing it;s an amazing opportunity for a cheap army I think.

19 comments:

  1. Good idea with the plasma pistols, I might have to steal it for my bikes

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    1. Give it a go, its unbelievably easy and super cheap.

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  2. They look great. Def looking forward to seeing them painted now I have seen your other bikes. Will you differentiate the unit colours in any way to show them as a different unit?

    I have faced black knights numerous times now and can confirm they are brutal!

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    1. The only thing I think I'll do is add some extra brass effects on the back packs perhaps. I try to keep unit differentiation low key, there are so many things going on anyway in all of my Dark Angels schemes adding in bigger differences reduces what cohesion there is further.

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  3. Let me know if you need any more plasma pistols, I'm sure I could raid my bits box for you!

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    1. Cheers Nick, I have about 4 knocking around but no more donor bikes just yet. I'll let you know if I do anymore in the future.

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  4. I'll be doing the same conversion with the plasma pistols for two of my Black Knights. Thanks for breaking the ice ;-)

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    1. Good luck, although it's that simple you don;t really need it ;)

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  5. Great eBay salvage bike, fits in great with all the extra RW gubbins. And nice Plasma Pistol job. I think a base coat or primer spray will let you know how they both will blend in.

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    1. And all the metallics and patina will eventually hide a multitude of sins no doubt.

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  6. Welcome to the Black Knights club, these are absolutely brutal in the new codex!

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    1. I'm sure I may proxy in some of the recent bike squads just to see how they do while their bigger brothers are WiP.

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  7. Good work on those, looking very nice.
    Going to be a fun force when they are finished.

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    1. Cheers Rory, slightly more competitive at least, I just need to learn how to use them effectively. Hopefully Double Trouble will be a crucible of fire and learning.

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  8. Good work on those, looking very nice.
    Going to be a fun force when they are finished.

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  9. Great conversion on the pistols. A dab of liquid greenstuff should fill the gap up nicely, might take two coats but should be easy enough.

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    1. I may give that a try, luckily the two new ones are less obvious so may not need any fixing at all.

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  10. I've done some of those Plasma Pistol Black Knights myself. Really goes together amazingly well.

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    1. Awesome, I can't beleive how easy it was and I'd fretted about using pistols instead of guns. I thought I was just being cheap but the pistols are spot on size wise, guns would have been too big.

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