Showing posts with label Ravenwing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ravenwing. Show all posts

Friday, 10 March 2023

Dark Angels - Ravenwing Black Knights and bikes - White pics

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my remaining #Ravenwing Black Knights and bikes. Obligatory white backdrop pics.


Black Knights


I think if I was ever going to play my Dark Angels I probably would want to run a Ravenwing forces


I do like the bikes but even with all this effort I probably still don't have enough


Molten lava sword


I mean it's alright and it shares the colour of the Plasma Talons rather than adding fancy blue power weapon colours into the mix.


Moar close-ups of his blade.



2nd Black Knight



Radar screen.


3rd Black Knight


The shoulder pad was from the Dark Angel Veteran sprue, which certainly made it easier to add the company number underneath it.


I'm not sure if my highlights have improved. I just think I've become more tolerant of the brush strokes I make. 


Happy just to put enough on there to define what I want and then move on.


And the last 2 bikers




Together with their other brother. 



Sergeant





I wanted some Chainsword wielding bikers for this squad as I think they're a fair bit better than they used to be, but what do I know?





Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Dark Angels - Ravenwing Black Knights and bikes - TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my remaining #Ravenwing Black Knights and bikes. These took a really long time to get over the line and a bit longer still to get the pics taken so I may have finished them in January.


Despite convincing myself that black isn't that difficult to paint I can't getaway from the fact I just don't want to paint it. Difficult - no, boring/tedious - yes


And there were additional decisions, like the winged sword colours on the robed Black Knights. I went with red, as I;d done that on others and they'd match. But, I never liked it - so the best of a bad job.


The molten lava sword wasn't quite as good as the Talonmaster, but with time I've come to be satisfied with them rather than the slight disappointment I originally felt.


I've still got a few robed riders and bits from my Ravenwing Command sprue to make a few more Black Knights, just short on bikes. And here was me thinking my Ravenwing was done!


But with a load of upgrade bits, Corvus Hammers and Plasma Pistols for conversions some cheap bikes will get me another three Knights if I so choose.



The two bikers to join the odd one I did with my #DreadTober pledge.



Here are the 3 together.



And with my Primaris Chaplain on bike for a cool 'Kill Team' shot.


Some closer pics to get a better look at them.




At least I managed to get the re head lamp glow to be a little more to my liking.



And with that a GREAT Big RUSTY Stamp of Approval. White background pics to follow.

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Dark Angels - Ravenwing Sammael Custodes Jetbike conversion

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity having finished my Ravenwing I somehow thought I should do more Ravenwing! So I've been converting my own Sammael on Jetbike out of a Custodes Jetbike, using Chamber42's awesome tutorial. I managed to pick up a Dawneagle jetbike for just £12.60 on ebay and I had most of the other parts to make a basic upgrade but I went all out bling and got a Ravenwing Command Squad sprue for £18. Now, that may put this at £30.60, not much different than the official model, so why bother? The Command Squad sprue comes with another Black Knight bike, Plasma Talons, Grenade Launcher, two Corvus Hammers and various other bits. Should I get just a cheap bike or two I could have another two or three Black Knights for very little, as well as Sammael. So, it's cost effective in the end.


As this is the Plasma Cannon rather than the Assault Cannons of the Talonmaster conversion I decided not to do an underslung Cannon and instead have it mounted in the chassis similar to a Scimitar pattern Heresy Jetbike. I went looking for the Forgeworld link for these when I started writing this post and couldn't find them, a couple of days later they're announced in plastic!


The Plasma Cannon is from the Deathwing Terminator Command sprue, so could have been underslung with ease but I wanted a more streamlined profile, so a bit of cutting and digging was needed to fit this in.


Here's the underneath where I had to remove the front bit of the central piece to fit the cannon.


I have a small metal ruler that I aligned with the three grav nodes to score along the base. I cut out most of it, but you can still see the score marks and the piece with a central node I glued back in to close the gap. It's pretty messy so I've got to clean it up yet. 


I don't know if you could have just cut the small piece out that needs to be removed to fit the Plasma Cannon, without taking the piece I returned but it might be worth trying.


Mold lines need cleaning. You can also see that the bottom part, where it joins the 45º lower left gun cowling has started to separate. Not sure why but it'll be fixed. Fitting the Storm Bolter in the gun cowl will be a challenge. It comes as a Hurricane Bolter [3 guns] I can remove one which will make it a Storm Bolter and allow it to fit better because the Cannon currently resides where that third lower gun sits. There's some fettling to do that's for sure.


I've got my rider and extra bits to try and fit in the next update but that's in the post...