Starmade Corilian Corvette

After i made the Enterprise i decided i wanted to test it in battle so i found a nice group of pirates.... i found out to late my ship had no shields and the engines were not arranged in a way to help me manoeuvre fast enough to rain death from my front guns it ended in disaster and i got roasted

i decided to try a star wars approach and began modelling a corillian corvette 

 the plan was to make a gunship with turrets to do the shooting for me and let me survive a lot longer

 the docked turrets saw premature test as work was disrupted by a gang of marauders

 the engines look cool and the setup allows more manoeuvring

 windows give a nice view of the fireworks going off

its a long and thin ship so fells a lot more claustrophobic inside but it works

made a deflector dish made of missile weapons which will toast any foe

 inside this shows the one internal dock for a personal ship. i made an Awing but it looked awful so i recycled it

 the cockpit view well illuminated and does the job

Storm Raven

Based on this link of the Space marine Storm Raven Gunship
storm raven page

I decided i wanted one to  complement my Grey knight Forces and although a new model would look and be amazing £50 is not something i have right now, so i decided to make my own out of leftover wood and oddments in the basement

these images show the wood was screwed in to the sawn base block and odd 

 i used a chopped up microwave meal box to make the wings and tail

on top of the model i placed some ariel connectors i had lying about. i decided not to use them in the end as they seemed to big and odd looking

i used filler and sandpaper to clean things up and to hide the imperfections

then used Dr Pepper lids for the engine bits and a wire connection hub on the side to mount the Hurricane Bolters (Guns). further the cockpit was made of more microwave meal plastic, (not a regular resource in our house) 

last touch to this is the wings received the side of a strawberry box to add nice shape

 hear is the more completed version with a nice lick of paint the job on the Dr pepper lids and the red stripe are nice additions. overall it has achieved the desired effect

im not convinced about the cockpit bit. i cant make it transparent. the guns need some nozzles to look more militaristic. i had the idea of using lolly sticks and the base needs some TLC

more updates to come.......

Another quick video

Made this on Vue 9 messing about trying to learn the thing 

Easter painting

Watercolour done on 5/4/2012

Stop Animation Stormtrooper

Made this on iPhone4 It's bit of a laugh