Review: More Dragonforge – Flying Stands and Big Bases

New stuff!

I’ve just received my latest order from Dragon Forge Design, who I’ve previously bought some small bases and excellent power cables from. This time, I’ve bought two large bases and the flying stand kits for my in-progress Inquisitorial dropship – why two? Well, up to $30 of stuff posts for $6, so I made an exactly $30 order, and also because I wasn’t sure whether I wanted a 6″ or a 12″ flying stand, and I wasn’t sure which base size would be best for the dropship.

As you can see above, I got a bonus in the package – an extra flight stand adapter thingy. Not sure what use it’ll be, but it’s always nice to get extras of anything!

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Papercraft: Chickenhawk becomes a bit more solid

http://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/chickenhawk.html

So, the papercraft Inquisitorial gunship/dropship I’m building is slowly taking shape! It’s now a gunship/dropship as I’ve decided on arming it the same as a Marauder Bomber (six nose-mounted autocannons, dorsal twin heavy bolter, rear twin assault cannons, missiles and bombs), which means it’s ever so slightly going to be too heavily armed to be just a dropship.

Green and White

As you can see, no more unsightly panel join lines, now replaced by unsightly scratches, dints, and green splotches! Um…

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Papercraft: UD12 Chickenhawk from www.toposolitario.com

http://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/chickenhawk.html

A long time ago I built a papercraft drop pod, way back before the plastic drop pod models came out. Since then, I’ve stayed away from papercraft, since a) there weren’t any models I really wanted to build that didn’t have actual miniatures and b) the lack of detail on papercraft models meant I didn’t really like them.

However, I’ve recently really wanted to build a 40k-style gunship – something slightly bigger than a valkyrie or a stormraven, smaller than a thunderhawk, that could be used as an inquisitorial combat drop ship. I did a bit of searching around and found the above model – the UD12 Chickenhawk from www.toposolitario.com. The plan is to build a cardboard model, then detail it using bits from my rather large bitz collection as well as specific bits from Ebay.

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Magnetised Dystopian Wars Coventant of Antarctica Battleship

Battleship of Webcams

So although I had finished painting my fleet, I finally ordered in some magnets to attach the flyers to their flying stands. While I was at it, I magnetised the battleship as well following Winter’s walkthough here, to stop the top part from falling off during gameplay. Continue reading

Dragon Forge Design: Bases and Power Cables Review

My purchases from Dragon Forge Design

This Friday my order from Dragon Forge Design (http://www.dragonforge.com) arrived!

I ordered the following (from top to bottom in the image above):

I figured I’d give them a review since they’re very nice and affordable products, so here goes!

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On the workbench: trojan

Trojan!

Sorry no new content this week – I’ve got a slight cold and haven’t had time to do any real modelling or take a lot of new pictures.

Converted using my large collection of bits and some plasticard (for the cargo area), it’s a trojan that also can proxy as a chimera for normal games, to cart my techpriest enginseer and his servitors around (hence the pintle-mounted multilaser). Continue reading