FINISHED - Stormblade

Well here it is, my finished Stormblade. It's only seen one battle so far, but I hope to be rectifying that as soon as possible. It took a few months to get it completed but I'm quite happy with the way it came out.


I moved the ladder to this side because this is where (what appears to be) the crew doors are. It didn't make sense to me to climb up on one side and then crawl to the opposite side to get in.



'nough said. The business end of the things.



I redid the search light to make it look more like the original Stormblade. As well as the headlight covers and track guards on the front.



Rear view, not much more I can say about it.

Stormblade PIP

Well after a busy month between school, work, and planning a wedding (my own) I finally had some time and did some painting on the stormblade, my IG Supreme HQ and a few other things.   First up are photos of the stormblade...  Still need to tighten up the Tank and Army markings, as well as shading etc... etc...



Please remember this is still a PIP so there's plenty of work that needs to be done on it.



I moved the ladder over to the other side.  It made more sense to have it on this side as there are doors here.



Mandatory shot of the AdMech shrine.

Ready for priming

Here's the latest and greatest update.  It's mostly put together as of now or at least a lot of it is tacked at the moment to take the photo.  Tomorrow I'm going to base it in black and finish gluing  some of the small pieces in place.  For those that haven't noticed I changed the headlights because I didn't like the arch look to the Baneblade ones.  Instead I tried to make them look more like the normal FW Stormblade.  I also modified the searchlight to give it a little more of the same look.

Stormblade WIP

Well I had the chance to do a little work on the new Stormblade this weekend. Of course I wanted more, but I'll take what I can get. It took a while to get all the resin pieces trimmed and fitted. The worst parts are the large pieces of leftover resin attached to the rear of the hull. They cut nice and easy, it's just a pain to get to because of the location. Here is a picture of the pieces I'm referring to.



Next I started building the Baneblade parts. As other's have created excellent walk throughs of this I am not gong to bore you with my version. But here is a mock up of the what it will look like so far. The main gun, hull and engine are just resting in place.



Now on to the part that has me thinking. Should I mount the sponsons in the middle as shown in the picture below or the rear. I know all about the range advantages for mounting them further forward, but I interested in this from a purely "looks" view.

Whats new (Stormblade)

Well I had started working on a few models for my rough riders using some parts that I got for free from a friend of mine. The plan is to build 2 4-wheelers and 4-5 bikes. You can see the current state of them below

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But in all honestly these will be put off to the side so that I can start building this!! Which arrived today!! From the time I ordered it until the time I received it was exactly 4 weeks.



Yup that would be my new Super Heavy Stormblade!