Continued from Stormraven – Part 2.
To finish off the final detail work I needed to “soot” up my engines – easy, Games Workshop’s Stormraven guide tells you to apply 3 coats of Badab Black (one after the other when dry) and stipple in some Chaos Black.
Next, it was time for assembly.
As I’m using the kit from Chapterhouse Studios (CS), I had to use their guide to build the modified hull. The initial assembly is identical, but when you would fit the rear plate and hatch, you switch to the instructions from CS.
As you can see from the underside shot (I’ve not added Chapterhouse’s baseplate yet) the hull extension adds a good length to the aircraft. After this slight detour, it’s back to the main instructions to add the wings, landing gear and tail sections. To fit the engines you need to cut off the plastic extensions – you can do this with a pair of clippers, but a model saw is better. After those went on, I put the cockpit together – the complete details and pilot now come into their own.
The hatch you can see in the above picture is also from the Chapterhouse kit, and allows you to hide the hole for the gunner’s pod.
To finish this off, we need to add the cockpit canopy, the weapons pod and icons.
My end result looked like this:
