Talk:Thunderhawk
Plastic Hawks. Use ravens.
I suggest a possible edit in relation to the plastic Hawk point: it is possible to convert a fairly good looking hawk out of 3 storm raven kits. Even at full GW price, £150 beats the pants of £400+. An initial raven built normally except for the lack of the hull back, wings and tail boom, the second inverted like an old rhino meeting open hulls together, the rear hatch glued over its open cockpit. Using Fantasy/AoS movement tray sheets or just plasticard as a structural material is recommended. The third sits open hatch to open hatch with the second, and has its boom completed. This one can have wings. For its main wings I doubled the wings, using a second engine stacked under, and a second wing flat extending out. This second wing had the missiles and retro fans, and the whole assembly is affexed into the inverted hulls' prow retro exhaust slots. Between the 3 kits there should be sufficient turrets for the twin lascannonon, primary nose heavy bolters and I used spare razorback heavy bolters on the other two turrets. The final heavy bolter can be made with either another turreted mount, a belly mount, the 3rd ravens forward facing mounts or the rear inverted "cockpit" mount for tail defense. It requires some extra patching to make it truly space worthy/reentry capable. The hurricane bolters should be omitted. The battle cannon is a bit more tricky. Best solution I have found is shell out for the shadowsword kit, and used the mount in the second cockpit up top, wich can be magnetised to also fit the extension and volcano cannon to represent the turbo laser upgrade. This lets you still build the kit as a Stormlord, or rebuild it with 3rd party casts into maybe a marine superheavy, who cares, you still get a superheavy out of the deal. Taking a 10% discount being savvy about retailers, you pay half the price and also get a stormlord and all. I am still in thr process of planning a Transporter variant.2A02:C7F:C77:7D00:CC06:A39:19DD:35C5 18:45, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
