Space Marine Storm Raven/Storm Talon Conversions
After I stopped laughing at how stupid the Space Marine Flyers look (nothing about them is remotely aerodynamic) I decided to kitbash and convert them into something that would at least get off the ground. With a lot of cutting, pinning and green stuff, these are the results.
Storm Raven - I tried to make this into a smaller cousin of a Thunderhawk, instead of the flying deformity it currently is. Using the Chapterhouse Kit to make it longer, I flattened the wings and tail fins, halved the height of the air intake to streamline it, used some spare Storm Talon tail fins as the front sponsons, magnetised the guns and put the rockets on rails under the wings instead of those little attached pod things.
Storm Talons - I kinda based these on Havoc Gunships from the old G-Police. I cut the tail fins off, moved them so they’re on top and moved them back, adding another inch to the model and filling the gap with plasticard, Next, I cut those stupid wings off the outside of the engines, trimmed them down, moved them to the front and mounted IG Sentinel Missile launchers on them instead of those massive weapons pods. Cut all of the chin assembly away and chopped the Assault Cannons in half so they fit in the gap properly. The landing skids serve perfectly well attached straight to the fuselage and it means they can park on the engines instead of the tail fin
