Monday 14 September 2020

FROM FLEDGLING TO SPEEDER

 Progress on Ben's house has been a little slow this weekend due to a technical problem on the website, but over the last week I have made some progress on some of my Nighthawks.

First up is two Fledgling squads that I had done to tournament finish, but wanted to bring them up to the same standard as the rest of the army, I have a mix of new style scouts and old models as well, including some of the Space Wolves scouts as well.


Next up is a jetbike I showed on the old blog, which I finally finished detailing. 



I have since taken a mould and started making up the many I need to make the whole company.



Finally today I have a squadron of Landspeeder Typhoon's, I've painted one up as a Sargent to add a bit more character to the squadron.


Still haven't come up with a new for this company that are all mounted on speeders, if any one has any suggestions please feel free to leave them in the comments.

The names I have so far are 1 st Company Wing Knights (All Jump Packers), 2 nd Company Screaming Eagles ( all jet bikers), 3 rd Company Storm Bringers ( all Devastators) 4 th Company ? ( all on speeders), 5 th Company ? ( reserve company mix of jump packers and devastators) 6 th Company Fledglings ( scouts).

That's all for this post hopefully next time more on Ben's House, so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave 

20 comments:

  1. Man, your stuff is so awesome! Every time I see something you sculpt, I'm amazed. Great work, Dave.

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    1. Thank you Keith, that one took many years unfortunately, got frustrated part way through then it sat for a long time collecting dust, until I finally said THAT'S IT and worked on it until it was finished, sometimes I just get blocks like that, and if it's something for me I just put it to one side

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  2. Man, your stuff is so awesome! Every time I see something you sculpt, I'm amazed. Great work, Dave.

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  3. Man I love those old style Scouts from Advanced Space Crusade. Well, not the plastic ones, but the metal figs later produced.

    Lovely work all around Dave - a company all mounted on those sweet jetbikes will be spectacular.

    4th Company name idea: Swooping Talons?

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    1. Thank you Dai, the plastic space crusade scouts are the only one I don't have any off as they were just so static !
      Thinking for the command group doing them on the Custodes bikes but the rest will be on these, just need to work out a Tech marine version.
      That's a very cool idea cheers mate

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    1. Thank you Frank, when I took the scout marine army to the tournament, it had 73 models in it, you can imagine the surprise on other players faces ! LOL

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  5. Beautiful work and superb colour choices !
    As for names I'm rubbish with that sort of thing, I'd probably end up plagiarising from history.

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    1. Thank you Joe, the colours were a definite evolution over time and different skill sets that I aquired.
      Nothing wrong with plagiarising from history Joe, and a good idea, need to go and look at the Air Cav from Vietnam for more ideas

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  6. Superb miniatures, very tempting!

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    1. Thank you Phil, I feel the same way when I see all your great historical battle reports !

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  7. The vehicles are brilliant, the Typhoons especially, they look great, did you sculpt them as well as the bikes?

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    1. Thank you John, the only thing I did to the speeders was switch the missile pods round so the long edge was horizontal, rather than vertical, this also men't the magazine rack wasn't on view for a sniper to take a pot shot at. I also did different looking crew so to add more interest

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  8. Great stuff Dave! Just blown away by your custom jet bike, amazing 😀

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    1. Thank you Ivor, always wanted to have jetbikes in my Marines but wasn't a massive fan of any that GW had released, so the choice was make my own or go with out ! LOL

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  9. Lovely work Dave as usual, great jet bike sculpts.

    Cheers Roger.

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    1. Thank you Roger, pleased to finally have that one finished

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  10. Great looking scouts and flyers,the only scouts I have are the static plastic ones with lots of hairy heads added( for space wolves)
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain, the hairy heads would be a vast improvement on the original sculpts, as I liked the idea that the space wolves scouts were gnarly old veterans

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