Building the Puppets War "Dragonfly"

Well, my Puppets War Dragonfly arrived a few days ago! First impression was good, it was very well packaged and arrived in very similar condition to Forge World items (that is to say, bits of flash, a few mould lines and air bubbles, nothing more than you'd expect).

See, a wee baggie of goodness

However, once I had taken the parts out, done the usual clean up and washing (being resin, Id advise the usual wash with warm soapy water first), and I had laid the parts out, I realized there were no instructions, and the ones on the PW website were sub-par.

mmm, unassembled goodness

That being said, its not a terribly complicated kit to assemble...

The first step was to cut some blister plastic and make "windows" for the cockpit, as I would want it to match the other flyers in my army (I.e, painted windows). Expect lots of swearing and missed cuts here, as each window pane is an "odd" shape, there is no easy way to go about it...

finally done, goodness gracious me...

Once made, the cowling was fixed to the main body of the cockpit section.

Step two was to attach the base of the cockpit section, make sure this part is fully cleaned of flash, as tiny bits can be a real problem here. Then, join the two "halves" of the plane together, simples as they literally slot together.

Pay attention to the orientation, for goodness sake!

Three, well, its tail boom time. First step is to slot the tail boom end into our assembled body (fin up), making sure the hole in the protuding tag is clear. Next, fit the "interior/exterior" body section, mine fit very nicely and flush, YMMV, but take care to join the "nib" and "hole" at the tail end. Finally, fit the little dorsal fin to fix the two ends together (you may need to trim the rods on it to get it to fit).

 

goodness me its coming together.

Now its time for the tail elevators. My part was warped quite badly, but no matter, as I was going to be swapping it for a Storm Eagle elevator section anyway. This is a doddle, simply slot the part in.
(if you wish to swap parts, its a simple cut-n-paste job)

"like a glove" goodness

Propellers are easy to assemble, though I have left mine separate for ease of painting, like the main wings (as I have not yet decided on how to arm the beasty, Im thinking of it as a counts-as Vulture Gunship.

To fix the part to attach to the flying stand, it goes right underneath the open interior section.

Now, I decided not to attach the grapples and tail boom, instead replacing it with my own engine section, but more on that later. If you decide to go ahead with it, its easy to see where it goes, and the powercell component is placed just in front of it. For now, I shall leave it with a scale shot versus the GW Valkyrie, and 

you can make your own minds up on what you think...

running out of things to say that include goodness...

But Im finished now, so thank goodness! 

Hope this helps anybody with their own Dragonfly!

Later

JP

Veterans of the Vostroyan 7th (and their stolen ride)

Well, I figure before the new shiny toy arrives, I should show that some of the "Meat and Potatoes" (as my old friend Pat is wont to say) of the army is completed, in the form of a shiny veteran squad. well, when I say completed...

Vostroyan 7th, Blue Squad

"for Mother Rus-I mean, Vostrya!"

Standard veteran squad, here with an autocannon converted from the stock HB (simply done by adding an autocannon barrel to the bolter) and a re-purposed flamer now running as a meltagun. Shortly, I will be removing said autocannon and adding in two more meltaguns to make Blue Squad a pure meltavet squad.

The Chimera is stolen, as the white stripes and funky blue uplink denote it as belonging to the CCS, or it will do, when they are finished...

Up next, a CCS and a Valkyrie, now off to paint them! Thanks for reading, and if you have any comments, id love to hear them.

New toys for the Vostroyan 7th! (and a WIP/finished commission)

Well, having been properly bitten by the Vostroyan bug, and before I even have my infantry painted, I decided to order something. My Air/Armoured cav has some incoming air support, in the form of the Puppetswar Dragonfly!

The Dragonfly

TrueScale Deathwatch Marines

I'm jumping on the True Scale bandwagon!

This time, to keep it simple and small, Im just going to be doing a 8-10 man Deathwatch Squad, with possibly a scaled up Dread too.

Plan is to do Captain/Libby/Assault Trooper(2)/Heavy Troop(1)/Tacticals(3+)

anyway, before the tl:dr, here are some pics of the first two builds, and one of them painted.

and Painted up:

As you can see, the heavy guy is of the Imperial Fist persuasion, and the other completed Marine is a Wolf. Just waiting on some more Terminator Pads to continue the project...

any suggestions for Chapters to represent? I certainly want an Ultramarine, an Angel and a White Scar in there, so there are up to 5 slots free...

Custodians: WIP

You may have caught a glimpse of the start of these in my Lighting Article, but thought it about time to share something "current" with you, The Emperors own guardians, the Adeptus Custodes.