Homemade Lightning

Posted by Ranillon on 25. April 2009 21:33

Here is an old conversion I did last year -- a homemade Imperial Lightning Interceptor.

As I've stated before I sure like Forge World models, but I sure don't like the price of Forge World models.  So, in this case I bought a $15 plastic aircraft kit and converted it into a close approximation of a lightning.  Add in a scatch-built base and I think the final result was pretty good, especially for the price.  It's only meant for Apocalypse, naturally. 

When it comes to specialty and pricey models like a flyer I don't believe that it is necessary to buy the "real" thing, just that the model you do have had a lot of effort put into it.  I personally think it would be bad sportsmanship to, say, just buy some snap-together plastic F-15, spend 5 minutes on it, and then bring it to an Apocalypse game.  But, give it a good amount of effort to convert it over into something that fits the setting and it's fine by me.

Now back to painting more Space Hulk stuff...