273 Assault Craft Homemade Aquila

Well now.

I've been too tired to paint this week, but your justifiable clamour for an aquila on the front of my assault craft's ramp (or prow) is something I could do. Cutting out the 'proper' aquila is really tricky, and near impossible to get symmetrical , so as with the rest of this project, it's designed to:

1. be relatively easy to do (this almost exclusively follows straight, geometric lines)


2. require minimal tools (ruler, pencil, knife)


3. keep material cost to a minimum (it's from what would otherwise have been wasted plasicard). Here it is:

If you're wondering about the streamline moderne look, its inspiration lies in the actual WH40K logo itself. Different pics below, including sketches, next to my trusty 'Irwin' knife (with which I do all of my cutting(!) - it takes Stanley blades)...

- Drax.

272 Assault Craft Initial Concept Sketches

Afternoon, All,


I did say I'd share these, and as the cutting plans aren't quite ready yet, here they are to tide you over. You can see the genesis of the idea as well as some weird little tangents, some of which really didn't make the cut! These are scanned from my latest working notebook (The Sixth Book of Arcane Scribblings):


- Drax.

271 Grim-Dark Peacekeeping? (Progress Shots)

Hi All,
Just to keep you updated, here are four pics. The first is at my wife's suggestion upon seeing the project in its white form, and the others are in order to prove that (a) I am painting it (yes, basecoats of Dark Angels Green always look rubbish under a flash!) and (b) having received the textured plasticard, I've done the treadplates in the bottom. There are a couple of bitz in the last pic too:

- Drax.