The Beard Bunker

 A long gap since my last update; as alluded to, life has been complex.  But progress has occasionally continued on the Thunderhawk project, and we are now getting excitingly close to completion.  At the end of my previous update , I had the insides painted and the wings glued on.   Draw the rest of the owl What can I say?  Then I glued everything else on.  Well, I guess I can say a bit more than that.  I started by gluing everything on underneath, if I had started on the top I’d have broken bits when I turned it over.  The feet went on as predicted, having previously drilled and set the pins, and as predicted getting the diagonal supporting in afterwards was fiddly but doable with tweezers.  They seem solidly sturdy. For the most part I just glued things on with glue as they weren’t structural and had decent contact areas, but I pinned the hinge pieces on the strike wings as I predicted friction might otherwise force those apart, and I ...

After an unexpected interlude, here are the continuing adventures of building a Thunderhawk Gunship.  For further context please see previous articles in this series .  

Herein lies the first part of my ongoing project to build (and paint I guess) a Thunderhawk.  I have previously posted about the motivations for taking on such a crazy project , so this is just the ongoing project diary. Day 1 Thunderhawk arrived!  I went through the box and got a bit intimidated by the sheer volume of stuff, but I’ll just have to grind through.   Day 2 Started clipping out and cleaning bits whilst listening to podcasts. Day 3 Got the laser done and lay it out on my desk.  This thing is big.  Starting to worry a little that the Thunderhawk is maybe a bit bigger than I anticipated.   Days 4-7 Periodically clipped and cleaned the smaller parts in fits and bursts whilst listening to podcasts, but spent way too much time distracted playing Factorio instead.  The factory must grow. Day 8 Finally got the Dremel out for the big bits.  I got everything set up but realised that even though the sun was still up and the weather was...

Herein we find the first of several posts I'll be making reporting my progress in what I am calling Project Capstone. I've been pretty keen on Raven Guard aircraft from day one.  Before even the Storm Raven existed I bought myself a Valkyrie for them to use (illegally of course).  When the Storm Raven appeared it was initially just for Blood Angels and Grey Knights (no idea why) but I went ahead and bought one anyway (despite how ugly is it too).  When Charlie suggested the Samalut IX campaign I splashed out and bought myself a Storm Eagle and by the time the campaign began I had space in either flying transports or Land Speeder Storms for every model that didn't have a jump pack or teleport homer. 5th company attached air wing Honestly I've always loved 40k aircraft in general.  I have loads of the buggers.  I built an entire Ork army around the idea of Ork aircraft.  I have a bunch of Forgeworld aircraft of various factions, and even more in plastic....