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I like the look of these craft, more than the
skinny little modern ships, but as I looked at it I decided I would
just have to convert it. My first plan was to alter the gun batteries. The
GW pdf is a little unclear, and the text accompanying it is actually
incorrect as far as what bits you need to turn the vengeance into an
avenger.
Getting past all this, I was left with a
fairly open page to play with. I put the basic body together and
then looked at it for a while to try and decide how I was going to
change the look. I wanted something that reflected this ancient
craft's archaic status and wanted the highlight the blend between
Imperial and Chaos fleets.
I felt there was something fish-like in the craft,
and I had the idea of adding extra wings to the front of the craft.
This was fairly easy, by shaving off the batteries and using plastic
glue to add the wings. I put weapon batteries on the upper gundeck, and then added higher gun decks, usually for lance
batteries, that I thought had been added at some point, or added and
never finished.
 Playing around with these parts, I added an
extra upper gun deck between the fore and aft parts of the craft.
Coloured red here. A few chunks
of green stuff (coloured green!) to
help keep all the bits together.
The other major conversion I added came when I
decided to take off the metal bridge and replace it with something
that gave it a more streamlined silhouette. I took that off as
well, imagining that the bridge had been positioned amidships,
combining with the gun observation platforms. I looked through
the chaos and imperial sprus that I had around me and thought about
trying to get a spine of spikes along the bridge position. A
bit of chopping and shaving and plastic glue meant that I had a
'spine' that would go along the rear of the ship, giving the whole
craft a familiar, but strange look. |
