Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Air Mobile - Building an Air-Assault Platoon

O.K., so I've been busy. Although I lack the funds for ship's weapondry, ship's fittings and/or crew, let alone the air-assault platoon that these will be lifting, I've decided to proceed with the scratch-building portion of creating a Praetorian Air-Assault Platoon. In addition to the fully built, armed and crewed HMAS Dauntless, I have the basic deck/hulls for the platoon's other air assest.
This consists of (2) Additional Valkyries / Vendettas: The HMAS Endeavour and the HMAS Fortitude, and (1) Vulture: The HMAS Galliant.
The two Valkyries side-by-side. The HMAS Fortitude has part of it's railing installed, but both are lacking the armoured wheel-house. My current plan for the arming of the transports is to have enough magnetized weapons to equip either (3) Vendettas -0r- (2) Vendetta + (1) Valkyrie (with all the various Valk configurations, so: Deck gun will be either a Las Cannon or a Multi-Las, Wing Weapons either:Rocket Pods, Hunter/Killers -or- Las Cannons).


Side View of The HMAS Endeavour.


Rear View showing the Anti-Grav panel shutters and the rear door for troop deployment (regretably it is not a nice trop down door like the actual Valk).



6 comments:

  1. Very original and well executed, I look forward to the finished product!

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  2. Looking sick! Brilliant idea, cant wait to see them finished.

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  3. How are you planning to do the air assault platoon? Eureka Miniatures out of Australia do a wonderful figure called the Queen's Own Skywalker. Bit of a weapon swap and you're right about done.

    Or were you thinking of adding some sort of jump pack to Praetorians?

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  4. How about some construction shots of the airships. I need to make at least one for Sword and the Flame on Mars games. Which uses Space 1889 for background.

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  5. Strong work sir!

    I would love to add one of these to my Praetorians.

    -J

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  6. Col. Any chance you could post the templates to these beautiful Airships. A young Lieutenant is inspired to build some.
    "When man and horse go down beneath a saber keen, or in a roaring charge of fierce melee you stop a bullet clean and when the hostiles come to get your scalp, just empty your canteen, put a bullet to your brain and go to fiddlers green"

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