Void Stalker Conversion
Hi, I'm new to this group and mailing lists in general, but thought you might like to
hear about my version of the Void Stalker. It has all the weapons systems in the right
places according to the stats.
It requires one full eclipse kit, the hull and prow off a shadow, and something to fill
in a gap - I used an old plastic epic scale falcon grav tank with the back, front and
bottom trimmed off.
Assembly Instructions - Hope you can follow these!
- Take the hull of the eclipse and trim away the section where the wings are normally
mounted. This needs to be done in such a way that it becomes possible to invert the
Shadow's hull and fit the front of it into this area. Pin the two hulls and fill the gap
with epoxy putty. You should now have the Eclipse hull with the Shadow hull inverted
underneath. You must also trim away the locating lugs for positioning the prows on each
hull.
- Take the prow from the shadow and after trimming the studs of the bottom invert it. This
should then be pinned and glued to the end of the front of the Eclipse hull in such a way
that the flat of the prow is flush with the flat part of the front of the Eclipse Hull.
The effect you are going to be aiming for is a little bit like the underside of the
Aconite.
- Trim a plastic epic falcon so that the section that rises at the back is removed, the
front is removed just after the point where the lascannon fans out and goes back in and
the underside is removed until it is level with the falcon superstructure. If you cannot
obtain a plastic falcon, anything about 2cm and Eldarish that looks right will do (an old
deathstalker hull perhaps?). This needs to be glued onto the section of the Eclipse hull
where the prow would normally be, its engines facing backwards. If done correctly it
should also overlap the inverted Shadow Prow by about 0.5cm.
- Glue the assembled Eclipse Prow on top of the flat of the Shadow Prow, It should stick
out by about 0.5cm in front.
The top of the Void Stalker should now appear as an Eclipse prow with an inverted Shadow
set back underneath followed by a section of grav tank followed by the rest of the hull.
- Trim a small section out of the middle of the back of the Eclipse launch bay. This needs
to be done so thay it may be inserted into the section of the Shadow Hull where its prow
would normally be located. Pin and glue this into place after drilling a hole in the
bottom large enough for the stand to be glued into. This gives you an underside with the
launch bay pointing forward attached to the Shadow Hull. (If required you could attach the
Shadow's torpedo launchers here to produce the variant instead)
- The Shadow hull should still have the locations intact for attaching the large solar
sails. Attach the Eclipse Sails to the Shadow hull as in a normal assembly. As the Shadow
hull is inverted these sails will be angled upwards on the finished model.
The final model should have bird-of-prey appearance due to the upward angled wings.
With the two prows at the front on a long neck and the launch bay on the main hull
underneath.
Technically it doesn't have the right number of lances/batteries modelled on it, but
there again it's not the only BFG ship model guilty of that is it!
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