Not so cool... but it could be.

[Mr Teufel]

Sow's ear -> silk purse.

[Inappropriate Socks]

The chin mounted twin-linked gun is ridiculously massive on the original. Overall it looks like a model for about half the scale to me.
Get rid of the oversized guns and stick two or three half scale guys in the cockpit and I think it would be a pretty cool model.

[Ajsalium]

Something I forgot to mention... I actually like it. Without the oversized guns, it'd look like a nice police hovercopter.
Surely someone will post pics of it without the weapons, and then I'll decide if I like it enough to justify its cost.

[leadhead]

Cost of anything from GW can never be justified.

[somaticon]

For something from the dark age of future tech it looks far too clean

[Inso]

I noticed that. The only decoration is a few eagles and those have to be glued on... maybe someone at GW has noticed all the comments about SKULLZ that get made when ever they release a new product

[Inso]

Once I had got hold of the kit, I assembled the cockpit with a new floor and thought 'bleeping heck... that is a bit bigger than I thought!'. Here is a picture to show what I mean:



I reckon I will fit a Beetle-bot in the rear of the cockpit to act as nav/gunner and have a Grymn pilot in the front. The rest of the kit will end up heavily converted as I plan to make this thing into a little more than a gunship ... eventually

[Steel Penguin]

hhmmm.
and with the wheels youve drawn on, it wont be landing on the skids on the chin turret.  might just work.

[Inso]

The drawing I did was only to show that it could look better with a few mods. I don't plan on following the drawing (and never have).

Mine will be a small insertion vehicle with some carrying capacity... I am not going to say much more but it will be a little different to the original kit, you mark my words !

[Ajsalium]

Apparently, you're not the only one who's had the helicopter conversion idea:



And one question: how big is the stormtalon (unconverted)? Similar to the robogear condor?

[Inso]

It looks to be about the same but a bit more chunky with a taller cockpit area...

...but I couldn't say for sure because I have only assembled the bit shown in my last post