Sci-fi Dropship

For our Grimdark Future game in June, I needed a dropship model as the centrepiece/objective marker for the table. Since none of us had one at hand, I decided to search my neighbourhood stores for a toy that could be easily converted to look "sci-fi". What I found was this attack helicopter that cost US$9.

The toy came with electronics, motors, and lights inside, but as it was screwed together, it was a simple job to take the model apart and gut it. The rotors also came off easily, and there wasn't really anything extra that needed to be done to make the model look the part.

I decided to go for a neutral colour and painted it grey, with the ventral surface painted white.

When I put the model back together again for a dry fit, I realised it looked like a shark. I did some weathering and washing, including some streaking using the black wash, which is not a technique I have used before for land vehicles. I think the result was satisfactory.

The thing that made the model convincing for me were the while decals FG passed me. I am going to replace the guns on the wings with 3D-printed lascannons to make it look more 40K, but this was how the model looked for our game.

I had fun painting the model, so much so that I have now ordered a Hasegawa Egg Plane model to be converted into an Ork Dakkajet.