Ideas for Shrike wings

[bolk]

Hey all, I`ve planning to get actual wings on some of my Warriors when I want to run them as Shrikes, but seeing as FW still haven`t rereleased them, I`ve been looking for other options. I`ve heard about some people using CSM Chosen wings on them, this sounds like the cheapest way to get some wings since I`m not a sculptor But I wonder how those wings would work with magnets? Is there anyone here who`s used Chosen wings on their Shrikes and can give me some advice?

[biomega]

See if you can get a hold of Black Dragon wings from WH Fantasy without buying the whole model. Probably more expensive but they're larger and would look cooler. I personally used dark pegasus wings (which I ordered out of the bitz catalogue), but something tells me your shrikes would look very different from mine. Mine were built to look like fliers rather than jump troops.

[bolk]

Aha nice, but I think you're right. I have some existing Warriors that I want to magnetize wings on so they will be standing. But I'll check out those black dragon wings :-) I have a friend that plays CSMs but he didn't have any leftovers :-(

[WestRider]

Has anyone tried Vampire Count Vargheist wings? They look like they'd work alright, but I'm not sure about the size.

[cyaneye]

Sept 5, 2014 10:19:48 GMT WestRider said:

Has anyone tried Vampire Count Vargheist wings? They look like they'd work alright, but I'm not sure about the size.

I picked up a set of 4 pairs of vargheist wings as loose bits on ebay so I could see how they would compare against my shrikes with the fw wings. After sticking them to the warriors with white tac, I have to say I'm impressed. The vargheist wings are big, bad***, and intimidating, leading to a very threatening shrike. As a matter of fact, compared to the fw shrikes, I'd say these ones hold the honor of being shrike alpha.

However, there are a few issues I should address. The minor issue is that the 4th pair of wings is too small to be used by a warrior, so there's only 3 useable sets. This isn't bad at all given that warriors are sold in sets of 3. The next problem is that the wings dont connect to the shoulder via a ball and socket joint, but closer to how the tervigon or exocrine kits connect at the waist. In other words some clipping, filing, and green stuff is required to get the wings into a good fit, even more so if you're like me and want to magnetize. The last issue comes with only one of the wing pairs. On the vargheist, the model is soft of pinwheeling its wings in order to leave enough room to be placed in base to base contact, as per Warhammer fantasy rules, but if you model the warrior like that, it ends up looking silly. That being said the wing that is up in the air has the membranes bending the wrong way, as you can see on the rightmost tyranid warrior. Either some creative posing the model to look like it's banking mid flight is required, or actually heating the plstic to shape the membranes into the correct position. (Do at your own risk)

All things considered, I'd say that while they're a little big, they easily work very well as shrike wings if you can get past the aforementioned problems.






Oh, and that last pair of wings too small for warriors? I puttied them onto a spare hormogaunt to make a walking gargoyle. I'm very satisfied with the result



Edit: After a little forum-fu, the pictures are now visible

[biomega]

Can't see your pics, Cyaneye, but I imagine those wings would look really cool for knuckle-walking shrikes. Have the knuckle of the wings pointing down, and then try to make it look like they're on four legs with the gun/rending claws on the second pair of arms. In fact, you could count the wings as rending claws if you modify them slightly to make them look more "rend-y".

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WOW, those look super rad. Nice job.

[WestRider]

Dude. Those look great! I'm gonna have to pick up a box of those at some point here. Gonna get the whole box instead of just bitz ordering the wings because I want the rest to make Chaos Spawn with.

[albinoxeno]

For any of those wondering About the fantasy black dragon wings, I'm currently working on one for the GF, here's the size compared to a warrior. (Sorry for the pic quality)




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[bolk]

Nice, that`s these ones, right? www.games-workshop.com/en-NO/Dragon-Wings

Edit: No, they`re not the same. Where do you get those? Oo

[WestRider]

Nah, it's these ones off the Dark Elf Black Dragon kit. Assuming HoB's weird system actually let me link that right.

[bolk]

Sept 6, 2014 21:26:14 GMT WestRider said:

Nah, it's these ones off the Dark Elf Black Dragon kit. Assuming HoB's weird system actually let me link that right.

Ah right, with shipping and all they`re gonna be more expensive than the FW Shrike wings :s Think I`m gonna try these www.games-workshop.com/en-NO/Dragon-Wings or www.games-workshop.com/en-NO/Balrog-Wings

A little unsure about the size though. To magnetize them they`re gonna need some greenstuff work though

[albinoxeno]

Here's the wings you just linked for size seeing as I have them too. (They've been banished to bits box hence the rubbish pint job)




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[albinoxeno]

Dragon wing - black dragon wing - flyrant wing

Warrior and PoM/shrike with gargoyle wings for scale.


personally both dragon wings are too big for the warrior, though i'll agree the gargoyle ones are puny.


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[biomega]

Those black dragon wings would be perfect for the kind of shrikes I built! Much better than dark Pegasus due to them being plastic. Honestly I think the wings have to be kind of large in order to lift a creature the size of a warrior. The standard dragon/demon wings are definitely too large though.

[coredump]

I really like what this guy did...

www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/31623-Lars.html

Scroll down the right side for all of the Shrike pics. He used double Garg wings... I like how they turned out.



I already have a hard enough time dealing with flyrant wings and Crone wings. I really don't want huge wings on my 40mm based shrikes.