Also done a lot more work on the body, filling in the gaps. Once it's all constructed and solid I'll file down all the joints, then use filler to smooth them out. Hopefully the end result will be seamless.

Taken a few shots with the pilot dumped in for scale. It's not quite as I wanted it, but I was lazy and rather than create my own centre for the fans I used a bit of pipe I had laying around. Unfortunately it was a bit larger than intended. Hopefully the finished thing will look ok. Still, seems to be coming together nicely.

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I'm designing the infrastructure as I go, hence the strange horizontal support piece. I couldn't get it as low as I wanted because of the lack of height of the model (the pilots head would have been stuck out the canopy), so I cut out a hole to drop the pilot into. Means I'll be able to use this as a base for control panels around the sides, should work nicely.

I should keep a piece count on this, not sure but I'd guess I'm up to 25 or so so far, and loads more to do. Was intending to do the fans today, but got diverted into painting a couple of the other models. More tomorrow I'm sure. 

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Anyway when trying to come up with a decent sentinel proxy for my guard army I thought I’d have a go at a mini gyrocopter. Sort of squats meets g-police.

Messed around in maya to come up with a design which is evolving far more during creation than I’d like.

It needs a name, which I’m struggling to come up with. I thought perhaps something like Gnome (or some variant there of). That way the pilots can nickname them lawn-ornaments, a pratchettian tribute to the dwarf/squats. See kind of makes sense. I’d like to stay away from insect names, everything that flies these days seems to be a wasp or a bee or something similar. We shall see.

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I modelled it up in maya in an hour or so, which explains the crude design. I wanted a faceted look though, sort of pseudo-stealth type thing. Plus I have this thing about low-poly models, so I'd love to have a go at a "real" version.

Original design had two pilots, but partly due to fluff and partly due to size constraints I've dropped it to one. The idea is this is a recon vessel only, as the sentinels are in fluff (no idea how they really play in games, since you know, I don't game). The weapon is more a self defence thing. As such I thought the need for a gunner is a bit unnecessary, the pilot can manage the to cope I'm sure. Plus gives me more room to play with.

The dangling tail thing comes from a rather swanky g-police render I found on the tinterweb. Not sure if it's an official model or a fan thing. But it had a really long tail that reminded me of a fishing pole. Didn't have the room to do it on this since I'm trying to keep the footprint small, but I liked the arc and the downsloped rear wings.

Modeling has now begin, albeit slowly. I was planning on doing three of these at once, but the plastic work is proving really awkward. My design was too rough around the edges and I'm having to do some serious bodging to get it to fit. I'm sure it'll work in the end, but the idea of doing three right now is a little much.

Going to try and remember to take lots of photos as it builds up. Plan is to start the turbofans tomorrow.

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