I'm really fond of the "two lawn chairs on a jet engine" look of the 1st and 2nd edition landspeeder models, and I'm trying to use them exclusively for my refurbished Space Wolf army. I'm in the middle of experimenting with ways to distinguish between Speeders, Tornados, and Typhoons.
For Typhoons, I will (of course!) use the Man of Kent conversion with some old 1st edition metal Landspeedes.
For Tornados, I thoght I'd try to build something reminiscent of the old 1st edition 40K speeders. I removed the plasma gun and the front bolter, and used the flamer(?) as an ersatz mount for the old L-shaped bracket. (The 40K version used the flamer for this too, so I think it works.) I then replaced the plasma cannon with the weapon from on old Sentinel, and chopped he heavy bolter off of an old Imperial Robot to mount on the L-bracket.
The result is a machine that looks wider and shorter than the original speeder, even though it is no wider. I think it looks much less like a speeder, and much more like a floatiing weapons platform. That's a good look IMHO for Tornado.
Pictures of the test build are below, along with the old 40K version for comparison. I'm pretty happy with the result and may try and go into "production" with them now. When I build it for real I'll remove the plastic base and use a chopped-off flying stand to mount it to an old square base, which is the way I based my standard speeders.
Now what I neet to decide is, should all the "Sentinel Cannon" face straight ahead, or should some point in random directions?
-Allen McCarley
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