It\'s finished! Horay! I bought it last Monday night and started assembling on Tuesday night and I finished on this bank holiday Monday just under a week later. 
I\'m really happy with the outcome, and must have spent 40+ hours on this, it\'s completely kept me occupied and I\'ve enjoyed every minute. Quite a challenging piece to paint, harder then the Trygon.
I didn\'t decide how to do the base until this morning, I just didn\'t know what to do and then it hit me... landing pad! I used foamcore to do a raised step and used textured plasticard. The lights and barrier are from cities of death, the brass icon, is form the brass icons in the GW basing kit. The 51 and the yellow line makes the perimeter of the landing pad. Obviously I was never going to fit a whole landing pad on the base, so I decided to just do the edge, to represent the Valk coming into land. The number 51 just felt right and conjures up images of alien conspiracies.
I\'m really happy with the outcome, and must have spent 40+ hours on this, it\'s completely kept me occupied and I\'ve enjoyed every minute. Quite a challenging piece to paint, harder then the Trygon.
I didn\'t decide how to do the base until this morning, I just didn\'t know what to do and then it hit me... landing pad! I used foamcore to do a raised step and used textured plasticard. The lights and barrier are from cities of death, the brass icon, is form the brass icons in the GW basing kit. The 51 and the yellow line makes the perimeter of the landing pad. Obviously I was never going to fit a whole landing pad on the base, so I decided to just do the edge, to represent the Valk coming into land. The number 51 just felt right and conjures up images of alien conspiracies.
