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Stormbird Concept by ~Armondikov:iconArmondikov:

Categories Digital Art > 3-Dimensional Art > Vehicles > Futuristic

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In the first Horus Heresy novel, Dan Abnett introduced the Stormbird. Unfortunately, beyond some vague descriptions that vary wildly between the multiple authors of the series, no-one knows what the Stormbird looks like. There's no art and definitely no minatures of it.

So, here's my concept of it based on scaling up the Thunderhawk and adding a few features of larger Imperial craft.

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~Step666 Apr 20, 2009, 4:46:42 PM
I was looking at this, thinking it was the sort of thing you'd be interested in, then I realised it was your work.
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~Armondikov Apr 21, 2009, 2:18:31 AM
DeviantART is a smaller place than it looks...

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I'm sure something is supposed to go here...
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~Step666 Apr 21, 2009, 11:46:55 AM
Well, in fairness, there are only so many places worth browsing when insomnia strikes at 2am.
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~Spineyguy Apr 21, 2009, 11:51:38 AM
I always imagined the Stormbird as a sleek, almost dart-like craft.

This looks as though it could just be an epic scale thunderhawk with the prow from a battlefleet gothinc kit on it.

Looks cool though.

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~Armondikov Apr 21, 2009, 1:30:52 PM
One forum post out there (probably Warseer) does claim that Dan Abnett himself said it looks like the Naboo ship from Phantom Menace but more like it was built by the Imperium. So perhaps I might have room to rejig the sleeker look into it, but it's conflictingly described as sleeker yet much less sleek than the Thunderhawk. I'm also quite biased by the ideas some local GW employees were messing around with about a year ago that involved sizing up a Thunderhawk and adding more guns.

I'm basically taking the idea from the silhouettes of the flyers in this picture: [link] They're meant to be Thunderhawks but the pointed nose and swooped wings just got me thinking about this sort of shape.

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~Spineyguy Apr 21, 2009, 10:52:57 PM
I always thought that the 40k idea of mankind being technologically recessive was a good one, there's only so far you can go with technology before you start going backwards.

I think the naboo craft would best sum up how I thought the Stormbird looked, the same overall shape as the thunderhawk, but with curved plates of armour.

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He was Conquered...

He came.
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*dukeleto May 2, 2009, 1:29:46 AM
Great stuff! I agree that M31st stuff needs to look higher-tech tho...

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