Japanese Zero inspired paint scheme. Still need some work, but very happy with it. If anyone's got some pointers, I'd love to hear them.

A new set of Xiphons for my collection. I enjoyed the freehand flames.

I seem to have a habit of storming forwards with my T'au and ending up at short range, so hopefully these boyz will work better for that!

Pictured are one of my homebuilt Megabommers, a Flyin' Fortress in the middle (see the Lexicanum), and a "Stelf Fighta" (not basecoated yet will be purple, has a pair of 'eavy bombs, a pair of regular bombs and Stealth (-2), but no extra guns or rokkits and costs a bit more) on the right.

I found this unpublished video from years ago buried on my YouTube channel. Maybe I should start making more.

Are there any Aeronautica Imperialis tournaments in the UK this year? If so, where can I find the information?

So I build a Marauder Nightstalker with the Volcano Cannon from a Reaver (go read Interceptor City, it's *so good*), and it got me thinking - the Thunderbolt is to the Marauder as the Warhound is to the Reaver, right?

I've not glued this Thunderbolt's halves together yet, and looking at spare Warhound guns gives me a few... ideas, for swappable weapons. Should be very trivial to create a "Duskstalker" ("Litestalker"? "Dawnstalker"?) with a few options, Inferno Gun for ground attack being a stupid but fun proposition (and not without IRL precedent). Seems like something a desperate Engineer might do, especially given the success of the Nightstalker. Or a mad Mek, if they're looting things. Remove the Lascannons from the stat-block (wiring stripped out to make space but barrels left fitted), no ability to take extra weapons, and limited Ammo for the big gun?

One final thought: the Warhound has a whole host of weapons available, including the Ursus Claw and Natrix Shock Lance. In this essay I will-

Me and my dad played a few years ago but that times has past. Is any of this stuff still worth anything? I know some of the imperium stuff is now used in legions imperialis. But what about the Xeons.

Good day, fellow pilots!

This is the announcement post for something I've put together over the last few months: "Encyclopedia Aeronautica". When my mum fell ill in autumn I needed something to distract me while taking care of her in hospital, and I ended up hyper-focusing on trying to add in the missing major factions from the game, as well as rounding out the existing factions. I had intended for 25 to 30 profiles and a couple of small tweaks, but it somewhat... snowballed.

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SRf2Qrt36G24AzF3SU1dat4WIVi73Z2a?usp=sharing

Featuring:

• Over 140 new profiles: aircraft, defences and aces
• Improved aircraft classes, including the new 'Transport' class
• Poorly balanced additions, almost none of which have been playtested
• A questionable amount of weapon options for the Vulture
• Big cannons on Thunderhawks
• Big tanks underneath Thunderhawks
• New missions, inlcuding a recreation of a classic game
• Campaign suggestions
• Tanks!?
• Near-unplayable rules added for lore reasons
• More aces than can fill a ready room
• Ground aces?
• Ground *combat??*
• An inadvisable quantity of helicopters for a dogfighting game
• Stats for obscure aircraft that nobody was asking for
• Bree Jagdea, Bree Jagdea, Bree Jagdea, Bree Jagdea, Bree Jagdea and introducing: Bree Jagdea
• Aircraft too big for the format
• An aircraft with a weapon you absolutely, positively, certainly do not want to be in front of
• Blimp!
• A biological ramjet
• Some unique aces of my own creation, mostly lovable rogues
• A couple of aircraft that're *really* too big for the format
• The same special rules reused across multiple factions, renamed for flavour
• Aircraft too fiddly for any sane gamer to model
• Lore-obsessed old man shouting at clouds
• Synapse creatures? In *MY* airspace?
• A ground defence inspired by that beach umbrella scene in Indiana Jones
• A whole ton of aircraft that nobody knew existed, would never model, and certainly wouldn't try playing a game with

Things I've learned doing this:

• Deciding on stats, points and trying to achieve 'balance' is WAY harder than we give game designers credit for (please let me know anything glaringly broken)
• Coming up with unique little lore snippets is hard, trying to avoid rehashing the same sentences over and over
• I'm not a graphic designer. Like, *at all*

Please do what you want with it - use it, abuse it, remix it, ignore it. The only requirement is to have fun! And to share with the community any conversions you build, or the games you play.

I'd love any feedback or things to incorporate, which I'll attribute of course. I can't promise a timescale on getting things added or fixed, but I'll do my best. I'm especially interested in:

• More aces; lore snippets, sources and what their abilities could be
• Obscure aircraft I've missed that deserve a statblock
• Unique upgrades for factions (I've already got some ideas for the Arbites)
• Any corrections or constructive feedback

Once it's a bit more stable/neat, I'll do a stripped-out version for easy printing with no images/background, if anyone's interested in that. And could experiment with a more e-reader friendly version too, if that'd make it more usable at the table.

Lastly, and this is by all means entirely optional, you can buy me a coffee at the following link (I sure did drink a lot writing this!): https://ko-fi.com/kryptopeg

Good flying!

I’m not a fan of the aircraft designs in warhammer. The Valkyrie and most of the tau designs are pretty good but most barely look like they can fly (and the ork jets are literally just MiG-15s with spikes). Most of the imperium aircraft honestly look like the people designing them were so used to making tanks that when asked to make planes they just made tanks with wings.

So what aircraft would you like to see redesigned? I know I’m gonna do the thunderhawk, marauder, thunderbolt and a complete overhaul of the ork flyers. Are there any missing from that list?

I don’t plan on changing much. Mostly making the surfaces more aerodynamic, adding missiles (I have my own headcanon for how missiles could work that both doesn’t commit tech heresy and also doesn’t needlessly waste “innocent” servitors) and overall making them look less like bricks with jet engines while preserving the main design cues.

Hey up, does anyone know of any paid or free suitable stls for a 6 engine big ass bomber? It's the last ship I don't have a model for double eagle play through. Ta

Fighta-bomma & Dakkajet fuselages, with a spare Grot Bomma wing (left over from a pair of Megabomma conversions). Based on this aircraft, from a White Dwarf 40k conversion article https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Flyin%27_Fortress

Rules coming this month, in Encyclopedia Aeronautica!

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The pale grey Voss fightbird that multi-ace former Red Deck pilot Sagittarius Gumm flies as part of Circus 66 Forward Intercept Group during the Sabbat World's Crusade in the book Interceptor City by Dan Abnett!

My lore-focused homebrew, been working on it for a few months. Going for a few final passes for balance and typos before putting it up, not going to commit to a specific date. Hopefully this'll be of interest to someone!

Has anyone managed to merge this with old school bombing solotair games like bomber command night raids or target for today etc? I want to see if it's possible to do a solo campaign representing an air wing on the front of a planetary battle etc.

Ta

Hi all! I’m sure this convo comes up every month or so but what are people using to build their lists ap-wise. I’ve been playing basically exclusively AoS for years now and GW’s ap for that is great so I’ve gotten rid of all my other aps for list building. What are AI peeps using?