Rust jummp packs3/15/2023 Afterwards, Crow returns the favour by flying Raker to the edge of the atmosphere, showing her that her powers are really meant for flying through space, far higher than his wings will ever reach. When Silver Crow, the first flying avatar, goes into a Heroic BSoD over the loss of his wings, Raker lends him the Gale Thruster as a substitute by channeling his dreams of flight through the Thruster, Crow is able to recharge its energy meter at will, allowing it to fly continuously.This lead to her earning a second nickname: "Icarus". However, she eventually became dissatisfied with this and obsessed with obtaining true Flight, to the point of breaking friendships and cutting off her avatar's legs in an attempt to sharpen her will. Her habit of using this to launch herself and her allies behind enemy lines, combined with her considerable strength, earned her the Red Baron nickname of "The ICBM". Due to being confined to a wheelchair in real life, Sky Raker manifested the Gale Thruster - a high-speed Jet Pack with an operational time of a few seconds.If you've got any questions about something in this post, shoot me a comment and I'll be glad to answer. Make sure to check out these posts as they might help: I think the magnets might cost more than the rest of the bits combined though. The casting wouldn't be hard at all since it's a simple press mold at that.Īdd detail for effect and if you're feeling crazy, you could even magnetize them for some truly functional jump packs. If you had to buy it, you'd have to consider what it would cost to buy enough Chaos backpacks and then at least one drop pod exhaust vent (if you were willing to cast enough). Since I had the spare drop pod engines and needed bits lying around, the cost for me was absolutely nothing to build this. Like I said, it could use some more detailing on the engine housings, but other than that, this thing is a perfect fit for my purposes. That and the pair of cables over the top helps bulk it out as well and lend a little bit of credibility to the conversion.Īnd what it looks like attached to the model. This made it much easier to mount my new engines. They are set out from the body of the backpack where Loyalist ones are kept in close. I chose the Chaos backpack for the way the vents were attached. I drilled through the seam of the cardstock in order to hide it under the connection point with the backpack. I also pinned my two engines in place for stability. I cut off the vents and made sure my cuts were straight up and down so I could mount my engines and they didn't look odd or at a weird angle. Once I had my two engines built, I cut the vents off my Chaos backpack. The cardstock is cut to a suitable width as well as its only purpose is to bulk up the top of the tube so the vent does not look out of place glued on top. The length could be anything really, it comes down to looks. The pen tube is cut to 3/8 inch or 10mm long depending on what side of the pond you're on. pens come in lots of different sizes and such. The pen tube is 8mm wide from outside edge to outside edge in case you're wondering. I bought a pack of them a while ago for the tubing for various projects. The pen tube is from the cheapest pens I could find that had no printing on the sides of them. Aside from the drop pod vents, it's a single plastic pen tube, a Chaos Marine backpack and some cardstock. What you're going to need to do this conversion You really only need one if you are the casting type and then you could make a simple press mold and come up with enough for a whole assault squad army. The only bit that I used that might be hard to get a hold of would be the two drop pod exhaust vents. Maybe not the exact detail the Forge World ones have above, but close enough for me. A little more detail and these would most certainly pass first inspection and tabletop use. You could expand on this quite easily and probably come up with something pretty convincing. This project is more about seeing if it could be done quickly and cheaply more than anything else. After seeing Forge World release their Legion MKII Assault squad to go with their ever expanding Heresy era bits, I figured it was time to see if I could make my own jump pack on the cheap. A while ago I posted this Pre-Heresy World Eater Space Marine with a normal jump pack.
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