soffles
08-22-2010, 06:08 PM
So it goes something like this.
You're in a market hub, talking to a corp rep who's trying to sell you some product and you know...he's asking you about what you plan to use it for and what not. So we're chatting away and he's getting a little more pushy and I'm getting a little more apathetic about the whole situation and then it hits me.
"But what are the civilian applications?"
And he just looked at me. Stared at me for a good minute or so before just walking off.
He was a ******* I tell you. Probably worked for Quafe.
Anonymous Consumer Survey, February 112
Kolar-Huyt Financial Services LLC. is an independent corporate subcontractor, undertaking a variety of tasks for a competitive fee.
Something from nothing. This Valkyrie has been sitting around in my house for nigh on six months now in a half assembled condition. It's one of those "I want to build that, but I want to do good" models, and what with me being:
a) indecisive
b) casual
c) ooh shiny
d) maybe busy
I never got around to doing it.
Enter Dark Heresy: Ascension. We nabbed a Valkyrie from a warehouse, and suddenly motivation was born. Words were written, and a plan formed.
So a little bit of backstory for this thing:
The The Valkyrie STC isn't designed for low orbit atmospheric re-entry. Engines that require at least trace amounts of oxygen don't perform well in high atmospheric environments, and that's completely ignoring the large amounts of stress put on the airframe as you plummet towards the ground.
Scary, isn't it? You are strapped into a however many ton box of metal, electronics and promethium, with no backup plan bar the obligatory gravchute. Let's be honest though, that won't keep you alive from 50 thousand feet.
Using personal funds, Inquisitor Namar Dietz set about doing what some would call suicidal, and others just plain stupid: giving the Valkyrie rudimentary atmospheric re-entry capability. It would be rough, true. It might explode at a moments notice, agreed. In the end though, it was merely a convenient means to an end.
It's not quite finished yet. There's some work that needs to be done to the sensor suite on the nose, as you can undoubtedly tell, and maybe some rain. Who knows.
But surely soffles, you have taken photographs of this construct?
Yes. I have, and I am a terrible model photographer.
So there.
http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0046.jpg
http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0048.jpg
http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0051.jpg
And the rest.
Starboard view (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0047.jpg)
Pilot's section (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0050.jpg)
Back ramp (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0052.jpg)
Engines (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0053.jpg)
Suddenly, buttons (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0054.jpg)
Critique is more than welcome. I have a fashionable asbestos suit.
You're in a market hub, talking to a corp rep who's trying to sell you some product and you know...he's asking you about what you plan to use it for and what not. So we're chatting away and he's getting a little more pushy and I'm getting a little more apathetic about the whole situation and then it hits me.
"But what are the civilian applications?"
And he just looked at me. Stared at me for a good minute or so before just walking off.
He was a ******* I tell you. Probably worked for Quafe.
Anonymous Consumer Survey, February 112
Kolar-Huyt Financial Services LLC. is an independent corporate subcontractor, undertaking a variety of tasks for a competitive fee.
Something from nothing. This Valkyrie has been sitting around in my house for nigh on six months now in a half assembled condition. It's one of those "I want to build that, but I want to do good" models, and what with me being:
a) indecisive
b) casual
c) ooh shiny
d) maybe busy
I never got around to doing it.
Enter Dark Heresy: Ascension. We nabbed a Valkyrie from a warehouse, and suddenly motivation was born. Words were written, and a plan formed.
So a little bit of backstory for this thing:
The The Valkyrie STC isn't designed for low orbit atmospheric re-entry. Engines that require at least trace amounts of oxygen don't perform well in high atmospheric environments, and that's completely ignoring the large amounts of stress put on the airframe as you plummet towards the ground.
Scary, isn't it? You are strapped into a however many ton box of metal, electronics and promethium, with no backup plan bar the obligatory gravchute. Let's be honest though, that won't keep you alive from 50 thousand feet.
Using personal funds, Inquisitor Namar Dietz set about doing what some would call suicidal, and others just plain stupid: giving the Valkyrie rudimentary atmospheric re-entry capability. It would be rough, true. It might explode at a moments notice, agreed. In the end though, it was merely a convenient means to an end.
It's not quite finished yet. There's some work that needs to be done to the sensor suite on the nose, as you can undoubtedly tell, and maybe some rain. Who knows.
But surely soffles, you have taken photographs of this construct?
Yes. I have, and I am a terrible model photographer.
So there.
http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0046.jpg
http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0048.jpg
http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0051.jpg
And the rest.
Starboard view (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0047.jpg)
Pilot's section (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0050.jpg)
Back ramp (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0052.jpg)
Engines (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0053.jpg)
Suddenly, buttons (http://roseburn.org/40k/DSC_0054.jpg)
Critique is more than welcome. I have a fashionable asbestos suit.