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I'm trying to use all the parts from a single Imperial Guard heavy weapons kit, plus any necessary standard troopers and extra heavy weapon bases, to make all five weapons (mortar, lascannon, autocannon missile launcher, heavy bolter). The main problem I've run into is the limited number of stands - the kit contains only one tripod and one bipod.

The easy ones are:
Missile Launcher - This doesn't need a stand at all
Heavy Bolter - This could look good with a simple scratch-built bipod and a guardsman lying prone to fire (or proping it on something like a sandbag pile)
Mortar - This really needs the bipod (I could probably make something passable from scratch, but the height would make it more trouble than the heavy bolter)

This leaves the lascannon and the autocannon, which both need a substantial stand like the tripod.

My first thought is that either of these weapons would look good on some kind of wheeled field gun carriage (Like catachans' weapons or the orks' support guns). I've seen a few people do this with fantasy cannon wheels, but I'm aiming for a higher-tech look. I think I could build a simple carriage from plasticard, but does anyone have a suggestion for good sources of wheels (preferably something I'll be able to maintain a steady supply of)? The best thing I've come up with so far is to find a model kit for an 18-wheeler of suitable scale. WWII miniature guns could probably work well, but I expect that would get a little expensive (1 extra kit for each Heavy Weapons Team kit).

You know what I always recommend...

Green Stuff!!!

mount them on some sort of boxes or debree.

How about Lego wheels? they might work. a quick search for wheels on the lego website:

http://shop.lego.com/product/Default.aspx?p=6118&LangId=2057

Thanks for the suggestions. In the end, I decided that wheeled carriages would be too much trouble, although they would look nice.

I did come up with an alternative last night. I don't really expect to use missile launchers very often, so I'm experimenting with combining the missile launcher and lascannon parts into shoulder-fired lascannons. I've included some pictures of my mockups - let me know what you think.

The Cadian lascannon is a huge weapon (I'd question whether two men could even carry the gun, the tripod, and its powe supply at one time), so I've removed a lot of parts in order to make it look small enough to lift. I'm thinking of two possible configurations right now, as shown below. The longer gun is more easily identifiable as a lascannon, as it retains the ribbed section of the barrel, but I'm worried that it looks far too heavy for a guardsman to heft. The shorter one omits most of the lascannon barrel aside from the tip, but I think it looks considerably more portable.

ha ha, that's awesome!

that looks really good. but if at all possible, I would use the battery as a backpack. The cord will be a fether to make. But it turns out really good.

I've done it for my marines, as my IG friend gives me all his left over special weapons.

In the grim darkness of the 40K future there is no call for fire. My mortars all "hip shoot"

^ That my friend, is awsome.

And I am really liking the shorter version of the Lascannon.

I agree, the shorter version looks alot more portable and therefore many times cooler. Go with that. Awesome work.
What you also should do is pick a kneeling cadian pointing his finger and/or wielding binoculars off your sprue and set him up behind the battery. Then your piece would be liquid awesome.

Maybe you could add a second guardsman carrying the batterypack like the Deathkorps Heavy Flamer.

I think The shorter one looks more "portable" and easier to carry for a little guardsman

Thanks for the comments. I'm planning to use the shorter version of the lascannon.

There will definitely be two troopers on each of these bases, with one carrying the gun and another carrying/managing the power supply (which is going to get some more work - perhaps backpack straps or other handle arrangements; definitely more cables connecting the horizontal and vertical pieces).

I'll have to try building one of these teams along with my current batch of special weapons troopers. I'll post them once they're painted (although it may be a while - I still have a lot of conversions to do).

the shorter one looks better.

I would definetely go with the shorter one. It would look great in an Elysian style force(can they even take Lascannons?)

If you want a backback for the power cell, I would definitely consider creating some sort of power frame for the guardsmen to help him compensate for weight and balance.

I'm trying to use all the parts from a single Imperial Guard heavy weapons kit, plus any necessary standard troopers and extra heavy weapon bases, to make all five weapons (mortar, lascannon, autocannon missile launcher, heavy bolter). The main problem I've run into is the limited number of stands - the kit contains only one tripod and one bipod.

I somehow manage to get the lascannon, missile launcher, heavy bolter and autocannon all from one box.

The missile launcher guy is just on one knee holding it shoulder style and the front part is clipped off (it looked too long and off balance).
The lascannon is propped up against the sandbags that come in the box and I will eventually get around to making the guy shooting it prone.
The autocannon is on the tripod, as it looks awful any other way.
And the heavy bolter is on the morter stand with the ammo box clipped down and glued directly to the feed. The guy shooting it is standing up using the legs from the tank sprue.

I would have posted pictures but i can't find the cord =/