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Hi there guys I was just wandering if you know how to make your own custom built IG mortars.

Ide love to see some of your creations.

I haven't done any myself, but mortars are the most simple type of heavy weaon to synthesize in that they need some plastic tubing and thats about it

I know but it never seems to look right :/ Oh well im sure ill do something :]

I was going through the Treadhead thread on Warseer and saw a conversion of a Mortar. The guy took the Basilisk cannon and sawed off the barrel, then fliped it upside down and and assembled the rest normally. cant remember the page number (it was in the 400's) but if I find it I'll link you.

Amusingly enough I am in the process of building two Mortars for my budding Praetorians.
Basically using alot of plasticard,a syringe( small plastic tube) cut in half,about an inch and a half long,lots of chopped up plastic rod for rivets and some imperial icons rummaged from a bits box.
I'm basically aiming for an "old world" look,i don't have gak for a camera ATM,but I'll attempt to get some WIP pictures up using my cellphone camera.

Ahh very nice I like your idea and I'de love to see more.

Thankyou

Yeah, just a bit of plasticard or aluminum tubing with a bit of plasticard for the base. Perhaps some GS in there somewhere.

To be honest, mortars are so cheap from the warstore or wherever that I'd just buy them as bitz order unless you've got something specific in mind.

Yea i dont really like them stores tbh.

making one myself tonight for my Praxian Guard, will post it when done!

Nice one ill check it out !!

Ok...the pictures came out crap,but at least one can get a rough idea of what I was going for.
I also included a pic of some of the pre-assembled parts.

ahh mate they are the bee's knees !! Im going to try them out. Thanks for all your help.

I gave in and brought 3 heavy weapon teams for £20 Lol

andy lei zombie wrote:ahh mate they are the bee's knees !! Im going to try them out. Thanks for all your help.

I gave in and brought 3 heavy weapon teams for £20 Lol

Appreciate it man,they actually were fairly easy to make...although I still have a few things I plan to add to them.

FITZZ wrote: Ok...the pictures came out crap,but at least one can get a rough idea of what I was going for.
I also included a pic of some of the pre-assembled parts.

Those are Great! nice job!

alarmingrick wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Ok...the pictures came out crap,but at least one can get a rough idea of what I was going for.
I also included a pic of some of the pre-assembled parts.

Those are Great! nice job!

Thanks,I'll be sure to post up some follow up pictures once I finish/paint them up.

Who would have thought it? Fitzz, an artistic genius

ghosty wrote:Who would have thought it? Fitzz, an artistic genius

You should see the creation I'm assembling in the lab...Bwahahaha...erm..what I meant to say was...Thanks ghosty.

He sure is !! I am like inspired !!

sorry i didnt post , got tied up will post in the morning ;-)

Thats all good man.

@ Fitzz: Dude those are awesome! Gives the whole old school tech look, which I dig! 10/10!

To answer the op: I just asked all my friends who play IG if I could grab some bits for bits type thing. Try it you might get lucky.

heres the one i made last night, based it on the dkok style ww1 type

is that Perry?

Where did the mortar rounds themselves come from?

Yeah they are perry , french line these models, iam making a Praxian planetary deffence force in my manufactorum blog. Check it out for views of various modles including french unmounted dragoon and english line command. they are a little small , but passable when based and backpacked.

the mortar round come curtesy of my childrens toy box, he searched through for ya and found the actual toy set, its a 6 inch action figure set from a lookout tower that goes by various names as world peace keeping force , world peace keepers lookout tower, and power team. here is a link to a website selling it. and a pic

http://www.kidsarmyshop.co.uk/5-lookout-tower-set.html

My heavy weapons. Autocannons in this case. The trick here is swappable weapons. Rather than using the tripod I took a 3/8" styrene tube (Evergreen at most hobby stores) cut 1/4" long. Cap off the end with a bit of card. Let dry completely!!! Now, place a small rare earth magnet on the center of the 60mm base. Glue the capped section of tube over the magnet (I place another magnet on the top of the tube to pull the covered one away from the glue). Add whatever scenery bits you desire to the base. Once dry, prime, add the gunners, paint, and flock.





Now the gun. Cut the small nub off the bottom that attaches the gun to the tripod. imbed a small rare earth magnet in green stuff and mold it to the base where the nub was. Prime and paint. Now all you need to do is set the gun on top of the tube with the lose magnet trapped inside. The magnetic force will clamp the gun right onto the top of the tube.
If you want Lascannons or bolters you need only swap the gun out rather than buying and building an entire new model. Should work well with a bit of GS holding the magnet to the mortor tube or missile launcher also.

nice tut dk kelly heres my custom autocannon based on the dkok one.
mine


original

Yeah, the best way to do interchangeable heavy weapons without magnets is a gun chassis. I put this guy together here using the tripod:



The best part is that I can take the lascannon, heavy bolter, or autocannon straight off the sprue and just plug it in.

As well, for even more flexibility, I'd consider making a big base seperate and then putting gunners and loaders onto their own bases, like this:



That way you can easily keep track of casualties and you can VERY easily swap a new set of heavy weapons onto a new base.

@Ailaros Yeah, the best way to do inteerchangeable weapons without magnets is a gun chassis.

I really like the idea there !! changing the heavy weapons I might have to steal that idea !! ;]

any praetorian player should check out col gravis' blog


http://colgravis.blogspot.com/2010/09/army-gallery.html

he's sculpted some pith helmets which I bought 20 of and they are bloody good. I'm using them on some cadians to make a special stormtrooper unit.

http://colgravis.blogspot.com/2010/09/hobby-tutorials.html



http://colgravis.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-09-01T19%3A03%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=3

thanks for that link, very informative.