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What do you think?

Looks pretty good from what I can see. I think the magazine on the bolter looks great. The main things to do would be to drill out the barrel, and try and clean up the mould lines.

Although since this is an unpainted (and thus unfinished) model the thread probably belongs in the regular painting and modelling forum. I'll let a mod know.

I think it is OK, but also that it is an unfinished model in the "Showcase" forum, so, it has to be moved...

...off we go!

The HB looks to heavy to be drug around with just one hand. Really, he looks like he's dragging it on the ground, which would be really tough, and make him really slow.

IRL, this guardsman would probably be carrying the heavy bolter with both arms, and would then put it down and pull out his laspistol when he wanted to shoot something, rather than drag it with one arm and shoot with the other.

It looks like you have some barrels to drill.

Ailaros wrote:The HB looks to heavy to be drug around with just one hand. Really, he looks like he's dragging it on the ground, which would be really tough, and make him really slow.

IRL, this guardsman would probably be carrying the heavy bolter with both arms, and would then put it down and pull out his laspistol when he wanted to shoot something, rather than drag it with one arm and shoot with the other.

It looks like he set it down, and pulled out his pistol before letting go of the handle.

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

Ailaros wrote:The HB looks to heavy to be drug around with just one hand. Really, he looks like he's dragging it on the ground, which would be really tough, and make him really slow.

IRL, this guardsman would probably be carrying the heavy bolter with both arms, and would then put it down and pull out his laspistol when he wanted to shoot something, rather than drag it with one arm and shoot with the other.

It looks like he set it down, and pulled out his pistol before letting go of the handle.

More like he's in the process of setting it down

Well, if you were going for a more realistic approach and wanted to give the impression of making the gun light enough to carry like that, you could take the ammo box off completely and give it to a secondary guardsmen as ammo carrier. You could also take the barrel of the bolter off completely and drill half way into the bolter itself. Then make a barrel out of some bits and strap it to his back. So then you would have him carrying a more disassembled heavy bolter, but a heavy bolter nonetheless. Otherwise, I think he looks good. Maybe he just works out a lot.

mebobsayhi9 wrote:

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

Ailaros wrote:The HB looks to heavy to be drug around with just one hand. Really, he looks like he's dragging it on the ground, which would be really tough, and make him really slow.

IRL, this guardsman would probably be carrying the heavy bolter with both arms, and would then put it down and pull out his laspistol when he wanted to shoot something, rather than drag it with one arm and shoot with the other.

It looks like he set it down, and pulled out his pistol before letting go of the handle.

More like he's in the process of setting it down

Okay, I see what you're getting at now, but it wasn't all that obvious from initial sight. I guess I'd have assumed that he'd put the machine gun down and THEN aim and fire the pistol, rather than trying to aim while putting something down with your other hand at the same time.

Thats a really nice action shot. How dare the Emperor's enemies not play nice and wait for the poor guy to finish what he was doing before attacking

Also remember that this is the futuar. Maybe the regiment has HBs fully kitted out with suspensors for ease of redeploying

I would second the calls to clean it up a bit more and drill the barrel out, however its a great pose.

I like the model alot, as a fellow IG player, well not really, I am just starting my IG army I am always on the look out for good conversions.

Looks pretty good - I find scout heavy bolters much more in scale with the guardman and have switched to them almost exclusively now.

I really like the model. It looks like the gun is almost too heavy for him, which would be the case. Great representation IMHO.

nice