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So, as most DE players have found, 1 blaster per box of warriors is woefully inadequate. I think I can speak for most people when I say I'm not really interested in shelling out 5 bucks for a blaster bit or buying 4 boxes of warriors just to build 1 Trueborn squad. In addition, I'm not a huge fan of the blaster design. So, with that in mind, I came up with the below.

1 box of warriors and leftovers from my ravagers = 9 blasters. Each raider from here on out gives me another blaster, and I can probably get disintegrator bits for 1/3 the price of blaster bits. Easy money.

personally I think the disinigrators are a little long and they have that nozzle at the end. When I made mine I cut the nozzle back.

Exergy wrote:personally I think the disinigrators are a little long and they have that nozzle at the end. When I made mine I cut the nozzle back.

I felt like the actual Blaster looked too short. Looked like a melta to me, not like what I envisioned as a rifle. I wanted something that looked like a stubby dark lance.

Why? Blasters have that nozzle too. Did you cut it right after the little prongs, or leave it with the big wide opening after the =I= in the barrel? I imagine if you left the prongs it'd look sort of like a shredder.

Traceoftoxin wrote:

I felt like the actual Blaster looked too short. Looked like a melta to me, not like what I envisioned as a rifle. I wanted something that looked like a stubby dark lance.

Why? Blasters have that nozzle too. Did you cut it right after the little prongs, or leave it with the big wide opening after the =I= in the barrel? I imagine if you left the prongs it'd look sort of like a shredder.

This is one of my squads of trueborn. Not fully pained yet, just the basecoat basically.

1 is a Disintigrator
1 is from the shredder
2 are from the Dark Lance bits

I'm digging that chopped down dark lance look. I'm totally snagging that idea too.

I ended up taking the blasters from a Reaver squad, and converting them onto the splinter rifles.

The Dizzies look quite good. I am not a fan of a mixture however, i've kept my blasters and 'bladders' (blast pistol accelerator chamber (or whatever) + shredder body) sepperate for my two trueborn units. If i need another unit of trueborn i will probably do this (i do have ~15 spare dizzies afterall)...

Traceoftoxin wrote:I'm digging that chopped down dark lance look. I'm totally snagging that idea too.

go for it, leave just a little bit of the connector to make the nozzle or add a small tube bit from somewhere else. you dont want the end to be flush