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Hi guys,

Over the weekend I finished a project using the new stormraven turret parts in a razorback conversion. There was some salivating over the new turret for this purpose before the storm raven was released and I haven't seen a thread here on it so I thought I would share my building methods.


So here is the finished product minus forgeworld reinforced armour and the plow at the front which I applied after I took the photo -_-


and a comparison to the classic.



Here are the parts. Sorry the pics aren't consistently good, I'm still learning how to use my new camera.

In this image I had to get rid of virtually everything to fit a marine inside. The turret has three main pieces. The turret ring, the console where the pole goes (under those arches for those unfamiliar) and the console section has a rim itself. The rim was removed as it is not visible once the the armour goes on top and part of the console was removed to make room for the marine's chest. Be aware you have to clip the turret ring itself a bit, the rim fits the razorback but it has a peg to keep the turret on like the new leman russ. Remove this and it fits perfectly.






After this was done here is how the marine looked, notice the side of the turret has has been trimmed so the armour is flat and no longer has the sections which hold guns. During the initial construction I considered putting the guns on the side. I am using the las plas combination and the plasma guns just don't work on the side because they are just too small and look... improbable to the point of being ridiculous next to a lascannon. But if you are using twin lascannons you can just use the storm raven ones which look cool because it seems they are a bit longer than the standard ones though I may be wrong on that.




As I was looking at this I was reminded by the second edition metal turret gunner marine, he's a very thin space marine....




To blag extra armour in conjunction to the yet to be applied forgeworld stuff and because smoothing the turret armour would have taken my inept skills an age I applied some plasticard.





Onto the main gun. I used second edition plastic ork plasma guns, because they are dead good and the biggest and fattest you can get without going to a plasma cannon. This is sort of a cross section here. I used the razorback las cannon and used the armour which goes on guns on the side of the storm raven turret.






Everything is blu tacked at the moment for painting so not completely glued in.

And that's about it. CnC welcome.

Awesom!! looks better than the razerback that GW sells to us now