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You ever have days when you're putting together a tactical squad out of "remnant" Space Marines that you were originally using with old Rogue Trader rules? You get all the minis repainted, but one thing is missing. That's right, a heavy weapon!

So you grab your old sprues. You do an eyeball measurement using your old missile launchers from the Imperial Space Marines boxed set from 1987. You mark out a section of sprue and make some score marks, then saw your way through with your handy-dandy razor saw. You cut some bits off the sprue section and move them to where you want them. Then you look at the sprue and realize "this thing needs a sight. It also needs a rotary magazine system because who doesn't love rotary magazines?" So you carve out a section of your sprue by sawing some small indentations where your rotary magazine will go and then clearing those out with an X-Acto knife, following up with a quick sanding. You make a rotary magazine out of some extra sprue and some remaining bits, then use some clipped-off banner holders from original-edition Space Hulk terminators and yet more sprue to make a sight. It still doesn't look right, because what missile launcher doesn't have an exhaust cover to redirect backblast away from the firer? A quick check through the bits box turns up a plastic bumper from a battery recharger that refused to fit where it wanted. So you glue that to the back of the big sprue.

Before you know it, two hours have passed, stuff has been dropped on the floor a couple of times, very bad words have been said, but you have a missile launcher ready to be painted and attached to the heavy weapons marine in your squad.

Neat. I always love to see what people can make out of the "useless" sprue GW charges us so much for. Great work!

Not the best pic, but I have a number of these as well. Between the round sprue and the extra bits included with the marines, you could easily make them. The only extra non-GW bit I used a a short length of drinking straw to bulk out the barrel.

Fun times.

I'm tempted to build a blast shield out of card for it, but that'll make a large weapon even bulkier.