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So first time showing any of my stuff here and I thought I might as well start out the way I intend to go on; with something flagrantly non-standard using bits from at least three manufacturers (in multiple scales) at least one of which went kaput years ago and a few random bits and pieces of something not normally regarded as miniature parts.
To which end I'd like you to meet Little Kane and his obnoxiously large gun, constructed a few years ago (incidentally back before I quit smoking) as a heavy for a Necromunda gang (and by 'gang' I mean 'bunch of freaks led by a catastrophically insane rogue Tech-Adept named something suspiciously close to Frankenstein') for a campaign that never got off of the ground.
You may also note the guts of a disposable gas lighter scattered at his feet in one pic. There is a connection: what you can find inside a disposable gas lighter runs to a bunch of tiny springs and interesting-looking shapes such as roughly half of his autocannon.
The gun's receiver is two short pieces of GW sprue, one about five mil longer than the other, glued together wider face to wider face, with one end of each lined up. I then took the circular lever bit that's used to adjust the length of flame on that sort of lighter, and glued it to the lined-up ends of the pieces of sprue; the space where his right hand sits is formed from the difference in length between the two pieces of sprue, and his left hand (which was intended by GW to be holding a grenade) is gripping what would be the lighter's flame adjustment nubbin. To make the barrels I took three cotton wool buds, stripped off the cotton wool, glued them together in a bundle, then cut out a suitable length portion of the result; I then glued them onto the stub end of the two bits of sprue forming the gun's receiver, centred in the flame adjust ring, and wrapped a strip of thin card or plastic sheet round near to what would become the gun's muzzles. To detail it I glued on a load of lighter guts (and once I was out of suitable lighter guts a random frag grenade) until it looked about right - not a very technical description, I know, but the process wasn't very technical.
He's got a torso that used to belong to a 1:35th-scale German soldier, while the slave carrying his ammo drum started out as a random 25mm catgirl I'd had kicking around getting increasingly trashed up in my bitz box for somewhere on the high side of twenty years, and who had been folded just about double at some point in time and I'm jiggered if I know how but it made for an ideal posture to have that ammo drum (which used to be the lighter's striker wheel) strapped to her back.; she was pressed into service on the basis of my failure to find any nspiring parts from which to contrive a servitor-like thing to carry a suitable ammunition supply for such a large gun.
The rest of him is plastic Catachan, bitz box scraps, some small pieces of scrap plastic, a bit of green stuff to get Tamiya torso and GW arms to play nicely together and to give his slave a load of long lank unkempt hair, and kinda rudimentary 'let's not put bare plastic, lead, and lighter guts on the table' strength paint over the top of a black undercoat, that being where my painting competence runs out. They're just your basic GW paints, albeit of at least three different generations; there is paint that was about twenty years old before application on this mini. Maybe about two hours of work went into him all-in, and he was complete and painted the same day that the lighter's flame adjust ring/lever bit inspired the whole build.
One of these days I have to get around to adequately basing him, and at this point I am quickly praying that I've correctly gone about uploading the images via the attachment bit at the bottom of the post screen as failure to do so at the first attempt would be absolutely spot-on typical for my luck.
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