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Okay so I am making mad money now, so I want to make a nam style drop guard with loads of valkaries, vultures, and some lightnings for flavour. Now Im going to use the plastic guard, but I want to replace the lasgun with something that looks like a m-16, or at least a modernish gun. Does anyone have any idea where I can get something like that? I live in Canada, but im willing to ship it in.

Thanks for the help.

Drio KidKyoto a PM. He practically wrote the book on alternate weapons and figures for use in 40k.

I would sugest looking at this:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/range.php?range_id=39&subcat_id=17

Some pretty nifty stuff, including the "pulse rifle" mini.

ender502

Do you think guardsmen are more or less effective when armed with hockey sticks?

I'm glad people still remember this project. I have to get get back to it one of these days, before GW invalidates the IG codex.

http://www.pbase.com/kidkyoto/swat

I've been using 1/35 scale model weapons since at 2000 when I got back into GW. 1/35 is strictly speaking too large for 28mm but GW guns are so oversized the 1/35 stuff blends right in, heck it even looks puny next to a las gun.

Anyway what I used was Dragon Quartermaster Series weapons, boxes filled with M16, H&K or AK47 varients. You can get them from online or B&M model shops. There are also WWII sets out there from Tashima, Italiari and Dragon.

I used Catachans since Cadians have their left hand molded to the darn gun! But I hear with careful cutting or buying bits from the war store you can get enough left hands to do something like this with them.

I have Dragon's M16s if you want a picture of them.

The Assault Group also make 28mm 'chunky style' modern guns.

http://www.theassaultgroup.com/

IntoTheRain wrote:Do you think guardsmen are more or less effective when armed with hockey sticks?

Hmmmmm..... Hockey stick or flashlight? That's a tough one.

ender502

If money isn't an issue, and you're looking for drop troop IG with a more modern look, Forgeworld does a nice set of Elysian Drop Troops...

When I wanted to make a more modern-looking lasgun, I just shortened the regular down a bit, and added the grip + sight from a boltgun.


I guess another alternative might be to get the elysian weapon packs.. but you get a truly sad amount of lasguns per pack