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So the deal is, I'm thinking of getting some razorbacks because I allways liked the idea but never found them too useful before combat squads were around, now I absolutely love them, but I really want to make them so that the weapons are manned by a marine popping through a hatch on the top of the tank instead of the normal setup. I did some poking around and found the Forgeworld Immolator conversion kit.



It looks an awful lot like the sort of thing I am after (Turret mounted further forward, small shield, and the weapons with someone manning it) but I get the feeling that sister of battle sitting in it is probably part of the cast. Which leads to my first question, does anyone have any experience with this kit, because I tried contacting forgeworld without much luck. I'm just wondering how easy / impossible it would be to get a space marine in that hatch.

Then I considered the official GW immolator (who ever thought sisters could be so useful ) but the turret on it feels more extravagant and large in allmost ever dimension than I was planning.



So I would need to pull apart the front of it and scratch build my own front plate for it in which case I would probably be better off trying to scratch build the whole thing from a standard rhino hatch as my base point instead of buy anything.

So if anyone can help me with my question about the forgeworld kit, or has some idea how I could achieve this I would love to hear from them. I'm not opposed to scratch building the thing but I've just never attempted it before so I'm sure I would get plenty of turrets I wouldn't be willing to put on my tanks before I get something acceptable, so a starting point for this effort would be very nice.

You need:
- Space marine crewman parts.
- Two identical weapons
- Bottle tops or plumbing connectors to fit.

Yo do:
-Add crewman to circular bits.
-Glue guns to either side with a bit of plasticard and greenstuff as needed.
-Add to Rhino chassis.

Maybe looking for the Old style Razor back Turrent? It had a crewman behind a blast shield. Here's a quick one I found through Google.

http://kofler.dot.at/40k/units/Ultramarine_Razorback.gif

wow i havnt seen that tank in a long ass time lol. i actually still have the cannon barrel and the twin linked plasma rifles peice

KingCracker wrote:wow i havnt seen that tank in a long ass time lol. i actually still have the cannon barrel and the twin linked plasma rifles peice

yeah, it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the post. I think I have the entire Las Cannon turrent somewhere myself...will have to dig through stuff to be sure. :p

and remember.. with the new SM Codex.. those TL Plasma weapons are once again legal and useable!

-P