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Here is my completed defenc(s)e laser that I'll be using in our next apoc game. It was fairly easy to make and paint, I did it in a day. Most of it is plastic plumbing parts from the hardware store and the upper platform is from my old GI joe base I had as a kid + various cities of death bits

I kept the base flat because I care about pure playability, not having it be excessively flashy .. If models cant position or get knocked over I consider it annoying

That's pretty nice!

What's the main barrel made of?

Phazer

Thanks.. I used a pipe piece that had nozzle attached to the bottom portion which made it look like a gun .. Then i used a turret from the shadow sword box and some wiring

looks really cool. well painted too. Looks like a giant version of a sm rokect launcher

Thats pretty nice, and it looks simple enough to make too!

Thanks for sharing your coolness. You've made me jealous cos all my scenery is still unpainted and not as cool as yours. But if I'm encouraged to make some cool scenery then you've done the right thing!

keep it going!

Very nice! I would love to see than on our Apoc tables. Keep up the good work!



Ghidorah

Cool idea ...

Just one more to add to my "To Do" list ....
<< sigh >>

Thats great looks like something from a Bond film " No Herr Reaver we expect you to die Bwahahaha".

I like that yours really looks imperial. A problem I've had with mine is that I set it in a mountain, as such it somewhat lacks any particular theme. Any recommendation? (you can see more photos in my gallery).

Kirasu, I've looked at this a few times today. I liked it and I still like it.

I have two tiny problems:

1)The ground floor could do with a couple of flat sheets just to give it texture. (Shouldn't affect gameplay at all.)

2)Paint scheme. I don't think it needs the red 'warning' barrel. Who would get in the way of that??????

I like it but I feel like the gun needs to be higher and as well have some sort of large capacitors or something, that provide the charge for the large gun.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:I like it but I feel like the gun needs to be higher and as well have some sort of large capacitors or something, that provide the charge for the large gun.

Bass Guitar strings are your friends!

Thanks for the ideas about the guitar wirings.. yeah the base will be finished when I do all the bases for my apoc terrain.

Im just waiting on when I do the actual table

As for ideas.. buy old school 1980s GI joe bases :p Thats what the upper platform is then add some cities of death bits

Plastic plumping fixtures are really good too.. Those are what i used for the base

Cant help with foam sculpting as Im not a real good sculptor I mostly just find stuff and put it together

That truly is a superb conversion.

Although I think the orks would look better with it

nicely done

I think it looks perfect as is, and would be perfectly happy using a similar piece in any apocalypse game I played in.

But if you needed to more with it I think all you really need is the right piece stryofoam to mount it on. slap a couple of ladders/steps up to your platform with some guardrails and it would address your "height" issues. Anything that can fire into the atmosphere does not need to be mounted any higher and if it is mounted on the "ground" any powersource could exist under it withou needing any sort of modeling and in fact would more than likely be kept somewhat separate from the weapon anyhow.