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I made a couple of these out of spare bits a while ago to see if sentry guns were any good. What do you think? Considering I threw them together in about 10 minutes

Yep, been thinking of doing the same thing lately.

Cool.

Nice idea, great alternative to shelling out money for Forgeworld stuff (Unless you have the money for it, to which I salute you)

That's actually really cool!

Nice job!

Cheers,

Jack.

I love the idea of sentry guns, and I have a couple from FW that have never seen tabletop use. Your scratchbuild looks pretty damn good and a far cry cheaper, TBH! I'm curious, though: why is there flock on top of the gun?

the_Armyman wrote:why is there flock on top of the gun?

It's camoflauge! TBH they were meant to look like pop-up guns at first but I thought the gun barrels were too long for that.

Ah, gotcha. I actually thought it might be a pop-up gun after I posted and looked at it again , but the dimensions didn't quite fit the base . Cool nonetheless!

Looks very cool. I own a couple of FW Tarantulas but if I would have thought of this I would have just done this. Very simple and effective. My suggestion would be to use a 60mm base. It would be more inline with the Tarantula's footprint and would be large enough to go with the idea of a pop-up sentry which is a really cool idea. I'll have to do a couple of these to beef up my gun-line for Apoc games.

Or even a chariot base? A full 'pop up' sentry gun would be cool - a great objective/marker even if it has no game effect. Something similar for Planetstrike games?

Ah that's neat! I've been thinking of what I could do instead of shelling out money for tarantulas for my Renegade list. I'm gonna steal some inspirations from this

iv done the same thing with a coupel of spare heavy bolters from my preditor kit it looks good

Edit: Ignore this.

Where did the picture go?