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Hi all.

After pawning my executioner and punisher cannons for a painted forgeworld tank commander from a very experienced friend, i decieded that i would scratch build another. However, i only got round to it recently, and have no idea how to go about it. any suggestions anybody?

ps, i might get round to the executioner. Maybe. Or ill forgeworld it.

Before the GW Punisher came out, I was going to make one using plastic lolly sticks and a bit of plasticard.

I made my own.

I also scratch-built the turret to match it (but then, I'm using a Pig Iron Ironshield for my tank hulls, so that was necessary anyway).

7 lengths of 3mm Overall Diameter (O/D) tubing, a couple of pieces of 11mm O/D tubing (9mm internal diameter).

Glue two lengths of the 3mm either side of a third length.
Glue two lengths on top of these so that they nestle in the 'valleys', and two underneath the same way.

Slide (or push, it's a tight fit) a short length of the 11mm over the butt end (this will be mounted at the turret mantlet) and a small ring of the same size around the 'business' end.

Et voila, one big-a%% rotary cannon. Not really any larger overall than the normal LR main gun, and with some fiddling CAN fit into the normal turret arrangement.