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So I want to make a Techmarine with a conversion beamer, but I have no idea what it looks like. Has anyone attempted to model this? what did you base it off of. Any images or ideas are welcome because I am stumped.

Here you are:



The blue thing.

wow... thats... Blue

but seriously, Awesome. I was thinking something attached to a gauntlet, but your rendition is giving me new ideas.

Well im doin a kitbash of the heavy flamer from my Land Speeder, the Thunderfire Cannon techmarine, a bolter, a regular flamer, what looks like copper wiring, and lastly anything thats in the bits box along with green stuff

Captain Idaeus wrote:wow... thats... Blue

It's from the old Space Crusade boardgame. The marines were red, blue and yellow.

There were a couple of other plastic versions... One from an old Chaos set and one from (IIRC) the Space Crusade dreadnought. They all look more or less the same... just not as blue.

I have space crusade but i didn't have that.
Or was that from the expansionss to it?

Yeah, I have a pile of the old Space Crusade bits - the dread version is much the same but bigger.

The detail isn't nearly as crisp as modern plastics, naturally, but the conversion beamer is one of the better weapon models from that era.

You can make up your own version that looks quite different of course - fluffwise, such rare weapons are quite possibly individually handbuilt by/for each techmarine. Being the size of a heavy weapon seems right to me, but I guess it could be built-in to one of the limbs of a tech backpack?

VikingScott wrote:I have space crusade but i didn't have that.
Or was that from the expansionss to it?

It was in the expansion pack. You got 2 additional chaos dreadnoughts (a scout with long legs and a heavy with 4 weapon hardpoints), 3 TL-LC tarantulas and new heavy weapons for the marines. "Mission Dreadnought" I think the name was.

Clang wrote:
You can make up your own version that looks quite different of course - fluffwise, such rare weapons are quite possibly individually handbuilt by/for each techmarine. Being the size of a heavy weapon seems right to me, but I guess it could be built-in to one of the limbs of a tech backpack?

Actually you lose the servo-harness and the bolter when you take the C-beamer. I have one based on the exhaust part of a SM jump pack. It's built around a Btech weapon arm with a Terminator shoulder. I have cables made of tightly twisted fine wire running from a custom back back. Of course it is on a Squat Exo Armor model. Sorry, no pics, All I have is a small instamatic style digi cam that takes lousy closeups.

There was a space hulk addon that had genestealer hybrids carrying them too, i seem to recall them being shoulder mounted heavy weapons.,

Just make it look big and techy. There aren't too many restrictions on how it should look since they haven't made models for them since the aforementioned Space Crusade. I have an old Rapier Laser Destroyer that I may use as mine!

Is there a foregrip or something on the other side of that Blue Cannon? Or is it supposed to be one-handed? If so, yeek!

No, the marine's other hand is behind it.

It also depends on the model I think the chaos one had the hand holding the underside with the fingers visible but I could be wrong

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