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$10 each for the cases -brand new- wal-mart. {drove all over town trying to avoid that place -couldn't find a cheaper deal even building from scratch} DAMN YOU WAL-MART and your strangle-hold on cheap foreign petroleum products!

Shame they dont stock it in the uk.

That is a shame, just because you blokes don't have 'gun accessories' doesn't mean you couldn't use a nice padded-case. If Wal-mart got enough requests I'm sur they'd stock it in another section.
Otherwise here's the make & model:
--protector series plano model 1404--
you might be able to find it online -but then you gotta factor in shipping


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Can anyone tell me what the requirements are for conversions in tournament games? Are the conversions i posted here 'legal'??
If it's an issue of % of material used {as I think it is} keep in mind the base for the autocannon turret is one whole piece from a Leaman Russ.
-please help-

Old Imperial guardsman may recognize this bit- I thought I'd never use it but as it turns out, if you cut the little plastic tabs from the sides, it fits the new Razorback/Whirlwind turret perfectly!

Getting tiered and running out of pieces. More work tomorrow {maybe} -this is all I have so far on a stronos pattern razorback turret:

[wait, I thought I sat down to paint ]

Ok, this is as far as I got before I cut the bajesus out of my thumb -hope it was worth it -let me know what you think.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My magnets came in the mail and my thumb is all screwed-up. Quick, cut off my hand and replace it with a servo-arm!

My tech-marine breathes new-life into a recovered 'Stronos pattern' razorback turret!

Week five: Fun with magnets
I don't have a lot of weapons-bits so of course I wanted to magnetize as many as possible.

Go on hobbykingdom.com they have tiny magets 100 for like 5$ or somthin

I get all mine at K&J Magnetics, google em. They have just about any size you could ever want, and their prices are very reasonable.

wow, some of the conversions youve got on here are awesome smurfmaster. im loving the havy flamer you had made and also the autocannon plasma gun turret. subscribing. nice work

risewiththefallen wrote:Go on hobbykingdom.com they have tiny magets 100 for like 5$ or somthin

I checked, and I believe the site has been shut down- thanks though.

bigfish wrote:wow, some of the conversions youve got on here are awesome smurfmaster. im loving the havy flamer you had made and also the autocannon plasma gun turret. subscribing. nice work

Thanks! I thought you'd like the flamethrower, it turned out pretty 'orkish' I think. I'll post another picture -now that the nuts & bolts have been glued on.

BTW- is this too many pics for a project blog? -I've been saving the finished pics for my 'Army-profile.'

Great restorations so far! I love he clean, crisp look of your marines so far. Excellent use of bits by the way, where do you get your plasticard from? My little town has no such thing as 'hobby shops'

Nice find with the figure cases, I shall have to check my local wal-mart to see if they stock them!

nah its not too many. there helping to show the "work in progress" and i dont think anyone is cappable of interesting the veiwer with just text on a thsi type of project blog. and might look into the the flamer design

Commander Cain wrote:... where do you get your plasticard from? My little town has no such thing as 'hobby shops'

I have a local place I buy from when I don't have an order big enough to justify shipping -but otherwise:
http://www.evergreenscalemodels.com/
or in the UK
http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/2141_1.html



I got a few Serendipitous finds from the surplus-store and some plastic-rod -putting the restoration-cost total to $45- in order to build this:

:O..... it spins with daka daka goodness. AWESOME

In general I'm not a fan of Imperial Space Marines at all ( DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR! ) but I am a HUGE fan of 2nd Ed armies and I really enjoyed seeing your older stuff. Reminds me of playing at my FLGS back in the mid-late 90's. A friend of mine from back then played Ultramarines and seeing yours made me remember things I had forgotten.

Really enjoy the conversions / customizations you are doing as well. This is great stuff, subbed, will be back for more.!

Eww Smurfs.

With that out of the way, great work restoring stuff.

I love the conversion work.

The original plan was to work my way through painting squads, one week at time, saving the HQ for last and taking breaks from painting to work on conversions. However, my FLGS had a character free-for-all/painting competition that bumped Marneus A. Calgar up to 'TOP-PRIORITY'

your pictures are kinda messed up. not the model liturally the pics

BTW- Marneus took 1st place in the painting category -and a young Eldar-commander took 'best-performing' w/his Avatar -though, I gave him a run for his money in CC!
It was much better to see the look on his face -after he beat me in a 'Mortal-Combat' style Fight on top of a piece of tower-terrain- than to win both categories.

bigfish wrote:your pictures are kinda messed up. not the model liturally the pics

Yeah -I only have one more picture of Marneus, the rest, I accidentally deleted. -I'll try to take some pristine shots when I do my 'Army-Profile'- for now it seems like too much for one model.

Thanks for the post...I play ultramarines and (until seeing your post) had a much more difficult (and less clean looking) method of creating the inverted Omega for the Ultramarines Logo on things.

Your method is very simple and looks great - will certainly use it in the future.

Cheers.

Yay! The original Marneus Calgar! Looking forward to seeing more pics of him. I always loved that model, even when it was force-feeding a Power Fist to my Bad Moon Nobz.

Ahh, 2nd Ed. I miss it.

The original was a RT mini.

Miss Dee wrote:The original was a RT mini.

I wasn't counting that one because I doubt anyone ever dragged one of those across a game table, but you are right and I stand properly corrected.

lead calgar, talk about heavy hitters. (someone had to do it)

This is not quite done but its coming along nicely -I still need to ad nuts, bolts, purity-seals, ect.

I also changed the design to include another servo -for more Dakka-power!

"This was made freehand without taking any measurements."
so not only is this awesome but it was done without measuring.... that is just genius.

As I've mentioned before, I don't have a lot of money to spend on this army-restoration [I believe I'm still at $45] so I wanted to find a cheap way to make some molds.
I used this epoxy and made a few purity-seals already, now I want to try something a little more complicated.