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Hey all, I'm on the hunt for anyone who makes the powerpacks / magazines for lasguns and the same for boltguns. I have tried a few times to make these but the results are varied and just too time consuming for me...

Had a look across the bitz sites but doesn't seem to be any from GW. And yeah, I know I could just cut them off the guns but they'd still need a portion added to them to reflect the part that fits in the weapon, plus I don't want to have to buy a load of guns and then butcher them just for this.

If anyone has come across a company that produces these let me know...

Thanks,
R

Zinge makes boltgun magazines.. nice flexible ammo belts.. I suspect he might have lasgun power packs too..

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/349840.page

@ porkuslime; Cheers for the suggestion, had a look but only does the add on ones and are all round ammo drums rather than the type GW models have. I do like his fans, grills and vents though, can think of multiple uses for these...

To clarify what I'm looking for, it's loose powerpacks / magazines that I can add to dioramas and figure bases - to look like new or used ones lying around...

make a pressmoulded GS copy... for that purpose i highly doubt you could find anyone that does these...and as you use it to make the base more scenic you could go cheap on materials like plaster and such stuff...

the only other option would be...either scratchbuilt them from plasticcard or chop´em off every lasgun you could spare...

Forgeworld do spare lasgun packs as part of the lasgun sprue of the Krieg squads firing. However, it's far easier to simply make one yourself, if you take a piece of piece of card or plasticard, cut it in the shape of a small rectangle then layer another smaller rectangular shape on top of it and score it, you instantly have a lasgun powerpack for far cheaper than any bitz site will sell it for.

Make a press mould of it like Vic suggests and you suddenly have a source of cheap lasgun packs.

Lucius, Mars, Kantrael, those sort of places. They might be hesitant supplying to civilians though.

In all seriousness though, I agree with what people above me have said; either scratchbuild + pressmold them, or chop them off a lasgun/bolter, extend them a little with plasticard and gs, and then pressmold.

Lucius, Mars, Kantrael, those sort of places. They might be hesitant supplying to civilians though.

LOL.... nice one...

Cheers folks, looks like I need to be less lazy and make them - plasticard is my prefered way forward, I did make some greenstuff lasgun packs a while back but never really happy with them. I'll let you know how I get on :-)

And @TiB - who says i'm a civilian ?? LOL

@Ruglud: your avatar clearly does not possess the minimum level of grimdarkness required for arms shipments from an imperial forge world .

That's Grand Inquisitor Little Ted, studying the Teddy Astartes - a well known and mighty tome of Imperial lore... ;-)