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Hi folks, just looking for your thoughts on my medusa conversion.

Any opinions, tips, recommendations?

I've got two more to build and your thoughts are sought.

Thanks

That looks really good. I even like the track guards at the rear where they protect the crew on the open deck rather than providing ballistic protection to the tracks at the front. A nice touch. Good luck with the others.

Would have no problems with it here, has that "compensating for something" look a super heavy gun should have combined with the Imperial "total lack of recoil space" feel.

Always amazed GW didn't do an upgrade sprue for that kit to cover the other two versions given its only the gun barrel thats different.

Gets my vote as suitable

Flinty wrote:That looks really good. I even like the track guards at the rear where they protect the crew on the open deck rather than providing ballistic protection to the tracks at the front. A nice touch. Good luck with the others.

Thanks. And yeah, crew protection was what I was going for.

leopard wrote:

Always amazed GW didn't do an upgrade sprue for that kit to cover the other two versions given its only the gun barrel thats different.

Yeah, I thought that too. For a little while before the IG release, the new tank rumour was that it was to be a basilisk/medusa dual kit, so I was holding off til after the release to see if it was true. Turns out they dropped the thing from the codex altogether. Oh well, forgeworld rules to the rescue.

Great stuff, simple but effective.

Brilliant - I love it!#
Any chance for a tutorial (or, even better, make 3 for me in exchange for cash??)

I'll try take some photos of the steps as I build the next one.

Ok, I've had a go at a quick tutorial. It's not the best, but I thought I'd try it out. Hopefully someone might find it useful or get some ideas from it. Here we go...

The gun shield. A few simple cuts to turn it from this...


to this....


I've glued a thin piece of plasticard to the back of it, behind the lower earthshaker cannon cut-out. I'll then fill the hole with green stuff to turn it into a more solid piece. I'll then cut a very slight curve in the top of the recently filled section to leave something like this....

(a bit of filing/cleaning is still required here)
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Now the earthshaker cannon.

Take your standard earthshaker cannon....


And cut it thus.....


The bit circled also needs removing and filing/shaping a bit....


So that it all goes together like this.....

(again a bit of green stuff/ liquid gs filing and cleaning required. I wasn't as careful with my sawing as I should have been.)
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The siege gun.

Hit up B&Q. You're looking for these....


and these...


These pipe inserts probably required the most alterations. You'll see that the wider end has a kind of rounded chamfer. I wanted more of a squared off flange kinda thing. If I could have found ones without the rounded chamfer I would've got them.

In the end I used a bit of green stuff and a wrap of thin plasticard to square the ends off. Again, if you can find already square ended ones, it'd save a bit of work.

So I ended up with this....

(I've also glued on little bits of 0.8mm hex plastic rod, to look like nuts.....hopefully)

Then take the reducer piece, dismantle it, and cut it across the red line....


Then put the bits together. The sawn off narrow end of the reducer fits nicely into the pipe insert. The fat end of the reducer which screws off (there was also a little push-fit mechanism inside here that needed to come out) glues onto the back of the newly built up pipe insert to give you this.....


Then you put the two bits together.....

(You'll need to bore out the end of the pipe fitting here, or file down the end of what's left of the earthshaker cannon. Just a little bit.)

And now I have two.....



They aren't finished yet, but you get the idea.

Hopefully you guys find this useful.

Thanks

Alan

Great tutorial Alan.
You should copy that reply & put it in the tutorial section as well.
Thanks!

Thanks bubber, I shall.

If you try your own medusas, be sure to let me see them.


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Someone's gonna be manning the heavy stubber in the third medusa.

He's just gonna have to watch he doesn't get a donk on the head if they lower that cannon.




Been quite a fun, productive day today.