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Hey,

I want to expand my CSM army and add some of these weapon batteries to my army, but I can't find the appropriate model on FW's sites. I find the quad heavy bolter, the rapier laser destroyer and the gravitation gun, but there doesn't seem to be a weapon battery with a conversion beamer.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make one? Will the simplest be to get the gravitation beamer one and hope my opponent doesn't mind the count-as? Or do anyone know of any third party models that are similar enough to pass as a conversion beamer battery without being mistaken for something else?

Thanks

The only way I could think of, which is by no means cheap, is to use the heavy conversion beamer component usually fitted to contemptors as a replacement gun for the laser destroyer platform. Since the rapiers can take both weapon options I can see people being uncomfortable if your conversion beamers look like the laser destroyers, in the same way an all heavy bolter dev squad isnt a missile launcher dev squad.

Yeah, so I'm thinking about maybe getting the gravitation one, as it's not available to me anyways (I don't think it exists outside of 30k), unlike the Laser Destroyers.

I think Mantic makes some models that could work, but I am not really fond of their aesthetics and the lack the tracks etc., so I am not sure of how big they are in comparison.

Bits order the tracks from a taurox. They're awful in the vehicle but make great laser destroyer tracks. That's how I made mine for my steel legion.