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What about the Ion Cannon from the Hammerhead kit?

based on one of my own failed projects, it fits quite nice on a DK arm

Given the theme of your army.... a giant purple-LED'd dildo? That flops?

 SisterSydney wrote:
Given the theme of your army.... a giant purple-LED'd dildo? That flops?

Please, It would be rigid and pulsing, you did get the purple LED part right though.

…

I think I need to take a break from this thread. I don’t normally say the [NSFW] things in my outside voice...

The floppier, the funnier. Link that is almost completely safe for work I swear.

A single Sentinel Plasma cannon won't be big enough. Two might work, but eh... it's just two tiny guns. I'd try other Leman Russ guns - Vanquisher and Executioner are what I'd recommend.


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Oh, and keep the missile pods

There aren't enough dildos in this army. That is a fact.

I wish I had any of the guns you guys have listed. Closest thing I have is a SM Hunter sky spear launcher.

And you're wondering what to stick on that arm? Why not try it out? Or is it just way too massive?

Also, how'd you get that? Just a basic bitz trade? Because I'd figure you'd also have access to the gatling cannons from that kit if you'd bought the whole thing...

Anvildude wrote:
And you're wondering what to stick on that arm? Why not try it out? Or is it just way too massive?

Also, how'd you get that? Just a basic bitz trade? Because I'd figure you'd also have access to the gatling cannons from that kit if you'd bought the whole thing...

Look closely at the receivers on those arm cannons. Those are the bodies of the gatling cannons. As you can see, they were too small to stand on their own and needed to have a bigger barrel put on them. I haven't tried out the Skyspear launcher because work has kept me shackled to my desk (VIP in town for a couple days and we have to keep up appearances of actually doing a job).


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I'm having an odd reaction to the whole notion of Unbound armies. On the one hand, spamming is stupid. On the other hand, I freaking LOVE building crazy big robots, and I have more than I could field in any normal list.

Go for the crazy stupid robot builds then XD

Don't you have the ion cannon?

I put two ion cannons on the Mad Cat broadside. I am now out of ion cannons. I have the bits from the new Riptide kit I've been fiddling with, but I think I'm gonna need those guns for that build.

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend Riptide guns for this. Too big, same with the Ion cannon I think.

The cannon will work if nothing else, but it's just a tad... meh, all things considered. I mean, a massive plasma cannon or super long cannon would be perfect, but the Battle cannon does work.

do you have the Railcannon from the Broadside?

that might work

You know, it just might. I'd have to double it up and then figure out how to mount it. Hmm...have to figure it out.


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Turns out that I am fresh out of railguns. I've used chunks of those guns in a lot of miscellaneous builds and it seems I left myself high and dry. You know what surprisingly never works? The pulse submunition guns from O'ralai. I have 3 of them somehow and they look totally wrong on everything.

 bossfearless wrote:
I am fresh out of railguns.

Customer: Now then, some weapons, please, my good man.

Owner: (lustily) Certainly, sir. What would you like?

Customer: Well, eh, how about a railgun?

Owner: I'm, afraid we're fresh out of railguns, sir.

Customer: Oh, never mind, how are you on burst cannons?

Owner: I'm afraid we never have that at the end of the week, sir, we get them fresh on Monday.

Customer: Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout yeoman, four fusion blasters, if you please.

Owner: Ah! It's beeeen on order, sir, for two weeks. Was expecting it this morning.

Customer: 'T's Not my lucky day, is it? Aah, Rail Rifles?

Owner: Sorry, sir.

Customer: Heavy Rail Riflesr?

Owner: Normally, sir, yes. Today the van broke down.

Customer: Ah. High-yield missile pod?

Owner: Sorry.

Customer: Kroot Gun? Kroot Rifle?

Owner: No.

Customer: Any Heavy Burst Cannons, per chance.

Owner: No.

Customer: Neutron blaster?

Owner: No.

Customer: Plasma rifle?

Owner: No.

Customer: Equaliser?

Owner: No.

Customer: Honour blade?

Owner: No.

Customer: Quad ion turret?

Owner: (pause) No.

Customer: Seeker missile?

Owner: No.

Customer: Pulse bomb? Pulse pistol? Pulse carbine? Pulse rifle? Longshot pulse rifle?

Owner: No.

Customer: Cyclic ion blaster, perhaps?

Owner: Ah! We have a cyclic ion blaster, yessir.

Customer: (suprised) You do! Excellent.

Owner: Yessir. It's..ah,.....it's a bit overcharged...

Customer: Oh, I like it overcharged.

Owner: Well,.. It's very overcharged, actually, sir.

Customer: No matter. Fetch hither the rare prototype which may only be taking once per detachment! Mmmwah!

Owner: I...think it's a bit more overcharged than you'll like it, sir.

Customer: I don't care how fething overcharged it is. Hand it over with all speed.

Owner: Oooooooooohhh........! (pause)

Customer: What now?

Owner: The Tyranid's eaten it.

Customer: (pause) Has he.

Owner: She, sir.

Customer: (pause) Autocannon?

Owner: No.

Customer: Autogun?

Owner: No.

Customer: Autopistol?

Owner: No.

Customer: Hot-shot volley gun?

Owner: No.

Customer: Punisher gatling cannon?

Owner: No, sir.

Customer: You...do *have* some weapons, don't you?

Owner: (brightly) Of course, sir. It's a weapons shop, sir. We've got--

Customer: No no... don't tell me. I'm keen to guess.

Owner: Fair enough.

Customer: Uuuuuh, airbursting frag projector.

Owner: Yes?

Customer: Ah, well, I'll have some of that!

Owner: Oh! I thought you were talking to me, sir. Airbursting Frag Projector Junior, that's my name.

Customer: (pause) Flamer?

Owner: Uh, not as such.

Customer: Uuh, Meltagun?

Owner: No.

Customer: Multi-melta,

Owner: No.

Customer: Chem cannon,

Owner: No.

Customer: Inferno gun.

Owner: No.

Customer: Twin-linked turbolaser destructor,

Owner: No.

Customer: Close combat weapon.

Owner: No.

Customer: Icarus stormcannon array?

Owner: Not *today*, sir, no.

Customer: (pause) Aah, how about lasguns?

Owner: Well, we don't get much call for them around here, sir.

Customer: Not much ca-- it's the single most popular weapon in the Imperium!

Owner: Not 'round here, sir.

Customer: (slight pause) and what IS the most popular weapon 'round hyah?

Owner: Rad grenade, sir.

Customer: IS it.

Owner: Oh, yes, it's staggeringly popular in this sector, squire.

Customer: Is it.

Owner: It's our number one best seller, sir!

Customer: I see. Uuh...rad grenades, eh?

Owner: Right, sir.

Customer: All right. Okay. 'Have you got any?' he asked, expecting the answer 'no'.

Owner: I'll have a look, sir........nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.

Customer: It's not much of a weapon shop, is it?

Owner: Finest in the district!

Customer: (annoyed) Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.

Owner: Well, it's so clean, sir!

Customer: It's certainly uncontaminated by weaponry....

Owner: (brightly) You haven't asked me about Deathstrike missiles, sir.

Customer: Would it be worth it?

Owner: Could be....

Customer: (slowly) Have you got any Deathstrike missiles?

Owner: No.

Customer: Figures.Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place. Tell me:

Owner: Yessir?

Customer: (deliberately) Have you in fact got any weapons here at all.

Owner: Yes, sir.

Customer: Really?

(pause)

Owner: No. Not really, sir.

Customer: You haven't.

Owner: Nosir. Not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.

Customer: Well I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you for heresy.

Owner: Right-Oh, sir.

(The customer takes out a bolt pistol and shoots the owner)

Customer: What a *senseless* waste of human life.

That was worth every moment it took to read.

Sydney, for that submission you are awarded +25 Internets and a fancy hat with tassels. You'll be the envy of all the jaegermonsters henceforth.


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Okay, so I looked a bit deeper into my work backlog and I came across a Forgefiend that I was supposed to light up for my bro out here, which has been simmering on the back burner because feth it that's why. I looked in there and I found the hades autocannons that he didn't even want to use, and I start fiddling with them. I bit the bullet and cut new barrels out of plastic tubing to replace the cool but incompatible skull barrels, and then covered the receiver up with space marine armor plating. Here's how it came out next to the original chain gun:


And here it is attached:



And last but not least, LET THERE BE LIGHT:


And since I snatched a bunch of the parts, I decided to finally start working on the fiend. It came partially pre-assembled in a manner I did not approve of, so i snapped and chopped it and now it's got dreadnaught feetsies and it'll be cooler when it's all said and done:



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The whole time I was building that big suit, I found myself wishing that I had a Knight titan I could compare it to. It makes the dreadknight base looks small by comparison, and unlike GW's knight, this thing looks like it could actually move under its own power.

, so i snapped and chopped it and now it's got dreadnaught feetsies....

FOOLISH MORTAL. THE DARK FORCES OF CHAOS DO NOT HAVE 'FEETSIES.'

FOOTY PAJAMAS WITH THE FLAP IN THE BACK, THOUGH, WE TOT ALLY HAVE THOSE. THOSE ARE SO FETHING COMFY.


PS: Thanks for the hat.

There's just something I dislike about perpendicular weapons on dangling mech arms- It's like, if you're going to have a hard-mount, why not just put the guns directly on the shoulder joint? Why the extra bits that are just more points of potential failure?

I mean, Madcat, sure- but even then, the arms flowed directly into the weapon mounts from the back, not the top. Could you try that sort of setup?

Or, potentially stick some hands on there, and have it holding the guns all underslung.

 bossfearless wrote:
Sydney, for that submission you are awarded +25 Internets and a fancy hat with tassels. You'll be the envy of all the jaegermonsters henceforth.

I 40K'd the Alec Baldwin scene from Glenngarry Glen Ross too.

Anvildude wrote:
There's just something I dislike about perpendicular weapons on dangling mech arms- It's like, if you're going to have a hard-mount, why not just put the guns directly on the shoulder joint? Why the extra bits that are just more points of potential failure?

I mean, Madcat, sure- but even then, the arms flowed directly into the weapon mounts from the back, not the top. Could you try that sort of setup?

Or, potentially stick some hands on there, and have it holding the guns all underslung.

It's a little bit way to late for that. I mean, all the parts are glued. On like five different points. And the arms would have to be chopped up and reposed in order to make them bent for underslung weapons (otherwise the guns will be pointed straight at the ground). And the mounts I built are so thoroughly glued into the wrists that if I remove them it will destroy the whole wrist and forearm. I get where you're coming from, and you've seen that I normally go for that design, but this was where I wanted the project to go pretty much from the get go.

I'll level with ya Boss, I preferred the original chaingun.

But the new ones are still pretty damn awesome. I'm not sure there's enough gold in this thread though... gold stuff's pretty baller

I getcha. Just putting that out as personal preference- and honestly, the perpendicular mounting fits the shape of this guy a little better anyways- This suit's all about the odd projections from the center of mass.

 liquidjoshi wrote:
I'll level with ya Boss, I preferred the original chaingun.

But the new ones are still pretty damn awesome. I'm not sure there's enough gold in this thread though... gold stuff's pretty baller

I preferred the original's perforated muzzle as well. It was hella dope. But, since I lacked a second one I had to find a compromise. I feel like the suit still needs a little something, a certain panache added in somewhere.

I'm wondering if it's the tops of the legs. They seem a bit flat... maybe that's it?

Definitely looks sweet with the missile pods though.

Could you possibly continue the 'theme' of the shoulders down onto the legs? Maybe that could help. Make it even more Anime and smooth-mech.

Anvildude wrote:
Could you possibly continue the 'theme' of the shoulders down onto the legs? Maybe that could help. Make it even more Anime and smooth-mech.

I wish I had more riptide leg armor to use, but I'm fresh out. And I'm not sure they would actually fit in the space available. That's assuming that the chimera track guards could be pulled off without completely destroying the legs. Quite a gamble. If I had any more plates I'd definitely give it a look, since I think that would actually look pretty sweet.

Freakin' ridiculous.

Thus, I love it.

This gak is crazy good I love it

Been away for a while but progress is looking good!

And Sydney... That post back there was glorious!

Thanks. There's a whole thread full of that type of stuff.