Cheaper Sabre Alternatives?

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**Tactical_Genius**

Just interested to hear if anyone has any cheaper ways of making IG/AM sabres without forking out the £22.50 per gun to forgeworld?
Lemme hear your tips/tricks/conversions/counts-as/whatevers

Cheers,
-TG

**Eldarain**

Space Marine Lascannon sponsons seem like a good jumping off point.

**Makumba**

Use heavy weapon teams with counts as .

**Tactical_Genius**

Eldarain wrote:
Space Marine Lascannon sponsons seem like a good jumping off point.

I was thinking of the sponsons from the LR Godhammer, especially as i'd like a new raider anyway.
Hmmm....
@Makumba I think that they're a little too different, and can be confusing given that the HWT are in the codex too. Was it a suggestion, or is that what you use? If the latter, what is the general response from the people you play with?

**McGibs**

With some styrene rods, pipes, and sheet, and a little elbow grease, you should be able to weld together a suitable weapon frame pretty easily. Its basically just a skeleton to hold some guns together. Then just magnatize some IG heavy weapons to it, and presto bango.

Puppetswar used to have these things, but I cant seem to find them on their site:

And you can make a base really easily with this platform bit from the bastion kit (the one with the support legs) and then mount whatever standard razorback-sized turret on top, such as the above puppetswar one:

http://hoardobits.com/cgi/hob/shop.pl?cat1=Bits&cat2=Warhammer%2040k&cat3=-40k%20Terrain&cat4=%3EImperial%20Bastion&page=&view=01282013-12-38

**Tactical_Genius**

Thanks, that's certainly an avenue I'll look down

I was considering the Quad gun things

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@McGibs - thanks for the puppetswar reference: I've found some excellent models there, with just a cursory glance at their website.