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Hey everyone,

A quick question I was hoping to grab a hand with. I obviously want more of the frag cannons for my deathwatch but with the scarcity of the bit I have to look at converting it and given that I have very very little experience with it I just wanted a few opinions on how you would all do it?

I was thinking of taking a heavy Bolter, clipping off the existing barrel, adding a longer barrel of the same or slightly larger size using a little pipe, then finding tiny little pipe to add 4 of along the sides of the barrel. Would that be enough? Is there a simpler way to do it?

And help and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Qwerty

If you give it a few weeks I'd more or less guarantee one of the 3rd party bits people like kromlech or anvil coming up with something.

At the moment, to get the look right, you're probably looking at scratch building with plastic Ard.

Probably that is your best bet, your styrene idea. You can get more than enough to do your conversions in the cheap packs from Evergreen Scenics, just use some thin stock rod, and find a piece of tube that'll fit onto the heavy bolter frame with the space for the rod pieces to fit.

Here's how I would do it:

(I'll just put Brother Grytt here so you can see what I'm referring to)





I'd take the GK Psilencer as the base gun, cut off the tri-barrel and add a length of Plasticard tubing for the main barrel. Then I'd add a slightly larger diameter piece of tubing over the very end for the muzzle shroud (The black bit at the very tip of Grytt's cannon). Next, cut 4 smaller diameter plasticard rods and attach them around te barrel as the recoil dampeners. Finally, where the cables go into the Psilencer, cut them back a bit and fit an ammo box from the Devastator kit.

If you'd like, you could detail it a bit further by making the recoil dampeners out of plasticard tubes and fitting smaller plasticard rods inside to make it stepped - like a real piston. Also, you could make up a belt of frag rounds from your tubing and position them as though they are coming out of the box and into the Psilencer (You could also slide rods into really thin sections of tube to mimic the links that hold the rounds together)

So you could do this with:

A pack of assorted diameter Plasticard tubes and rods.
A Grey Knight Psilencer.
A Devastator Ammo Box.

Hope that helps.

You can get at least some of the parts you need from the BA furioso frag cannon arm if you can find it on ebay.

I have a feeling the BA one is going to be tooo big.

Honestly it seems really easy with plastic card tubes and rods.

The Heavy Bolters from the MkIV Tactical Squad would also work well as a base.

Qwerty2jam wrote:

I was thinking of taking a heavy Bolter, clipping off the existing barrel, adding a longer barrel of the same or slightly larger size using a little pipe, then finding tiny little pipe to add 4 of along the sides of the barrel. Would that be enough? Is there a simpler way to do it?

This would be pretty spot on, although I wouldn't remove the original barrel - just find a piece of tube the right size to form the sleeve on the muzzle end.