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Hello! I have always thought that the stockless bolter looked a little off. My Dark Imperium pre-order is in and I love the look of the Primaris marines, but those elongated bolters would look so much better with a butt stock. Even a little stubby one like the Primaris plasma guns have would be an improvement.

Any ideas of a bit or an easy way to craft something up to stick on there? From what I can see, the models leave plenty of room for it. I don't think it would be too hard to make something out of plasticard. What do you guys think?

Find a cheap 3rd party resin rifle and use their stocks?

Doomface81 wrote:
Hello! I have always thought that the stockless bolter looked a little off. My Dark Imperium pre-order is in and I love the look of the Primaris marines, but those elongated bolters would look so much better with a butt stock. Even a little stubby one like the Primaris plasma guns have would be an improvement.

Any ideas of a bit or an easy way to craft something up to stick on there? From what I can see, the models leave plenty of room for it. I don't think it would be too hard to make something out of plasticard. What do you guys think?

Buttstocks are obselete ons Bolters as the power armour and strength of a space marine or Primaris is quite capable of handling recoil. Also, the odd shape of the armours pauldron would make it difficult to actually use a stock.

Back in the day (2nd ed days), bolters DID actually have stocks.
It was just another bit you had to remove if you wanted them to hold the weapon. They also had removable pistol grips. You could leave both on, if you were using alternate weapons (or wanted it slung).

That said, the main reason weapons have them today is to assist with the amelioration of recoil. Something power armour does better than a stock, anyway.