Leman Russ Punisher conversion help.

[jonzey]

I'm an IG player, but I have a Vostroyan army. Keeping the vostroyan theme in mind I've decided to figure out some ways to make my Leman Russes' turrets "aged".



The 1st idea I had; use an empire great cannon as a LRBT turret.



Now, I'm trying to figure out if I can make an Empire Helblaster Volley Gun and use that as the Punisher turret.



I don't want to simply mount the Volley Gun onto the LR turret as they just looks a little silly, and I want it to looks nice.



Any ideas?



-Jonzey

[BG. Foster]

I think it might look a little silly.

[jonzey]

The only way I can think of to make it look not look incredibly silly is to build a custom turret for it.

[emptyhat]

Isn't the Punisher cannon already an antique in looks?

[RedCuffs]

I think the real trick in getting the right effect will not be so much in the build but in the paint job.

[commissarbob]

Check out the turret I made for one of mine. The bulk of it is made from the base from the quad gun in the aegis defense line:









As you can see here I used the mortar barrel for a Demolisher cannon barrel. It would fit just as well with the cannon barrel for the standard Leman Russ, extend it for a Vanquisher. If you use the hellblaster volley gun for a punisher you may find it too large unless you trim a barrel off each section and bring them all closer together to give it 6 barrels rather than 9.

[RedCuffs]

I immediately thought of the Soveit KV II

[hendrik]

the standard gun actually ressembles the ancient gatling gun quite a bit. however, to make it fit more with the older style gatling gun i would recoomend cutting off the original gun, and replace it with some thin plasticard tubing bundled together. use thin slices of a larger tube to hold it all together so it looks like something like this:


and here's a picture of how did it on my dreadknight. to get an even more antique look you might want to use even thinner tubes (also resembles the smaller calibre rounds better)