Modelling: Garage sale plasma gun.

[Dog_Soldier]

Well I needed some more plasma guns for my Chaos army. My bitz box was running low on them, but I had plenty of plasma pistols and bolters. I remember seeing a tutorial here or some other place on making plasma guns from bolters and plasma pistols. However Searchy failed me, the tutorial I found wasn't quite what I was looking for. So I tired making one and it was really easy, went to make another and though hey why not make a tutorial of my own.

 

Here it is my first tutorial with pics.

 

Tools Needed

Xacto/hobby knife

a file (I use a nail file)

super glue

blue/poster tack

 

Bitz Needed

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/Dog_Soldier/garage%20plasma/001.jpg

 

My first plasma gun is at the top of the pic.

 

1. Start by cuting the plasma pistol and bolter apart.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/Dog_Soldier/garage%20plasma/002.jpg

 

I use burte force when cutting through parts. I find it easier to put some blue tac on the other side from where I'm cutting. So when I cut through the two parts don't go flying across my work area.

 

2. Sand the parts so they glue together flat. Those of you who are better at cutting stuff apart might not need this step.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/Dog_Soldier/garage%20plasma/003.jpg

 

3. Glue the parts together.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/Dog_Soldier/garage%20plasma/004.jpg

 

4. That's it. I still need to fill the gaps with some green stuff. Here is the plasma gun with one of the older plastic chaos plasma guns.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/Dog_Soldier/garage%20plasma/005.jpg

 

And a marine holding the plasma gun.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/Dog_Soldier/garage%20plasma/006.jpg

 

That's it except for the gap filling. It took me as long to make this tutorial as it did to make a plasma gun.

[Nebulushoax]

Those plasmaguns are looking the part! Have a ton of plasma pistols myself, gonna have a go at this one!

[1reeper]

Oh my god!

 

I did this exact same thing except with loyalist bolter over the summer.

 

Great minds think alike I suppose.

[medusa_ritchie]

Now i know where my chosen squad's 4th plasma gun is coming from ^_^ Nice tutorial simple and effective.

 

Medusa

[Sigismund Himself]

Can we articilise this for the Librarium, Dog_soldier?

[BrotherDamascus]

I love this! what a cheap, effective way to make lots o' plasmaguns ;D ... always a good thing!

 

i would defintaly recommend uploading this to the librarium - everyone in the world deserves to see this tut!

 

if you excuse me, sir, i have plasmaguns to make :P

 

<<Damascus>>

[Dog_Soldier]

Can we articilise this for the Librarium, Dog_soldier?

 

Sure, Like I said I thought there was a tutorial like this here already. That's why I made the tutorial so everyone can use it. So go ahead and add it to the Librarium.

[Pinky Narfanet]

Very nicely done! That's one of the things I love about this hobby: you never know who's going to come up with a killer (and simple!) idea like this.

 

Great stuff. Hopefully you'll post a pic of a finished (GSed and painted) version. I'd be especially interested to see a side-by-side of finished models.

[Sigismund Himself]

Thanks Dog_Soldier. Now it gets...

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[Gresiloth]

Thanks a lot Dog_Soldier, good method! Here's my attempt for my Plague Marine squad:

 

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/ashbeyj/All%20Shall%20Rot/plasmagun.jpg

 

Only mistake is that I cut off the whole handle on the Plasma Pistol (oops!), so I'm going to have to GS slightly when it comes to glueing it to a marine.

[stayscrunchyinmilk]

I have been working on a undead imperial guard army (Old tomb kings style skeletons / zombie sprue mixed with mostly cadian torso's and spare helmets etc)

I had the problem of plasma guns - i was able to scrounge 3 chaos ones, as standard marine one's are just too big (CSM look good enough if posed correctly, as they are smaller and have iconography)

I was wondering what to do, as anyone playing guard knows you want about 10+ squads, mostly with plasma's.

This is genius. and the handle's slightly smaller, and what's more after a 6,500 point DA company i have fistfuls of plasma pistols (3x total used in entire full company) and lone bolt pistols knocking about.

Sweet. Now i just need yo work out a shoulder mounted autocannon on old mini's without trying to source 1987 G/S hybrid sprues. (A pain.)

Thankyou sir, for your services to kit bashing.