Modelling: converting combi-meltas

[greatcrusade08]

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This article was written by Mal, who has been an active member of the B&C for some time, he is quite an avid gamer, collecting many different armies from daemonhunters, witchunters, orks, marines and many more

This guide is a simple way to make combi-meltas from spare weapons readily available in any space marine bits box, for this example the conversion was done for scouts, but the same principle can be applied to any boltgun.

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Take a bolter and sniper rifle (since im making this for a scout, i've used a scout boltgun, but a tac boltgun will work exactly the same way).


Cut the end of the gun flat, removing the barrel and that other odd little nobbly bit. Now carefully slice around the hand grip, since we want to keep the hand attached (for the scout version) and the grip intact (both both versions) this is a bit delicate and you'll need a very sharp and fine blade for this job.


Once thats done cut a couple of thin sheets of plasticard to fit in the gap between the grip and the boltgun to extend the end face of the gun making room for 2 barrels.

I've used some green stuff to fill any gaps and smooth out the transition a little.


Now take the sniper rifle and cut the barrel off leaving a short part of the thinner part of the barrel and a little under half of the barrel end. Shave down those bits that stick out of the side of the larger barrel end where the 2 parts meet and carefully drill holes into the barrel as shown.


On the face of the sniper rifle there is an odd piece that sticks out at an angle, I have removed this and attached it to the top of the boltgun (after flattening the top out enough to make room for it), this will serve as a single use fuel cell.

Attach the barrels and your done.

[Mal]

Thanks for posting this up for me GC08.

[igotsmeakabob!!]

Wow, very useful. I just would have liked some more close-up shots.

Still, very clear-cut guide.

Thanks!

[Mal]

Unfortunately with such poor lighting, close up shots come out either way too dark or way too light and you can't actually see what its an image of.

 

I am making a second one, so i'll see if I can get some better pics this time around.