Looking for Bits - Trying to build Left-Handed Boltguns

[Halandaar]

Hi all! As far as I know the only time GW has ever done marines aiming bolters left-handed it was in the Legion of the Damned metals It's those poses I'm trying to recreate in true/Primaris scale, and i'd prefer not to try and build them from scratch if at all possible, especially not with the recent trend of having supporting hands sculpted on to the weapons themselves.

 

Is anybody familiar with any left-handed aiming arms for Marines, either in GW kits that I've forgotten about, or 3rd party manufacturers? I don't have access to a 3d printer so any suggestion related to that would only be useful if it's something that I can get from somewhere like Shapeways or one of the various 3d print stores on Etsy etc. Thanks for any suggestions you can provide!

 

[sarabando]

official GW you are out of luck 

With a 3d printer one of the many wonderful things it can do is mirror objects so it would be a single button click to get you a pair of arms facing the other way.

[Lord_Ikka]

Anvil Industries makes some Exo-Lords (their SM equivalent range) left-hands, but they are not paired with a right hand for aiming- they are just left "gun" hands. 

 

Kromlech has a primaris-sized bolt rifle sets with 2 left-handed aiming arms and 3 right-handed, here and here. They might have some others where the arm is in a carrying position, but I was specifically looking for aiming poses.

[Guest]

52 minutes ago, Halandaar said:

*SNIP*

 

Like the attached?

 

[Halandaar]

5 minutes ago, Brother Captain Arkley said:

 

Like the attached?

 

 

The guns (and trigger hand) are probably the part I need least as they're the easiest to resolve with existing bits, but thank you all the same. I suppose the main thing I need is sets of arms where the right arm is the supporting one and the left arm is aiming the weapon.

 

57 minutes ago, sarabando said:

With a 3d printer one of the many wonderful things it can do is mirror objects so it would be a single button click to get you a pair of arms facing the other way.

 

Yeah I suppose I could try to find someone selling suitable arm prints and ask if they'll mirror them for me. 

 

44 minutes ago, Lord_Ikka said:

Kromlech has a primaris-sized bolt rifle sets with 2 left-handed aiming arms and 3 right-handed, here and here. They might have some others where the arm is in a carrying position, but I was specifically looking for aiming poses.

 

Thanks, this is the closest to what I'm looking for. I'll see if I can find some examples in use on 40k bodies because tbh I'm not sure on the look, but it may be the Kromlech bodies selling the arms short!

[Guest]

Just now, Halandaar said:

 

The guns (and trigger hand) are probably the part I need least as they're the easiest to resolve with existing bits, but thank you all the same. I suppose the main thing I need is sets of arms where the right arm is the supporting one and the left arm is aiming the weapon.

 

 

 

 

Well I have new set coming, which will have both version.

[Halandaar]

7 minutes ago, Brother Captain Arkley said:

Well I have new set coming, which will have both version.

 

Can I ask where they're from?

 

Separately I did find someone on Etsy selling MKIII and MKIV style arms that will do the job if they can mirror them, so I've asked!

[Jukkiz]

i do believe that space marine heroes had couple

[Grotsmasha]

This is going to sound too simple to be true, but it just works. Take your firstborn supporting hands, carefully slice the thumb off, and for all that is holy DON'T DROP IT, then glue it on the other side of the wrist.

Edited September 21, 2023 by Grotsmasha

[Halandaar]

Bingpot! Found some appropriate arm sets on Etsy and the guy is going to print them in reverse so they look like this:

 

 

Thanks everybody for your suggestions!