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Sangre did this for his Legio B&C Contest entry just after we moved over to Invision:

 

http://www.duckblindminiatures.com/frater/entry32-1.jpg

 

Cut the barrel off and shifted the clip up to the left side of the bolter.

Great Idea on redoing this thread, flying hippo. I also have been doing searches on bolter conversions. And its a shame that alot of those previous links are lost. There were some seriously great ideas shown there. Although you've hit on alot as well :P

 

Do you think that this post would be best on the tutorial section? This is more like a finished bolter idea thread in my mind ;)

Sorry, that took longer than I expected. Some of the pics have been updated. The other ones were at the time of pictures taken still WIP and un-high-lighted (my raptors sorta got put on hold). I have since finished them but I have yet to take some pics of them. I will try to get them up as soon as school allows.

 

Keep submitting your conversions.

There used to be a number of other alternate bolter pics floating around. A couple of under arm styles, one I have in my ideas folder by theripper_42. Nidlimpopo also had a number of different styles, although all save one were done up in a drawing program, but they were very good. I also seem to remember a picture with about 10 or so variants that had actually been modeled, but I don't seem to have saved it to my hard drive and I don't know where it got to.

A guy named vega also had a number. I don't know where they are on B&C but I have most of these on my hard drive.

here are two of my conversions based on what i have seen in this thread.

 

drum fed bolter

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/wokkers/WIP/DW_Templar_A_01_thumb.jpg

 

bolter w/straight clip

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/wokkers/WIP/DW_Scorpion_A_01_thumb.jpg

 

thanks for all the inspiration guys. i will post the rest of the bolter conversions upon completion.

Well, this isn't a bolter conversion, but I thought I'd post it here nonetheless for those of you that haven't seen it on my army thread.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/cyp...ne/HPIM0236.jpg

 

As you can probably guess, the green thing is one of the green necron things - cut down to fit. Also, if you do intend to use this conversion, paint first, then glue it in (duh :tu: ). That'd be impossible to paint around.

 

cypher

wokkers, how did you do the drum magazine on that bolter?

 

It looks like a grenade drum from the IG grenade launcher. Looks good, I might try it myself too. I have a ton of those things just laying around.

 

bing! Psychologic gets the cookie! :huh:

 

fairly simple and self explanitory conversion. its easy and it looks good.

  • 8 months later...

thought i'd drop some of mine in here-

 

mentor pattern with laser sight

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/mentor%20leigon/100_1830.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/mentor%20leigon/100_1674.jpg

 

mentor bolt pistol, extended magazine and laser sight

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/mentor%20leigon/100_1507.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/mentor%20leigon/100_1473.jpg

 

a few other's

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/mentor%20leigon/100_0859.jpg

 

and my inspiration, can't remember who gave me this pic

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/mentor%20leigon/mentorpatternbolters.jpg

 

hope that helps you all out.

 

james

spikeyjames thems some seriously good weapons especially the bullpup SA80 style.

thanks for the inspiration (total rippin em off) ;)

 

yeah no probs feel free.

 

imperial guard grenade launcher mags work well for drum mags too-

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/spikyjames/Sons%20of%20Proteus/100_1528.jpg

 

james

Hi Spikey James,

 

On the picture of your bolters, looking the 2 with the straight mag at the top, where do you get the part on top of the wooden foregrip ?

 

Your bolters look very good - I've placed an order on grenade launchers, and I'll try to replicate you bull up option.

It looks like you're using the autopistol from the assault weapons sprue, is that right ?

 

 

Anyway, here's an idea I had some time ago for a "sniper" bolter, to be used by the combat squad that stays with the heavy weapon to shoot from a distance :

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb228/oxford-fumble/WH40K/Lion%20Guard/SniperBolter.jpg

Just glued the stock and barrel of a lasgun - some trimming needed to make a smooth transition and all, but the spirit is there...

 

I thought I'd also point you to some excellent bolter and stormbolter conversions by Lord Magyar.

 

 

Cheers,

Fumble.

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