Friday, 18 December 2015

Easy Medusa Conversion

Here is another small project that happened between other things. I had two Earthshaker Platforms and I wanted one to be a Medusa Siege Gun. I had seen similar conversions on the net so I gave it a crack with some personal touches. I find it really useful seeing how other people attempt different conversions, so in that spirit here is a walk through of my conversion. 


 My Earthshaker gun (from a Basilisk kit).

I have the cool Forge World extended breech, which they no longer make.

My supplies: cardboard tube, strip of plastic, sides of a Valkyrie Multiple Rocket Pod, Warhammer Fantasy Mortar, pipe from Manufactorum building set. You don't 'need' all of these but this is what I have used.

Cut the Barrel.

Cut the cardboard tube. 
(I didn't cut my thumb on my hobby knife but gashed it at work on a staple of all things!) 

Two strips of plastic for detail.

Fits in place well.

Here I am measuring to see how much wider my shield opening needs to be.

Opening cut wider with a dremel.

Sitting in place.

Cut the end off the Manufactorum pipe.

Cut the Warhammer mortar. 

Put is all together! [tacked in place]

Next to my Earthshaker.

Green stuff the joins after gluing.

And done ready to paint.
Too easy mate!


Cheers all,
Tally ho.

7 comments:

  1. Cheers mate. Yep, this is the one you ran your Boys at in our last game. It underperformed but looked scary!

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  2. Awesome! That turned out looking great - always loved the look of a static gun emplacement.

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    1. Thanks Mord. I am always drawn to the biggest guns. :)

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  3. Nice ! Well made made and a good idea.

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  4. Gawds that must have been sphincter clenching cutting and grinding with such a pricey gun?

    Regardless, looks fab all done up like that. Not seen a conversion like this.

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    1. Ha! It wasn't too bad but I had put a huge amount of thought into it before I started. I think I converted it in my head about 20 times before I started it.

      And yes they are bloody expensive!

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