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Hey there, guys. A few days ago, I had the idea of making gun turrets using some plastic cups I got from an ice cream shop, and when I had the chance to raid my mate's bitz box last night, I found the weapons nesescarry to make one. I thought that I might as well show you how to make them yourselves, as you might have interest in fielding them for own use.
This kind of turrets could be asigned to any of the Imperial forces, Chaos or Orks. If you were to make Tau, Eldar or Necron turrets, you would probably need something quite different looking as a basis in order to give make them appear authentic.
Anyways, here's what you need to make it the way I did:
- A cup with about the same shape and size as the cup I used (about 4 cm tall with a 6 cm diameter), or you can use a biger cup and make it a multi-weapon turret. The cup could be cardboard as well as plastic. (see the first image)
- A piece of cardboard in matching chape and size (second image)
- Weapons, and something to mount them on. (third) You could use about any type of heavy weapon, as long as they seem likely to be mounted on a gun turret. I used a multiple missile launcher and factory fittings (they are of unknown origin, but never mind), but as I said, anything that you have left from a tank or heavy weapons formation can be used. Raid your scrap box!
- Bitz. Again, a good portion of imagination and a wealthy scrap box, as well as some generous friends should do it. Use them to enrich the base, or to add new features to the turret. Smoke launcers, a searchlight and a form of communication transmitter should be as good as compulsory.
Putting it together:
From this stage on, the rest seems pretty obvious. Glue the cup to the cardboard, and glue the weapons to that. If the edges on the cup are as high as on the one I used, it would be a good idea to glue the weapon mount onto a 4mm slotbase first. If it's hard to glue the bits directly onto the cup, use a cardbard sheet in between them.
For the communicator-thingy on the platform, I simply cut and Imperial Guard vox caster in two and glued each of the sides into the back half of and old space Marine terminator torso.
Also, you should feel free to decorate the turret to your liking. I added a piece of cloth on the side of the turret, but you might as well also add banners, chapter icons, sandbags and weaponry.
On the forth image, you can see what the turret looked like when I was finished with the asembly and basing.
*If you see this before part two is posted, don't reply yet. It will be there in a moment*
This kind of turrets could be asigned to any of the Imperial forces, Chaos or Orks. If you were to make Tau, Eldar or Necron turrets, you would probably need something quite different looking as a basis in order to give make them appear authentic.
Anyways, here's what you need to make it the way I did:
- A cup with about the same shape and size as the cup I used (about 4 cm tall with a 6 cm diameter), or you can use a biger cup and make it a multi-weapon turret. The cup could be cardboard as well as plastic. (see the first image)
- A piece of cardboard in matching chape and size (second image)
- Weapons, and something to mount them on. (third) You could use about any type of heavy weapon, as long as they seem likely to be mounted on a gun turret. I used a multiple missile launcher and factory fittings (they are of unknown origin, but never mind), but as I said, anything that you have left from a tank or heavy weapons formation can be used. Raid your scrap box!
- Bitz. Again, a good portion of imagination and a wealthy scrap box, as well as some generous friends should do it. Use them to enrich the base, or to add new features to the turret. Smoke launcers, a searchlight and a form of communication transmitter should be as good as compulsory.
Putting it together:
From this stage on, the rest seems pretty obvious. Glue the cup to the cardboard, and glue the weapons to that. If the edges on the cup are as high as on the one I used, it would be a good idea to glue the weapon mount onto a 4mm slotbase first. If it's hard to glue the bits directly onto the cup, use a cardbard sheet in between them.
For the communicator-thingy on the platform, I simply cut and Imperial Guard vox caster in two and glued each of the sides into the back half of and old space Marine terminator torso.
Also, you should feel free to decorate the turret to your liking. I added a piece of cloth on the side of the turret, but you might as well also add banners, chapter icons, sandbags and weaponry.
On the forth image, you can see what the turret looked like when I was finished with the asembly and basing.
*If you see this before part two is posted, don't reply yet. It will be there in a moment*