Never throw your sprue's away...

Redstar Renegades General

Ok i was scratching my head the other night as to how to make a Autocanon mount for a BD Marauder on the cheap, my bits box is vertually empty these days so my recourses are very limited. However over the years i have kept quite a few bits of the thick spru that hold the miniature parts together in the blisters, i selected a nice thick piece and cut it in two equal lengths so that i could make two Autocanon mounts i then filed the IWM logo and date off of it so it was all smooth, then rounded the rear end of the mount so it looked a bit like the real one, and then for some extra detail i added a couple of snipped off BB gun pellet heads to the sides of the mount.
Finally i have a roll of 3mm wire i cut two pieces to roughly the same size i wanted then half way down i started to file them to have tapered front ends, after another measure up i drilled a hole into the front of the scratch built weapon mounts and glued in the wire barrels. Once they are painted up i think they will look pretty good for a scratch build... Smile

zac

Gray Death Legion 2nd Lieutenant

Impressive there AM2!

Dark Falcons Star Colonel

Damn fine job AM2. You are an evi...err....creative genius.

Blackhawks General

Well executed Zac....Old sprue is very useful indeed.