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Lowlander
6th Feb 06, 12:27 PM
Wanted to share a simple tip with any IG players.
When you buy the assault weapons blister you get 1 melta 1 plasma gun.

I don't have a need for as many meltas as plasma but the thought hit me , convert them .

I cut the melta gun off just infront of the band the forward hand grip is attached to using a jewlers saw (cutting with a cliper and filing will work ).

I cut a Space marine plasma pistol off just infront of the trigger at the largest part .

Once I sanded both sides smooth I drilled a hole and added a parerclip pin to hold them together .

when I put them together I put some putty between them before smushing them together (no glue needed ).

let this dry over night cut and sand off the excess and paint .

just a simple idea but it worked well

+Requin+
6th Feb 06, 12:43 PM
Any way you could put some pics up of that??? It is hard to tell how it will look by just reading...

Tarot
6th Feb 06, 12:49 PM
BRILLIANT! I don't know why I never thought of it!

Lowlander
6th Feb 06, 2:22 PM
ok
I will try to get my camera to take a decent picture of it , the pics cme out WAY large LOL
just got the camera haven't messed with it much !

Invictus
6th Feb 06, 2:28 PM
Just host the large pics at Imageshack or a similar website, then link us to them.

Lowlander
8th Feb 06, 8:47 AM
I have a small picture , its kinda dark but you can see the plasma gun pretty good .
I cant post a attachment at this time I checked out the CP and was unable to find any info , I sent a message to the relic forums for assistance .

Tarot
8th Feb 06, 8:51 AM
You need to host it on Photobucket or another image hosting service, then link to it on the forum. Attachments are disabled on the forum.

Lowlander
8th Feb 06, 9:04 AM
http://hosting.hwcommunity.com/060208085012-meltaplasma.jpg
ok heres the plasma from melta , its finished sorry didnt take pics as i was doing lol

heres the one from GW and the one I converted side by side , sorry so dark
http://hosting.hwcommunity.com/060208090343-plas%20plas.jpg

+Requin+
8th Feb 06, 9:44 AM
That looks pretty good...

p0seidon
9th Feb 06, 12:28 AM
The pic's themselfs aren't dark it's your colour scheme and it's an great idea.

Lowlander
9th Feb 06, 8:55 AM
? true I used olive green for the armor , field green for the cloth both mrc tamya colors .
also I didnt use a flash for obvious reasons lol O-O

CoatedTrout
9th Feb 06, 10:39 AM
What about the backpacks?

Lowlander
9th Feb 06, 11:32 AM
I didnt convert them they do look similer , not exact true , but close enough .

do you think that would be a issue with wysiwyg?

Dante
9th Feb 06, 2:24 PM
I doubt anyone will notice...

Penitent
9th Feb 06, 2:37 PM
I converted a flamer into a plasma gun the same way, although now I really wonder why I didn't think of that already myself...

scotty
3rd Mar 06, 10:11 AM
This is very good but, how do you convert plasmas into meltas?...

Lowlander
3rd Mar 06, 12:20 PM
that I leave to you LOL :)