Whilst working on one of my secret projects last week, I made the following heavy bolter...
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If you're wondering why I plugged the barrel, it's just to make it easier to cast. I want a few of these for various things... It actually looks really good on Artemis, so I'm thinking of re-envisioning Serf Verenor as a heavy weapons dude, or just going ahead and doing a heavy weapon marine to accompany my techmarine...
I would LOVE to have two of these to make my rhino into a razorback!
veeery nice.
are you going to use any stock belt feeds or ammunition boxes for it?
Gwrulz - I'm not sure if the scale would be correct for use with a rhino... These heavy bolters might end up looking a bit too small.
Viper_eX - I'll probably just use a piece of fairly wide styrene square-tube to make an ammo hopper, with pieces of rod inside to simulate the heavy bolter ammo. Similarly, I could always just make an ammo-belt or ammo-feed using plasticard.
The reason that I didn't include the ammo hopper on this component, before casting, was that I wanted it to be able to be attached to either side of the bolter, to allow it to be used either way around.
[EDIT: After making the first half of the mould, I took a measurement, and found that the gun is 2.5 inches long exactly, just in case any of you were wondering about scale.]
Just stopping by to show off the finished mould.
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It needs to be left to sit for 24 hours before I can fill it with resin, unfortunately. So it won't be until sometime tomorrow that I'll be able to tell for sure if this mould is any good. :P
The first H.Bolter has now been spawned from the mould....
On the 'sprue', fresh out of the mould, before the flash has been trimmed off.
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Once liberated from the mould, and trimmed of all flash.
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All in all, I'm quite pleased with the way it came out, even if there are a few air bubbles in one or two of the rivet-bumps.
awesome! want some for myself!
Nice.