Mardaddy | 05 Dec 2013 4:04 p.m. PST |
Anyone have ideas/alternatives to Forge World? Looking to get, uhhh
maybe, "many," depending on the cost – they fit in with both renegade and loyalist forces; plus I have a display piece idea for yet another
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darthfozzywig | 05 Dec 2013 4:18 p.m. PST |
Maybe the MAWP's from GZG?
link I know they're 15mm, but they might work for IG gun platforms. |
CmdrKiley | 05 Dec 2013 4:29 p.m. PST |
How about the CSD Mk I from RAFM link
or the Mk II Enforcer link
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Mardaddy | 05 Dec 2013 4:31 p.m. PST |
Thanks – I'll check into those. I do definately want something that *is* a platform with a gunner I can add on. Any of those could be a, "starting point," with some plasticard and other add-ons and whatnot, but if I have to buy and fabricate too much, I might as well save the time and labor and just get the FW models after all. But – all worth a look! Anyone else? Any others? |
CmdrKiley | 05 Dec 2013 4:45 p.m. PST |
Mardaddy, you're a big Void 1.1 player. I'm surprised you didn't think of using some of your Void minis. Viridian Mounted Chaingun Team. link Viridian Mounted Heavy Guass Cannon Team link Might be a bit big. Junkers Salamander Field Gun link Junkers Legionary Chain Gun Team link |
CmdrKiley | 05 Dec 2013 4:48 p.m. PST |
If you can still find them. Mobile Infantry Reliant Weapons Platforms from Starship Troopers.
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CmdrKiley | 05 Dec 2013 4:54 p.m. PST |
Another possibility is kitbashing some from some Robogear kits. link There are some chassis parts which can fit as a platform. I've got one setup on treads for a heavy mortar for my Vor Neo-Soviets. The spiderlegs were used to make a Cybertrnic Scorpion Heavy Machinegun Plarform for Warzone. |
haywire | 06 Dec 2013 8:05 a.m. PST |
Do you want a standing gunner or can he be seated? Trying to find a picture for you, but I have seen people using the cockpit of a sentinel like an M16/M45 Gun Mount with 4 autocannons. What were you looking fopr as weapons? Heavy Stubbers or something else? |
haywire | 06 Dec 2013 8:36 a.m. PST |
You can also use the DreamForeg Games Eisenkern Heavy Support Weapons. link
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Mardaddy | 06 Dec 2013 12:50 p.m. PST |
I can really tell I was not as clear as I could have been in my "counts-as" descriptor. Everyone did JUST FINE with the suggestions, based on the BAD description I gave. I was not really looking for "purpose" stand ins (which each of the various suggestions work EXTREMELY well for – and why I never considered the VOID sculpts I already have in hand) it is more the *platform* element that is the visual I am looking for and did not express well enough. Seeing all the suggestions and input – which are all FAB – I think it's pretty clear that if I do not decide to suck it up and get (at least one) FW model, I'll have to scratchbuild/cobble at least the platform part myself. I never thought of the Sentinel cockpit conversion, and I am definately doing that for the Traitor Guard platforms. I do have to buy at least one for a display piece idea I have: Platform at the top of a hill/cliff finger, gunning at invading fliers to one side with tyranid genestealers climbing up towards it on the gunners unseen side, and one climbing up the platform itself right "at" the gunner. |
haywire | 06 Dec 2013 1:36 p.m. PST |
For the platform, I would suggest just using a large base of the appropriate size. I am guessing its a 60mm. Use plastic tread sheet and some rivets to flavor. Did you also want the legged stand beneath? Or did you want something more like the tower in Starship troopers? In which I would suggest Pegasus Hobbies Platformer sets. |
Colin Hagreen | 06 Dec 2013 5:07 p.m. PST |
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