I've decided to make up one of these for my Apoc games. How could anyone resist a destroyer weapon AP2 which uses a 10" ord template



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Cool anti asset capabilities also, and with my containment fence around it also from FW it should be quite high up on the enemy's priority list near my titan

So what can I make it from. I can see 2 bike cogs in the make up at the top and a Y joint from waste piping. Also the very tip of the barrel is from a coke bottle. But the rest, apart from the obvious CoD sprues used, is a mistery to me. I would really appreciate some insight/ideas guys. Thx.

Oh and the FW TL AA AC turrets are wrong. This should only have normal ACs not the long barrelled ones pictured, so was thinking of buying the FW ones like this instead:



If you help me find the parts, I'll do a W.I.P. here so you can see it coming together.

In hindsight though, the Long Barrelled ones seems the better purchase points wise. 80pts instead of 50pts. I could just make the defense laserin such a way that when I bought the turrets seperately they could sit on it.

This though would mean that the SHT laser would have less weapons to get blown off, and the LBACs could be targeted seperatly.... mmm decisions decisions.

Right the decision is.... the smaller ones on the defense laser adding to the number of weapons available to 'be destroyed' and harder to be targeted by the flyers they want to shoot.

Remember that you don't have to build it identically to the GW version.

I am considering building a Defense Laser as well. I am currently planning on building it in a modular manner so that it will consist of the Laser Tower, and I hope to include positions for the eight TL Heavy Bolters. Then there will be two additional towers for the AA Autocannons. This will allow me to add/remove components based upon what I pay for.

I think the most difficult part will be thinking up a suitable pompous sounding name fom mine.

Modular !!! brilliant. Fits in with my modular CoD terrain also

Ur a genius.

Culven wrote:I think the most difficult part will be thinking up a suitable pompous sounding name fom mine.

How about:

The Finger of The Emperor?

jlong05 wrote:How about:
The Finger of The Emperor?

Any particular finger that you had in mind?

It need not be that hard, actually, to construct this defence tower...This is my take on it:

The separate towers could probably be made with styrofoam cardbards. They are about the same size, so cutting out the different walls will not be a problem.
The base of the laser could be carved out of a solid block of styrofoam (the blue or pink one you can buy in any larger wardwood store).
The walls of the main tower could also be cut out of styrofoam cardboard, and glued together.
The round sections of the defence laser can easilly be created by using balls of styrofoam. They can be purchased in pretty much any larger hobby store.
For decorations and pipes...use plastic cardboards for decorative elements, whatever bits you can get your hands on and visit your local hardwood store to find the different sizes of plastic pipes you need.

Even easier I think dakka (or it may be bell of lost souls, somewhere I lurk) similar has a genius idea, the base of the weapon = hamster ball sparyed black- genius!! (and big thanks to whoever it was who made it )
oh I managed to find the proper source here you go
http://belloflostsouls.blogspot.com/200 ... laser.html

killmaimburn wrote:Even easier I think dakka (or it may be bell of lost souls, somewhere I lurk) similar has a genius idea, the base of the weapon = hamster ball sparyed black- genius!! (and big thanks to whoever it was who made it )
oh I managed to find the proper source here you go
http://belloflostsouls.blogspot.com/200 ... laser.html

no way! i had the exact same idea, a hamster ball - lololol coolio

just looked at the link though now, that's crap. lol

i was thinking my two halves would go either side of the laser... but now I see the ball with the detail on the outside, I'm off to the pet shop tmw

When using the plastic card, what is the best way to form a corner?

Score the card?
Use small sections of timber inside the corner?
Glue the two edges directly?

And what thickness do our 'experienced modellers' recommend for the large wall sections?

1mm?
2mm?
3mm?
5mm?

personally, i think the main building of the Defence Laser looks like a toilet...

~ Tim

LordMalekTheRedKnight wrote:personally, i think the main building of the Defence Laser looks like a toilet...

~ Tim

muhaha - you know what Tim, ur right. I could try that smelly option too. If it doesn't shoot anything then it might just put the guys off their game and get me a win that way

btw, where do u get big round spheres of foam, i've never seen them?

KInG wrote:btw, where do u get big round spheres of foam, i've never seen them?

ive never bought one myself, but i would expect to find them in a hobby shop, or in a flower arranging shop.

~ Tim
p.s. linkies:
http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas_library/idea_193.html
(says to use a foam sphere)
http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/PRODUCT_LIST/PROD2.HTM
(says they sell foam)
put the two together and it might be worth giving them a ring...