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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:45 pm


http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd92/SingleGunner/DSC00215.jpg

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these are my custom built scout snipers. they cost little to create if you play marines, as you will almost certainly have some spare bolters, but you need kroot rifles as well, so its another £18, but if you have a tau army for apocolypse, you will hopefully have these as well. anyway:

1. cut away the barrel of the bolter
2. cut away the front section of the kroot rifle barrel just before the cloth
3. trim away any blades from the rifle barrel
4. glue rifle barrel to front of bolter

this works better with scout bolters, as they are more intricate. but nomal bolters also work reasonably well
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:05 pm


sorry for the slightly fuzzy pictures, (and the really blurred 1st one) but this was taken with my 2.0 megapixel camera from my phone with the macro setting ON. its the best my phone can do, hopefully everyone finds the 2nd and 3rd photos clear enough though

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:02 pm


Fun fact: a box of sniper scouts cost as much as a box of normal scouts. They both cost £12,-
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:16 pm


I converted a sniper rifle marine once for a pre horus heresy thing once. And bolters do work. However i recomend 2nd ed bolters, regardless of the type of bolter though, you should make these changes:

Add a scope, you can get those out of basic marine sprues.
Add a stock, whether its plasticard, greenstuff, or the stock off of a plasmagun (my personal choice) it gives it that rifle feel.

Also, to make a barrel, rather than taking a kroot barrel, I just used a q-tip stick, and took a coffee stirrer to make the larger part of the barrel (or flash suppressor whatever) at the end, and added the sight off the end of the barrel onto the new barrel.

If it sounds complicated, it really isnt.

King Kento


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:13 am


Brookman: really? i thought they cost more than normal snipers, well thanks then, i should change the thread title to "::Linky's not cheaper than normal snipers, but easy snipers::"


Kento: sounds easy, and i have now added scopes to them before reading your message, but i never thought to use a plasma stock, thanks!
PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:00 pm


*edits post so that the page isn't stretched to hell and gone by giant images*

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:47 am


DarkElf27
*edits post so that the page isn't stretched to hell and gone by giant images*
It wasn't that badly stretched =S
PostPosted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:08 pm


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*edits post so that the page isn't stretched to hell and gone by giant images*
It wasn't that badly stretched =S
Think of the children! gonk

And by children, I of course mean people who

-Have slower internet
-Have smaller screens
-Don't have the browser taking up the whole screen

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:22 am


DarkElf27
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*edits post so that the page isn't stretched to hell and gone by giant images*
It wasn't that badly stretched =S
Think of the children! gonk

And by children, I of course mean people who

-Have slower internet
-Have smaller screens
-Don't have the browser taking up the whole screen

lol, sorry for the big images DE, i uploaded them straight from my phone, so i didnt know how big they would be, it is the first time i have done it from the phone rather than my camera
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