Miasma Cannon Conversion

[Yautja]

Hi all,

I am a newly returned player, having been out for a decade and I am very slowly buying and painting my new swarm.

I just got really lucky on eBay and got the new style Warrior models for peanuts and I have been wanting to build a Prime since I learned about them. I want two really. A CC badass and a cheap shooter. Best gun available is the Miasma Cannon, which as a model doesn't appear to exist? What a lovely opportunity to make a conversion! One of my favourite aspects of the game when I used to play before.

So, apparently it's a type of VC so I based it off that. The VC has always been way too long for my liking, plus it's length makes transporting a model with it a pain sometimes, so I cut off a chunk of the barrel and added some extra bone/spikes to the tip to make it look more menacing and make it stand out. Then tried to smother it in Green Stuff to smarten things up, especially the area where the two barrel parts were imperfectly glued together.










Having not worked with Green Stuff for a decade I am quite happy with the result and am looking forward to my Prime hopefully arriving in the post next week. He'll be 150 points of pew pew buffing his fellow Warriors  

[gigasnail]

nice.

[Yautja]

I found out today that what I have converted is an old version of the gun. The new one is slightly chunkier but not as long, which was my main original gripe. It is also more detailed, showing how GW have improved over the years. My cut down old version turns out to be only fractionally shorter than the new, so a bit of a wasted effort really.





My Warrior box arrived yesterday so I got to work






PS - Wasn't happy with the posing options with the Barbed Strangler so extended the feeding tube arm

[tylertt]

Pretty badass looking prime. Looking forward to seeing him painted up.

[Yautja]

All done and ready to get shot to pieces on Monday

[tylertt]

Thats sick man, good job!

[dwez]

When I saw that it had 'Miasmic Spit' all I could think about was converting my Miasma Cannon into something a little more vomitous:



Coupled with the fact the Tervigon can shoot two weapons it means it gets to use it's Stinger Salvo also, a simple jaw swap with a Mawloc and it's done. Admittedly it's still got Scything Talons in place, which the Cannon replaces but I've magnetized them and also got magnetized Mawloc claws which are T-Rex pathetic so I can swap them out too should the need arise.

[Yautja]

I really like the paint job for the spit. Amazing paint job all round as it happens.