With Cannon you can... ( Part 1 )

I´m not a fan of the Multi-Melta... It´s a great weapon for some serious cooking of enemy vehicles and big bastards that get´s to close range...
But still, I like better to plug things with me Assault Cannon...

I only have the Dread that comes with the Assault on Black Reach box. It´s a cool mini with only one thing missing... The Assault Cannon :)

I desided to do something about it. Convertion is not my strongest line of work... but I´m gonna give it a shot... (or a burst if you will...)


Here´s what I started with... The grey thing in front is taken from my Battle for Macragge box. Can´t remember what it is... Maybe a power source for Aquila Lander or something. ( Leave a comment and correct me with this...) The blue "barrel" things are cut from cotton buds and glued together...


Something like this...


And like this... with some knife and file. Cotton buds might not be the best material for this, but it´s all I got at the moment... And it worked fine for me.


Next I drilled some holes to the "power source" (that´s what I´ll call it untill you correct me) with my trusty old pin vice. Six little holes makes it look like a Cannon already :)

Then I cut it in half with a saw...

And used the file to make straight surfaces for attaching...

As next stage, I Glued the parts togerher and added the barrel. Barrel is made of piece of Goblin spear. And the hole with pin vice again...


With a cruel slash of knife I said goodbye to the barrel of Multi-melta... "Chomp"


Drop of glue... and say Hello to the Cannon. It´s much longer than the "official" Assault Cannon, but that was my plan from the start... To make it look like unique. That´s the whole point of converting... :) I think...


This is how the Dread looks so far... (Really bad pic... sorry) Still got lot of work to do. And I´m afraid I´m gonna have to go Green Stuff on this one... (Where´s my little green bag?) Have to make the ammunition hopper and get rid of the "pyrum petrol fuel mix" tanks... for they look quite unreallistic with the Assault Cannon... I´ll be back with the "part 2" shortly, I hope!