Greetings Evil kin!
I was experimenting a little the other day, thinking of converting "regular" Dwarf Thunderers into Chaos Dwarf Blunderbusses.
1) Take the Dwarf handgun & the Thunderer buckler(small shield).
2) Trim the rune off the buckler a little to make a smooth surface.
3) Glue the flat end to the barrel of the handgun.
4) Put a small amount of greenstuff under the bucker & smoothe the gun barrel into a cone shape.
The concave/inside of the buckler makes a great blunderbuss barrel. It also keeps all your guns to a uniform shape. Looks pretty good painted up. Unfortunately I don't have a digital camera right now. But its simple, try it yourself!
Cheers!
This is what 95% of the forum members here do
The ends of horns or trumpets make good blunderbuss muzzles also.
Of course it's a brilliant idea to make good use of all the parts in the thunderers box - and I am quite happy to have done just that when I made my Blunderbussiers...
wow i didn't think of using the small shield thanks for the idea blood axe and thanks for the picture Ishkur
Great minds think alike! Welcome to Chaos Dwarfs Online!
Ok, well I didnt know it was an old idea. I am new to CD, but not Dwarves.
Ishkur-How did you make those big hats(helmets)?? FANTASTIC!!!
My converting/sculpting skills are limited. I gotta look around and find some ideas on my skill level.
I have an idea that I'm using for my Cd blunderbusses. It's a little unconventional, and I've never seen it done before, but I noticed that the quarreler hafts without the crosspiece bow looks superisingly like a shotgun. Making the connection, I'm using just the hafts of the crossbows with an ammo cartridge in the top. It is pretty easy to do, and it looks good too.
Show pictures at once, slave!
Wow. ISHKUR. I gotta check your posts on making castings.
Yeah threaten your camera to throw it into a pit of molten iron, that always works.
I'm still not sure on how to do the end of my blunderbusses, but the guns will be based on an
M79 Grenade Launcher.
Think I've already welcomed you, but welcome.
*Beer for BA*
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@servent of chaos They look good mate a bit like the m79 grim refers to
i like there helmet look just get those beards done
Well here one you can do (shot gun ) if you get some 1/16 tubbing . cut them to length of the cross bow glue them side by side .makes the old type of double barrow shot gun !!!
and of course i stoled this idea form another pirate.
Do you sculpt the beards after you have added the arms??
Yes it is i have drill out chains before to get them to look better just (be carefull thow)
P.S. you can get even smaller drill bites at most hardware stores
Pss i put my figures together then the beards arms last but i like using the old plastic dwarfs before the 6.5 leggo ones
What I'd do on blunderbussers is sculpt the beard, then whilst its still wet put a blob of glue in the shoulder socket & other arm, then gently press the arm on.
The beard then warps a bit to accomodate where the gun is close to the body, so you'd need to do a bit of tidying up around it whilst the GS is still wet.
god i wish i could sculpt beards
Thanks I realized after I glued the arms on that sculpting the beards is going to be really difficult. I have to manuver the gs under the gun and sculpt from their. It would have been much easier for me to sculpt the beards first. Ah well...
I tend to glue the arms on immediately after sculpting the beards while the greenstuff is still uncured. That way it looks like the gun is being held into the chest and pushing the beard in. I dont use the bucklers as I think the mussel looks too big compared to the barrels