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Conversion Corner- Cheap n’ Easy Termie Psycannons

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Jan 17 2012
Warhammer 40K
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MBG back again with the weekly Conversion Corner. This time I have a way to make Terminator Psycannons on the cheap.

This bit’s price has been steadily creeping up over the last few weeks, I suspect due to the demand of players gearing up for Adepticon.

Bits always start spiking in price as a whole right around this time each year like clockwork.

Anyways, so as I turns out I’m building a Grey Knight Paladin list, and of course I need Four Psycannons for each of my squads as well. But the problem is well, they sell a lot, so it’s hard for me to just take eight at one time.

So I came up with a good looking cheap conversion, that will help us all out.
Parts List

Power Armor Psycannon (Version 1)
Terminator Psliencer (Version 2)
Multi-Melta Fuel Canister (Version 2)
Optional Parts 

Any version of Devastator or Grey Knight Servo Skull bits

Conversion 1

The first one I came up with is the simplest conversion IMHO.  It’s just a basic cut and re-position of the ammo feed from the right to the left.

It turns out that the Terminators fire Psycannons from their left hands, cause they can one-hand their nemesis force swords, like a boss.

To make it first cut the power armor hand clean off.  Then just shave the ammo feed off at a 45 degree angle from it’s mount, flip and re-glue.

Here is a picture of the Terminator, and Power Armor conversion side by side.

As you can see the converted one is a bit bland, but you can spice that up a bit by adding some Grey Knight accessories, or even clip down the wires from a servo skull and attach them to it! The sky is the limit here, as anything in your bits box can really make this pop.

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Conversion 2


This conversion is also pretty easy, just cut the tip off of the Psilencer, and replace with a bored out and trimmed down multi-melta canister.

It looks great, and has all the gubbins and wires and stuff attached already.

Now it’s time to take a look at how these stack up with equiped on an actual terminator frame.

I mounted each version of the weapons to the normal terminator weapon arm mount (which only comes one per box as well, sigh).

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Psycannon “Ammo Flip” Conversion
Psycannon “Psilencer Tipped” Conversion
So what do you think? Look good, or no way? -MBG

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Author: Robert B
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