The Rumours of my Demise are Greatly Exaggerated

Two months... two months?!? Where has the time gone? Well let's just say she's gone back too uni at this point so I've a couple of weeks free to indulge in hobby again before my next absense, oh and I've realised it's now less then two weeks to my GT Heat *gulp* and that I still have a dozen odd Sisters and five tanks to paint, hmmm time to crack on and fast (very fast given I'd originally planed to allow myself a week per squad/vehicle)!

Updates will follow as soon as the paint has settled as will replies to the fairly large number of comments I see have built up (I apologiese to those who've been asking question, will get to those ASAP).

Helblade Turret (Part 1)

As the first extra for the Mag Baneblade I'm building a turret with a Titan Class Inferno Gun for it, which I'm dubbing the Helblade.

I'm simply using a spare turret with some plasti-card, with the intention of adding some extra fuel tanks to the rear of the turret where the stowage would normally be.

The gun itself is made from two sizes of tubing and one H section.



The three main barrel sections were then connected by the H sections.



The completed section was mounted on a piece of plasti-card to connect to the turret (dry fitted here), the larger tubing pieces were slipped over the end of the barrels (again a dry fitting here) and the nozels of some Baeneblade Heavy Flamers fitted inside the inner barrels.




Now comes the dilema, do I leave the 'sleeves' as they are now, hole then, or connect them to one single sleeve as in the Forge World version (below) - which again could be holed.

What do you think?