Author Topic: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!  (Read 2760 times)

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Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« on: 28 October 2018, 01:47:46 »
I was cleaning up my paint collection, and found a lot of my old flip-top Citadel paint pots had given up the ghost. And then I looked at the shapes of the lid parts, and thought "Hmmmmm....."



Cleaned out the caked paint (see the untouched example at top right, separated the halves, and a couple of lashings of different grey paints later ... voila, low and high bunkers. Just add your favourite topping! And I love the way the old hinge gives the low bunkers an entrance.

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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #1 on: 28 October 2018, 04:33:38 »
Brilliant, Worktroll!  :thumbsup:

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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #2 on: 28 October 2018, 08:37:42 »
Lovely bit of kit-bashing. Top marks.
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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #3 on: 29 October 2018, 11:33:25 »
Did you set up the MWDA turrets to rotate?

I think the SM1 barrel as a recessed artillery piece is a nice touch.
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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #4 on: 29 October 2018, 12:30:32 »
Damn....and I just threw a bunch away!
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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #5 on: 22 December 2018, 16:30:57 »
Damn....and I just threw a bunch away!

Damn, me too.
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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #6 on: 31 December 2018, 19:25:13 »
Diabolically clever... I have a dozen dead pots I could do this with! And a hundred dead MWDA tanks I could decapitate for turrets!!!  :thumbsup:

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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #7 on: 01 January 2019, 09:21:40 »
 :thumbsup:

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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #8 on: 03 January 2019, 20:41:38 »
Love it
would never had thought of it
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Re: Budget bunkers - from Citadel, for your citadel!
« Reply #9 on: 11 January 2019, 06:18:38 »
Nice job.
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