Converting Meltaguns from Flamers

Melta guns - The one weapon that nearly every imperial guard force is saturated with are rather scarce when it comes to battleforces/boxsets etc. I decided I was going to set out to remedy this situation with some converting as the little blister packs are on the rediculous side pricing wise. Digging through my bits box I noticed there was one thing I had tons of. CSM Heavy Flamers and Combi Melta's.

Solution - Imperial guard flamer + CSM Flamer + Vox caster backpack = Meltagun.

The first step was to cut the nozzles from the CSM Heavy Flamers. I rather like the way they flair out. The second step was the to cut/file down the antenna etc on the Vox caster turning it into a semi-smooth pack. I glued some flamer bottles onto the small recess of the Pack at the bottom.

The third step was Cutting the front of the flamer off, this included the two pipes, the nozzle and pilot light. Next I glued the CSM Flamer nozzle into it's place. I then attached another of the Small fuel bottles to the bottom of it.

The last bit of this conversion was connecting up the flamer pipe with the vox caster backpack, I used a little bit of piano wire of this part.

The result ? A pretty neat looking melta conversion that really does look like it means business. Pictures will be forth coming as soon a camera is found.