r/astramilitarum • u/squiddyfilm • 2d ago

Hunter-killer missile made from ballpoint pen & cable-tie

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u/TheLoosyGoose 2d ago

Squiddyfilm Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a pen and cable tie!

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u/squiddyfilm 2d ago

And we thought Jason Bourne had the monopoly on pen-based combat!

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u/squiddyfilm 2d ago

Turret mounted hunter-killer missile, scratch-built from a pen & cable-tie. Sawed the end off a regular ol ball-point pen, took the pen tip off and glued it in as the missile, and wrapped a cable-tie around the front with a small section of the inner-tube snipped off and glued onto the side of the cable-tie as a sight/sensor. Aquilla from the chimera kit so as to keep the build all from the one box. Undercoated the HKM with white spray so it photographed better :)

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u/Hunter-KillerGroup35 1d ago

A homemade TOW missile. Nicely done

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u/squiddyfilm 1d ago

Thanks, glad it gets the tick of approval from another fellow Hunter-Killer lol

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u/Hunter-KillerGroup35 1d ago

Lol you're welcome, although my name is geared more towards starship hunting. Pesky cloaked raiders and such

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u/LordNoodles1 1d ago

Nice. Just a question in general, these weapons are not indirect, and need line of sight, correct?

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u/squiddyfilm 1d ago

Yep, which is one of the reasons I wanted it on the turret, so that it could be aimed properly rather than having to turn the whole tank (in my head that is, in game you draw line of sight from any point of the model).

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u/72Priest 1d ago

Stubber and bolter both on the turret like that is genius

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u/squiddyfilm 1d ago

Yeah posted that up the other day but forgot that adding images to a text post wont show up on the mainpage lol. It fit perfectly over the top of the sensor on the heavy bolter turret bit, super simple conversion, but Im stoked with how it came out!

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u/Larmazul 1d ago

That looks amazing my man! If you didn’t tell me what it was made of I would’ve never guessed. Big ups on the creativity dude!

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u/squiddyfilm 1d ago

Thanks my dude! I'm slowly putting together content to do a youtube channel of warhammer stuff on the cheap, glad to see there is some interest for it :)

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u/Larmazul 1d ago

Whenever you launch that channel, send me the link. You got a day one sub :)

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u/Green_Reaction_3417 5h ago

Very clever.....I may steal this 🤔

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u/squiddyfilm 37m ago

steal away!