Well in this, the second installment of the lasgun conversions series, I will be looking at an imperial issue scope for the trusty old lasgun.
I have regularly used the space marine scope, but I always thought it looked a little too advanced for the Astra Militarum.
All that is required for this build is two different lengths of plastic rod (or a paper clip) and a length of very thin plastic tubing that can fit the smallest sized rod inside it, like so…
And so we begin with the smallest rod. I use one with a diameter of about half a millimeter or so. Then I cut two short segments, roughly about three millimeters each. These are then glued into a T shape…
This component will form the base of our scope. We then need to cut two segments of the tubing, both with one flat end and one diagonal end, Like so…
We then glue one on at a time. If one section ends up longer than the other, the shorter piece will be the eyepiece.
Allow the glue to dry completely before adding the second side. This can be extremely fiddly without the glued pieces moving around.
Once both ends are on, take the smallest rod again and add little lengths in the gap between the eyepiece and the lens…
Again giving the whole piece plenty of time to dry, add another section of this rod in the same place on the other side, and on top.
Then add a small disc of the widest rod to the very top of the scope, like so…
If at this point you find the stem of the scope too long, simply trim or clip it off, and then the scope is ready to be added to a rifle…
A Catachan Lasrifle…
A Cadian rifle…
or even a lasgun of your own design…
This trooper is holding the Vastadtian pattern las-carbine favored by Vastadtian Veterans. We will be looking at this lasgun in the next tutorial…
Well that’s all for this time folks. Any questions or queries, or even suggestions for improvements, please share in the comments below!
