Spider Sentry Turret laser cannon

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I rescaled the las-cannon from a different model on here (one of the tanks) and made a quick and dirty sentry turret base for it. edit: printing it now, ended up scaling the whole thing by .9 in cura so it will fit a 60mm gaming base. edit2: strengthened the feet a little bit, rescaled the lascannons and shifted their power / coolant hoses up so that the larger unit will fit on the base. edit3: Ok, I decided that since this thing needed twin linked lascannons, i needed to be able to aim them. The las-cannons have a 3mm hole in them, and the turret top has a hole through it as well now. There is an additional modification to this now since i've printed the first one. I added an 8mm stud to the turret base and a matching hole to the bottom of the turret top. This is so that i can make a few bases, and be able to swap out turret tops for either bolters or las-cannons. My thought on the 3mm hole through the turret top is to use a piece of filament as a pivot pin and glue it into the lascannons through the hole in the turret top. I'll use a nylon washer between the las-cannons and the turret top and apply quite a bit of pressure so that it is a friction fit. hopefully this will allow me to adjust the guns a bit without having them floppy. Edit - final 3/16/2016: i repaired the mesh to fix where it filled the holes on the turret top. print it lying on its back. I also repaired the bit of mesh around the one leg of the base where it ended up leaving a tiny gap when slicing and printing. I still did not scale these down, so if you want them to fit a 60mm base, scale when slicing to .9 Print Settings Printer: Portabee-kit Notes: the turret top will need printed on its back due to the hollows, otherwise it will be a bit finicky getting the print cleaned out afterward. Do not bother using these las-cannons. The guns that i'm using on this is the "forward guns" from the landraider(ish) tank on here. I've split the guns model in half and using them as a left and right bolter without any scaling. the size of those fits much better. How I Designed This Plopped an image as a background into blender3d and moved bits around until it looked good enough to me. Then grabbed the las-cannon bits and scaled them until it looked like it matched. I'll post a pic once i get it off the printer.