I bought the majority of my fire warriors long before Breachers were even a thing, let alone the DS8 turret. The former I could live without (and probably convert with ease if I felt so inclined) but the latter appealed to me, especially as it was effectively a free upgrade for Power Level games.

Having previously proxied with missile drones and found them to be a bit dissatisfying, I knew I wanted something better but I was never going to spend money on another couple of boxes of fire warriors that I didn’t need just to get the turrets. Bits sites were also a no go as the prices being charged were extortionate to say the least. Therefore there was only one thing left to do, and that was to try and bodge my own from spares. Behold the fruition of my efforts!

As usual with conversions, my operandus modi would be to make them form something that I had plenty of laying around, for little or no investment of precious cash into said exorbitant bitz sites coffers. Having looked at my own meager bitz box, what I was able to ascertain was that I had plenty of T’au support systems spares on hand, as well as a good supply of crisis weapons that fitted the bill.

After a bit of trial and error, I decided on a design that put three Multi-trackers together to form a tripod of legs (glued together with a bit of toothpick in the middle). Above this sat the missile pod, held in place on the top of the ‘legs’ by a drone gun joint. To either side of the missile pod are crisis suit shield generators, while atop is a target lock and a drone antenna. In keeping with the ‘waste not want not’ attitude, even the base was an old flying stand that had broken off leaving the nib in the hole.

And of course, the age old advice – if you are going to build one, do three

Anyway, a dead easy conversion which I think makes a pretty decent proxy for the DS8 turret. If you’ve got the spares, give it a crack – I haven’t done a step by step guide as it seems too simple, but if anyone want one I will happily provide on for the next lot – the SMS variant.