Geist:
So I want to make one, dont want to buy the giant one from forge world. My only idea so far is take a hell cannon and use its parts to convert one. So what ideas are out there?
Abecedar:
My plan is to use an old earthshaker as I think that is more the size you need. The hellcannon would be too big.
Geist:
Really? Because theres a whole bunch of toy mortars bu a company called Marx that look about right, but I always thought they would be too small, but they would be about same size as the old one.
frogbear:
Link or it does not exist 
Da Crusha:
well cornixt once said it would fit nicely on a 50mm x 200mm custom base. so my plan was to buy an appropriate train platform that resembles the dreadquake one and then use one of my earthshaker cannons and convert the rest.
blackwolf.scortch:
I assume the ones Geist refers to are similar to the siege mortars on this page.
http://www.besttoysoldiers.com/acatalog/Plastic_Pieces.html
Can anyone provide a reference pic/details of comparison between the dreadquake/earthshaker mortars (ie not the carriage etc, just mortar itself)?
Geist:
Not sure how that’s confusing. Marx is a toy company they have a range of toy mortars, the dread quake is a very costly toy. My conversion idea was at first to use a hell cannon to make a toy mortar. I fail to see how that can confuse one.
As for linkage proof of it being out there.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARX-toy-soldiers-Civil-War-Siege-Mortar-VINTAGE-hard-plastic-with-2-ramrods-/180820095398
That is a marx toy mortar, one of them. I am unsure of the size and how it would fit in. Only info I have on size is that one says its a 54mm in scale size.
cornixt:
well cornixt once said it would fit nicely on a 50mm x 200mm custom base.I'm not sure I ever said that, not owning one means I can't measure it myself, but it says that in my notes
Da Crusha
Grimstonefire:
I actually go past a massive upside down metal bell every day that’s near some large concrete balls. The way it’s all positioned I think it was deliberately done to look like a mortar & shells.
So you could consider that as a real cheap alternative. Pick up a plastic bell christmas decoration, put another tube/plastic cap etc inside and greenstuff to create some thick walls. It would be very cheap, but probably not as effective as that ebay toy.
Abecedar:
LMAO? I am going to assume that’s an insult, so you win!
Any way I’ll start again.
Per the FW website pics, the slave ogre stands just a fraction shorter than the barrel of the FW Dreadquake
The hellcannon I thought would be too big. Just the barrel by itself probably not so bad after all.
The earthshaker as a whole is about right but the barrel alone is way to small.
earthshaker, borrowed ogre and hellcannon for comparison
