Shotgun conversion tutorial

[visitor]

As the title states, this is a guide for converting your guardsmen to carry shotguns.

Tools Needed
knife, clippers reccomended. File optional. Greenstuff highly reccomended for first few tries.

Bitz Required
Scout shotgun arms, cadian lasgun arms

Difficulty
I wouldn't call this "hard", just tricky. Mainly getting cuts right, and aligning pieces correctly.

There are two patterns of shotguns I created, both involving the same bitz.

Arbites Law-Bringer Pattern


Pick up the scout arm with the shotgun. Where the front "brace" ends on the arm, around the elbow, is where you should cut.

You should get something like this



Take the scout's left arm, and also cut where the arm guard brace thing ends


now take a cadian left arm, and cut around the elbow area


You should get something like this


Now take the cadian lasgun arm, and cut around the elbow. Cutting this part is VERY tricky, i suggest you take your time. Also, do not neglect to fully remove the lasgun stock when the forearm is removed.

Now, attatch the scout forearms to the cadian arms you have just cut, and fit them onto the cadian torso


My own, custom, pattern


Take your scout shotgun, and cut it like so, leaving the hand and the pump intact. Be VERY careful when you cut, try to keep it smooth and straight.


Take your cadian left arm and cut off the "nub" thing, it is not needed


cut off the front of the lasgun, leaving the magwell intact and glue the front of the shotgun to it.


When attatched to the cadian torso, this should be the end result


Now, I THINK I covered all the loose ends and that the tutorial was clear and easy to follow. If a step was unclear or poorly explained, please let me know so I can fix it.

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

Nice! Thanks for posting this. I'll have to give it a try with my Catachan shottie vets...

[Pax Urbis Pax Imperi]

I like the second pattern better I think. Looks more like a shotgun to me. My only concern is the joint where the shot gun and the las gun meet. I'm sure there is some way to hide that seam.

[visitor]

usually a little bit of green stuff does the trick.

[Pax Urbis Pax Imperi]

I've made two conversions using this trick. Looks pretty good so far!

[3ff3ct]

I'll be trying this, although as Im a neat freak I think I'll add the 'hand armour' onto the guardsman hand in the second tutorial

Cheers for sharing

[jenburdoo]

A Catachan flamer makes a good shotgun -- just cut off the flamer head and fuel bottle, and you have an over/under shotgun.

[Soap]

Also the SM bolter makes a good shottie. I have used them for my Vets. Just cut the magazine and magazine housing off, and gives the look of a pump action shot gun because of the hand grip. Ill post a photo of mine if I remember.

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

I ended up doing a modification of the method at the start of the thread. I cut the shotgun off just behind the ejection port, and then mated it to the lasgun stock section of a Catachan arm. I also cut off the scout hand on the pump, filed and carved details into the pump, and then used a Catachan left arm as the support/gripping the pump area. It ended up working pretty well...

[visitor]

That actually looks really good! Definately going to steal that is for my catachans if they ever need shotguns

thanks for posting!

[Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four]

You're welcome! It was your post on the Scout shotgun conversion that got me thinking about how to make it work for the Jungle Thugs.

[johnboy069]

These are great tips. My method is more like Trooper 1974's, although I cut the scout arm completely off, leaving the hand holding the shotgun and then mating it with the Catachan Sniper arms (although the others in the CCS box work to) from the Catachan CCS box, Scout legs and Cadian (usually) torsos.