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If I were in this tight spot, I would keep the options opened, play by the rules, and find the best deal.

Step one: . . . . .Go on eBay or swap sites, and buy as meany ork arm shoota bits as you can find.

Step two: . . . . .Go out and get a Razor Saw, micro drill, paint, and other tools and supplies you will need.

Step Three:. . . .Prep your model bits, setup, and paints.

Step Four . . . . .Cut off as many arms as you have bits to replace. Or Cut off at the first top, or back wrists.

Step Five. . . . . . Cut Bits to match and apply to model.

Step Six. . . . . . . Covert pistols to rifles and cut blades to be knuckles.

Step Six . . . . . . . Paint, everything you changed.

With the left over arms you can drill a 2mm whole in them and buy some 2mm x 1mm magnets to glue in them. After the tournament you can do the same to the newly converted arms, and newly cut joints. When time comes to convert back (The New Codex is released) just click them back to Stompas.

This also occurst to me (just now, so that's why I'm so late on this post):

Orks can get away with just about anything based up on how their technology works.

All that matters to an Ork is the sound of the gun. The more Orks that think that a gun is awesome, loud, and killy, then the more true those thoughts will be.

The AoBR "Slugga Boyz" has a Chopopa and a Slugga (sorry for redundancy). A "Shoota Boyz" can have a Shoota and a Choppa, as the Choppa does not effect the boy in anyway when with the Shoota (it's just a CCW).

So, could your Orks have devised compact shootas that are especially noisy, despite such tiny cases?

In theory, yes, but no true ork would want a dinky little shoota when he could a great big one instead

I can see a Big Mek enjoying a Noisy Cricket though

Ascalam wrote:I modded a unit by filing down the barrel end flush with the main body of the slugga, then gluing a cylinder to the end, and a smaller short cylinder near the bottom edge, to look somewhat like an old-schoool machine gun.

My cylinders were round eraser inserts for mechanical pencils, and refills for those eraser sticks that you can click down.

Cost very little, and easily available at officemax or similar.

They cut easily, glue easily (superglue) and take paint well.

I also use the long skinny eraser-stick refills for fuel lines, hydraulic tubes etc as they are flexible

It took me less than an hour to convert 30 sluggas to shootas, not counting the painting

I had the idea of buying a bunch of IG grenade launchers to make into a Rokkitboyz mob. But they were FAR to small to work. So I did a similar thing you did. I sliced the barrels off of the sluggas, and glued the grenade launchers to the slugga. Presto, shootas
But yea, it wouldnt be very hard to convert them into shootas with a quick trip to the stationary aisle or dollar store.

Also anyone that argues that shootas on the back isnt legal is a moron. Why would it be illegal? Because the boy isnt holding the weapon? What about all the minis made where a pistol or sword is holstered? Theres nothing illegal about it what so ever

KingCracker wrote:
Also anyone that argues that shootas on the back isnt legal is a moron. Why would it be illegal? Because the boy isnt holding the weapon? What about all the minis made where a pistol or sword is holstered? Theres nothing illegal about it what so ever

Because a Slugga, Choppa *AND* Shoota is an invalid weapon combination. It is no more valid then giving an ork a BS and a rokkit launcha. Hell, maybe I should give an ork a Dakka/rokkit/burna gun and call him a loota/burna/tankbusta all in one model too?

Now if you put the shootas on the back and the ork had *nothing* in his hands then you would be good to go. Orks are not space marines where it is assumed they have all 3 weapon options and it is base weapons so there is no need to model them... Shootas and Slugga/Choppas are mutually exclusive.