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For my 101st thread, I figured I'd do something semi-special. I've been wanting to field shotguns on my vets for some time, and I saw that Space Marine scout shotguns are going for up to 15 bucks on some sites! To boot, they've got hands attached and the arms wouldn't work for my Catachans. I tried to think of a way to make shotguns that was easy to replicate with bits I don't mind chopping up. I searched through my bits box and dug up the following:
- 1 lasgun
- 1 Chimera lasgun (I don't put these on my tanks since they look silly. If you think the same you should have plenty!)

For this conversion I used one pair of clippers, one sharp knife, and some superglue.

Step 1:
Using your clippers, cut the front of the gun off. I just cut down to the lip of the magazine loader. Using a knife, smooth it out and cut off the stock and sight rail.


Step 2:
Using your sharp knife, cut the Chimera lasguns off at the divide between tube and box:


Step 3:
Glue em together!


I wouldn't worry about drilling the barrels, since they're very thin. I'll probably just paint a black dot there. These come out to be slightly shorter than your average lasgun. Hope you enjoyed the tutorial!

imho it looks more like a las carbine than a shotgun

Definitely looks a bit better than my current modified flamer shotguns!

I love these! The only thing I would do differently would be to cut off the lasgun clips and switch them out for something different, but that's just me

Changing them out for bolter clips would be pretty cool too - I was thinking of basing these off bolt pistols in the first place, but I felt they're too recognizable.

Very nice conversion, I will be doing this as I have the chimera bits left over from converting it into hydra.

I think may if you added a pump it would be instant 'thats a shotgun' if you played.

not to highjack this thread but some other peeps had some pretty nifty conversions from lasgun to shotgun too...:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/349548.page


vik