017: Bitzbox shotguns: a tutorial

Im planning on making up a 5 man veteran squad, with Serg carrying a plasma pistol and power fist, and the other four guys carrying shotty's.

While carving up my second Chimera the other day I decided to keep hold of the lasguns incase I found some use for them... I didnt keep the first lot because I just though, what the hell will I use these for??

So looking at those twidly lasguns I thought, you know what? I could use those for shotguns! So what follows is the tutorial.

You take on standard lasgun from the Cadian packs. Chop off the end, the normal lasgun is shown above for comparison's sake:

Next you cut off the top 'sight' section, right back to the bumps and take the end of the sight nearest the guardsman's face off too. Top should be smooth all along now except for the bump as you can see below:

Next, take the hilt of the gun off, and remove the grippy bit that goes into the guardsman's armpit. You can throw the main part of the hilt but the grippy bit will become the pump-action part of the shotgun. Remove the Lasgun 'clip' by diagonally slicing along the clip holder, you might need to look closely to see how Iv done this:

Next you take the lasgun from the Chimera (if you've got the spare parts!!), take off the nub at the end, and cut the back end that would fit the Chimera off...

Grab yourself some glue, and stick the grip part of the lasgun onto the bottom, just below the skull, and then stick the part you removed from the Chimera's lasgun onto the end... and its done:

So what do you think? Will a small group of vet's look good toting these shotguns? Have you done a similar conversion? Please leave your comments below for us all to discuss!