Scions Conversion Winterial part 1: Hot-shot lasgun

As I worked on my video for the scions conversion, I realized that the quality of that video was really terrible, but I don't have the necessary spare bits to do another. Thus I decided to add in some images that I have taken to make the Winterial more clear, with subtitles. This made the schedule for the release of the video a little bit late, but in the meantime, I decided to make a blog post Winterial to act as the supplement for the video. So this is part 1 of the scions Winterial.

In this Winterial, as the title says it all the main part we would be building would be the hot-shot lasgun.

Items you will need :

- Scouts head (from the space marines scout squad box set)

- Respiratory pack (from the cadian command squad set, there are 5 of these in each set)

- Boltgun (comes with the scout squad box set)

- Lasgun (the one that comes in every cadian infantry set that does not have any arms attached to it.

Step 1: (the head)

You will cut one of the respiratory pack, separating it into 3 parts. When you see the pack, it will be easy to determine which parts to separate. As the cord is unwanted, after you remove the cord, it will be the 3 parts that I mention, one being the cord itself, one being the mouthpiece and the last one is some sort of electrical box.

Attach the mouthpiece to the head. You should get something similar to that below. It looks pretty sweet when you attach the mouthpiece as the original head has some speaker console attached to it, once you attach it, it will all flow as one single equipment, giving it a very neat look.

Step 2: (power pack AKA ammo)

The ammo pack comes from the third part of the respiratory set, which will be attached to where the boltgun ammo would be attached to. But before we attach the ammo, we must first remove the boltgun ammo. Cut away the ammo of the boltgun. Take care at this point when cutting as some might over estimate the ammo part and cut the entire bottom part of the gun off. This would be what we do not want to see. 

Next, attach the third part of the respiratory pack to where the boltgun ammo used to be. Have the little protruding edge that you will see on the third part facing outwards as shown below the 2 images.

(Disclaimer: they look like flipped images but were taken from 2 different angles)

Have the front nozzle of the boltgun removed too, except for the small rectangular piece below it.

(Take note of where the third part of the respiratory pack goes)

Step 3: (the hot-shot)

You will take the lasgun and detach it just right before the ammo. It can be seen at the right image below. Trim it slowly so that it would be straight and you do not remove too much to make it obvious that it is shorter then the original. (sorry for the lack of images, have not been able to get any images for this part.

Next, we attach it to the boltgun as shown below. Ensure that the lasgun is aligned properly. I suggest that you dry fit it before you add the glue. 

From the top of the gun, you should make sure that the lasgun scope part aligns properly with those of the boltgun.

From the side, ensure that the lasgun is aligned straight to the top and sides of the boltgun as shown below.

So that will be it for this part 1, you already have the gun ready, are you ready for the other parts of the scions conversion? Do look out for it as it will be coming soon. I will edit in the links once I publish the post.

Hope that you all enjoy this Winterial. As always, do leave some comments and suggestions so that I may better improve myself. Thank you.

Winters

Edit: YouTube videos on Scions Winterial:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddbXY39MP8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLVPp5qg9U

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OOtvpYhKY

Legion of the Damned Finale post

As I work on my converted scions, I couldn't help but keep thinking of finishing up these guys, so i finally spent the past few days happily making it into perfection.

For the sergeant in the middle, I added the soft armor as I didn't have it when I first did it, which could be found at some post long time ago. 

The Damned Legionnaire at the most left has an arm carrying the bolter with his left hand. This was by far one of the hardest converting that I actually did. I have the urge to make some videos on how to do it, so that space marines army wouldn't be limited to only right hand bolters. If I remember correctly, space wolves has left arm bolters but with the wolf iconography, so changing one yourself might be more worth it. 

The guy at the most right has a bayonet fixed onto his bolter as I wanted him to have a pose that shows him charging and firing his bolter at the same time.

All shoulder pads and armor have been sculpted using green stuff. I then assembled these guys as shown using a non-hardening putty as I have the habit of putting them together only after I have painted them all up ( looks at unassembled army at the side of the room ) For the greenstuff I used 2 part yellow to 1 part blue as I wanted it to be soft for easy modelling.

So that's all for my Damned Legionnaires, hope you guys like it, comments and criticism are welcomed. Hopefully I can get the scions ready within a week, so do look out for it. See you guys later.

Winters