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