There are lots of good options for ‘eavy shootas in the Ork range, so this was a pretty simple conversion. I picked one from the Killa Kan kit. The only real modification I made to the original was to extend the barrel with a little muzzle break from the old Wartrakk that I’d saved when I converted my scorcha. Always save your bitz.
After drilling out the barrel, I glued on a piece of square plasticard tube to build out the part of the gun where the mount would attach. To close up the open end, I just filled it with some sprue goo and filed it down. This still wasn’t quite wide enough to mount the magnet, so I clipped one side of a chunk of I-beam flat and stuck it to the bottom.
Then, using the gimbal to help me get it facing the right direction, I glued my little plastic-covered magnet to the bottom, added some bullets, and the new ‘eavy shoota was basically done.
My other ‘eavy shoota was glued to the little gun emplacement I built for my trakk, so I needed to snip it off. It also needed to have that attachment point built out a bit larger, so I basically did the exact same thing. Built out the connection point. Added the magnet. And I had two ‘eavy shootas.
As with the other guns, the main colors were just grungy metallics. They both got primed black and sprayed silver. I then went in and picked some details, mostly in black and red. I painted some hazard stripes on one of the cables on the new gun and the ammo hopper on the old one got painted a military green.
After this, everything got a good oil wash and my two ‘eavy shootas were done.
I’m really pleased with my new one, simple as the conversion was. The extra bit of length really does make it stand out from the normal shootas. Simple, but effective.
And I managed to get a video with these first three big gunz up on my YouTube channel, if you want to watch all the conversions in progress.
