WIP - Special Weapons Squad Alpha

I've finished the bases and added a few last touches since these photos were taken. Just got to do a couple more lenses on sights and then they are done.

WIP - Special Weapons Squad - Sniper 2

Here is the second of two snipers from the special weapons squad.

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WIP - Special Weapons Squad - Sniper 1

This is one of two Snipers in the Special Weapons squad. As you can see, his cloak matches the camo pattern of the tunics of the rest of the unit. I think its looks even nicer on a large area like the cloak. I need to do some nice detail on the front view of this figure in order to finish him off. The cloack is such a large area that well executed small details become far more important in order to stop the model looking boring.

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WIP - Special Weapons Squad - Grenade Launcher

Here is the grenade trooper for the squad. At some stage I will get round to drilling out the barrel of the grenade launcher, but not before the competition at the weekend.

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WIP - Special Weapons Squad - Las Gunner 3

I'm toying with the idea of using Catachan heads on otherwise Cadian figures for my veterans and other special infantry types. I've built a few more than are shown here, but these are the first ones I've painted and I think they work really well. I've found that you need to trim the neck right down to almost nothing in order to get the heads to fit into the Cadian torsos. Sometimes a bit of greenstuff is necessary to fill up the gaps as well.

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WIP - Special Weapons Squad - Las Gunner 2

Another Las Gunner for the Special Weapons Squad. The colour scheme is very loosly based on WWII german uniforms with the cammo bring an attempt at pea pattern on a very small scale. After under coating the entire figure was dry-brushed with a mix of 3 parts GW Codex Grey to 1 part GW Catachan Green. Everything else was then painted over the top of this

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WIP - Special Weapons Squad - Las Gunner

Here's a pic of the last model with a good deal of the painting done. He still requires a bit of work on the belt kit and the base needs finishing, but for the most part he won't look much different from this once finished.

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