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I think the second guy just found that the recoil on his gun was more than he expected. Well, that's what it looks like to me.

The pastels are the chalk ones. Just take a hammer to some cheap ones and you get a great supply of weathering powder!

Morgrim wrote:I think the second guy just found that the recoil on his gun was more than he expected. Well, that's what it looks like to me.

Hmm, I see what you mean mate.the lack of door to kick does look like he's falling over.might rethink that one.

got some more scouts today and just watched a thing about snipers in WW2 might use some of the poses.

Cheers for the tips on pastels ,I have a load at home,I'll get crushing.

The Quad looks a lot like another I've seen from an old blog/painting site. I want to say it was Pink Panther or something like that.

He used to post on the previous version of Dakka.

Looks good.

Thought about the Storm with wheels?

trench.one wrote:

Morgrim wrote:I think the second guy just found that the recoil on his gun was more than he expected. Well, that's what it looks like to me.

Hmm, I see what you mean mate.the lack of door to kick does look like he's falling over.might rethink that one.

got some more scouts today and just watched a thing about snipers in WW2 might use some of the poses.

Cheers for the tips on pastels ,I have a load at home,I'll get crushing.

I'd say add the door to kick, but that could look a bit odd/cause LoS issues. Although carting a door around isn't as odd as carting around a large rock for your commander to stand on, or a tree/wall for a sniper to hide behind.

Uriels_Flame wrote:The Quad looks a lot like another I've seen from an old blog/painting site. I want to say it was Pink Panther or something like that.

He used to post on the previous version of Dakka.

Looks good.

Thought about the Storm with wheels?

Cheers mate, I love the Lanspeeder storm model, just trying to think of ways to include it with these guys.thanks for the idea.
want to get the a couple of squads done and then think about some more vehicles.got a dread and a sentinal to play about with as well.

Morgrim, I'll have a think about the door, but it could look wierd.might chnage it to a sniper pose of sorts.

Hey Folks, so another bit of work done while the other half watched her does of soaps.
I've rethought the shotgun dude after your kind words and advice, added a bit of rubble and beams and a grenade in hand. a bit of tidying up to do but def' looks better.

Started a test model for my sniper squad. side cap head waiting it out on a pile of rubble. had to do a major remodel of the legs as well as a load of GS on the cloak and hint of a hood. the rest of the squad will probably be in similar surrounding, want to have a spotter , as well as a full hood on one sniper. again toying with the grot assistant/tracker/spotter.

ctritique welcome as ever. Cheers

Hi Guys, Just done a bit more work on an assult squad scout. trying to make these guys a lot more dynamic, the standard scout poses are crap.

If you notive the legs on this guy are the old lighter grey plastic compared to the new darkek grey body. the older legs have nowhere near the amount of detail in the casting than the new kits. not sure if this is true for all the paltic minis but shows the quality on the new stuff has got better,I shouild bloody hope so for the price of them.

I'd love some more comments on these guys, I'm really enjoying the modelling more than the painting at the moment but I'll get some colour on them soon.

I'm really liking the new heads !

Great stuff one thing I'm impressed by is the casual none combat poses I'll have to do some of these myself I reckon!

I love the sniper on the rubble. Consider him stolen.

Great work! The poses are so dynamic. The guy with the shotgun and grenade still kinda looks like he's falling, like he slipped on that rubble. Maybe tilt his head forward a bit...

I know, he's still causing me concern, the grenade arm/hand looks unconvincing.just about to restart him.

sniper looks like hes just fallen over backwards, also the german heads are a tad thin...otherwise looks gd!

So , Another couple of models together, I've finally finished the first 5 man scout squad, 3x bolters , 1x heavy bolter and sarge with power fist.

The Sargeant has been posed leaping from a been mid power fist punch, the base need more rubble etc but I'm reasonably happy with it. the power fist came from an old Termi' arm.I've have another few with will be butchered for the assault squad scout sarge.still feel I need to add some more gear to show his rank, melta bombs no doubt.

another bolter guy for the same squad done as well, the same style of running/leaping pose , throwing a grenade.again the base needs more work.

as suggested by the Good Green I've tilted the head forward on the shotgun guy to stop him looking like he's falling back too much. I think it does work.

also a pic of the whole first squad posted.

the snipers are taking a while but I'll be woking on these as well as the assault team. the dreadnoughtis very much in my thoughts for conversion ideas but may be fairly simple .

commentc welcome as ever. Cheers folks

I can't say I'm a fan of the forage caps, but otherwise they're coming along well. Some very nice posing work.

Cheers mate. I've always had a soft spot for the forage caps, German army unifoem just always looked better than British & US uniforms. wanted to bring a bit of that to these guys. not to everyones taste.
The side caps work nicely, more of them to come.

I like the different approach to SMs. Love the Sniper. He seems to carry an air of arrogance about him, like the whole cliche 'lone wolf' story. Each scout is completly different, especially with those heads. Nice work me old china

Thanks Bash.That's the idea, have them all individuals with different poses.
the one thing I don't like about scout snipers is you have to take 5 guys. surely they would be better as solo or even 1x sniper 1 spotter teams.
laways liked the idea of th elone sniper living off his wits."enemy at the gates" is a great film.

I was thinking that. Why have five snipers, when all the snipers I know in my regiment work in pairs (one spotting,one shooting). I mean you have a sniper platoon,but they break down into sticks of 4 with a WMIK (Weapons mounted installation kit) Landrover/Jackal (the monstrous 4x4 used in Afghan).

You could get away with it in a IG army (Special weapons squad,3 with sniper rifles,3 spotting) but why not SM scouts.

Anyway I digress. The sniper you made...very Vasily (can't spell last name). Not sure how you would work him in a normal 40k, but b**locks to that. He looks great.

The sniper model will be part of a squad , the paln was to have 3 main snipers with the other guy spotting,rifle slung or on the deck.maybe 1 sniper sarge sleeping or looking over maps.nothing to stop me having two shooters and two spotters with the sarge,might just work.
The Jackals look pretty emense,must try and build something along those lines, landspeeder on wheels or something around the chasis.
Cheers for the comments though

I'm sure I've seen somting like wheeled Land speeders...in fact I have. Some guy years back built a BA army with quad bikes and a Landspeeder as a 4x4. Try looking on google.

I know its a small picture but you get the idea

that's the baby, needs to be a bit longer though. the jackals look great with the extra kit attached over them.Cheers mate

No probs mate. I'll be interested on how you bring that monster to life

don't hold your breath , I'll get there eventually.

Really good stuff there. Especially like the realism of the running pose on several of the scouts, far superior to the GW stuff.
For the bases thought this may be of some added inspiration;

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/277121.page

Obviously would need to tweek it a little maybe add some sprue rubble.

For some good stuff on weathering this chap has pretty much got the tips you maybe looking for, this is a link to his blog:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/274891.page

He also has some good tips for urban rubble bases. Hope it helps you out some, sorry its so long.

Thanks for the kind comment guys.
Thanks for the Links Lennysmash the bases and the weathering are great, need to spend a bit of time on this and learn a few new techniques.
Again DakkaDakka is proving to be fanatastic inspiration after a very long absense from 40K.
I have rediscovered the Geek in me.

The latest batch of scouts came out quite well. The one mid windup looks great. Also, glad I could help- the guy with the shotgun looks better.

Your skills at posing these guys is excellent.

another couple of nights modelling and the result is this guy, the scout sniper spotter I've been wanting to do. gave him a missile launcher to make him a bit motre playable.
I really don't like the GW camo cloaks , this ones been shortened and GS added to create the rolled up look.I think it works,the thinking is that the length of the cloaks makes them farely cumbersome when picking routes through the rubble to a shorter option would be preferable.
hood obviously added over the side cap head.some rockets to be added and more rubble.

feedback welcome as ever.a bit of tisy up to bew done but you get the idea.

It all looks good, needs more paint tho!!