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A special forces strike team, Echelon 7 specializes in assasinations, sabotage, and various other classified operations for the Inquisition. Neither Puritan or Radical, they make use of stealth, often followed up by a sniper's bullet, to achieve their ends. Exact records remain hidden, though it is believed that the group was founded during the Horus Heresy to eliminate leaders of rebellion against the Imperium. Their existence still remains controversial within the ranks of the Inquistion, for they tend to be much more secretive regarding their operations than other members, and their methods, including use of technology derived from the xenos, are considered highly unorthodox. Despite this, their aptitude in dealing with high-level enemies of the Imperium has ensured their survival as a sanctioned group.

Echelon 7 recruits from various centers of military training across the Imperium, selecting the best for induction into their highly-exclusive ranks. However, they actively choose potential operatives who do not show excessive religious zeal, believing such faith to be detrimental to a member's decision-making capacity. This has also won them much criticism and controversy, though the issue has never been brought up for inspection. Upon induction, recruits undergo standard training in marksmanship, stealth, survival, and intelligence-gathering. From their, they specialize further, according to their strengths.

Before an operation begins, operatives infiltrate enemy territory and take up positions. After this has been done, an order is given, and members move in. Operatives armed with silenced weapons eliminate any "obstructions to the mission," while a hacker disables alarms, life-support systems, computer terminals, and so on. When all obstacles leading to the target are eliminated, the mission is ended with a lone sniper shot, a slash with a knife, or a cataclysmic explosion resulting in the utter destruction of all enemy activity.



















Eventually, I may expand this into a full-fledged 40k Daemonhunters army, using allied Space Marines, though for now its just an =I=munda gang.

More images in my gallery:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-17698-5587_Echelon%207.html

C&C much appreciated

I think they have a really good feel to them you've managed to capture a wild but still proffesional style very well. It also nice to see a model with a real mans gun that sniper is huge.

For improvement I think you could add a few lighter colours to the models, I guess you were going for a dark feel and you've pulled it off well however the models look a bit too dark IMO so some mid colours like brown or dark red would help bring out the detail.

Overall a very nice gang.

The gang is pretty cool but I am not a fan of that mech.

The walker in the back looks kind of top heavy, which isn't good. The cockpit is nice, but you need to beef up the legs and feet.

Otherwise, I like it.

Yeah, I know the walker's legs do look kinda weak, but the original idea was that they function more as landing gear instead of legs, and that it "hops" around using the jets on its back. As for the color scheme, they do in fact have bright green accents where lights or glass would be, though its not really all that visible in the photographs. Next up, if i'm going to expand this into a legit army, I'll need some terminator-sized anime-style mechs. Any ideas on where to get some?

I already saw ZandrisIV's battlesuit, may get some of those to be my counts-as-terminators.

Yeah, ditto the praise for the gang (love the bodygloves), but not a fan of the mech either.