Heavy Infantry Sniper for Gün Schwarm

"So many FuturKommers to choose from...."

This weekend was positive for sports, with one Jets game for the NHL and the conference finals for the NFL, perfect background noise to add a few more odds and ends.  Up first is this 28mm Cadian sniper model from GW, which I have painted Gün Schwarm colours.


You would be surprised at how bent this gun managed to get in the blister...



Camouflage tarp, unlikely to help in the urban settings where this guy will see 3/4 of his action, but screw that - I liked this pattern better

"Boy, this rock sure is handy for lining up shots...."

The Güns do have one sniper already - a bit of a rough-hewn conversion of a Steel Legion trooper (see below).  But I have always liked the newer GW guard sniper models - actual troops with rifles, instead of frigging ratlings - and I found his armour plates matched the armour plates of the Kasrkin models, so I figured he would be the heavy infantry sniper, going into the field to support his armoured colleagues with special, anti-everything Gün Schwarm ammunition.

"Regular" sniper on left - a pretty rough conversion.  The new model looks like the real deal...

I see the "regular" dude as less of a sniper, and more as a marksman with a sniper rifle who is still attached to a regular fireteam.  This guy with the heavier rifle would be more of the detached, hide-in-a-pit-somewhere-waiting-for-the-shot type of sniper, ready to make life even more miserable for the hapless conscripts of FuturKom.

It's always neat to have the snipers operate in teams - the plastic GW Cadians do not replicate the Kasrkin armoured plates, but perhaps with some very minor conversion, I can kit bash a spotter-type model for this guy. I'll check the bits pile tonight...