Post a Comment On: Fawcett Avenue Conscripts

[Image] "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.

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

[Image] "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...